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(Hijack!) Never realised flour could be so interesting JayCeeDee. I enjoyed reading that, thanks.
It was just a quick google from Lee’s product name!! 🙂 :good:
If it works and tastes OK, maybe leave it as is??👍
MAKA TORTOWA PSZENNA Translates from the Polish to Wheat Cake. TYP 450 is a cake flour.
More details on flour and TYP numbers HERE .
Good outcome – well done Lee!!
John sometimes those decisions were made in an absence of sufficient data.
Although the press will be full of the ‘shocking’ jump in deaths it may be worth speculating on possible causes. If you look at the ONS death data then you have to remember that the cause was four to six weeks in the past.
Ed, my comments above were exclusively on the outcome of manufacturing decisions and buying choices made over the last few decades ( or more ) and not CoVid 19 related, apart from the timing of the opportunity for a retrospective analysis.
Perhaps they merited a fresh Topic??
Having a manic clean out before the recycling and waste is picked up.
I’ve been doing the same in the garage and garden. My problem is our local tip is run by Kent CC and is shut. There’s lots of people urging for it to be re-opened because of the increase in fly tipping!!
When doing some research on the increase, I read about a place near (ish) to you HERE that is used for fly tipping – on an unused stretch of dual carriageway!! Crazy!! :negative: :scratch:
Much appreciated.👍
JCD would a 120gb Kingston be of any use for now? Pretty certain I have a unused one here.
That would be great, Nolan, thanks. :good: :yes: She’s only got W10, a couple of browsers, Kindle and some games, no Office or any big programmes. PM me and let me know what you want for it, I’ve still got your PP details.👍
Shenzen (China) is pretty much back to work, so if you do not mind waiting (freight is an issue) and do not mind a quality gamble, then it may be worth looking at Alibaba for SSDs. You will need to do your own research on the brands. While Alibaba itself is a reputable company to deal with, getting RTM guarantees may result in you paying more in freight than the product is worth. This is an area where Buyer Beware holds good, and why UK middlemen need a large mark-up.
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False economy John – having lived and worked in China you would be surprised just how many ‘top name’ electronics brands other than Apple are manufactured there. Most have standardised manufacturing processes and QC.
Ed, the quotes above aren’t quite contradictory, but exemplify the problems from buying from AliBaba and the like. Something is never cheap, if you have to buy it twice!! I looked on the AliBaba SSD’s you linked and it had the feeling I would be buying from a market stall. The Kingston brand appeared, but logos looked a bit off, some others were a lot cheaper, but had a minimum of two to five units, plus with other unknown brands you are taking a chance on them even doing the job reliably, as you intimated in the first quote with your research comment.
While it’s ok/irrevelant to buy an inanimate bit of plastic cheaply, a couple of well known companies have had problems with SSD’s where a cheap controller screwed the device later on, hence my initial thoughts on wanting to buy a known brand, through Amazon or a UK company. :good:
I think that one positive outcome for the world, after coming out of the current trouble, will be the need for it to take an introspective look at the way things have evolved or decisions were made.
The end result of cost cutting across multiple industries both here and abroad, has been for China ( especially, but not exclusively ) to become the world’s factory. That manufacturing process across multiple strands of tech, clothing, auto, fashion accessories ( hair bands and the like ), toys et al, has enabled them to supply the world with what it wants at the cheapest price, undercutting manufacturing across the globe and for those industries throughout the world to fade away when they could not remain competitive. They have thrived by producing what the world wants at prices even the accountants are happy to pay!!
Each country now has to decide whether they consider it worth paying a little bit more for home produced products, and at the same time keeping an industry that employs people thriving and keeps people in jobs.
We had an industrial heartland that was the envy of the world, that screwed itself by not adapting. Maybe, just maybe, we have the chance to revive that and reduce the independence we have on other countries like China that make things.
Look at laptop prices and availability.
Hi Dave – in itself it isn’t a bad laptop – HP255 G4 with an A6 6310 with 3Gb ram. She got it off a niece who wanted an upgrade for her birthday, about 18 months ago. It was in brand new condition and I put W10 on it straight away, before she saw it, as W7 was coming out of updates. It’s still in good condition now she vapes, so it doesn’t get fags and ash dropped all over it. :wacko:
Hi Ed – the reason we’re still together is because when it came to getting anything for the wife, I never tried to go cheap, or drop quality; ( unless she specifies it herself – hence she still drives a 52 Ka instead of the A class or Smart I offered to get her. )
She might nod in approval at the price from AliBaba, but my ears would be pinned back when it went TU!! All her appliances are Bosch, but at the lower technical end of cutting edge!!( Not too many bells and whistles.) Her maxim has always been go for quality, but then attack the price!!
The world is on lock down, so production has been stopped in China since Chinese New year. It was forecast that memory chips would be going up in price.
You’re not wrong, but I’ve got a sneaky feeling the prices got increased on old/existing stock as well. :scratch: :unsure:
I’ve found that on the few occasions that we venture out, to the beach for a walk or for shopping, the roads are almost completely clear. The one thing that I’ve noticed is that I’m taking the lack of other cars in my immediate vicinity for granted. I’m not indicating so much now – one thing I berated others about previously!! – I have to make myself think twice when approaching roundabouts and junctions because you can mostly just get straight on or out without needing to stop.
It will be a culture shock when it all gets back to normal. B-)
Well, I was looking for a cheap 250Gb SSD to stick in the wife’s laptop to speed it up a bit, and the cheap £25 SSD’s of last year are now £35-£45!!
What a difference a year makes!! A complete reversal of the downward trend they were showing for the previous two years.
Lots of the cans of lager I like, Asda own brand sourced from France or Germany depending on strength, went up by 50% overnight.
Never let it be said that an opportunity was missed, just because of a crisis!! :wacko:
When we were buying flowers at Covent Garden, there was a ‘hidden’ price hike during the changeover to Decimalisation and another when Holland joined the Euro. The transition is managed, but the purchaser always ends up worse off. :negative:
Sorry jayceedee but you must of followed a link before hand as they are showing in my amazon.
No – I meant that I’d ordered the masks before you put the Amazon link on the site, so I didn’t purchase them through forumite.!! :good: 🙂
Where the hell would we buy them from any way?
I bought a couple of these from Amazon, unfortunately before Lee put the link up, they’ll do me for when we go shopping early morning and maybe for our beach walks.
Quality wise they’re OK and will do the job. I probably paid a tad over the odds for them, but at least we’ve got them if we need them.
Robbing barstewards. Prices across the board are astonishing
They’re all at it in one way or another. The wife loves Muller Fat Free Toffee yogurts, before all this Tesco had them on a deal at 12 for £3, as against 55p – 60p individually elsewhere, Co-op, Sainsbury etc.
They’re now 72p each, no deals.
Throughout the store there are a lot less multi-deals, almost everything is now a single item price.
I see it there, on yours, between the Notifications section and the Who’s online section, but that box on my screen is blank. I know my settings are to stop pop-ups, maybe that’s getting in the way??
I think until, God forbid, someone you know falls ill it doesn’t quite sink home
You’re not wrong – a friend’s daughter, well she comes round and keeps our feet in fine fettle and we know her daughter from the Medical Centre – was very close with the 39 year old nurse Amy, that died, locally here. She’s devastated, her Mum is broken up. She left three kids behind!! 😥 🙁
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