A wet and breezy day didn't encourage us to go out so we concentrated on pottering round the house. Old Bill knocked and we had a chat. He was about to download GoodSync onto the PC we have been cleaning up - so the Gorse Fox volunteered to go across and configure it. While there we also copied some of his old non-volatile, pre-retirement business files to a DVD so that he didn't need to keep them online - now that they are backed up and copied to DVD. The Gorse Fox also helped out with some of his family tree queries. As an aside the Gorse Fox noticed that he seems to get a totally different home page on Ancestry from that the Gorse Fox sees, no idea why.
Come late afternoon it was time to prepare supper. Oven was cranked up to 200c and the various dishes placed on the relevant shelves. The 'Gastro' chips were places on a mesh tray near the bottom with a drip tray beneath - to catch the oils or fats that would inevitable drip through. As the cooking time ticked along there was slight smell of burning fat. The Gorse Fox didn't think to hard (unfortunately) and boiled a kettle. The idea was to add boiling water to the drip tray to stop the fat from burning. Well, let's just say this was the smartest move he's ever made. The water mixed with the fat and evaporated instantly filling the oven and kitchen with an acrid smoke. It took ages for it to clear even with the extractor fans on full. A lesson learned, methinks!
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