Random Irritations

finding out that things stick to your "non stick" pan like shite on a blanket

I have a couple of non stick frying pans that work well, but only because I wont let them near the dishwasher

use stainless steel for the pans and they go in the dishwasher

non stick is great but a faff to keep the coating happy.. its like the wife. temperamental
 
HID is a big fan so it's normally on most evenings as dinner is cooking. It's not the worse quiz out there although I think Alexander Armstrong is a plank and Richard Osman tries way too hard to be funny/smart. The celebrity versions are worse and some of the "stars" are really dense

Oh thank God, I thought it was just me.
 
BBC Sounds app on my Nexus 7 Android tablet has just stopped working. Tried checking storage and it's fine; powering it off and restarting; clearing cache; uninstalling and reinstalling the app; disconnecting and reconnecting WiFi; and hunting on internet I can't find any further suggestions as to what I might do.

Any ideas anyone. It just stopped and can't correlate it stopping with anything else I was doing...though yesterday evening I did seem to lose internet connectivity to my sky box and TV - now sorted.
 
BBC Sounds app on my Nexus 7 Android tablet has just stopped working. Tried checking storage and it's fine; powering it off and restarting; clearing cache; uninstalling and reinstalling the app; disconnecting and reconnecting WiFi; and hunting on internet I can't find any further suggestions as to what I might do.

Any ideas anyone. It just stopped and can't correlate it stopping with anything else I was doing...though yesterday evening I did seem to lose internet connectivity to my sky box and TV - now sorted.

No answerr for you but the Sounds app is an absolute car crash. BBC Iplayer radio worked so well and so having to move over to this has been a massive step down. No idea why BBC did it.
 
No answerr for you but the Sounds app is an absolute car crash. BBC Iplayer radio worked so well and so having to move over to this has been a massive step down. No idea why BBC did it.
I have found the same issue on my Samsung Android phone, both with Sounds and also the BBC News app (New app message is that app is not responding). To eliminate possible root causes I switched off wifi on my phone and they both open correctly. So it appears to be something wifi related. But only for these to BBC apps. BBC Weather app works with wifi switched on. Just happened out of the blue.

Next - I suppose I reboot my router.
 
Hoofing down with rain again. Not played a full round of golf for nearly three weeks and probably won’t be this Friday either. The course had just started to dry out but will be swamp like again after this weeks deluge.
 
people not booking holiday from work when you've been asking them since Xmas and now they've finally done it i can't do what i wanted to do on those dates so need to re-arrange everything.
 
people not booking holiday from work when you've been asking them since Xmas and now they've finally done it i can't do what i wanted to do on those dates so need to re-arrange everything.

I used to give my department until the end of January to book any essential time off they wanted, especially for school holidays etc. They always knew that I would book my holiday time during the first week of February and if they then wanted the same time off it was hard luck (except for exceptional or unforeseen circumstances). I felt giving them a whole month head start was ample, especially as I never booked time off in school holidays normally either as there were always people who needed last minute time off if they had been let down by child minders etc.
 
I have found the same issue on my Samsung Android phone, both with Sounds and also the BBC News app (New app message is that app is not responding). To eliminate possible root causes I switched off wifi on my phone and they both open correctly. So it appears to be something wifi related. But only for these to BBC apps. BBC Weather app works with wifi switched on. Just happened out of the blue.

Next - I suppose I reboot my router.
Well unplugged everything back to the line into the router and left it a bit - then rebooted and incrementally reconnected everything - and that seemed to work. Why it was seemingly just BBC Sounds and BBC News apps that were impacted by whatever went wrong.
 
Tradesmen who seemingly can't park more than 10 yards away from the house they are visiting, even across the road is too far away. He'll just block the pavement instead. He's only there to measure up some blinds.




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Why is it like this morning I had to listen yet again to Derby County football club referred to as Wayne Rooney's Derby County?
Does it mean he is bigger than the club?
Possibly, I suppose. The last time they won anything major was 1975.
 
Having smart meters fitted this afternoon that are newer ones. SMETS2? Anyway, engineer has just rung and they've only booked me in for the electricity one. It's the gas meter that is a PITA to read. Been able to rearrange for fitting both tomorrow. It's just then hanging around again for the four hour slot. Knowing my luck it will be at the end of the slot when he comes.
 
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