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Welease Woderwick
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BIG storm last night with a flash of lightning that produced a few horrors, like knocking out my computer and caused some sort of induction thingy damaging Pete's brass crucifix - I'll send you a picture Pete when my PC is back working.
But the good news is that my team won the cricket match and goes into the semi-final on Friday.
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Wodders, that sounds like a right nuisance, with which I can sympathise - my w*rk computer got a virus yesterday. I innocently clicked on a link on the interweb (can't remember now whether it was SOF or FB) and started getting scary messages like "alas, if you do not do XYZ you will lose everything on your computer". ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
When I phoned the geek department to say that something was wrong, they already knew. ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif) They came and took it away and I'm hoping it'll be back by the time I get in tomorrow, or I'll have to tackle that pile of filing that I've been ignoring in the hope that it might go away ...
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Welease Woderwick
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Sadly filing rarely goes away of its own accord.
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The computer issues sound a nightmare. As does the filing.
I'm off to the opticians to pick up my new varificals, the old single lens glasses weren't up to the task and I also now need some near vision help with needle threading
My children have been at the inlaws for 2 days but come back today, the peace has been nice.
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Just walked back from the station; suddenly the heavens split open, water cascaded down and the streets became rivers with rain bouncing back up off the pavement and mini waterfalls splashing down the hillier streets. Within two minutes my shoes and trousers were completely soaked and I squelched home. Hadn't expected that.
Looks as if it might be moving north. ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
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Firenze
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I saw that on TV - not you being soaked - but the weatherman pointing out a crescent of rain moving across Southern England with the strobey green bits, and saying it would deliver 'heavy showers' on home going traffic.
We had that last weekend: you can still see the little mounds of debris that built up behind the tyres of parked cars as the gutters flooded.
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Had an appointment today with the consultant that did my cataract operation four years ago. Booked in for other eye to be done in a couple of weeks, but also had lens in already done eye cleaned. Everything looks so much brighter, and I feel a lot happier even though I can now see the bathroom floor needs cleaning.
The weather has been vile this week, but it looks like it's getting better.
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Originally posted by Gussie:
Had an appointment today with the consultant that did my cataract operation four years ago. Booked in for other eye to be done in a couple of weeks, but also had lens in already done eye cleaned. Everything looks so much brighter, and I feel a lot happier even though I can now see the bathroom floor needs cleaning.
The weather has been vile this week, but it looks like it's getting better.
I was an ophthalmic nurse for about 15 years, specialising in casualty and clinic, and the patients often came back after cataract surgery and complained about that they could now see the dust in their house ![[Smile]](smile.gif) had your lens capsule clouded over at the back? That's very common and the laser quickly does the trick - glad it's all clear again.
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Apparently the first thing my m-i-l said on coming home after her cataract operation was "goodness, don't those curtains need cleaning?"
Computer virus turned out to be pretty catastrophic - it was a "ransom" virus, where the perpetrators (or "scumbags" as I like to call them) tell you that all your files have been de-crypted and will be lost if you don't give them money (which my bosses don't, on principle). Fortunately the two main programs I use are from a remote computer and weren't affected, but I've lost a shed-load of ordinary word and spreadsheet stuff.
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Yep, the lens had become cloudy. The fact it's lightened my mood, makes me feel awful for my poor mum who has macular degeneration and can't see a great deal at all now.
Pain about the computer Piglet, I once did mine in by clicking on what I thought was a library suppliers website but wasn't. I don't think I lost any files, but it took our IT guys ages to make the computer happy again.
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I have one more day of holiday. It's sunny in Scotland. The dog is currently snoozing and will only want a short walk. Perhaps I'll garden, cycle and get the washing done. Bliss. Then this evening I shall sing When Daisies Pied at our little summer concert.
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When does the puppy arrive? ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Early July, we haven't got a date yet but that's the earliest I can start - as I go away to Palma de Mallorca with five girlie friends at the end of June ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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I apologise to anyone who gets rain today... it's my fault for cleaning all the inside windows and some of the more obviously dirty outside ones.
I've also moved all the furniture and hoovered and dusted everywhere.
All because I needed to move a piece of furniture for the meter person to get to the gas meter, (I did not want another stern letter in about six months time about needing to see my meter at least once every two years - if they will call when I'm out at work...) and one thing led to another.
Oh, and I did all the ironing whilst I was waiting for the meter person.
Anyone for some light refreshments to help me recover!
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What is this 'ironing'?
I dimly recall a strange appliance unearthed in a clear out some years ago with a flat plate with holes but, finding no sensible use for it, donated it to recycling. ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
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I quite like ironing, occasionally. It's relatively mindless, and quite relaxing, and makes me feel I've done something productive and useful whilst I'm waiting around for something to happen, and it would be foolish to do something that I don't want to be interrupted doing.
Probably happens about six times a year...
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Welease Woderwick
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I think that going as a gang to the biggest mall in South Asia on the last Friday afternoon before the new school year starts on Monday may not have been the wisest thing! It was heaving in there!
We splashed out a couple of quid on an autorickshaw for the trip home - the buses would have been pure hell.
The ice creams were good.
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Wodders, that reminds me of Bank Holiday Monday - we had gone to Taurus at Lydney, and Jophn wanted to call into the bookshop at the Dean Forest Railway. We didn't realise it was going to be a "Thomas" weekend. The chap on the gatet advised us that it wouldn't be a good idea to go into the bookshop - he reckoned it was wall-to-wall kids!
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I'm not sure that going anywhere on a Bank Holiday is a good idea ...
I really can't express my gratitude to the kind gentleman from the geekery at w*rk who mended as much of my computer as possible and kept reassuring me that it wasn't my fault, and it really could have happened to anyone. Also, one of my "lost" files turned up as an e-mail attachment, so isn't lost after all.
And it's the weekend, the weather forecast's getting better and le boulangerie Piglet* has just produced some more French sticks.
* It was a joint effort - D. did the measuring, and I did the rest.
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My idea of producing French sticks is going to the supermarket and bringing them home in a bag. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
Well, the sun is shining at last and if the grass has dried out a bit tomorrow I'll get the lawns cut. Meanwhile, it's stir fry for tea and the red wine bottle is already open to let the wine breathe.
Nen - lover of Saturday evenings in with the family.
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I cut the grass Thursday, so today was digging over a bit which will one day be an extension of the lawn. Unfortunately at the moment it's a highly fork-resistant tangle of couch grass, buttercup, bindweed, dandelion etc.
There should also be a bottle of red somewhere in the offing here as well. And a couple of steaks. I just need to go conjure a sauce out of whatever's in the fridge - at the moment I'm thinking of roasting any tomatoes, chillies, peppers and onions I find and then putting the results in a blender.
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This particular batch of French sticks is partly wholemeal, as there was a collective brainfart re the purchase of white flour when D. went to Costco (and when he phoned me at w*rk to say he'd lost the list I'd made and could I remember anything we needed?), so he substituted wholemeal when he ran out of white. However, it turned out really nicely - slightly heavier than white, but v. good and with a lovely soft texture.
This afternoon I made a batch of red-pepper jelly which is cooling and will be ready for consumption fairly soon.
contented, domesticated piglet
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A relaxed lunch of bread and cheese here, including our first ever taste of homemade hard cheese. It was a 6 week old Caerphilly made from Duchy organic milk and it actually tasted like real cheese! I was a bit nervous in case I poisoned everyone but all is fine.
My husband is finishing the sewing of my son's Tudor puffed trunk hose and then we all need to get dressed up in Tudor gear for photos so we can submit our costumes for approval. Only 2 weeks until Kentwell and I have a stack of linens to sew; shirts and shifts, aprons and linen cloths. I am beginning to get excited now.
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If you add vital gluten when you bake with wholemeal flour, it will rise higher.
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Our standard practice is to add a tablespoon of gluten flour for every cup of wholemeal/rye/soy/etc flour. Another virtue is that when used with rye flour, the dough is less sticky. There's no real need to vary any of the other ingredients, but as noted before a small amount of lemon juice, no more than a teaspoon for a 1 kg loaf, does no harm in producing good bread.
But then, you might like a heavy bread. It often toasts well, and makes a good base for a Sunday lunch of cauliflower cheese.
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It wasn't really too heavy; just a little heavier than the white loaves were, and it rose beautifully - I can't believe how easy it is, especially after the faffing-about we had getting the baked-in-the-machine loaves to behave. It tasted lovely, and we've already eaten one-and-a-half of the three loaves we made ... ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
Quite a busy day today - lots of nice Ascensiontide music (why can't Ascension last for six weeks to get in all those lovely anthems?) and a v. successful congregational meeting this afternoon about what to do about the Cathedral hall, when IMHO the right decision was made.
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will you be Tudors all summer, Heavenly Anarchist, or is all this sewing for one weekend ? I visited Hampton Court at the weekend, it would be very good if they had Tudor characters there.
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Originally posted by moonlitdoor:
will you be Tudors all summer, Heavenly Anarchist, or is all this sewing for one weekend ? I visited Hampton Court at the weekend, it would be very good if they had Tudor characters there.
They do.
See here.
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will you be Tudors all summer, Heavenly Anarchist, or is all this sewing for one weekend ? I visited Hampton Court at the weekend, it would be very good if they had Tudor characters there.
Kentwell has special open weekends with Tudors (and occasionally other history periods) but their main event is a two week period in June. On the weekdays it is open to school groups and at the weekends to the public. I am there for the first week as 2 weeks would be difficult getting time off for my husband and 2 children. Visitors go through a time tunnel and when they come out everything is Tudor. We have to stay completely in period while visitors are there so we even eat our pottage publicly and we just carry out our roles as if it is all normal. I'm in the dairy so will be making butter and soft cheese, my husband is in the coppice doing woodwork, my youngest in barn school and then whatever takes his fancy in the afternoons. My eldest is no longer a member of our family though, he is a page in the manor so gentry class and gets to eat the posh food and have a different background story (he's the younger son of a former Sheriff of Cambridge).
Both my children have new first names too, as their own ones (Zadok and Elijah) are somewhat conspicuous for 1578!
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You have a son called Zadok? How cool is that? ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif) ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
Had my first (sort of) failure with the French stick recipe today due to a DOS (Dozing Off Situation) after putting them in the oven.
Strangely, they were still edible, if somewhat crusty, but as that's the way D. likes his bread, he offered to eat these ones if I make another batch tomorrow (hopefully without falling asleep).
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I'm sat comfortably in a hotel lounge in Potsdam, recuperating from a Frühstück of coffee and exceptionally nice jammy bun. Presently I will go out and sightpotter. No rush.
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Piglet, the overcooked sticks would make good breadcrumbes. Break them into the food processor and run on high for just a few moments.
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Originally posted by Firenze:
I'm sat comfortably in a hotel lounge in Potsdam, recuperating from a Frühstück of coffee and exceptionally nice jammy bun. Presently I will go out and sightpotter. No rush.
That sounds so wonderful (sigh).
Piglet, Zadok loves his name and having his own piece of very recognisable music
I've just been on my forums and wished my students good luck for their exams this week and am now having a cup of tea and a browse before I get stuck into the sewing pile.
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Originally posted by Firenze:
I'm sat comfortably in a hotel lounge in Potsdam, recuperating from a Frühstück of coffee and exceptionally nice jammy bun. Presently I will go out and sightpotter. No rush.
You really know how to make folks jealous, don't you? I love the No rush bit.
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Hello, having fallen overboard many months ago I've found my way back on to the Ship. I don't live too far from Kentwell and was thinking of making a visit over there at some point to see the Tudors it sounds like fun.
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Hello, having fallen overboard many months ago I've found my way back on to the Ship. I don't live too far from Kentwell and was thinking of making a visit over there at some point to see the Tudors it sounds like fun.
Do visit I'm in the dairy, I'm the middle aged of the two Annies there (though I'm afraid I'm not allowed to acknowledge you from the 21st century!).
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It must be quite hard to stay in character. It's all right as long as the conversation is restricted to milk and cheese but without an encyclopaedic knowledge of the 16th century, the potential topics are quite limited.
Is it supposed to be any particular year ?
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It must be quite hard to stay in character. It's all right as long as the conversation is restricted to milk and cheese but without an encyclopaedic knowledge of the 16th century, the potential topics are quite limited.
Is it supposed to be any particular year ?
1578. This is my first year and speech will be the hardest thing for me. That's why newbies get working class roles, so their work gives them something practical to do and talk about. I know where I live in the village and when the market is, what I buy, etc.
This summer Elizabeth planned to visit our small town and we live in anticipation that she might visit us. So we talk about that, make plans. The colonising of America is also topical. And discussing cheese can take up time, how many visitors would have made cheese at home and know how rennet is made? Yet I need to be incredulous that they do not know how to do such a basic womanly task.
I am a history graduate (as of last year) and rather obsessed with the social history of women so subject matter isn't so much of an issue as I can discuss family and home life easily and I can always have fun discussing the role of women. I'm no actress, I'd hate a gentry role where acting is needed, but I was a nurse for 20 years so talking to people comes easy to me. The role I'd really like is in the still room making medicines as I lecture in health theory and I've studied the history of medicine. I would love to explore this further.
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Help! We've been invaded by a host of children!
Herself & Himself seem to have taken on the role of tutors to some of the local kids - they have 7 of them on the verandah now doing all sorts of things from basic alphabets [in Roman, Hindi and Malayalam] to bits of maths and history and all sorts. The group compromises a couple of first standards, a couple of second standards and one each of fourth, fifth and seventh! Just one girl surrounded by six boys. All good kids and all very local. The least local has all of hundred metres to home from here!
One of the first standards has had to give up his Too cool for school t-shirt.
I've never made cheese apart from paneer and I doubt that rennet is easily available here - how tough is it? Actually we don't have anywhere cool enough for it to mature so it is probably a non-starter here. All the cheese produced in India [precious little] seems to come from the mountains.
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Poor Prabad! No longer cool? Who is the poor girl?
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I buy rennet from Lakeland here. From what I've just read the stomach used to produce the enzyme needs to be milk specific, ie the same animal, which explains why my normal rennet didn't work on goats' milk the other day but works fine with cows milk. So I suppose goat rennet could be used in India with goats' milk. I'm guessing it is the use of animal rennet that restricts cheese making in India. Cheese might come from the mountains because they keep goats there?
I do have vegetarian rennet here in tablet form, no idea what they make that from, wiki suggests fungi. But I also make paneer type and various curd cheeses with cider vinegar or lemon juice.
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Originally posted by Gee D:
Piglet, the overcooked sticks would make good breadcrumbs ...
You don't think they're going to last that long, do you?
HA, I started getting an earworm last night, and it really hasn't gone away ...
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We normally use lemon juice for paneer although commercial producers normally use coconut vinegar. We have yet to try cider vinegar which we get for my mild cholesterol issues - it's quite nice with a drop of honey and some hot water first thing in the morning - this was something that a shipmate advised years ago and it seems to work.
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la vie en rouge
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IIRC from my biology GCSE, vegetarian rennet comes from genetically engineered bacteria. As does the insulin that is used to treat diabetes.
They do something magic to the bacteria* that makes them behave like the cells that produce the rennet/insulin.
*that biology GCSE was a while ago
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Rent my holiday home in the South of France
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Tree Bee
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Dramatic end to the day for me! 5 minutes before we close and I go on 3 weeks' leave, a teenage girl was attacked by 3 other teens.
While calling the police I developed a migraine aura but managed to drive home.
Really need my holiday!
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Piglet
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Goodness, TB, that sounds scary - hope she's going to be OK.
Have a good holiday - it looks as if you deserve it!
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alto n a soprano who can read music
Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006
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Ariel
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One of my neighbours has just finished cleaning his car. He does it every weekend. And it takes him four (4) hours. Every inch of the thing meticulously cleaned, polished, inspected, gone over, inside and out.
I don't know whether to feel ashamed that I complete the whole thing in about 20-30 minutes (though I don't polish mine) and I don't do it every weekend, either.
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Heavenly Anarchist
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We have no shame, we pay the children to clean ours once in a blue moon
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My shop
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Thyme
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I pay the hand car wash & valet firm.
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Piglet
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It's funny you should mention car cleanliness (or the lack of it) - we went out this evening to see if there were still any icebergs about (there was - a huge one with an archway like the Arc de Triomphe in the bay just before you come to Cape Spear), and the windscreen was so manky on the inside that D. had a go at it with window-cleaning fluid when we got home.
I'm inclined to agree with Thyme though - those "show-room-ready" valet services are worth every penny once in a while.
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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