tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91137642024-03-13T16:16:23.916+00:00BioBlogbeing the mostly inane ramblings of me with occasional bouts of lucidity and flashes of genius also plagiarised useful stuffBioHazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16619197297403728136noreply@blogger.comBlogger192125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113764.post-70128081231714129902020-10-30T14:24:00.006+00:002020-10-30T14:24:50.937+00:00Windows 10 Start Menu disappeared<p><br /></p><p>Recently noticed (after a Windows 10 Update) that my st6art menu had disappeared and the Cortana search was retuinring results but not letting me run programes from the results. Search for a bit and found this which fixed it<br /><br />Run CMD as administrator (by pressing Ctrl-Shift_Enter)<br />sfc /scannow</p><p>https://windowsreport.com/start-menu-disappears-windows-10/#10</p>BioHazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16619197297403728136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113764.post-4840401321735231012020-06-02T14:32:00.001+01:002020-06-02T15:32:13.782+01:00No Fuss, Lacto Free, Two Ingredient Bagel Recipe<br />
Ingredients<br />
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<li>Sift the flour into a big bowl</li>
<li>Mix the yoghurt in to make a dough</li>
<li>Split it into 4</li>
<li>Shape it into rings</li>
<li>Whack 'em on a floured tray</li>
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Bung em in the oven for 20 minutes until golden, take 'em out and cool on a wire rack<br />
<br />BioHazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16619197297403728136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113764.post-32503188803717430882020-04-18T17:41:00.000+01:002020-04-18T18:19:37.886+01:00Cryptic Phrase PuzzlesThere are a few of these going around just now and I want to be able to find them again and the answers but of course I'm missing some. If you have an answer that I don't or a better answer than what I think it is please add it in the comments<br />
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<li>Sandbox</li>
<li>Man Overboard</li>
<li>I understand</li>
<li>Reading between the lines</li>
<li>Long underwear</li>
<li>Crossroads</li>
<li>Down Town</li>
<li>Tricycle</li>
<li>Split Level</li>
<li>3 degrees below zero</li>
<li>Neon Lights</li>
<li>Circles under the eyes</li>
<li>High Chair</li>
<li>Paradise (pair o' dice)</li>
<li>Touchdown</li>
<li>5 feet underground</li>
<li>Mind over matter</li>
<li>He's beside himself</li>
<li>a backwards glance</li>
<li>Life after death</li>
<li>G.I. overseas</li>
<li>Space Program</li>
<li>See through blouse</li>
<li>Just between you and me</li>
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<li>The Seven Seas</li>
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<li>He's beside himself</li>
<li>See through blouse</li>
<li>First Aid</li>
<li>West Indies</li>
<li>6 feet underground</li>
<li>a backwards glance</li>
<li>Tricycle</li>
<li>Reading between the lines</li>
<li>Crossroads</li>
<li>3 degrees below zero</li>
<li>Neon lights</li>
<li>Just between you and me</li>
<li>One in a million</li>
<li>Broken Promise</li>
<li>You're out of touch</li>
<li>Life after 40</li>
<li>Jack in the box</li>
<li>growing economy</li>
<li>Up before 8</li>
<li>Just around the corner</li>
<li>Apple Pie</li>
<li>Making Up for lost time</li>
<li>Standing ovation</li>
<li>I understand you undertake to undermine my undertaking</li>
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BioHazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16619197297403728136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113764.post-14419120269246535222020-03-24T19:11:00.006+00:002020-04-03T07:43:56.678+01:00A simple white loaf<h2>
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<li>800g strong white bread flour</li>
<li>14g fresh yeast or 7g sachet dried yeast or 7g sachet fast-action dried yeast</li>
<li>2 teaspoons salt</li>
<li>550ml water at 30C/85F<br /></li>
<li>2x1kg bread tins greased with butter or lard (or dairy free alternative)</li>
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If using fresh yeast or dried yeast, in a small bowl, wet the yeast with a little warm water and stir it ot a cream. Add the remaining water, then add this mixture to the flour. Mix well together.</div>
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Put the dough back in the bowl and cover with a damp cloth. Leave the dough to rise at a warm, but not hot, room temperature for 1-2 hours until it has doubled in size.</div>
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Turn out the dough onto a lightly floured worktop and knead it for 2-3 minutes to even it out. Divide the dough into two equal portions. Knead each lightly to form a cylinder that has a crease at its base. Place in the tins crease down and cover them with a damp tea towel. Leave the loaves to rise at the same warm room temperature for 45-60 minutes until they have doubled in size -- this will be when the dough just mounds over the rim of the tins by 1-2 cm.</div>
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BioHazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16619197297403728136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113764.post-49292658775889076442020-03-24T17:47:00.002+00:002020-04-03T07:43:56.702+01:00Perfect Vegan Soda Bread Recipe<br />
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<li>250 g plain white flour</li>
<li>150 g wholemeal flour</li>
<li>50 g oats (plus extra to scatter on top)</li>
<li>1 teaspoon salt</li>
<li>1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda (baking soda, not baking powder)</li>
<li>300 ml neutral tasting dairy free milk (Alpro Unsweetened Oat Milk is my favourite)</li>
<li>1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar (or lemon juice, or white wine vinegar)</li>
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<li>Mix all the dry ingredients together thoroughly. </li>
<li>Add the oat milk and vinegar, and stir to combine.</li>
<li>Keep stirring until the ingredients come together as a dough, then squidge together to form a ball.</li>
<li>Place the ball of dough on your baking tray and cut a deep cross in the centre. This is really important as it helps the centre of the bread to cook properly – so cut nice and deep, almost to the bottom.</li>
<li>If you wish, you can dust the loaf with a little flour and a sprinkle of oats, then place the bread in your preheated oven for 30 minutes.</li>
<li>That's it, take it out, cool it on a rack. Enjoy</li>
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BioHazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16619197297403728136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113764.post-33074185743303887652020-02-20T19:54:00.000+00:002020-04-02T19:55:09.706+01:00#soldier #vss365 #poem<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/vss365?src=hashtag_click">#vss365</a><div>
He was in the merchant navy</div>
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He didn’t have to fight</div>
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No <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/soldier?src=hashtag_click">#soldier</a> he but fought as hard</div>
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Striving day & night</div>
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To bring us food & fuel</div>
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To help lessen our plight</div>
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The U-boat sank the unarmed ship</div>
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No hero’s grave in sight</div>
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Now he sleeps with Davy Jones</div>
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At the dying of the light</div>
BioHazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16619197297403728136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113764.post-49225089896459376902020-02-16T19:48:00.000+00:002020-04-02T19:49:29.053+01:00#creed #vss365 #Jared<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/vss365?src=hashtag_click">#vss365</a><div>
Kneeling, bound wrist and ankle, someone grabbed Jared’s hair from behind pressing a blade to his throat.</div>
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“If you follow the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/creed?src=hashtag_click">#creed</a> then speak it.”</div>
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“I cannot, for it is forbidden but ‘Steadfast’ is the watchword and brotherhood the path.”</div>
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The knife sliced his bonds</div>
BioHazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16619197297403728136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113764.post-15202988918145175232020-01-24T12:23:00.000+00:002020-01-31T13:26:31.301+00:00#happen #vss365 #Space #BioWhen I was little I wanted to be an astronaut. Then I found out you had to be born American or Russian and, being British, that it was never going to #happen for me. I wish I’d had more vision and faith in myself. I could have been up there now instead of writing about it.<br />
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Although this was written as a "story" in response to today's #vss365 prompt, it is completely autobiographicalBioHazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16619197297403728136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113764.post-409226280925152962020-01-23T12:26:00.000+00:002020-01-31T13:26:54.697+00:00#cacophony #vss365 #Space #ChrisWhen Chris arrived on the ISS the first thing she thought was there ought to be an odour equivalent of #cacophony, a noisome miasmic mix of machinery, body odour, antiseptic and garbage assaulted her nose.<br />
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It wasn't microgravity that made you space sick; it was the smell.BioHazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16619197297403728136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113764.post-1531433614944237212020-01-22T12:27:00.000+00:002020-01-31T13:27:06.881+00:00#rigmarole #vss365 #Space #ChrisChris thought learning everything in Russian a right palaver but now that #rigmarole saved her life. Being fluent when the fire broke out on the space station meant not pausing to translate in her head and those fractions of a second made the difference.BioHazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16619197297403728136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113764.post-22296000131416983592020-01-21T12:33:00.000+00:002020-01-31T13:27:18.176+00:00#obstinate #vss365 #BioI decided to climb 4413ft Ben Nevis with my son. It took us 6 hours but, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/obstinate?src=hashtag_click">#obstinate</a> old fool that I am, I wouldn’t give up even when i was in obvious pain. This is us at the top covered in snow and we still had to get down again. I was sore for days. It was worth it.<br />
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Although this was written as a "story" in response to today's #vss365 prompt, it is completely autobiographical.</div>
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It only took 3 hours to get down and I was running down the mountainside in the snow taking great leaps until we got below the snowline and back onto the scree. When we finally got back to Fort William we had the best curry ever.</div>
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BioHazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16619197297403728136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113764.post-25146666065070807742020-01-20T21:13:00.003+00:002020-01-20T21:13:58.899+00:00Web ComicsIn the past I've occasionally mentioned a webcomic or two and that I didn't read them all that regularly. This is my guilty pleasure and I still follow some of the ones I've been reading for years and a couple of new ones. The current list is<br />
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https://xkcd.com/<br />
https://satwcomic.com/<br />
https://www.smbc-comics.com/<br />
https://questionablecontent.net/<br />
https://dilbert.com/<br />
https://www.fowllanguagecomics.com/<br />
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and the latest addition to the list https://www.webtoons.com/en/comedy/adventures-of-god/ep-23-the-tower/viewer?title_no=853&episode_no=23BioHazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16619197297403728136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113764.post-69455893899772559602020-01-20T12:40:00.000+00:002020-01-31T12:40:59.818+00:00#jasmine #vss365It was a beautiful early summer evening, the sky was a glorious pink and the smell of #Jasmine hung heavy in the air.<br />
« Désolé pour ça » elle dit « C’est le faute aux haricots »<br />
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Yes, I am ashamed of this one but it still got a retweet and 7 likes so someone's sense of humour is as puerile as mine.BioHazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16619197297403728136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113764.post-69956703408813735932020-01-19T12:41:00.000+00:002020-01-31T13:19:27.358+00:00#articulate #vss365 #GuruHe told the world that the guru said "Never put your happiness in someone else's hands."<br />
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"That's not what happened," the guru thought. "When he came and asked how to become happy I said 'Don't ask me' but what he said is very #articulate. I'll take it."BioHazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16619197297403728136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113764.post-26209922780720399562020-01-18T12:45:00.000+00:002020-01-31T12:47:03.073+00:00#SatSplat #SlapdashSat oops sorry TJ<span style="color: #14171a; font-family: , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , "ubuntu" , "helvetica neue" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I got mugged. I wasn't paying attention walking & reading my iPhone. They ran off with my phone & wallet. I picked myself up & pulled another phone from my pocket. I called the police then made another call. The little buggers better hope the cops find them first. #SatSplat #SlapdashSat</span></span><br />
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BioHazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16619197297403728136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113764.post-6423215326920772832020-01-18T11:30:00.000+00:002020-01-31T13:27:49.706+00:00#muddled #Bio<br />
I remember distinctly the first time I got my words #muddled. I had gone blank on Air Conditioning Unit and has to say that thing at the back of the class that makes the room colder. I probably still do it but I notice don’t so often nowadays #vss375<br />
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This one is autobiographical and I even got the hashtag wrong. I hope people thought that was deliberate 'cause it totally was, honest.BioHazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16619197297403728136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113764.post-76361305217845221752020-01-17T12:53:00.000+00:002020-01-31T12:53:52.021+00:00#riparian<span style="color: #14171a; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Ubuntu, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">"I'm not a real vegetarian, I eat fish sometimes", he replied.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #14171a; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Ubuntu, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">"As we're discussing food, I'm a cibarian riparian pescatarian," he said, not to be outdone.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #14171a; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Ubuntu, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">So this one caused me quite a pause. A word I have never seen or heard before.</span></span></span>BioHazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16619197297403728136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113764.post-67552029684178516212020-01-16T12:56:00.000+00:002020-01-31T12:57:04.485+00:00#yearning "No John, it should be 'pining for the fjords' not #yearning"<br />
"What's the difference?"<br />
"Well, Norway doesn't have any yearn trees for a start."<br />
"You don't say much but when you're right, you're right Graham. Pet Shop not car salesman, parrot not dog, pining not yearning."<br />
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Although this is an imaginary convesation it has elements of truth in it, see<br />
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<a href="https://dangerousminds.net/comments/monty_python_the_true_story_behind_the_dead_parrot_sketch">https://dangerousminds.net/comments/monty_python_the_true_story_behind_the_dead_parrot_sketch</a>BioHazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16619197297403728136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113764.post-38898502631825176472020-01-15T12:59:00.000+00:002020-01-31T13:28:23.889+00:00#flourish #Space #Niamh<br />
With a #flourish Niamh removed the fusion splicer from the repaired cable bundle. “There you go, Jonesey everything’s back online. No harm done. What, no comment about how long it took?” She turned to see his lifeless body and a flicker of movement by the door #vss365<br />
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I love it when the prompt lets me carry on a scene. story from the day before.BioHazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16619197297403728136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113764.post-861371007730662292020-01-14T13:00:00.000+00:002020-01-31T13:28:39.592+00:00#fibrous #Space #Niamh<br />
The electrics were mostly OK but someone or something had sliced through the optical cables leaving a severed #fibrous bundle. All the computer and sensor systems were down and it would take ages to fix. Niamh hoped she had time before it struck again #vss365BioHazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16619197297403728136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113764.post-64475051452821787872020-01-13T13:02:00.000+00:002020-01-31T13:29:09.674+00:00#opaline #ZombiesIt was hard to see through #opaline eyes but hearing and smell were heightened. Moving this dead flesh required economy of movement but somewhere close now there was warm, living flesh and that greatest of delicacies, braaaiiinnss! #vss365<br />
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Sometimes the prompt word just makes you think zombiesBioHazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16619197297403728136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113764.post-85930320706444408482020-01-12T13:04:00.000+00:002020-01-31T13:04:38.571+00:00#languorous“Ooh, that’s nasty. Let’s get you cleaned up. It looks like it’s going to need stitches. How did you get it?”<br />
“The zookeeper said the wildcat was a wild animal not a big kitty & not to mistake its #langorous pose as an invitation to rub its belly. I thought I knew better”<br />
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and the typo sat there mocking meBioHazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16619197297403728136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113764.post-50685825525073605552020-01-11T13:05:00.000+00:002020-01-31T13:17:21.479+00:00#lively #XarnIt was warm, comfortable & soft but still a prison. For months Xarn punched & kicked the walls seeking freedom. He made it through the tunnel, roaring in triumph only to be captured. He writhed, struggling to escape.<br />
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“Whoa, we’ve got a #lively one here” said the midwife #vss365<br />
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and thus The Mighty Xarn was born although the first tweet story about him is two days agoBioHazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16619197297403728136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113764.post-66720998605587861242020-01-10T13:09:00.000+00:002020-01-31T13:29:50.698+00:00#inquisitive #BioBrad had never feared death, even here in this bed surrounded by machines and nurses and family #inquisitive to the last he stepped eagerly into the light #vss365<br />
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I've spent a lot of time in hospitals over the last few months for multiple reasons with my own and my Dad's health and my Mum died in November. I guess this is one way some of my thoughts have sought to express themselves.BioHazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16619197297403728136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113764.post-80305186165095065702020-01-09T13:15:00.000+00:002020-01-31T13:16:10.547+00:00#kinetic #XarnThe Mighty Xarn viewed a #kinetic sculpture above its nocturnal unconsciousness pod with disdain & howled epithets in frustration at this host body’s inability to destroy it. A parental unit arrived, lifted Xarn & put something in its oral orifice. Sustenance. Silence #vss365<br />
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and thus The Mighty Xarn was bornBioHazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16619197297403728136noreply@blogger.com0