Samsung cider

Following the chance encounter with Somerset cider brandy noticed at reference 1, I have now ordered a supply of the stuff. More or less the same price as the stuff from Normandy which I have been buying from Waitrose. Will this chance encounter spell the end of my relationship with Calvados from Waitrose, rather as a chance encounter with alternative white flour spelt the end of my white flour relationship with them?

I don't think I have ever bought so many spirits online before.

The old Calvados is noticed, for example, at reference 2 and the the old flour at reference 3. Since this last post, I have moved onto Royalty flour from the same mill.

All this brought on by a frustrating encounter with our Samsung smart TV. We have been getting on well enough with Amazon Prime in the evening, despite the rubbish user interface you get with a remote controller, but BH likes to supplement this with other stuff for the purposes of, for example, ironing. Then the other day, the part of the Samsung world called 'terrestrial TV' was reduced to a program from the US called 'Hoarders'. Which was all well and good, but you could have too much of it.

OK, sezzaye, Gemini will sort us out - and he does indeed offer some very plausible advice, which I have now printed out and had a go at.

In this particular case, Gemini has done no better than all the other online offerings knocking around for this sort of thing. His advice, while perfectly reasonable and plausible, does not key into what actually happens on our television. Very few of the options he suggests and that I try seem to exist. With the result that, by the time I gave up and came upstairs to think about cider brandy, I am no further ahead. BH is still locked into hoarding.

PS 1: a subject not entirely without interest as we have known of one or two hoarders ourselves. One, a lady, hoarded dolls, a substitute for the children she was not able to have. And a similar lady cropped up as the proprietress of a bar in Maigret, so Simenon (or his adaptor) must have come across such people too. Two, a gentleman in Brading, in the Isle of Wight, who hoarded cars in the front garden of his council house. Such chaps are reasonably common, I suppose because they are visible, attract rats and the neighbours complain. The owner of the weeping Atlas cedar comes close, noticed, for example, at references 4 and 5. A chap I have been keeping an eye for fifteen years! In which time I have met him just once.

I just collect books, and they do not spill out onto our front garden.

PS 2: the FT might be a quality offering, but it is still comes with advertisements and talking heads. While I prefer to take in my news with my eyes, from words. And what seems like an increasing number of its reports have been animated, consisting largely of natty graphics with a few words stuck on top. In the past, such reports have been in the lower depths, but today one such appeared on the front page, which flickered in consequence. All very irritating. Perhaps, in the future, they will, like Google, offer a 'clean' version, for a fee. Or perhaps young people, not used to consuming words with their eyes, aka reading, like it.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv6.blogspot.com/2026/05/kozhukhin.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/10/astronomy.html.

Reference 3: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-wonders-of-ebay.html.

Reference 4: https://psmv6.blogspot.com/2026/05/may-day.html.

Reference 5: https://pumpkinstrokemarrow.blogspot.com/2011/04/tweets.html.