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Recipe Corner – Chicken Paprika

10th April 2023 Sweaty Dave 1997 Comments

Here is a quick and easy meal to make one evening which is easy to do, using mainly inexpensive ingredients and very little effort. The recipe was one from my mother. Being a child of [more…]

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Shunting along

1st March 2023 Sweaty Dave 3580 Comments

I know it has been remiss of me for not following up on the article of 16th of January. I’d planned to write one around once every two weeks as the layout progresses but time [more…]

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Shunting dusted off

16th January 2023 Sweaty Dave 2442 Comments

I’ve not frequented this site as often in the past – the last year or so, though #FFriday with a beer or two is always worth a visit and the gaffer continues to get his [more…]

A wifi thermostat saying Hi
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Smart Radiators – A Review

27th December 2022 Sweaty Dave 4287 Comments

With the current ridiculous cost of heating and a house that is usually half-empty, I decided to see what could be done. We had a new combi boiler installed earlier in the year, replacing a [more…]

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Jersey – a Postcard

24th August 2022 Sweaty Dave 2588 Comments

No, it’s not about trains, in fact there are no railways on Jersey, the horror! Being a pureblood, many holiday destinations (USA, Spain, Cruises) are out of the question at the moment. Not that big [more…]

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Electricity backup

15th December 2021 Sweaty Dave 4619 Comments

Avoiding blackouts If you keep a sceptical eye upon the media, you will have seen a few scare stories recently around the fragility of the national grid and this coming winter. Our betters, having closed [more…]

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The Steps to the North Pole

6th December 2021 Sweaty Dave 3510 Comments

At this time of year there are many traditions that people follow – school carol services and nativity plays; putting up a tree; lights on the front of the house; Black Friday then Cyber Monday; [more…]

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Travels of the Unvaxxed – or how we had a Med summer holiday

18th August 2021 Sweaty Dave 3431 Comments

You don’t need me to tell you that the last two years have been unprecedented. Our normal routines disrupted, jobs destroyed, way of life and freedoms removed all in the name of a bug. While [more…]

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Shunting into Summer

31st March 2021 Sweaty Dave 2933 Comments

The lighter nights are arriving, the cold finally thawing out – spring is here, even in the north. We last left this story at the point where both main tracks were running and we had [more…]

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