I donât have any medical appointments until May.
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Freshly ground flour?
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Itâ s probably stone-ground so thereâs no need to grit your teethâŠ
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Our equivalent in the Jura has artisanal ice cream in the tiny shack. They sell loose compost in a similar way (drive on, weigh, fill, weigh again) which is green waste mixed with cow slurry. Hoping that the agriculteur-composteurs in Calvados are as good (and cheap!)
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Bit of a breakthruâ in comfort and health at The Plywood Shack. I finally went for a dehumidifier,
being fed up with clothes, bed linen, towels etc that feel more wet than merely damp. 7,304 .. 4/5* is a tremendous rating.
I regularly got readings of +/-80% in the bedrooms and salon. The heating being all electric - piffling radiator panels - Iâve not had those running. Red days and all 
But, knowing that air holds increasingly more moisture as its temp increases, I put the bedroom rad on at 16C - the room is usually +/- 10C . And lo! I set the dehumidifier for 55% and after 3 days - itâs taken that long to suck the damp out of my drawers of clothes etc - itâs achieved that and maintaining it. I put a gizmo in a drawer of T-shirts and that read 55% this morning. It started at 82% on Tues.
I also find that it has improved my health considerably, in the nose/lungs dept. I was using loads of paper hanks but now none.
The salon is currently 10C and 72% Hg. Perishing cold and uncomfortable. If I get another dehumidifier and set the rad to 20C I might be able to use the room!
Addendum; AMZ had a return for âŹ40 less, so Iâve gone for that.
Economics, according to The Captain.
Spending money on the dehumidifiers + a little bit more on electricity [from âOFFâ to 16C in the bedroom and 18C in the salon, to get the best out of the machines] is cheaper than setting the rads to 24C in the rooms.And I get to keep the machines rather than lose all the dosh to EDF.
Consumption at night.
Radiator off. No dehumidifier.
Radiator set at 16C continuous + dehumidifier set at 55Hg
Now to work out some timings.
The Vire valley here - very steep - runs directly west>east. A veritable wind tunnel ⊠Been blowing, with occasional lashing rain, all day.
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Your Plywood Shack residency reads like a piece of endurance performance art.
An arts admin friend of mine once remarked that itâs hard to make a performance artist keep their clothes on, but I shouldnât imagine youâd need an incentive. 
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All moving in the right direction which is good but donât forget your little gadgets are measuring relative humidity rather than actual moisture content. The outdoor air may measure 99% relative humidity but could actually be a lot lower in actual moisture content so in your 10 c room you could be better off letting the window open to blow through the dry outside air. By example, our living room is about 19c with RH about 55%. The absolute humidity is 9grams/M2. Outside air is 10c 99%RH but absolute humidity is 6grams/M2, or 30% dryer in real terms.
I have a number of these little data loggers around the house and outside for collecting temperature and humidity both RH and absolute. Not expensive but very useful.
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Thatâs when itâs not blowing a wet gale ! 
Close enough to the Channel coast to have the local paper report the rescues of vessels in distress and the last storm Gxxxxx tearing a pontoon out and damaging 40 boats.
See above! The only day from tomorrow to 05/02 forecast of no rain is 01/02 - thatâs going to be light drizzle! 
Here, âin real termsâ, outside is WET! Not helped by a river running with 50% of it white water, throwing yet more moisture into the air. And the valley wooded, so the moisture hangs about - when itâs not blowing a hooley.
Certainly not. I dress indoors as per a bracing day outdoors, complete with woolly cap. I have it on now
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Show us a picture !
Benny from crossroads 
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I i had my op to fix the last op today. I donât know how it went yet but Iâm back in my room and am pleased itâs over.
They brought me dinner although I donât want much. I had Potage RĂ©gime Maison and couldnât tell you what flavour it was. 
I could only eat it because they left my some sachets of salt and pepper which I opened with my teeth.
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The sub-head of this thread is "Nothing negative ⊠" I wouldnât want anyone choking on their 
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3 brief reasons to be cheerful:
Birdsong definitely increasing in volume in the forest - they can tell Spring is just round the corner
Only 10 days after sending my mumâs tax return details, oven ready, to her replacement tax accountant (her previous one recently dropped dead and her records are totally inaccessible), her return was ready, approved and filed. Myself and siblings actioned this from a standing start of zero knowledge of her affairs.
Having dreaded for months the hassle of switching mobiles from a 5 year Android one that was unresponsive and frequently froze, to a new Android, I was blown away by the ease of transferring all the data, apps, and settings through a combination of using the backups to the Cloud, and step by step guidance from AI.
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Best wishes for a good recovery from the op and from the hospital food. My son had potage Maison every evening for the weeks he was in hospital and could not eat it, made him feel even worse and we reckoned they just boiled up all the leftovers from the previous days to make it, always the same orange colour too. Thank goodness for the hospital shop and cafeteria where he could drag his drip stand down in the lift and fill up with hot snacks and naughty stuff.
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Your poor son. I couldnât do weeks of this. Did they say anything if he didnât eat a lot of their food?
Not really, he managed to eat some of the âsolidâ stuff but on the whole it was dreadful and his wife and I took bits in for him too like baguette with ham and cheese as he wasnât on any special diet. Every meal seemed to have either a yoghurt or compote with it.
I suppose one way to see this discussion about hospital food as âcheerful newsâ is that at least people were being fed or able to feed themselves⊠so ânot hungry/starvingâ 
My cheerful news
The village creche has finally been dismantled and packed away, with the aid of a local volunteer (aged 12).
The Christmas trees, which decorated our village, have all gone to âgood homesâ.. those which cannot be planted will be eaten by local goats or given to gardeners for compost.
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So fluffy!