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I just had a burst of motivation to use an appliance I've owned for years and only used maybe 3 times ever. I'm not sure I've even used it once in this apartment and I moved here in 2018.
It's a pressure cooker which also does slow cooking, I think. I feel like making some sort of yum fall-apart meat based.. thing.. but not sure what.
I've bought some Biscoff spread. What do I do with it?
Spread it on your Biscoffs?
Damn it. I'll have to get some next time.
Crumpets! Or as a cake/pastry filling. Or a dollop on ice-cream. It's very sweet, a bit crunchy and tastes like every baking spice in existence except for chilli.
Interesting. Thank you.
My colleague has recently used it as an addition to Rocky Road. It's literally the best Rocky Road I've had
This is the reason I asked here.
Yeah… my spinach seedlings are damping off. It took a while for them to get going and then forgetting to drain the self watering reservoirs during those heavy rains has wrecked them.
The carrots might be ok and the cat grass/parsley are doing well but more of the spinach is just dying. I might have to trash them and try again with new potting mix after bleaching the pot
check out perpetual spinach if you can - it's technically a chard (like silverbeet) but it's bloody hard to kill and won't bolt in hot weather
I could never get spinach to do anything either , I think they need a very free draining sandy soil and I just used ordinary potting mix 🤷♀️
My previous ones did ok in a cheap window box of potting mix.
I just made the same mistake here as the tomatoes, of overcompensating with self watering reservoirs in case I forgot to water. Ended up killing the plants with wet feet
Anyone here have experience with hearing protection in a noisy work environment? As in machine noise? Any brands that are better (or the best) to look out for? Price is not really a factor here - I'd like to pay for quality in this instance.
Can't go wrong with the Sony mx-1000 range. Over ears are brilliant and long term comfortable, 10 minute charge gives you 5 hours continuous use. If your work environment requires AS over ear protection, then look at the ear bud version of the same, and wear them under your peltors.
Are they primarily for listening to music while also blocking out noise? I'm looking into them and thanks for the suggestion but just to be clear, I only really need the noise cancelling aspect / hearing protection aspect. Unless these have some additional benefit over a non-chargable set of earmuffs I'm not seeing?
[edit] oh, and the noise will be intermittent, if that helps. Like, one blast of noise every 15-30 seconds or so. Like hummm BZZT hummm BZZT, etc.
I have a lot of experience in extreme noise environments. For your situation you’re better off just buying rubber earplugs on a cord that you can attach to your shirt so you don’t lose them. If additional protection is required just chuck some inexpensive low profile earmuffs on over that. Unless you’re in a tactical environment, you don’t really need expensive noise cancelling earmuff because you end up trashing them.
20% on home insurance? Huddle, you got some fuckin' splaining to do.
