If your eggs are more than a couple of days old, don't poach them. Fry or scramble will both be fine, but poachies need the freshest eggs you can get.

If you must poach an older egg, line a cup with cling film/Saran wrap and make a parcel of the egg then poach for the usual time. It's not as pretty, but it pretty much works.

I bought a Poco X3 NFC for £200ish in Dec 2020. I've been bored of the phone for a few months and started looking around for a new one, but there's nothing out there that seems worth the "upgrade", certainly in a similar price bracket. I'd generally lose a headphone jack and/or an SD card slot and gain erm.... a more up to date Android version, I guess. I'd maybe get a better camera, but given my aging eyes and lack of skill are probably the limiting factors in my photography, I don't realy see the benefit. I only play puzzle-type games and don't do anything particularly graphic intensive, so where's the incentive to subject myself to even more intrusive AI nonsense and built in adverts that seem to be unavoidable in budget phones.

And Lorne sausage!

This is still running. Sitting at 95.8%, with three unconnectable seeds and 41 unconnectable peers. I get a new piece every few days, so I'm confident it'll get there eventually.

I enjoyed the first season of Yellowjackets, but have given up halfway through S2 as I realised the writers didn't seem to have a plan, and were Lost-ing it, making up extra mysteries as they go along, just to pad the story out.

What about osteopaths?

I'm a lovely person to everyone until they show me that they don't deserve it. After that, they are dead to me. Unfortunately, one of the people who has shown me that they don't deserve my time or respect is me, so i treat myself like shit. This does not work out so well for me.

11th September 2001 broke the internet. Every news site collapsed into text-only versions, email servers got overloaded as people tried to contact everyone they knew in NY/DC. I remember getting updates via a gossip forum that happened to have a user with a Reuters connection who copied the news as it came in. The BBC and CNN sites were completely useless.

the tenant needs to heat their house sufficiently to prevent mould,

And make sure to open windows regularly to stop condensation, coincidentally letting out all the bastard heat.

Technically, the wife of an earl is a Countess not Mrs.

Inheritance tax? Only about 5% of estates are affected by it! https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/inheritance-tax-statistics-commentary/inheritance-tax-statistics-commentary

Humourless gits who hate any vague criticism of the area, think they ae better than anyone else and should be an independent country? Sounds about right.