excoriator
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Post by excoriator on Dec 26, 2020 15:36:58 GMT
Octopus energy generously gave us free electricity from 8 am to noon on Christmas day which we gratefully accepted. It cooked the turkey etc and as we sat down to enjoy it at about 1 pm, the lights dimmed for about 10 minutes giving us time to display emergancy candles and went out completely.
Eating without power-assisted cutlery is still within our powers - just, so in fact it enhanced the meal. We decided to use candles next yer too. After a few false starts it came back on again at about 4:30. Thank god in time to power the dishwasher. All in all, a good day.
Hopefully everyone here had an equally pleasant time
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Post by skylark on Jan 2, 2021 16:36:48 GMT
Whew! Losing the power in the midst of a turkey cook would have been a different story.
Our planned Christmas was cancelled when we found ourselves in Tier 4 but hey, we had smoked salmon, some of which was destined for the couple we were to have visited, along with a good supply of cheese. Locked down with smoked salmon and stilton? Who's complaining.
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Post by excoriator on Jan 2, 2021 23:51:37 GMT
I have a Ricoh colour laser printer. Beware of brown outs if you have one too.
On powering on, the fuser is supposed to reach temperature within 125 seconds. If it doesn't, and in a brown out it can't, it registers an error condition which means the printer toast until you call an engineer our to sort it. It took me a couple of hours to find out how to reach the maintenance menu, find the error flag, and reset it. If you have a power cut, switch it off at once and do not switch it on if the lights are not at full brightness.
I am currently going quietly insane as my Daughter bought me a 2,000 piece jigsaw. It is enormous, and requires the kitchen table to accommodate it. I feel I have to do it though I am not really a jigsaw fan, In four days of intermittent attempts on it, I have the complete edge pieces and have done maybe three or four percent of various easy to identify internal bits, and I fear it will not be completed when I'm in my box. It has, however, given Mrs E. much enjoyment by asking "Have you finished it yet!" and making snide remarks before leaving the room cackling.
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