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Post by onlyMark on Apr 26, 2024 11:33:58 GMT
Not really bothered but if/when he does pop his clogs then Anne ought to be made Queen and not William the King.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 24, 2024 13:40:25 GMT
I'm in agreement with vehicles not pulling back over, it's a pet peeve of mine. Plus the amount of traffic, jams and works. If I can I do long journeys on a Sunday when trucks are banned on the Autobahns that is how I plan it. Not often it works though but this Sunday it will as I have a long journey then. The thing about the speed limit signs is that if you are on a stretch with no effectual speed limit and you see a speed sign ahead of you, even if you can't yet read it, it means you'll have to slow down anyway, so I always just start easing off and moving if I can over to the right lane as soon as I do see one in the distance.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 23, 2024 20:06:14 GMT
Cheery, you do have backbone and crying is not such an unusual emotion. It was upsetting and you probably felt powerless and fearful. Had it been that someone was injured would you cry? I doubt it. You'd have known what to do and felt more in control I'm sure. Crying just shows you are human and not frozen emotionally with disbelief of the situation.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 23, 2024 9:40:29 GMT
The sun is shining here at the moment though forecast to get cloudy later. Temperature just 11 degrees though. I'll be driving down to Spain at the weekend and hoping for some warmth.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 23, 2024 6:11:22 GMT
htmb, the incident ran exactly to the script you see from time to time of a brake check road rage incident on the internet. Aggressive car, aggressive driver, blocking your car, driver storming out and accusing you of something that is wrong etc etc - so for half an hour or so after I was running through my head as to if I was actually in the wrong and/or I should have said something different and so on. I did stop soon after to check the Highway Code on my phone to be sure but I shouldn't have doubted myself and went off with a better mood. I'd certainly be more concerned in the USA and a lot of other countries.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 22, 2024 17:25:28 GMT
I was involved in a road rage incident in the UK when I was there for the canal trip. It's just come back to mind. In the UK and it's not country specific I think, but if there are two lanes entering a roundabout and two lanes exiting it, you can, if say going straight on, enter in the left lane or the right lane and exit the roundabout in the same lane (or if you are in the right lane, exit in the left lane if there is no traffic to consider on your inside). I was in the left lane and kept to the left lane and exited straight on. But within 50 metres or so the right lane ended and had arrows pointing to the left to move over to the left lane.
As I exited a young bloke in a Range Rover drove quickly around me in the right lane and started to overtake me but ran out of room when the lane ended. He then swerved in front of me. I had to brake sharply otherwise he would have hit me side on. I naturally expressed my displeasure by sounding my horn. He stopped suddenly and was by now in neither lane, just angled across both. I came to a stop and he jumped out his car as angry as an angry thing. He expressed his displeasure at me apparently for not letting him in as I should have done. Besides the fact I had no time to do so he also shouted and was swearing at me saying he had a pregnant woman in the car.
I told him a) he should look in the Highway Code and b) maybe he shouldn't be driving like a twat then if she was there. He was adamant he had the priority to move from the right lane to the left and I had to give way to him. Every other word was fuck though. I told him again to look in the Highway Code and you'll find out you are wrong. (There are words to the effect of, "The car in the lane that is ending must yield to the car in the lane that continues forward".) No, he said, he was right. I must give way to him. It devolved into tit for tat as to who was right and I suggested maybe we should call the Police then. He was quite willing until I pointed out I would show them the dash cam footage, directed his attention to it on the windscreen, and we'll see what they say.
After a round of fucks I got the impression he wasn't willing to do so any more, so I reversed a back a little and drove around and past him leaving him there. I wouldn't be surprised if his wife/girlfriend gave him an earful. I would like to know though if he ever looked at the Highway Code to try and verify his belief but I also suspect he would have told his mates all about it and one of them said, "Just wait a second...." I'd like to think so.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 20, 2024 9:16:47 GMT
I don't have two passports now but I used to and I always without fail carried both. For Airlines I book using the passport of my arrival country depending if it is the country of the passport or a country that is more favourable to that passport. I present that passport on check in - but - I leave that country on whichever passport I used to enter. In effect I have presented one on check in but swapped whilst walking to Immigration in the airport to leave. For example I would book a flight from the UK to Germany on an EU passport but pass through Immigration in the UK on my UK passport. On arrival in Germany I would present an EU passport. Flying back I book on my UK passport, pass through Immigration on the EU passport and then land in the UK using my UK passport.
Overland I always as with flying, leave a country using the passport I entered with but if necessary swap to the other one, to enter the next country, between the Immigration posts. A few times in Asia and Africa whereby you need physical visa in the passport the Immigration official in the new country has examined that passport to see where I've been or whatever and noted I didn't have a visa for the previous country in it nor an exit stamp. That's when I pull the other one out to show him/her and it's never been a problem.
A couple of times at overland borders the Immigration booths are tacked on to each other and it has happened when the first official stamps me out and hands the passport across the desk to the new official. I wanted to swap passports so I've had to politely ask for the one has has back to give him the other one. Eyebrows have been raised but again, no problems.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 19, 2024 10:29:09 GMT
Ahh, I get it now. Your supplier wants you to sign an NDA and it is in Dutch as they are a Dutch company. You want them to sign your NDA which is in English. Your company policy is not to accept documents (does that include a contract from them?) from a supplier. No doubt they have a similar policy then from clients. You can easily choose not to then buy services/stuff from them but it depends if there are other suppliers I suppose. Due to you saying the contract is "(small one, a few hundreds k)" I doubt if they see you as particularly important and don't really mind missing out on your business for the hassle/cost of translating and approving your NDA and contract. I'm glad I never was a businessman. Good luck.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 19, 2024 8:39:18 GMT
That's certainly right though a minor factor was a time constraint as well. It was that or a cheese sandwich and I wanted a hot meal. I'm all for having a convenience food occasionally that I know I like. My daughters demand from time to time I make them a soup they used to have as kids they loved and it was just something I used to throw together when I'd run out of ideas. It was also what I would make when we went camping, which may be a factor. It was cube or carton of chicken broth, a tin of lentils and chucked in was whatever pasta shapes I had to hand.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 19, 2024 5:48:26 GMT
My dinner last night was similar in that is was a packet of pre-made Mexican rice you just heat up and a tin of baked beans. The similarity is somewhat tenuous but nevertheless, it was technically Mexican beans and rice.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 18, 2024 18:24:31 GMT
‘You are the client ? Who cares’. I'm sure some people do. I love it when company policy meets company policy.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 18, 2024 10:14:27 GMT
It is they who are the client then? Just confused for a second.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 18, 2024 5:22:27 GMT
Mark, the front veranda is a lovely place to perch oneself and there is also a less visible screened in porch at the rear of the house where we sit mornings and evenings. Spoilt for choice then. I'd use the back for times of wanting some quiet place and not to be seen but I'd certainly use the front for people/area watching and being nosy but also as a proud statement of yes, this is my house. Good eh? Just showed Mrs M the photo and her face lit up with a smile and the first thing she said was, "I love the colours".
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 17, 2024 5:09:43 GMT
Stunning Casi, really attractive. I could imagine sitting on the veranda for ages watching stuff going by.
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Eggs
Apr 16, 2024 18:21:28 GMT
Post by onlyMark on Apr 16, 2024 18:21:28 GMT
I often make what i can only call a souflette. It's an egg mix you would make into an omelette - a couple of eggs, with or without a dash of milk depending on your preference, seasoned and for me with a little spring onion or chives, nothing too substantial then add a knob of butter to a pan, add the beaten egg on a medium heat until you judge the bottom is done and the rest just staring to harden. Then put it under a hot grill to finish the top whereupon it will rise quite a way rather than staying as a flat omelette. No idea if there's some official recipe for this somewhere but it was many years ago just something I started doing.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 15, 2024 20:17:34 GMT
I had the same problem with the bread machine I had. If I made any during the day I'd also hand knead for a while but when I used to put it on a delayed timer overnight to wake up to in the morning I didn't.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 15, 2024 13:21:53 GMT
I don't know everybody so can't say.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 15, 2024 11:53:24 GMT
To me Volkorn means whole wheat or whole grain, sometimes wholemeal. Corn is wheat, barley, or oats and latterly corn as in corn on the cob/maize and wheat is the whole plant whereas the grain, corn or kernel is the bit we use as far as I understand it.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 15, 2024 10:41:01 GMT
Yep, I think that's fine -
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 15, 2024 8:29:18 GMT
.....and so versatile.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 15, 2024 8:25:34 GMT
I'm into these at the moment. A cheat. Pre-mixed flour and stuff and you just add water, mix and let rise, knead a couple of minutes and shape into a loaf or roll, let rise again and then bake. I often bake my own bread from scratch but it can be quite a bit of work and especially getting to know a good recipe that is consistent. I've scanned over these normally in the supermarket flour section and never noticed the price but for what it costs and the work needed, in effect I can be doing other stuff whilst it is rising and don't need to faff around measuring and making sure I have the right ingredients and so on. So a bit of a cheat but worth it for quick method when I'm busy. The left one is a sourdough, the right one is full corn as they put it. There are lots of others like normal white loaf, full corn with nuts or seeds, other 'peasant bread' and various other mixes. Cost for 500g mixed flour and you add generally about 340g water is 0.79 Euros/$0.84/£0.67. Far, far cheaper than buying a normal loaf, but you do need to put a bit of time and effort in but not as much as making from scratch -
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 15, 2024 7:57:31 GMT
It's the toast, the soldiers, that are relevant methinks. Who else traditionally cuts their toast up into convenient strips to dip in the egg?
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 15, 2024 5:44:50 GMT
Interesting. He also tries to answer the question of why British food degenerated to become a joke. I've wondered about this and can't point to one reason but, as he points out, a number of reasons. One being the abstemious Victorians trying to avoid pleasure in anything they do, one being the industrial revolution whereby country workers moved to the cities and one I can believe was a main cause and was as simple as in the 1930's the Medical establishment "declaring war on undercooked food - it could harbour germs - and recommended long cooking times for meat, fish and vegetables." I think that had a profound effect far in excess of the intention. It was the bane of British cuisine and nobody of our age can forget growing up with overcooked cabbage and so on. I'd also say two Wars played their part, rationing as well, but worst of all was the onset of 'convenience food' in the sixties which carries on to modern day. Mrs M has palpitations whenever she sees a can of spaghetti hoops.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 15, 2024 5:08:18 GMT
Possibly found a girlfriend.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 9, 2024 12:35:56 GMT
My first thought with that green thing was also for loading boats. Doesn't to me look strong enough for a crane. So curiosity got me looking into it a little. It's a refurbished part of Sowerby's Granary which has now been converted into apartments. Norfolk used to export grain and malt from this quay and it looks like the grain/malt was moved across the gantry by some method, conveyer belt, blown down a pipe or something and then it dropped into the holds of the ships.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 8, 2024 20:25:35 GMT
Had a few years as a kid going on holiday camping with my parents at Wells and Hunstanton. Lovely part of the country and I wondered how it may have changed. Nice to see it and a lovely place you've had to stay in. Excellent dinner too.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 8, 2024 9:46:07 GMT
Something I remembered more than learnt today. Every year in a certain season some supermarkets will drag this machine out for a few weeks then put it back into storage for the following year. It's an asparagus peeling machine. Really big thing is asparagus in Germany though not restricted to that country -
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 5, 2024 20:14:24 GMT
I didn't pay much attention to those mileage markers as there was no way I'd be going that far. I see what you mean though.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 5, 2024 17:52:19 GMT
Would this be private land, or does it belong to the state or whoever maintains the canals? I'm not sure myself. I know some own the land down to the water but the example above I doubt it. Who does then, no certain idea.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 5, 2024 16:45:26 GMT
htmb, the countryside mooring ups are really good for sure.
Nothing like boating life Patrick.
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