I have just ordered a small bag of ground and roasted wattleseeds. The product is used as a caffeine-free coffee substitute with a coffee/chocolate/hazelnut flavour profile. Unlike coffee, the used grounds can be utilised further to flavour dairy desserts and baked goods such a cookies or breads.
I can efectively carry my dismantled portable pull-apart mobility scooter in the back of the car but adding a folded rollator walker takes up valuable space because of the wat the thing fold. Ergo, Amazon is scheduled to deliver a compact side-folding version by 8pm today.
https://amzn.asia/d/9X5M89T This type folds almost flat and only a few inches wide.
Bus-driver friend dropped by today, in between taking a load of boozers to and from a wedding reception, he had 5 hours to fill in. We chatted about various things, what members of our respective families were up to, then watched a nice Xmas movie on my Apple TV before giving him a feed and a few more cups of tea.
He enjoyed the movie sufficiently that he took the time to buy the BluRay version of ot on his Android phone.
The movie was a bit over-the-top but thoroughly enjoyable, called Violent Night.
Just read that it’s law that you have to turn your headlights on when it’s raining in Sweden.
How the hell am I supposed to know when it’s raining in Sweden?
@matigo Nope. The Tequila Sunrise is orange juice, tequila, maraschino cherry, orange slice.
Tequila Shot is Tequila, salt and lime.
Always take life with a grain of salt.
And a shot of tequila.
And a slice of lime.
There’s a particular hill a few km from home that the old scooter would have struggled to climb. The new scooter was doing 8 kph at the start and had accelerated up the hill, sitting on 10.5 kph as it approached the crest.
It was equally steep on the downhill so I let the thing have its head and hit 13.6 kph going down it. On the flat it can just exceed 11 kph.
My new mobility scooter was delivered today. It's a bit longer and wider than the one I inherited from Mum. It's also new, not six years old. One thing about the old one that annoys me is the reversing beeper, the new one doesn't have that feature. The old one can work on hills and can haul my weight but it baulks at combining the two actions, the 2-pole 240W motor goes into overheat slowdown and the fix is to reset the overload by turning it off and back on again, as well as giving it a break for five minutes or so.
One particular short hill almost stalls the old device when approached at full noise (11kph). The new machine drops down to 8kph then picks up and is doing 9kph as it reaches the crest. I guess having batteries of 10% greater capacity and a 4-pole 700W motor helps a lot with the performance difference.
One thing about the new one that I initially thought was a bit of a gimmick is the Bluetooth/micro SD card audio player. It's basic, only one tiny speaker facing down from the bottom of the control panel on the steering tiller.
It has forward skip, reverse skip and play/pause buttons. In addition there's a USB-A port for charging small things like phones. The audio quality from the tiny speaker is poor but is loud enough to enjoy the music.
The older scooter uses foam-filled inflatable tyres on wheels 11 inches in diameter as the sole suspension whereas the new one gets coil springs on each wheel plus a short gas strut under the seat. In addition the wheels are 13-inched across.
The older one is still available for sale at a price thats about 20% higher that what I paid for the new one. There's a universal phone holder fitted and I've downloaded an app called Speedler, which displays live speed, maximum speed reached, distance covered, average speed and time. That's quite handy to have.
@variablepulserate Yes, a particular exercise brings relief. I elevate the affected limb slightly and flex the ankle back and forth gently for two minutes or so.