The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)

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I bought, among other things, radishes and potatoes today…which I realize I left sitting on the self-checkout carousel. 😠

I've done that. I did that with a big family-package of chicken about six months ago, and Kroger put it in the cooler in case I came back, which I did.

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More weather whiplash coming. 80F/27C next Monday, possible snow on Wednesday/Thursday nights.

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So much for my weekend plans. Eggs/chicks take 21 days to hatch and you start with day 0 being the day you put them under the chook/into the incubator. So if you set them on a Saturday for instance, 3 weeks later on the Sunday they are expected to hatch.

1st lot of chicks hatched 1 day early. This lot have hatched 2 days early (4 have hatched already, 1 has pipped and 1 is talking to the world and knocking on the door... both if those will hatch overnight.) We had plans for tomorrow. Instead we now chick sit to make sure the 5 days old chicks play nice with the newly hatched chicks (we only have the 1 heat lamp and lost 1 chick today so can't leave the newly hatched with 'mums'. Unsure which mum killed the chick sadly though I have my suspicions. )

Hopefully we'll get to go out on Sunday instead if the chicks work out how to eat and drink by then... with older chicks to copy they should be ok. So 6 chicks in the guinea pig cage in the house and possibly 2 more by the morning. The chook's cage is blacked out so she will think it's still night a bit longer, so I can check for hatchlings when I get up rather than first light. Really beginning to see the benefit of an incubator but didn't get one because we had a 10hr planned power outage during the incubation period...
 
So there is a huge storm blowing through England and Wales right now (MG has it worst) and it appears from social media that most people are sat in front of Youtube watching a live stream of aircraft trying to land at Heathrow and passing comment. Makes you proud to be British.
 
That’s the norm where I grew up, excepting a baked pasta dish, of course, and still largely is, even in a lot of family restaurants.

When we were first married, my wife would complain and complain when I’d mix the sauce and pasta together, because that’s associated with canned spaghetti, but after a few years of her complaining and me not listening, she finally gave up, and now that’s how she prefers it. :laugh:
for two years, in summer, I went for study holiday in UK, I stayed in College and there was a canteen for meals: I must say that I can't complain about the quality of the meals, I ate well, but I always avoided pasta ... it was left forgotten in a container until someone asked for it, at which point they took it, and it looked like glue, put it in the plate and added sauce ... terrible!
 
So there is a huge storm blowing through England and Wales right now (MG has it worst) and it appears from social media that most people are sat in front of Youtube watching a live stream of aircraft trying to land at Heathrow and passing comment. Makes you proud to be British.
You mean all of Western Europe. Eunice is raging here , in Germany and Belgium/ France too. We're on the coast here and currently in the danger zone so boarded up inside
 
So there is a huge storm blowing through England and Wales right now (MG has it worst) and it appears from social media that most people are sat in front of Youtube watching a live stream of aircraft trying to land at Heathrow and passing comment. Makes you proud to be British.
I am Portuguese, and I am doing just that :roflmao: Our national airline TAP had an especially hard landing in Heathrow earlier today.
 
That’s the norm where I grew up, excepting a baked pasta dish, of course, and still largely is, even in a lot of family restaurants.

When we were first married, my wife would complain and complain when I’d mix the sauce and pasta together, because that’s associated with canned spaghetti, but after a few years of her complaining and me not listening, she finally gave up, and now that’s how she prefers it. :laugh:
When I make bolognaise I'm forced by my lovely partner Angela to first put the raw pasta in her bowl before I attempt to have my starchy pasta mix with the meat sauce. Then I add the bolognaise right in the middle because symmetry matters then a dusting of microplaned parmigiana Reggiano, and life is good. Angela also only wants spaghetti with bolognaise where I prefer tagliatelle, so maybe one day I'll have tagliatelle again, but I'd probably have to eat alone. lol. :giggle:
 
For plane spotters and aviation enthusiasts, these stormy days are entertaining. You get to see some go arounds and some hard landings. I know a lot of people are afraid of flying but planes are very safe. You're more likely to be in a car accident than a plane accident.
 
You mean all of Western Europe. Eunice is raging here , in Germany and Belgium/ France too. We're on the coast here and currently in the danger zone so boarded up inside
Stay safe. Here in Leicester it's pretty horrible, but not as bad as predicted. It was supposed to track right over us, but it seems to be running a little further south than was modelled, hence London is getting a proper seeing to. The peak is now passing in the UK, so unfortunately you have a pretty rough evening ahead. :(
 
Stay safe. Here in Leicester it's pretty horrible, but not as bad as predicted. It was supposed to track right over us, but it seems to be running a little further south than the modelled, hence London is getting a proper seeing to. The peak is now passing in the UK, so unfortunately you have a pretty rough evening ahead. :(
Glad to hear it's better than expected there! I saw a video of a church tower collapsing in the UK.

We've just started an hour ago and it will last till at least 21.00
 
In Ontario we had rain all day yesterday and most of the night then turned very cold changing to ice then snow with about 10'' of accumulated snow early this morning. bright and sunny now but i suspect a skating rink for drivers for the first few hours.
 
Glad to hear it's better than expected there! I saw a video of a church tower collapsing in the UK.

We've just started an hour ago and it will last till at least 21.00
The roof of a stadium about 12 miles from us has blown off 😮

Edit: and we've just had a national alarm on our phones warming us to stay inside because our version of 911 is overloaded. This is sounding serious.

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