Hey, @manton my m.b subscription is coming up soon, and I want to know how I change the subscription to Micro.One?

Do I have to cancel my current subscription and then, subscribe to Micro.One? Because there’s no option for Micro.One in the Plans section.

Been a crazy ass morning running around like a headless chicken doing errands and, of course, I had to go see the nurse this morning for more blood tests.

And I’m only now sitting down to my fav tea in my fav mug.

So the wonderful and so very talented Andy Carolan has created a new avatar for my blogs, and social media. Unofficially names Alex Rocket Dog. An homage to the year I was born, and that amazing kick ass little dog that first went into space, aboard Sputnik; Laika, the original little rocket dog.

Please give a warm welcome to little Alex, as she readies herself for lift off!

A cartoon dog wearing an orange spacesuit with a bone design is floating and smiling, with an astronaut helmet on.

Soup it is!

Today, Robert Birming writes about a Swedish tradition of eating pea soup and pancakes on a Thursday (prior to fasting on Friday) a tradition I can get behind wholeheartedly. Especially as, during the winter months with snow on the ground and bitterly cold temperatures outside, I love to make soup at least once a week. Not only because it’s cheap, filling, soul-warming food but because it’s another way to get the veggies in.

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It’s a gloriously sunny day out there today. Problem is … it’s also minus 15 degrees.

It’s snowing … again … get use to it … I’m going to be saying this a lot … it’s winter!

I turned the heating down earlier, I may have made a grave error in judgement.

Found online and, of course, stolen to share here …

So. Damn. Funny!

A person gives their heart to someone, who the next day places it on a free heart stand.

We’re enjoying one of those weird wintery days were despite the fact the sun is shining and the clouds are high and light, it’s snowing. It happens when the temperature at a certain level turns any moisture in the air into snowflakes.

Just enough to dust the grass but not heavy enough to coat the trees, yet!

It's That Time of Year!

Are you a big spender at Christmas or, like me, are you a frugal re-user of wrapping paper, bows and ribbon, and a repurposer of unwanted gifts? I take great delight in salvaging Christmas paper, gift bags, bow and ribbons, and why not? If they are still useable and in good nick, I will set them aside and if deemed useable again, will keep them. I’ve even got the OH doing this.

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Sadly, all too true …

A conversation explores using new technology to reduce product cost, concluding with a sarcastic high-five on making a worse product for higher profit.

Well, we went from minus five on Monday and wintery weather to an almost balmy plus 4 and rain here, this morning.

Rain now for the rest of the week right on through till Monday, they say. Bah humbug!

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Time

If you want to understand time — which is how you come to befriend life — turn to stone. Climb a mountain and listen to the conversation between eons encoded in each stripe of rock. Walk a beach and comb your fingers through the golden dust that was once a mountain. Pick up a perfect oval pebble and feel its mute assurance that time can grind down even the heaviest boulder, and smooth even the sharpest edge.

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I want to update and change the avatar on my m.b. account but, micro blog doesn’t seem to want to comply. I’ve tried three different logo/avatars but, m.b. just keeps showing the same 8 year old version of me, even after I deleted this particular image. Am I missing something?

Do I need to update the avatar somewhere different from the Account page, @manton can you please advise?

What is it with shopping regulations that says you cannot buy a perfectly useable stick of dynamite on a Sunday to blow up your ailing/aging washing machine that takes this moment in time to suddenly spew some gunk and turn your nearly brand new crisp white bedding set into a murder scene, as if a mouse got drowned and mangled in the tub!

It’s sacrilege, that’s what it is, sacrilege I tell you.

Does anyone know a plumber?

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To quote a line from William Shakespeare’s The Tempest

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”

People & Blogs Featured Interview

Today I am honoured to be featured in Manuel Morale’s online series: People & Blogs. If you would like to read my interview, pop on over to Manu’s blog, HERE, and find out what I have to say. I would like to say a big thank you to Manu at being asked to join such a prestiges alumni, I am truly honoured. I’d also like to say a big thank you to Robert Birming for suggesting me.

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Today’s most important questions is, “what’s the best way to cut a tomato?”

Is it:

  1. North to south.
  2. West to east.

Answers on a postcard… what, oh, okay, answers in the comments please. Thanks!

A sequence of comic panels humorously depicts a person's failed attempts to enter the correct password as a reactor threatens to overheat.