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withaveeay

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Wandered from South to North, IT to the Humanities, UHI degree. Lower left political compass. Off-grid for practical reasons. A scatterling of Africa.
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 Yes.
#Highlands #Photography #Culture #FreeSoftware #OffGrid #Scotland
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withaveeay, to random
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Chatting to a stallholder who used to do a lot of shows using her VW van. She says when it was 4 years old she went to the local main VW dealer in Newcastle to test drive and order a new one. The salesMAN said to her "Where is your husband?" It's her van!
This apparently happened twice. She says the original van now has 200000 miles on the click, and when it dies, she'll never darken VW's doors again.

withaveeay, to random
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Countdown to the start of the Tangled Galashiels yarn show, today and tomorrow. The stand lights aren't yet switched on on herself's stand, but the colour is already popping

withaveeay,
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@Wen see yesterdays posts re the Tapestry.

withaveeay, to random
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Confession time: My manjaro sojourn has been brought to a premature close. This isn't because of any major issue, but I need my laptop for the next few weeks, & shouldn't tempt fate with a new to me option.
I installed Leap 15.6 beta, as I thought it would have Plasma 6, which I've rather got used to. But it's still plasma 5, so I put Slowroll back. Wayland works so well I've been able to remove xorg. Finished the install 30 mins before a VC session!
I'll come back to this in late July though.

withaveeay, to random
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Morning walk, and is that NCC-1701 hiding within that cloud?

glynmoody, to random
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promises to bring back national service for 18-year-olds - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/25/sunak-promises-to-bring-back-national-service-for-18-year-olds surely this means sunak has just lost most votes of women with children who would be conscripted under this desperate idea?

withaveeay,
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@glynmoody Of course, it wouldn't apply to the children of senior tories or the rich.
Bu perhaps they think may be a vote winner for old people who wear rose coloured specs AND fear the country's youth.

withaveeay, to random
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In today's failed-state statement of the bleeding obvious, "BT delays deadline for digital landline switch off date"
https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/21/bt_delays_deadline_for_digital/
And still no timescale or plan for fibre for rural areas like ours (though they did offer to install fibre privately for us at a cost of £200 per metre, and a total of £1.3million. Strangely, we couldn't find the cash down the back of the sofa.)

withaveeay, to random
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Anyone fancy making a "Matabele Cake"?
This piece of paper found in our copy of "Hilda's 'Where is it' of recipes", a book on Cape cooking from the 19th century.
I'm sure it's possible to substitute sheep tail fat with something else. Having difficulty reading it all, I must admit, partly the old writing and partly the age of the piece of paper.
Can anyone decipher it?
Fun fact: I was at school with descendants of Hilda's.
https://archive.org/details/b21505020
Bit I wonder who wrote out this recipe.

withaveeay,
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@felicitymartin 👍

withaveeay, to random
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Warning: it's bluebell season again, and Pics Will Be Posted.

mybirdcards, to Birds
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🌍 Blacksmith lapwing (Vanellus armatus) | | 🦜

withaveeay,
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@mybirdcards Oh, have they changed name? I'm sure we used to call them blacksmith plovers.
<CHECKS> - Yes, my 1976 copy of Roberts' Birds of Southern Africa has them as plovers. Any idea why the name change?

danie10, to TeslaMotors
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The Dayun Yuehu will be the cheapest practical in at under R400,000.

It is claimed to have a 330 km range and a top speed of 100 km/h, making it suitable as an urban commuter.

It's going to be very interesting to see how this does in SA, as the price is nearing affordable, and it is faster than the 80 km/h that smaller EVs tend to have.

Is this still with the high EV import tax I wonder...

See https://www.timeslive.co.za/motoring/news/2024-05-15-enviro-automotive-to-launch-a-sub-r400000-electric-suv-in-south-africa/

withaveeay,
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@danie10 What is the EV import tax, Danie? The market the Chinese brands have created make that cost seem high for a pure city car, restricted in performance in that way.
But maybe this is a well researched offering and meets a local demand.

elizabethtasker, (edited ) to random
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I’m listening to “Wideacre”; historical fiction by Philippa Gregory.

The protagonist is evil. An utter psychopath. Admittedly, life for a woman in the 18th century is rough, and the opportunities Beatrice’s skills warrant are passed to incompetent men. But the body count is unpleasant!

It’s a very long book and a stressful read. Frankly, I want to stop but I also want to know the outcome and I’m not sure a synopsis will be satisfactory.

In short, I’m in a hostage situation with an audiobook.

withaveeay,
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@elizabethtasker Are you sure this isn't a dream following some dodgy sushi again? 😃

withaveeay, to random
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You know Colin Robinson, the energy vampire in "What we do in the shadows"?
Well I've spent the afternoon doing battle with entities that make Colin Robinson look like an amateur or even merely one of those werewolves.
Yes, I'm talking about insurance companies again.
And no-one seems to know what the insurance company equivalent of stake through the heart is, but believe me, whatever it is, I'm up for it when I get my soul back.
😩

fitheach, to food
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Banana Ketchup???

Yuurrrggghh!

Who comes up with these disgusting ideas?

I hate bananas in any form.

#food

withaveeay,
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@fitheach Ooh, that sounds lovely. But, lovely bananas morning noon and night for me.
I had a Malawian cookbook that had a recipe for banana jam, and it turned red like that ketchup.

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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James Salmon Junior's rather beautiful 1900 Glasgow Style British Linen Bank building, one of the very few traditional red sandstone tenements left standing in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. Sometimes it seems the past is a luxury only the rich get to keep.

withaveeay,
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@thisismyglasgow " Sometimes it seems the past is a luxury only the rich get to keep."
So true.

withaveeay, to random
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I don't know if this is generational or just bad manners.
I was contacted by a professional in an area that happens to interest me, asking me a series of questions and generally picking my brain. I responded within a couple of hours, though I wasn't able to do all they requested, which was quite a lot considering they were being paid and I'm not.
Since then, not a word. No response, thanks or anything. It seems rather rude.
Is that just an old man grump or /also/ an old man grump?

withaveeay,
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@NatureMC No. it was an email, using a specific email address, so I know where they found me. All very odd. I think they were being paid in Canadian dollars, and I reckon I must have been worth as much as 35c to them, maybe even 38c. 😃

simon_brooke, to random
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This week's major project is splitting the tractor, to replace the failed oil seal which is leaking oil from the gearbox into the clutch housing. We've got to the point where the only thing still holding the front half of the tractor to the rear is the steering linkage, and I can't remember how we split that last time!

withaveeay,
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@simon_brooke Calling @yngmar
Any ideas for Simon?

withaveeay,
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@simon_brooke Excellent!

withaveeay, to random
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Herself had to go to the village this morning. On the way back, she had reason to test the brakes on Goth Leo, thanks to someone overtaking on a blind bend on a very steep hill.
Yes, the overtaker was stupidly playing the percentages, but it's possible too that the overtakee had held the car up for miles, a not uncommon, and incredibly frustrating occurrence in summer.
I dislike a dashcam - we should not be part of the surveillance state - but this is why it's becoming a necessary evil. No audio

Dashcam footage of the car going up a steep hill. A hillock on the left makes it a blind bend to the right. As the car turns, two cars are ahead, one overtaking another. Helen has to brake hard and come to a full stop to avoid a collision.

withaveeay,
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I don't recognise the offending car. There are some folk who visit once a year and think they could be driving faster than they ought, or worse, who remember the roads from 15-20 years ago, and drive accordingly.
It may have sounded as though I was excusing this dangerous idiot. I wasn't trying to, just pointing out how unnecessary frustration can cause issues.

simon_brooke, to random
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OK, folk, help me compile a list of failed "inward investment" projects across Scotland.

I'll start

Rootes Linwood
IBM Greenock
Singer Kilbowie
Stelrad Dalbeattie
Sun Linlithgow
NCR Dundee
Timex Dundee

I must have missed hundreds. Add your picks

withaveeay,
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@simon_brooke It may be a shorter list to try to think of "successful" inward investment projects.

withaveeay, to random
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Everything is greening up beautifully at The Last Homely House

Delphi, to sailing
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withaveeay,
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@Wen @Delphi Years ago, in Simonstown, I saw 2 kids in an Oppie sail around a little bay near the yacht club. There was a navy rowing skiff moored in the bay. The skipper rounded up into the wind smartly astern of the skiff, nearing it with precision and allowing his mate to climb aboard. You could have put an egg between the Oppie and the skiff, it was so skilful. He repeated the manoeuvre to allow his mate to get back aboard, dropped off onto the wind and away.
It was beautiful seamanship.

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