Regarding coping .. I've got a bean to cup coffee machine and an electric blanket. Oddly enough if I need more than one cup I press the button again. Its 3kw so a cup takes maybe 15 seconds.

It started with Temu kettles but I'm to blame for mentioning mine is a single cup boiler. I think M&S had probably run its course here just as it has on the high street in many places.

I can sleep round the clock when my body's too tired. Been doing that quite a bit lately. Dunc keeps going on at me for increasing my pool lengths, I want to get back to 50, I'm at 40 now so only 10 to go. Last time I did it was the day before lock down back at the start of Covid. He keeps reminding me I've gone through a load of trauma and two big operations since then, also I'm 6 years older, says it's too much for me now, and I should be satisfied with the 40.......But I'm not somehow. 😟

Quote from: CHF on Yesterday at 08:08:27 PMShe's gorgeous, Mups, I bet you can forgive her - almost - anything.  



Yesterday at 08:13:37 PM
My brother once lost a hearing aid, and my sister in law anxious to help
him find it, trod on it!!

She certainly is CHF,  and she gets away with all sorts because of it.
Lunchtime today I was having some soup.  I had cut some long bread 'fingers'  to dip in it.
I was also reading the paper at the same time,  but out the corner of my eye I saw something move. . . 

Yep.  It was my little thief at it again.   She had leaned over and nicked one of my pieces of bread.   She didn't even have the good grace to look ashamed!   

Then he came up with a different plan
He could beg a ring from his old nan 
He felt no shame
And also no blame
As he went and jumped in his van.

It looks like its only me and CHF  who sleep all night then!

I am quite surprised at how little  sleep others need.
If I need to be up earlier I have to set my alarm,  else I just don't wake up,  even more so in the winter with the dark mornings.    

I also have never had a TV  or computer in my bedroom.   I have always read a nice, usually heartwarming,  type book to go to sleep on.    It takes my mind off all the bad news, and rotten things that we hear all  day long.

Not sure how I feel about the one-cup  'kettle'  though.l  Fors and against for me I think.
I can see its handy just for a cuppa,  but what do you do if you've got visitors who fancy a coffee?

I also don't only need hot water for tea/coffee,  so would sometimes need more water than a cupful.
For example,  if I use my hot water bottle I put a bit more water in the kettle.
If I want to boil some water to cook  some cabbage or frozen veg,  and can't be bothered to wait for the saucepan to boil,  I boil the kettle and tip that in the saucepan for quickness  etc. 

On the whole, I think I will stick to my kettle because there is more flexibility.


Anyway,  how come we got on to boiling kettles from choosing trousers in M&S?  

I rarely sleep more than four straight hours at a time .
I do doze off again and sleep another couple .

Quote from: Ruthio on Yesterday at 04:54:42 PMIn that well known phrase from MacEnroe, YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS!!

"....and also TwoTier's failure to support Trump re. Iran,"

You seriously think Starmer shouldve trotted after Trump and supported his Iran catastrophe??

My estimation of him went sky high when he walked away from involving us in that one.

He was not "trotting after Trump .
He made a  big mistake not to allow the Americans straight away to use the bases they PAY FOR .
Making an enemy for nothing .


Yesterday at 09:55:08 PM

Quote from: CHF on Yesterday at 05:23:47 PMPrecisely!
Trump started that mess, and now he has no idea how to end it. All he can do is threaten and
insult. His people will turn on him, but not quickly enough. All he is good for is destroying things and adding shoddy-looking bling to the junk that's already there.

He will end it .
He has a good team with him .
What has he destroyed ? 
The Iranian nuclear capabilities for some years .
That is no bad thing .
 

Yesterday at 09:56:51 PM

Quote from: Alex on May 12, 2026, 08:36:57 PMhttps://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/donald-trump-swoops-in-to-save-britains-borders-at-the-worst-moment-possible-for-the-pm-lee-cohen/ar-AA230gI5

The UN is the most corrupt organisation out .
It's well past it's sell by date and should IMO be disbanded .

If you always boil it full apart from the potential danger it will use more power and take much longer. 

The one I linked to is cheaper now than when I bought mine. I had to replace one I bought from Lidl or Aldi some years before. With that one you just held it down as long as you needed. With the current one it dispenses the same each time and you have to set a little dial that matches the size of the cups you will use. 

That is both an advantage and a disadvantage - if you use different sized cups you will need to adjust it a little but you just press the button once and the job gets done. 

Eric looked at his flexible friend
Wondering how much further it would bend
It was almost bent double
He was really in trouble
Up to the limit of what he could spend

Then he came up with a different plan
He could beg a ring from his old nan