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dunelm said:

Lucky escape indeed. Wonder if it was just the uplighter? Maybe get the house wiring checked out.

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ianpspurs said:

Good morning all. Plenty of posts not shown on my time line once again. 5.2 for me today, very, very beige indeed. Ate my OMAD late after seaside - Holkham- time with the tinies and pups so that could be a reason. Latest sensor seems to read higher - not one nighttime red zone. More likely to be very Ockham's Razor. Pups loved the sea but not the outward car trip. Tinies loved the beach, granddad not so much. Fantastic artwork @geefull and @Muddy Cyclist. Hug for the trauma @gennepher but amazing foresight to have so many doors.

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ianpspurs said:

Plenty of posts not shown on my time line once again.

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dunelm said:

Good morning everyone from a lackluster start in the dark and dangerous north.

The wonder wheel of the last of the meatloaf in thick onion gravy with slipshod cauliflower and some greens came in at 5.8 this am.

Some out of town loon drove his van onto the beach yesterday. Luckily, once the tide had gone out some kind fisherman with a tractor pulled the freshly washed vehicle out of the wet sand and back up the slipway. Entertainment for all - and a sudden rush for ice-cream, fish and chips and candy floss.

Youngest son started building his new “shed” yesterday - seven courses of blocks laid and three more to do. 7m long and to house a gym, utility and a small outside office as he anticipates working from home a good deal more. I have been volunteered to do install the electrics once the roof is on. Luckily there is already a 6mm steel wire armor cable that went to the previous, wooden shack thing.

My bit of zen today is a first look at a dot technique. I think that it may need ‘squeezing’ a bit, see how it goes.

Hope that everyone is as well as can be. Koffy time.

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gennepher said:

I was just tidying in my study/art room, when I looked in the mirror and saw smoke and flames coming out of the top of my floor standing halogen uplighter. And I think my brain is playing tricks on me. Then I look at the actual uplighter...0h no...I opened the door into the garden quickly. Unplugged the uplighter. Carried this flaming torch into the garden and left it out there.

The uplighter is more than 30 years old. I have a second one, same age in the front room....

Lucky escape. No I didn’t smell it, I lost my sense of smell as a result of the cochlear operation. And neither did the fire alarms go off. I cannot hear a fire alarm even with the speech processor on. They flash a light, but I wouldn’t have seen the nearest one from where I was standing.

I need to doing my zen painting now to calm down...

EDIT: The first thing I did in this bungalow when I moved here was to have a door put in every room to the outside. I have been caught in a fire before where I had to climb down a rope ladder from the second floor of an old building to escape from fire. So, me getting these doors to the back garden put in just in case there might be a fire, has saved my bacon nearly 20 years later.

Friends laughed at me saying you don’t need all those doors, even the door installer who had to knock out bricks and stuff, thought I was crackers for wanting so many doors.

I would do the same again if I ever moved house.

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Krystyna23040 said:

What a horrible thing to happen. So pleased that you and Popeye are safe.

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HarryBeau said:

I hate Courgette Krystyna a friend of mine who invited me to lunch several years ago ordered pizzas from Pizza Express...they had arrived by the time I got there & for my benefit had put extra cheese on them great I love cheese (she always complains I don't eat enough veg)...as I bit into a slice I discovered the layer of courgette she had hidden underneath...ewww...been traumatised ever since by the thought of courgette

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Krystyna23040 said:

5.1 this morning. Had a lovely day yesterday. A relaxing walk around the water gardens then Sunday lunch in the pub garden.

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Krystyna23040 said:

I bet your friend never did that again.

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gennepher said:

I need to doing my zen painting now to calm down...

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HarryBeau said:

Blimey gennepher what an experience fortunately you spotted it and took effective action...maybe ditch the other uplighter?

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SlimLizzy said:

Now wishing I had gone to the other town - supermaket there stocks a slightly wider range of products. Of the six items on my list, found two. My friend was out as well so feels like wasted effort. I left the beans by her gate though.
Don't know if I can make it to other town and back. More hills, later in the day, so warmer, bordering on hot. And again no guarantee they will stock the items on my shopping list. Which i need to finish the second batch of pickled walnuts.

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gennepher said:

It is not my morning

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HarryBeau said:

We all have & will have those days gennepher the trick is to know how to deal them...you did well did well dint panic when the light smoked and quickly washed your hands...fingers crossed you can have a relaxing day from now on.

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ianpspurs said:

Sounds really good. We saw signposts to Gooderstone Water Gardens and Oxburgh Hall yesterday on the way through Swarrfum to Holkham beach. Apparently these two are Breckland treasures - (I googled) . Swaffham proudly trumpeted being in The Brecks as well. Holkham seems like Brecks by the sea really. Insane distance from car to the beach and none of the creature comforts Grumpy Old Men like me require.

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