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Bates is where I'd get my caps. There's also Christies which has move to North Oxford Street where ground rent is more reasonable, so is a little less expensive.

Steve
Yorkshire puddings are popular, probably rather English food though?
As children they were made for Sunday lunch. A good piece of meat, a couple of home made Yorkshire puds and 3/4 veg with onion gravey. All fresh, often seasonal from the garden, nothing from a freezer.
Puds made in a metal tray holding 12.

Now I buy them in bags for the freezer along with broccoli, brussel sprouts, runner beans, mange tout etc.

Occasionally mum would make two large Yorkshires in cake tins, 3x6 and 4x8 inches which I had like a pancake with milk and sugar. Dad would have the big one of course.

Looks kind of like snakes. But I'll bet it's good.

Is there anything the air fryer can't do?

In the rice cooker pot in the rice cooker.

It doesn’t get hot enough to sear but it’s perfect for sweating vegetables.

I'm exhausted just reading this. I don't have the bandwith. The prospect of everything he's talking about feels just catastrophic.

Oh wow, thanks for posting this, @Steve-Miller ! I only watched the first 6 minutes or so, I’ll have to come back and watch the rest later.

But yeah, “too perfect” is never good. That’s why I was never truly satisfied with having a digital piano, in that “too perfect” experience, the total absence of truly organic sound, there’s no magic…

Can they please buy Montana too?

I have watched Wild Robot.
Yeah, it's among the better animated feature films. Recommended.

@Jodi Which reminds me, how is your back doing these days? Sounds like you’re feeling better?

I have an explanation: Manuchurian Candidate 2025 - The President. Elon convinced Trump to get a Neuralink device and he's controlling him via a Starlink connection.

The plan is working.

As for the Koch Brothers:

When some of the biggest donors to conservative causes made explicit their electoral opposition to a second Trump term way back in February of 2023, it came as something of a shock to the Republican orbit. After all, the powerful network organized under the auspices of billionaire industrialist Charles Koch had officially remained neutral in Trump’s 2016 and 2020 campaigns, a sign of how uncomfortable his allies were with a candidate whose positions were so far afoul from their own on so many issues.

But by the time the network gathered at the start of 2023, their position on Trump was not really a point of discussion. The deadly Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, was finally a step too far. The chief of the network’s main political arm, Americans For Prosperity, told her patrons that they were ready to back an alternative Republican who showed promise of winning. The group ultimately plowed more than $32 million into former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, and another $10 million in broader anti-Trump efforts before throwing in the towel. The hopes of reclaiming the party from this gatecrasher were dashed and they had to live with Trump as their standard bearer.

https://time.com/7018266/trump-republicans-koch-network-2024/

The average person has no clue this is happening. Or what it could mean.

We have tariffs that are certain to increase the price of food.

We are losing/will lose agricultural workers either through deportation or because they won't go to work because they're afraid.

And someone who wants to make a name for himself is ordering the release of water out of reservoirs so he can catch a soundbite. "See, I said I'd get water flowing to LA". Wonder what he'll say this summer if the farmers don't have water for crops.

Can't wait to see who he blames for the results.

The coup rolls on.

Tuesday's order provides new details on how government agencies will work with DOGE to reduce the size of the federal workforce, and calls on the heads of federal agencies to "promptly undertake preparations to initiate large-scale reductions in force." The order did not specify a range of how many workers may be affected and lose jobs.

The order also sets out new guidelines around hiring. It says each agency should hire no more than one employee for every four employees that depart. Additionally, the order calls on agency heads to consult with a "DOGE Team Lead" around hiring approvals.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/11/nx-s1-5293504/trump-musk-doge-oval-office

Is there a banjo and player on the boat? Riverboats need banjos.
Glad you are toasty and warm. Hope you have a great time.

Agriculture comprises about 10 percent of Kern County’s gross domestic product and undocumented workers may comprise half of the workforce, he said. And the Central Valley provides about a quarter of the United States’ food.

“So, you WILL see, in the long run, food inflation and food shortages,” he wrote in a text message.

Wonder how the next administration will blame Biden for the price increases.

What Bernard said. All of it. Thanks, Bernard.

I’m sorry, were you saying something?

(Looks at watch)

A web search lists the same reasons I did above and one more. Some people lose weight like crazy on GLP and others lose more slowly. There are generally plateaus. People who lose more slowly can get frustrated and give up.

The people who lose weight most quickly appear to be people who have a lot to lose and people with poor diets when they start. Interesting that these same people are also the ones who do well on IF routines.

Looks good. We’ve been eating more sirloin these days due to high prices, plus the flavor is superior imo to a lot of other more expensive cuts.

looking good.

Good grief!!

Re the ads.... can we please not be encouraging distracted driving anymore than it already is??? 😞