Saw it was likely to rain later today, so decided to mow the grass this morning. Boy, what great timing, finished the grass, put everything away, and 10 minutes later, down it came. Was I lucky, I think so 👌

Daylight Saving: Don’t forget the clocks GO FORWARD an hour tonight.

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87mm would cause serious troubles anywhere, especially townships. It’s LOT of water, around 4,000,000 litres per acre.

I’d already done the AliE check, and saw loads of steaming baskets. Of course I would need a pressure cooker as well. Maybe the stove top is the way to go with AliE.

I’d need the steamer basket, and thought you’d given me the jackpot with that link. However I see this when looking for a retailer - “Unfortunately there are no available retailers for this product”.

Ah well, but thanks again for the suggestion.

That’s interesting, thanks for the Crock-pot pointer. Is your’s a sealed lid, so the cooking is under pressure and therefore quicker? The keeping the food above the liquid thing is a key for me.

Looking for some advice please on pressure cookers. Have never used one so am looking for a little advice.

I make my own natto, but have read that cooking the beans is best, and easiest, in a pressure steamer. So I guess a pressure cooker plus a steamer basket.

Looking at the usual search results, boy, there are multitudes listed. Has anyone got a pressure cooker, electric or hob powered, plus a steamer basket that all works, who can give me a pointer please?

That’ll mean our car clock will become correct after its winter hiatus.

I know. Have had some outages for a few days. Filled a dozen buckets beforehand for the toilet flush. Another thing that’ll really stuff the country is if the internet ever goes out.

I guess if the stores only ever use the same amount of energy that they feed to the system, then they can say they are 100% self sufficient in electric. Of course after dark they need a different source, but if they’d already fed that extra night time requirement into the system during daylight hours, then does the self sufficiency determination still apply?

Thanks, it was sorted in 30 minutes. The engineer saw the poor flow at our place, went up to the water meter by the road, did his thing, and bingo, back to normal.

Just had the water company out to fix our supply. Seems the water meter was clogged with muck restricting the flow. We have untreated irrigation water as a supply, so not really surprising given the recent pipework upgrades they’ve been doing. The engineer told me they’ve had hundreds of calls in recent weeks from people with the same problem.

You’ll be looking at a high capacity UPS for fridge/freezer if the outage is more than an hour or so, plus the complicated fitting of it into the power system. What we did was fit plug-in spike suppressors on ours after one outage splatted our kitchen fridge/freezer.

We had a very short few minutes power outage on Sunday, just a short time after putting a carrot cake in the oven. Luckily it ended up cooked fine.

Have been living rural for many, many, years, and fitted a small UPS to keep the internet alive for a while during any power outages. Gives us a chance to check the power co to see what’s going on.

It cooked perfectly, letting it cool now and will try a slice for afternoon tea. Put less cinnamon in than the recipe, but that’s a personal taste thing of course.

Just made a carrot cake. Got it all ready and in the oven, 2 minutes later the mains power dropped. A minute later it was back on. Rushed to get the oven on again, think we were lucky, if it had been 20 minutes into cooking, that could have been a problem.

Good plan by the sounds of it. Be careful, take pictures if there’s any issues.

Hang on, he threw punches which luckily you avoided, that’s attempted assault in my book. But it didn’t end there, he was pacing around your house? WTF?

His apology seems a bit of a “cover my ass” policy by him. Report him!!!

Good grief, hope you are OK.

As others have said, report it. Do it now, and say you’ve locked yourself in to be safe.