Afternoon from a SWEALTERING México. **** it is hot here, I have a tinaco on my roof that supplies water to the house. I also have a reserve one underground with a lid on in my patio to pump up water if the supply isn't running from the street. I might have a dip in it later!!!!!!
I didn't know the word tinaco so googled it. It came up with this. please log in to view this image A roof seems a very strange place to keep something like that.
JayR Tinaco 31 year old actor. Tinaco identifies as gender non-binary and uses either "he/him" or "they/them" pronouns. I think a large water butt would also be a non gender item, unless in France where a réservoir d'eau would be masculine I think.
Morning all. Broken cloud, but dry and warm at the moment, although light rain forecast for this afternoon. One of the few things we tend to stock up with when we make our trips to the UK is tea bags. It is not that you cannot buy them here, but one brand seems to suit our water, so we usually bring a 1,000 back with us. It is beginning to look as though travel restrictions are likely to be in place for months, so we will be forced into buying either Yorkshire tea, or Liptons breakfast tea. Some of the flavoured exotic ones on sale are frankly awful, but then the French don't have the right idea about a nice cuppa. Boil a kettle, then leave it to cool down before pouring the water onto the bag. Take the pot to the kettle, not the kettle to the pot I was taught to make sure the water was boiling. We once had a French exchange lad stay with us in England who said he liked tea. Six spoons of sugar in a mug turned it into syrup. Have a nice day and enjoy a cuppa if it takes your fancy.
My Granny was ‘in service’ in the 1920s, and she took pains to teach me how to make a pot of tea properly. It does make your eyes roll when people don’t do it the ‘right’ way.
Back in the 1950's I was an apprentice working on signals and telecommunications for British Rail. As the most junior member of the gang, I was the tea boy. I don't know if they are still there as it is many a long year since I went on a train in the UK, but there used to be some small brick built sheds alongside the lines. There would be a metal chimney through the roof, which took away the smoke from the coal fired stove. After several hours sat atop telegraph poles it was a relief to come down, get the fire going, and place the huge iron kettle on it to boil the water. There was an equally large teapot there, and judging by the response I was the first apprentice who actually knew how to make a proper cuppa.
Well, dave, when you see people put milk in, then a teabag, then hottish water, then hope a mad stirring will bring it back to life, you have to wonder.
Morning, Dave; morning, all. Birds are tweeting, that’s all I can say so far. For the detailed weather forecast, everybody, you’ll have to wait for the results from our Weston-Super-Mare jury.
