{"id":1745,"date":"2021-02-09T20:52:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T20:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2021-02-09T20:56:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T20:56:11","slug":"tuesday-9th-february-2021-day-330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/2021\/02\/09\/tuesday-9th-february-2021-day-330\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 9th February, 2021 [Day 330]"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wouldn’t say it was the most major of domestic tragedies but we happen to have quite a tall 1-litre capacity Pyrex measuring jug that is constantly in use – or at least twice a day. I use it to prepare the coffee for our elevenses every morning and also, because of its height,\u00a0I tend to use it constantly to microwave green vegetables because we have a lid that just fits it nicely. To my display, I discovered that the tip of the lip had broken away and a crack was in the process of appearing over what might have been a seam. As I use it so constantly, I thought I would try and Amazon\/Ebay<\/em> search for a replacement, only to find it extraordinarily difficult. Most of the 1 litre jugs tend to be squat and wide rather than taller and narrower so it took a lot of searching on the internet to find a replacement \u00a0at quite a price (about \u00a314.00) but at least it was a ‘genuine’ Pyrex. Now for Sod’s\u00a0law in operation. Meg may have caught a chill after\u00a0yesterday’s stay in the park so she went to bed a little\u00a0earlier last night and decided to stay in the warmth of the house today. So I went to collect the newspapers on my own and then made a quick detour into Asda<\/em> (which I normally avoid) to see on the off-chance whether they stocked any measuring jugs of the sort\u00a0I wanted. As luck would have it, they did have one which is an exact replacement of the one that had died a death but at a price of \u00a32.70 which is about one fifth of the internet price – but how was I to know that what I wanted would be so readily available locally and so hard to find on the internet?\u00a0I took the opportunity, though, to buy one or two things that I know only Asda<\/em> sells\u00a0though by inclination I feel like avoiding the store as much as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today was a very interesting day in the park. Near the entrance, I met my\u00a0Birmingham University friend who was deep in conversation (about dogs) with a dog-walking couple. We then acquired the customary cup of coffee and went to take up position in our ‘by now’ usual vantage point only to meet friends, friends of friends, dog walkers that we know and so on. At one point, there were as many as eight of us in a gaggle but we\u00a0quickly moved on so as not to constitute a ‘gaggle’ and to\u00a0keep out of the purview of the COVID-19 rangers. By this stage, I was thoroughly chilled as the temperature is about -3\u00b0 which is not too cold if you are constantly on the move but can get to you a little if you are stationary. So I got home a little late and prepared our lunch time meal of fishcakes dressed with yesterday’s sauce and some fresh broccoli.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This afternoon, I brought back into use a radio which is designed to be used in or near a shower. This I bought years and years ago for about \u00a35 and it was cheap even then – it seems to keep going on two AA batteries for about 3 months so is evidently designed to perform well at a very low power consumption. The proof of the pudding will be tomorrow morning (I have it permanently tuned to ClassicFM<\/em> which is the only radio to which I would want to listen in the shower) At 4.00 in the afternoon, I Skype<\/em>d one of my oldest Hampshire friends and we regaled each with stories from our pasts. I enjoyed retelling the story of how members of Leicester Polytechnic enjoyed moments of ‘Schadenfreude<\/em>‘ (= malicious delight in another person’s misfortune) The then director of the polytechnic wished to avail himself of the flat at the top of the Queen Anne mansion which was a feature of the Scraptoft Campus in order to entertain his current ‘amour’ at weekends (and for no cost!) To make his pleasure complete, the Director had ordered a\u00a0double bed which the delivery men struggled for hours to try to get up the narrow\u00a0spiral\u00a0staircase of the Queen Anne mansion. Eventually, they\u00a0failed and the bed had to be returned back to the\u00a0delivery van from whence it\u00a0came, much to the amusement of the members of staff who had\u00a0watched the late Friday afternoon’s\u00a0proceedings unfold with a fair\u00a0degree of mirth. After\u00a0this Skype<\/em> call, we FaceTime<\/em>d some of our ex-Waitrose friends as we do every Tuesday afternoon and caught up all with all of the\u00a0week’s news. We generally take the best part of an hour and pass on any local news or gossip about things happening in the area. Tomorrow, if we are lucky, we should be getting our central heating engineer to come and see to our boiler which appears to be\u00a0functioning OK in the exceptionally cold weather apart from the fact that a\u00a0crucial pressure\u00a0gauge is tending to read ‘zero’ which is a definite malfunction. As the boiler is\u00a0fairly new, we trust that is a part has failed, we\u00a0should be able to make a claim under the warranty.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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