Lime pickled onions

King of beasts and man

Vindaloo for tea!

What a web we weave!

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Date: 25 Nov 2013 18:47
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What a web we weave!

The fires in the east

Home made Tattie Scones Recipe

Love these and they taste much better than shop bought ones.

Ingredients:

200g (or six small totties)
50g plain white flour
Tbsp rapeseed oil, or a knob of butter
Half tsp salt
Quarter tsp of baking Powder
Grind of black pepper

Method:

Boil the potatoes in salted water till soft to a knife. (About 20 mins)
Drain the potatoes then mash them with the oil/butter, salt, pepper and baking powder.
Mix in the flour to make a stiff dough. I add half then the rest gradually depending on the potatoes used. You may not need it all.

Roll out the dough on a floured surface to about 4 to 5 mm thick.
Cut into a circle (saucer over to guide) and score the dough to make 4 quarters. Prick the scones lightly with a fork too.
Lightly oil a heavy pan and cook each side for about three minutes on a medium heat until the scones are golden brown.

Tada!

Fix problems caused by Android 4.3 update to Galaxy S3 (UK)

I have happened upon a cure of sorts for the worst of the problems caused by the recent 4.3 update to the S3.

For the problem with the screen being slow to wake or just locking up and not waking you need to clear the partition cache.

To do this Power off your phone. 

Once off hold down power, home and volume up at the same time till you see the samsung logo then let go. 

It will then go into the boot loader screen, use the volume keys to move up and down on the list and the power button to select. It starts out on Wipe Partition Cache anyway, select that. After its finished, which doesn't take long it has an option to reboot now. Do this and most of the laggy power/home button issues should be done. 

I am hoping this also helps with the battery issues. Since then I have only lost 8% in just over an hour compared to before when it was like 20% odd an hour.

Another one which really helps is to disable smart stay and smart rotation (settings/my device& 2nd option from the bottom)

Disabling your lock screen altogether can almost cure the lock screen lag.

To clear persistent Notifications in the Notifications bar that keep re-appearing after you have cleared them:

Open settings > More > Application Manager

Swipe across to show "All" and then find "Download Manager"

Open this and select "Clear Data"

Tada, hope this helps anyone scunnered by this pesky update!

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