Oopsies
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♥Jan. 18th, 2014 // 08:01 pm♥
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Since the end of the seasons of stupidly cheap use-it-today roadside fruit and of pick-them-up-by-the-bag-full apples on the common, I've been drinking far too much elderflower cordial, so I thought I should get back into making ginger cordial to drink instead.
I was a bit short on bottles, as Mrs Next Door has a couple of them, but no problem, I still had enough. Then I realised that I couldn't do my usual trick of popping them in the simmering oven while the juice steamed on the electric hob, because the cordial would be in there. So, because I am an idiot, I popped them in the hot oven for fifteen minutes. And then I took them out and put them on the granite worktop. And then they cracked. There then followed a bit of a scrounge through the box of bottles until I found enough to be going on with:
I may actually have to buy some, as two of the ones that went in the bin are my nice clear glass ones, and they are very useful.
Later, Mike was cooking dinner, and I was supervising, when the highly alert and sensible dog made us aware of a problem smoke alarm went off: the living room and hall were fully of smoke (the dog was asleep on the living room rug, oblivious). We dashed in to see what the problem was with the stove, and then realised that the problem was that a piece of wood on top of the stove had caught light. (We put slightly damp wood on the top to dry out before it goes into the fire. We may have to stop doing this.) Still, Jodie thought it was marvellous, as we then opened the french windows and she could go and run around the garden chasing bunnies while still being able to come back and check that we hadn't run away and left her.
A few days ago, I upgraded to Mavericks in the hope that it would make my email be a bit less crap. It hasn't. I think that the problem is a combination of an enormous gmail archive and a crappy internet connection: what seems to happen is that Mail downloads the email quite happily, and puts a little unread count next to the appropriate folder, and then when I click on the folder to see the new message it re-syncs the contents of the entire folder and then the message in question. Sometimes this happens pretty much instantly, sometimes it takes ten minutes to load the contents and then, when I select a given message, another ten minutes to open it. (If I turn my wifi off, I can quite happily read all of my previously downloaded emails, instantly. It just means I can't get any new ones....) The annoyance factor is compounded by a relatively recent change to Mail's behaviour on moving a message to trash: it used to just shift focus to the next one on the list, but now it moves towards the nearest unread one. I mark emails as unread in my in box when I need to do something with them, so it's bloody annoying to a) have it do in the wrong direction and b) then have to manually mark the earlier message as unread and c) to then have to do the same think thirty seconds later when it does it again. I think I'm at the point of being prepared to try a different mail client, does anyone have any suggestions? |
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