A dressing of drool.

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// @kdfrawg I have seen such a salad. It's a chocolate salad comprised of Kit Kat fingers.

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Dunno about that. Last time I went there my elbow exploded. I was hospitalised for 6 days, on IV antibiotics for 5 of those days. The infection had to be flushed out with ½ a gallon of iodine antiseptic after the wound area was cut open. It's all OK now though.

Experimental dessert: oatmeal, hot water, whole milk, cream & honey mixed in a bowl & left in the fridge to combine & set.

Wot? You got Tiny-Trump hands like mine?

// @kdfrawg

I had some leftover Xmas ham and some tasty heritage tomatoes unused in my fridge so I brought out my electric deli slicer and sliced the ham to 1 mm & the tomatoes to 5 mm. Yesterday the Men's Shed had its monthly BBQ lunch so in addition to the regular hash browns I also cooked up the ham & tomatoes on the sandwich press.
The fellows expressed their delight in the extra bits supplied.

@kdfrawg I have no problems, but I don't have sausage fingers.

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Ørk!

During the 1997-2009 drought that halved the available water supply to this state's capital city & surrounding areas, it was decided to build a reverse-osmosis seawater desalination plant with an 85 km pipeline to connect to the existing water supply infrastructure. Plus on the other sude of the state a windfarm would be built to supply the power needed.

This all happened with significant cost over-runs & much environmental protest. The plant can make 150 gigalitres of water annually, boosting the city's supply by a 25% factor. It was completed in 2012 and has sat idle for four years. The government directed the company to supply 50 gigalitres by Jume 2017 so they planned on firing it up last month & start production at the end of this month.

Didn't quite work that way. A big circuit breaker blew out when it was activated. Spare breakers are available (one would certainly hope so!) but until the investigation into why it blew are finished, the new breaker won't be fitted. Production has been delayed by at least 6 weeks.

In two weeks our Men's Shed group will be doing a coach tour of the desalination plant, followed by lunch at a social club and a visit to a Vietnam Veterans museum on the way back. There might even be time to visit a chocolate factory nearby.

Just been checking Mactracker app. My last iBook was a used 2004 14-inch with 1.33 GHz/1.25 GB RAM & an 80 GB HD. I gave it to a friend as I'd replaced it with a 2009 13-in MBP & he'd helped me a lot with renovations. It's still in use for basic email, internet & photos work. He loves it.

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