Yes indeed, the âSIX FOOT of snow expected THIS WEEKENDâ, only to find out theyâre talking about Antarctica.
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Newspapers love to quote fantastic weather predictions from an outfit called WX Charts, who i think are run by Nostradamus and Private Fraser from Dadâs Army.
Their speciality is predicting extreme weather across large parts of the UK, which the comics gleefully report.
Usually the story concludes with a laconic quote from the Met Office saying that âweather conditions will continue mild and sunnyâ. 
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I so wish that this was not true, unfortunately it is routine for these journalist!? to seek the headline
Back to cheerful news.
And in the midst of mayhem courtesy of The Orange Imbecile the NYT, my recipe source of choice, comes up with
Many will be cheered by this
and of course,
Now, if Trent Alexander-Arnold can be persuaded to forget signing for Real Madrid ⌠
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Iâve only just realised that Mohamed Salah is not the little bloke who runs fast a long long way. 
And that Trent Alexander-Arnold is not the tall blokeâs mate from a quiz show who was born in Stoke. 
And in your next post you will tell us that you have just discovered this is planet earth and you know what day of the week it is 
maybe 
âŚduck your head incoming 
.
Oh no, planet earth is far more interesting than football, to me anyway.
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I share that thought but I do pay a passing interest in what is happening,
the people you mention and many others of a similar ilk do seem to get a great deal of interest from the media/ journalists!
I can remeber ,back in the day, when there was mostly respected professional people who wrote in newspapers they were called reporters Long gone.
Watching paint dry is more interesting than football, and significantly more useful too.
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Emulsion, gloss or primer?
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Just be grateful it keeps that type away from what we like
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Where is watching cricket in the paint drying ranking?
Things have changed and unsavoury lot have moved into cricket, its not all cucumber sandwiches and Greene King IPA
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and the cheerful news is �??
Possibly that Iâve no intention of painting anything, let alone watching paint dry⌠and cricket leaves me cold nowadays⌠loved watching it with my old Dad in those far off days.
Seriously cheerful news⌠is that I dropped my mobile phone and it fell apart⌠but OH manaaged to put it all back together again⌠hurrah.
I was almost (only almost) ready to buy a smartphone if my stone-age phone was truly broken beyond repair⌠but the money can stay in my wallet for something much more fun⌠like Food 
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I baked another really nice loaf this morning that we ate within an hour of taking it from the oven. This afternoon I spent time processing pictures and sent them off to my brotherâs family, and also pictures of our grandson yesterday with some meerkats. Itâs nice to have had some spare time.
Iâve also started baking a special Easter bread with fennel, cardamom, mixed spice and lemon zest, and it smells incredible as a dough.
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If anyone is interested in harmony, Iâve just watched a really interesting youtube video of a breakdown of Chopinâs approach using voices to lead through the piece instead of chord patterns. Video is here (ignore the click-baitey title):
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Mine, early days before âsmartâ, still âONâ, dropped out of a jkt pocket angled >90deg. into the khazi whilst I was presenting Percy to the porcelain [Barry Humphries].
It was still there after a flush. I fished it out. The screen was blank. I removed the battây, gave that a good rinse in fresh water. Immersed the phone in same. Put it out to dry in the hot sun
Gradually the screen changed from alphabet soup to normal. Result!
That phone did not take the piss. âŚ
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Oh, you were very lucky⌠well done.
My left hand decided to play-up and âlet go ofâ my phone, which crashed onto the stone slabs and fell apart.
In horror/panic I then dropped the secateurs, flowers and keys as well⌠
Secateurs, keys and flowers all retrieved and dealt withâŚ
I trundled home, where OH gave emergency first aid to my phone and didnât need superglue after all.
Mind you, he had to do various antics with âhold this down and do that, blah blah blahâ and eventually the screen lit up⌠phew such relief.
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I read somewhere about immersing a wet phone in a bowl of rice to suck the damp out. Wouldnât want to put it to the test to find out though.
Another handy household tip if you have a computer hard drive that has âgone clickyâ and wonât read data, is to put it in a ZipLoc bag in the freezer for a few hours. The sealed Ziploc bag is important so the drive doesnât get frosty condensation on it.
Often this treatment will revive the drive long enough for you to get some or all of the data off it on to another drive. You may need to repeat the freezing process a couple of times if itâs a big drive with lots of âStuffâ on it.
Of course we should all have multiple backups of everything stored in different places and never need to do this, butâŚ