2025 doing something new / different

Cooked veg in my "new", second-hand, pressure cooker tonight.
I stood there, with the instruction book in my hand while it came to pressure, since its a bit different to the one I've been using for the last 20 years! Fortunately, it worked as it should and I'll be more confident next time I use it.

.............and everything tasted bland and full of 'sameness'?

NO, why do you say that?

We own 2 pressure cookers ones a Prestige bought in January 1982 (its written in the recipe book) then a Hawkins 2lt we take camping both work differently and have been well used over the years.
Wouldn't be without either of them.

I’ve bought a lettuce today    the first one in almost 20 years.  

Mine failed, they weren’t happy with the low temperatures, they might pick up so I’m giving them a bit of a rest.

Cooked veg in my "new", second-hand, pressure cooker tonight.
I stood there, with the instruction book in my hand while it came to pressure, since its a bit different to the one I've been using for the last 20 years! Fortunately, it worked as it should and I'll be more confident next time I use it.

.............and everything tasted bland and full of 'sameness'?

NO, why do you say that?

Speaking from my experience of using a pressure cooker. Used to cook dinners in them with tatties cabbage, swede carrots etc. They all came out devoid of taste and what taste their was was all tasted the same! Because of this I threw mine out years ago.
If you rate them highly, so be it, I'm just stating my perception of pressure cookers!

Did you separate them in the pressure cooker? I cooked potatoes, carrots and parsnips last night and they tasted as they should. I wouldn't cook cabbage in the pressure cooker as its so easy to overcook it. Not a fan of squidgy cabbage.

I’m sitting here having a hot chocolate. Not done that in a long time

I bought a new car. Not done that for some 30 years.

What make, JJB? Tell us more.

What make, JJB? Tell us more.

Yes definitely more information needed 

I wasn't going to bore you all with car talk but if you really want to know.  The choice of car was rather limited, we only have a certain length in the garage so that culled out quite a few makes and models. We wanted a hybrid, a full electric wasn't worth all the faff of installing leccy point at home. A big a boot as possible with leg and head room for his lanky self, a reversing camera too and comfortable enough to sui my driving position.  The garage looking after the submarine and myriad other cars in the past has been incredibly good to us over many years and we've known the now manager since he was a lad starting out. That had a bearing on our choice, it seemed a good idea to stay with that garage. We booked a test drive of a MG ZS Hybrid+ yesterday. The submarine has had an intermittent reverse selection gear problem so whilst we were test driving they had a look at subby.   she's terminal, not a result of water damage but just old age. We've been advised to just run her into the gound and hope she lasts until the new one is here in March. 

Going from a manual 2007 Citroen Xsara Picasso which is extremely basic to an all singing, all dancing modern automatic vehicle was rather dauntinting, it felt like getting into a space ship with all the lights, buttons, bells and whistles but I soon got used to it. The 360° camera was a treat.  But having said that, the subby has a couple of  things that the new one doesn't.  You can't have everything.

So we've bought an MG ZS Hybid+ in Battersea blue, she's likely to be called Bluebell, but that's to be confirmed (she might be called Batty - slightly more appropriate) 

So there you have it..... you did ask.