GRIPES

[old man emu]

This summer in Sydney is the first for some years that the bread has gone mouldy in the bread tin.

[facthunter]

The BEST breads go mouldy.  Nev

[Marty_d]

They don't last long enough at our place.  My wife and I cooked 4 loaves of sourdough this morning - one was demolished by lunch time, one in the bread bin for tomorrow and 2 sliced and in the freezer for the next 2 days after that.  Kids are like locusts.

[facthunter]

Trans FATS are added to stuff to make it last forever.  If mould and microbes won't eat it neither should you. Nev

[Yenn]

That reminds me I had better go and look at the bread that I have rising, it must be ready to go into the tins. Sticky stuff sourdough.

[Marty_d]

6 hours ago, Yenn said:

That reminds me I had better go and look at the bread that I have rising, it must be ready to go into the tins. Sticky stuff sourdough.

We usually fold it a few times, let it rise for some hours, then fold into balls and put in floured tins in the fridge overnight.   Pull it out the next day and straight into the hot cast iron oval pots and into the oven.  Reduces the stickiness substantially.

Edited January 29, 2022 by Marty_d

[Yenn]

I started my mix at about 8-30 yesterday and put it in the oven at about 3pm. Very fast for sourdough, but it is warm and humid. in winter it will take a great deal longer to rise.

[Jerry_Atrick]

I am not sure if it is the weather forecasters.. or the news... But the Met (same as BOM) have issued a red alert weather warning of which our are is included of winds up to 90mph thanks to Storm Eunice.But the BBC weather site says to expect on 54mph winds, which puts us in the amber zone... Can they bleedin well not agree on a number?

[old man emu]

OK. We've had the rain and there is water laying everywhere. So now come  the mozzies. Those buzzing bastards who not only disturb the silence, but insist on shooting up on your body. So disease ridden they make Louie da Fly the epitome of godly cleanliness.

 

But I'm not griping about these examples of God's creatures, great and small. I'd like to know why they must make mosquito coils in such a way as they do so that you inevitably break one while trying to separate it from its partner. I'm giving up and am going to burn the coil from both ends.

[nomadpete]

My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light.

 

C'mon mate, do you expect me to believe that at your age, you stay up all night just to swat some mozzies?

And all because you've lost the patience to separate your mosquito coils?

 

[spacesailor]

Throw the damb things onto the floor !.

Guaranteed to separate  those pesky rings. LoL

spacesailor

[pmccarthy]

Mozzie nets and Aerogard.

[onetrack]

Check all the stagnant water receptacles around, such as old tyres and empty them out, it prevent larvae breeding. If you can't empty the stagnant water, pour a spoonful of kero on it, the larvae can't breathe through the kero film. If the mosquitoes are really bad, complain to your local council, it's a health threat, and they're obliged to take steps to reduce health risks. Fogging is an option.

[old man emu]

These mozzies are in the grass in the paddocks. The surface water has been absorbed, so there are no breeding places. 

[facthunter]

If there are no breeding places, it's another miracle. Old tins tyres bottles. Pour a bit of diesel or two stroke mix on the surface and watch the result on the wrigglers. Dead in no time.. If a  creek or dam has fish or mudeye in it you wont get mozzies .Bats will help too. They eat about their own weight in insects daily.  Nev

Edited April 23, 2022 by facthunter

[Old Koreelah]

If your building hasn’t yet got screens, maybe you could erect a small tent inside and use its screens.  

[old man emu]

Let's not worry about screens on the windows when the door's bolted.

[onetrack]

You need to bolt the door against the mozzies?? I've heard some legendary stories about the size of inland NSW mozzies, but that takes it to a completely new level!  

[Yenn]

I have a dam to the East and another to the West of the house, within 50 metres. Very few mossies and those we do get com from a bucket under a down pipe.  I have an old copper sitting 15m away which never has mossies in it, it seems the copper kills them and the birds seem happy to dink it if the adjacent pottery bath is empty.

What I find keeps the mossies away from is to associate with people who smother on the aerogard, I don't get bitten, but they still complain that they are getting bitten. I reckon the mossies go for those who feel most vulnerable.

[spacesailor]

Big mossies !

HEXAM GRAYS.

spacesailor

[onetrack]

Yes, Banjo Patterson knew all about the Hexham Greys ....

 

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/How_the_Favourite_Beat_Us

[Old Koreelah]

Another gripe: promises that are never kept.

 

Each new generation of light bulb promises a working life of x-0000 hours, yet I seem to be replacing them just as often as the old ones.

 

I’m currently sorting thru a box of LED torches that promised the world, but stopped working shortly afterwards. My meagre repair skills are insufficient, so they will go into landfill.  Meanwhile, my house has several incandescent bulbs that are still going fine after 40 years of regular use.

[old man emu]

2 hours ago, Old Koreelah said:

Another gripe: promises that are never kept.

Strewth! He's never going to shut up after the election.

[Jerry_Atrick]

Grip of the day.. Petty corporate rules. We have a policy where people can work for up toi 2 weeks in a foreign country... and one of tmy star reprts is wanting to utilise it. I have no concern whatsover this star report will be as diligent as in the offiec or working from home, yet the stoopid questions they want that report to answer is driving me nuts.. Complete waste of my report's any my time...

[spacesailor]

Bigger gripe !.

The government gives multiple  $ millions to third world countries. 

BUT

When a pensioner wants to go & spend their saving in that same country, they have their pension docked.

Then have to ' reapply ' for that pension all over again.

All those same damm questions that is on their records.

BUT

Are not available to the poor sod who has to remember  what they have answered years previously. 

spacesailor