Waiting for a decent turn out for the bowrl cancer test sample. A weekends worth of cider still coming through.
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Thanks for the reminder, I have a poo sticks kit here too. 
Discovering I may have an allergy to apple juice.
Drank half a bottle of (not so) Innocent apple juice yesterday lunchtime and spent the afternoon and evening turning myself inside out and still producing the nastiest sulphurous farts every 2 mins this morning.
Wonât be touching that fucking stuff again.
Never trust anyone who doesnât laugh at a fart, even their own.
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SWMBO has decreed that she wants some enhancements done to her lounge (of here choosing thankfully not mine) which appear to go beyond a lick of paint and so Iâm now trying to interpret her wishes and source stuff for a bit of the DIY.
Oh and apparently this all has to be done for Christmas but obviously didnât think it particularly mattered that she could have told me all this at least a month ago when there might have been time.
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You canât do much with these shorter days.
Now if only you had some power for lighting!
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I could come up and lend a hand?
Give it the old Gyro razzle-dazzle: torch the garden, paint the dog, stab the washing machine with a mole grip.
It might give her pause for thought the next time she wants something done 
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Flooring ordered, stove fire narrowed down to one of two. Evening to be spent coaxing Hel through a number of paint charts to find the perfect brown (calling @A_Touch_of_Cloth ).
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These forum titles write themselves.
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Hel will never join this forum. Ever.
EVER!
Every brown is perfect!.
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After what must be a month of winds coming from the south it has now switched to northerlies. Cold northerlies.
The air temperature may be around 4c but the wind chill is making it feel like -4c and itâs that time for the monthly shopping trip.
Brrr!
Snow forecast for tomorrow but Iâll believe that when I see it.
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Last leg of the journey home
The car is crammed with goodies but only the perishables will be unloaded tonight, the rest can wait until tomorrow
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Kudos for timing the journey with a near full moon and a (I think) a smooth sea
The sea was a lot more choppy than it looks there but the longest crossing is only 25 mins so the sea state doesnât really matter unless itâs too bad for them to sail.
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Unless itâs a a dry pond in July Iâm out 
Discovered today the obvious-in-hindsight issue of scraping the ice off a car that has automatic wipers. Sure made me jump!
You need to plug it in at night so that it defrosts itselfâŚoh sorry I forgot 
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Been in the brewhouse producing 50 pints of a 5% (ish) West Coast style IPA. I used a cocktail of 7 different hops (Amarillo, Cascade, Azzaca, Ekuanot, Archer, Mosaic, and Waâiti).
Also engaged a new temperature control cabinet.
Temperature control in essential, as fluctuations cause âoffâ flavours. The old cabinet was too unreliable.
4 days in, Iâll be âdry hoppingâ with a combination of Cascade, Citra, and Amarillo.
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