my microwave is about 25 years old and I dread it packing up, seen how often my daughter has had to replace theirs! Tried to find someone to test it but no-one does theses days.
No experience of the combi ones but I agree, too many bits to go wrong and the whole thing is out of service.
I have a duel fuel @B3 a gas hob and an electric oven, best of both worlds for me. Daughter has an induction hob which is brilliant for cleaning as @Ergates says but I found I had to concentrate on when it was on and when it was cooling down, OK if you pay attention when you're at the cooker
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
The picture of the red squirrel with pox in the link is mild to some I've seen. Eyes swollen and matted and unable to open them, sores on their mouths so unable to eat. It's nauseating and heartbreaking to see the poor creatures. A terrible death.
It's out of control in this area and the best that can be hoped for is to stop it spreading south of here where it's being managed reasonably well but still present. If more people became involved to report sightings of greys a U turn might be achieved.
I like the fact that gas ovens have different temperatures depending on where you put the food because you can cook things requiring differing temperatures at the same time. Looks like induction hobs are the way to go. Old frying pans and woks make great saucers for big pots and containers. The handle makes them easy to turn as well.
@Uff said -"The picture of the red squirrel with pox in the link is mild to some I've seen." I don't doubt it.
They tried the pine marten experiment in Perthshire, red sq. stronghold, but apparently it isn't working. The little b*ggers are quicker at adapting. It's becoming very difficult to get rid of the greys. Breaks my heart.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Indeed @Fairygirl. Another problem is that the greys are able to eat and digest nuts, seeds etc before they are ripe, the reds can't do that so are being starved out of the area. It was said a few years ago that when greys move in within 7 years the reds are gone. I don't know what the figures are now, much less I imagine as the grey population grows.
It's just horrible @Uff. For those of us lucky enough to see reds, it's really depressing. When they started making real headway into Perthshire [Glen Lyon and the surrounding area] fairly recently, which has been a major habitat for reds for a long time, that's when you know it's all going downhill.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I have red squirrels in my garden at my house in Dordogne. I hope the greys don't come that far south. At OH's cottage in Norfolk there are only greys, lots of them. I don't think red ones live here anymore. But I can't help thinking that the greys are cute too. They didn't mean to pass on disease and they didn't ask to be brought into this country.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I am sorry that the colour of the squirrels is such a problem here.
It't not any form of racial prejudice. It's the fact that the grey squirrel carries a disease to which it is pretty much immune but the red native squirrel is not.
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No experience of the combi ones but I agree, too many bits to go wrong and the whole thing is out of service.
I have a duel fuel @B3 a gas hob and an electric oven, best of both worlds for me. Daughter has an induction hob which is brilliant for cleaning as @Ergates says but I found I had to concentrate on when it was on and when it was cooling down, OK if you pay attention when you're at the cooker
It's out of control in this area and the best that can be hoped for is to stop it spreading south of here where it's being managed reasonably well but still present.
If more people became involved to report sightings of greys a U turn might be achieved.
I don't doubt it.
They tried the pine marten experiment in Perthshire, red sq. stronghold, but apparently it isn't working. The little b*ggers are quicker at adapting. It's becoming very difficult to get rid of the greys.
Breaks my heart.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
For those of us lucky enough to see reds, it's really depressing.
When they started making real headway into Perthshire [Glen Lyon and the surrounding area] fairly recently, which has been a major habitat for reds for a long time, that's when you know it's all going downhill.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
It't not any form of racial prejudice. It's the fact that the grey squirrel carries a disease to which it is pretty much immune but the red native squirrel is not.