Your Day (apart from gardening) - what took place?

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  1. Mike Allen

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      Im going to bake a date cake sprinkled with demerara and crunchy almonds that my nanny gave me the recipe for over 30yrs ago and it never fails to be seriously yummy. I am then going to EAT IT! warm out the oven. To hell with the calories. I may even completely throw caution to the wind and wash it down with a lovely cold cider. In for a penny in for a pound I say. Even if the pound goes on my hips. :heehee: These day that's just how I roll. :dancy:
       
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          Love watching these goldies because we have some.
           
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          it is, quite a few of my customers are in the later years so I helped them find another gardener so that they did not worry.
          My companion on the other hand felt I should say nothing till the day I left which is plain wrong.
          Some of these customers I’ve been with for over 10 years too.
          It’s definitely not going to plan but I’m sure it will work out in the end.
           
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            Another cat has gone missing from the neighbourhood, that's 3 in a few months, i don't think that they'll get them back.
             
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              Watched this, this morning
               
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              My little Notebook, an 11" Acer, went kaput yesterday so T'other Half went out and bought me a Laptop, a 14" ASUS and has been transferring/downloading/uploading/etc and changing it from Windows10 which it came with to Ubunto. He still has some more to do on it but I am allowed to play for a while as he has a rest from it. Gosh is this fast but I have to get used to a few changes. Maybe it is expensive for there but it was only 280 Euros with a 2-year Guarantee (normal here).
               
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                Apart from seeing that 60ft of our deer fence is being rebuilt properly I've been sorting out our upright freezer that needed to be defrosted to get it working properly.

                Defrosting properly is a 24 hour job so we needed to find enough people to take the frozen goods in there. Today I had to travel round collecting everything back again and refilling the freezer. This had to be done in batches so as not to upset the freezer again. :rolleyespink:
                 
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                  Next time when we have to defrost the freezer might get one that doesn't need defrosting, it's getting too much for hubby to lift everything out. Especially because he has a hernia, they won't operate on it because it's not painful at the moment.
                   
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                    Yesterday bought a Turkey, it's defrosted so now it's in the oven, I'll portion it up and go in the freezer.
                     
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                    The freezer engineer that I spoke to said there's no such thing! :sad: Even the self-defrosting freezers need to be done every year or so to keep them working properly.

                    Apparently, so he says, the upright freezers have a condensing system that defrost the machine steadily and the water collects in a condensing bottle at the back. The water is then evaporated from the bottle. Gradually the pipes inside the freezer get caked up with ice, on the inside, and the freezer gets less efficient at returning the temperature to the correct level after having had the door open. Eventually it doesn't work properly. Usually it then just needs a full defrost with access needed for the condenser bottle - always at the back so you have to pull the freezer out :doh:. We put a tea cloth dangling into the bottle so that as the ice melts the cloth acts as a capillary system and runs the water into a large bowl alongside - saves mopping up the floor.

                    Chest freezers are much easier to defrost but harder to get down into for us oldies :old:. The modern chest freezers have a drainage hole in the bottom that you just take the cap off and put something at the outlet to capture the water.

                    We have to do all that now as the butler and the kitchen maid say it's not in their job description. :dunno: :heehee:
                     
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                      We are trying to calculate ... but we have had our self-defrosting fridge freezer for c17 years and have never defrosted it, just clean it regularly. We moved it to the shed in 2008 when we bought our current one reversing freezer from top to bottom. Sadly the one we liked and fit our space as we have glass bricks in the wall is not. This is obviously an old photo showing the old fridge now in shed to show what I mean about glass bricks (so no double for us) ...

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