Anyone?
Yeah, I could make one but sometimes it's best to just get something that fits properly and works - and then I can crack on and use it!
April 13th of 2018 I fell ill, felt like absolute crap after a meal and by the end of the weekend I was waking up with a scar right down the middle and a portion of my insides removed.
My appendix was apparently unrecognisable and the surrounding tissue had gone necrotic so I lost the valve from small to large intestine and 150mm each side.
Recovery was harsh for the first few months but I settled into a new life of having to go 4, 5 or sometimes 6 times a day and having to explore other forms of hygiene because wiping with paper was becoming a nightmare.
I haven't had a solid poo since 2018.
It's taken me a long time to isolate certain foods that set me off, my first breakthrough was a race weekend as a mechanic where I survived on fried egg rolls, Kirkland crisps, fish and chips and tea. Suddenly I was going a lot less often but at the cost of it largely being unhealthy food.
This helped me realise that brown bread was a bad idea, I also cut Weetabix, and went to the cheapest soft white bread and that was a better level, but still not great.
For a while I was certain that onions were a problem, then they weren't, other times salads, then seemingly not, then I tried to consider the past 48 hours and not 24 and things kind of made more sense, but still no clarity.
Some things I know aren't great. Like I could have some toasted crumpets and I know I'll need the toilet in 20 minutes or less, no question, so that's an easy never again food, yet the clarity to remove or substitute a lot of other foods is never quite with me.
8 years later and I still don't feel any wiser. I now make my own sourdough bread which is mild improvement but the fact remains that my toilet visit frequency is highly variable, still way above anything I'd consider normal and often it's exhaustingly hard work and I need an hour to recover my energy level.
I'm tired of being exhausted by my insides and I'm just reaching the end of my tether.
Can somebody help me find some foods that are short bowel friendly? Ideally pescatarian / vegetarian.
(Recently I've had a camera up there and samples taken and I have no diseases or anything obviously wrong, nothing sore looking or upset on the inside. So medially, on paper, I'm fine)
I heard a story recently about a locomotive engineer who never married and by complete coincidence, gave a significant portion of his wealth to his chauffeur! Obviously nothing going on there, and similarly, I'm aware of at least one of the 18th and 19th century greats who "didn't take a wife, as they were married to their work and wanted to ensure they could focus entirely upon it".
The first is George Jackson Churchward, chief mechanical engineer for the Great Western, the other Thomas Telford, giant of early road and bridge building.
I'm fairly certain Isambard Kingdom Brunel only took a wife because that was the proper thing for a gentleman of status to do and, not that I should be surprised at all, it would appear that there were a very many queer person around back then and several who made their mark in history.
There's so much code to these things yet it's also not too much of a stretch of the imagination to fill in the blanks especially with what we know today but I wonder if there's a danger of over fitting the data to a set of modern concepts?
What are your thoughts? And who do you know from history that would almost certainly fall under the progress pride flag today?
Comments please. I'm fairly happy with this loaf and I'll be delighted to make toast with it the rest of the week but I'm still struggling to make bread that rises right through and doesn't have a doughy middle.
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500g loaf. 350g water, 10g salt, 150g starter. Autolyse, loads of slaps and folds x 2, bulk fermentation, folding and shaping session, 24hrs in the fridge in the banneton, shaped on baking paper tucking dough in, 300°c pre heat of baking pot (can't think of the pepper name!), oven turned down to 220c 25mins, lid off and a further 25minutes.
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I'm inclined to think I overdid the bulk fermentation but I truly don't know.
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Other problems I wish to solve, dough usually ends up super sticky, I often have trouble unpeeling it from the banneton liner and typically my dough doesn't want to stand upright once final shaped, it'll just spread out slowly.
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I've tried reducing the water from 370g to 350, can I go drier still? Is that even what's desirable?
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Your thoughts and more most welcome.
Recently on thesudokuapp I have levelled up from doing the hard sudokus to expert level and I keep getting stuck on the same troubles.
Basically I can solve so far but then all of my notes will eliminate down to sets of pairs, triples, and quads that all perfectly balance.
Nothing makes a box stand out from the other!
One row let's say I've got a 36, 369, 369. This will coincide with a whole heap of 89 89 89 all around the boards, everything will pair up, or triple up and logically there's no way to discern which way the puzzle should be solved.
Typically I will just take a risk and try to solve one way, fail, isolate the cell that should have been the other way around and work it to completion but that's hardly efficient or clever, as much as it eventually works!
What's the best trick to employ to undo all these perfectly balanced pairs, triples, and quads, to solve the puzzle properly?
Here's my 1938 Motobecane B1V2 Grand Routier.
I am so so happy that it's complete and in one piece. It runs! and will happily idle, but it seems to have absolutely zero torque. It will struggle to pull me on the level in first gear!
Has anybody got any experience in tuning these particular engines?
Ignition timing is fixed and is dictated by setting the cam behind the flywheel and judging the advance by how far below TDC the piston is. I've set this at 4mm before TDC and it runs ok, I've tried more but it seems way worse, could it be that it needs to be set very close to TDC to run properly?
Carb wise I think I have some blockages and may need to set the needle really lean, mid way appears to wet the plug, but that's an ongoing investigation!
Other side troubles seem to be old dried 2 stroke oil dissolving in the new petrol. Will acetone clean out all the gummy old oil?
I have a 1938 Motobecane B1V2 and it came with a headlamp rigged up just like this one, with a two filament bulb and also the voltage regulator resistor/ bulb set up. One thing that confuses me in this diagram is why it appears to only be engaged when the lights are switched off.
Is the regulator only there to operate as a load?
This is the back of the headlamp bulb holder. The festoon bulb and coil I assume are a basic voltage regulator being fed by the green wire, which just goes to ground through these two components.
How do I wire this up properly?
Black is obviously the earth, blue and red corresponding to high and low beam options on the dual filament bulb.
I have one power lead coming from the stator in the magneto, and I'm a bit lost as to how it should all go together as there is no other surviving original wiring to use as a foundation.
Thanks in advance!
On Sunday just gone, May 3rd, was my 2nd year anniversary on HRT and it's given me cause to reflect on the past few years and the build up to coming out roughly a year prior to that.
One of the main circular thoughts I've been stuck on recently is that in terms of the content I absorb and have taken great confidence from online, I don't live up to barely any of it, plus given that I've "taken" so much I haven't given back to the community, plus on top of that I don't feel like I remotely live up to the level that anybody else is at.
HRT has done me some favours but I'm not trans maxxing. I don't post daily with flawless makeup, I'm not a daily twitch vlogger, I don't have OF or any other schemes going on, my wardrobe is sub par, I've struggled with voice training, I can't afford any major surgeries and frankly, I just don't feel like I'm good enough!
On the flip side I did wonder if there was a real opportunity to be the one who fills the mediocre trans girl (in my case) void and post all kinds of things about my struggles and positives and be one of the voices that says that mediocrity is probably the norm and it's ok not to be a super popular internet streamer - because at 46, my femmeboy days were gone before half of the current crop were born!
Looking back at old photos it's clear that I've come along a very good way despite my worries, and I'm proud of how far I've come, it's just that when some have reached the moon, there's me still in my same old situation feeling very much on the ground.
Anyway, that's my current brain worm. Talk to me. x
Nothing too groundbreaking but last week I made a pair of loaves for a party over a friends house. They were all bringing tinned fish and salads and I thought a good loaf or two was the best thing I could contribute!
Cue a few suggestions and I settled on Olive, parmesan and thyme as my additions and it worked very well. (Few issues, I think over fermenting but largely two great loaves.).
Anyway, 2nd loaf and I have the brainwave to apply some salt to the loaf just before baking to give it an extra bit of flavour and Waw! It worked so well and added so much to the loaf that I got some lovely feedback from people.
Nothing too clever, just moistened my hands with water and patted the dough about half an hour before baking and crushed Maldon salt flakes between my fingers and sprinkled all over.
As one friend said "it gave the bread a good defining border" where the other loaf was consistent throughout and I thought that was a lovely thing to have been told, totally unprompted.
I know this isn't anything brand new, but if you haven't tried it, I cannot recommend it enough!
Happy baking.x