When I moved away from home in 1980 I took board & lodging in a couple of different residences with different landladies. One provided breakfast & dinner, the other breakfast & sandwiches for lunch. The 1st one didn’t believe in fresh milk, quite a rude shock for a young fellow coming straight from a dairy farm. She would mix Carnation evaporated milk with too much water, it was really horrid. You put this on your cereal each morning and it went soggy & sloppy far too quickly.
The 2nd lady served oatmeal porridge but made it thick with water, oats & a pinch of salt, leaving us to thin it out/cool it with skim milk, evil & horrible stuff.
On the dairy farm I came from we made it properly: the liquid component was ⅓ water/ ⅔ whole milk and it was served with cream & a choice of sweeteners: cane sugar, honey or golden syrup.
Proper thick, creamy & rich in taste & texture.
Visited Mum today. Sister was also there, she went shopping & came back with some very cheap squid rings & farmed Atlantic salmon.
Squid was rolled in salt & pepper seasoned flour, dipped in an eggwash & drenched in breadcrumbs then fried very hot & very quickly, end result: classic tender Aussie dish of salt & pepper squid.
Main course was baked salmon portion served with roasted frozen Mediterranean vegetables.
Last week I scored a fine bottle of crisp dry white wine from a local producer as a raffle prize, that was also served up with the fishy comestibles.
Between the three of us, that bottle didn’t last long at all.
@variablepulserate I bought some shoes from a drug dealer. I don’t know what he laced them with but I’ve been tripping all day.
@joeo10 I suspect it was up to the GPS regulators to realise there was a potential problem.
// @joanna
@hazardwarning If it were temperate, there’d have been no real need to come up with a dairy cattle breed that can thrive in temperatures between -5ºC & 45ºC; on lesser-quality feed; produce large quantities of high fat & high protein milk & do so for more than twenty years. Without being a cranky cantankerous beast, either.
@matigo Maybe the palace is a bit chilly inside & it’s the heater model.
// @larand
@joanna It’s only the cellular items (ones with a SIM-card capability) that are affected. And that’s because those have GPS receivers in them. It’s to fix an issue affecting global GPS. The problem is known as the Week Number Rollover issue, and its caused by GPS systems recording the passage of weeks as a 10-bit figure. This means that when they hit week 1,024 (just under 20 years) their count resets. As a consequence, some older hardware is thrown off course — both figuratively and literally. It’s similar to the Millennium/Y2K bug, which was also caused by the reset of a date count.
// @joeo10
@hazardwarning Swap you. I’ve had to crank up the electric blanket half-way and add an opened -6ºC capable sleeping bag to my existing bedding to stop shivering.