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Nicodemia
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Or dunking in any sort of soup!
Thanks for the curry recipe, piglet ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
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We have guests arriving this morning, in fact in 30 minutes we will be off to the airport to meet and greet, and now The Neighbours From Hell are having a party at the weekend to celebrate their son's engagement. We are thinking of taking our guests away for the weekend as their room and mine are the nearest to the neighbours and the noise will make sleep pretty much impossible.
...or perhaps I should buy an extension cord for my new electric knife...
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I wouldn't worry. If your guest's son doesn't want to sleep he won't and if he is tired after a long journey (plus the tedium of baggage reclaim, customs and immigration) he'll sleep through anything. Awkward for resident boy, but my kids have slept through air displays at times.
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Completely lazy day here today: Armistice Day is a national holiday here, which I'd intended to work and bank the hours, but my computer was playing up yesterday and if it still was today there wouldn't be anyone there to put it right, so there'd be no point.
So I had a lovely long lie-in and spent the rest of the day finishing off the book I was reading and starting another one ... ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
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I'm going to spend a relaxing day playing with glass for the kiln to distract myself from the 2 horrible days of marking on Thursday and Friday.
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Welease Woderwick
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Guests doing quite well to start with and now both collapsed and asleep - finding the heat a bit trying so probably off to the mountain this weekend to avoid the Neighbours From Hell Party and to give them a little bit of cool. We may even go to tea country then along the tops of the mountains to a Tiger Reserve where we won't see any tigers but may see other bits of wildlife like Buffalo and Gaur [a bit like a ginormous buffalo standing 6 feet at the shoulder] and heffalumps and deer and lots of birds and monkeys and squirrels and stuff.
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Welease Woderwick
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It is indeed delicious particularly as they have a wonderful cake shop!
As soon as guests wake up we must try to book the rooms.
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
... they have a wonderful cake shop ...
Quite right too: what's the use of tea without CAKE? ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Desperately trying to emulate The Blessed Piglet of Domestic Goddess fame, I made not-cross buns today (hot-cross buns without the crosses, obviously). Today, however, they are glazed with home-made apricot jam ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
(pretentious - moi?)
In other news, we managed to prise open the jar of stem ginger in syrup and brandy (BBE 2002) retrieved from the harvest donations to our local food bank. It was all fine, but what amazed me was the recipe suggestion on the label - for something you could make with the contents as a gift??? So - you get given this jar of ginger as a present, and rather than simply eat it or re-gift it, you make it into something else and give it away? Huh?
(Actually, clearly you don't - it sits at the back of the cupboard until 12 years later you give it to a Harvest Festival)
Mrs. S, now proud possessor of a kilner-type jar
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We consumed our last tin of anchovies priced in shillings and d in the early 1990s: they were fine.
(Nothing deliberate - they'd just 'slipped through the net' and made several house moves without being spotted.)
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Originally posted by The Intrepid Mrs S:
Desperately trying to emulate The Blessed Piglet of Domestic Goddess fame ...
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I'm flattered, but completely undeserving.
However, I am planning on tracking down some kosher salt to use in making bread to give to a friend who's on a very restrictive no-iodine diet in preparation for radiotherapy - the French stick recipe has only flour, water, salt and yeast in it, so should be OK.
Whether that counts as goddessishness, only time will tell ...
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Originally posted by L'organist:
We consumed our last tin of anchovies priced in shillings and d in the early 1990s: they were fine.
(Nothing deliberate - they'd just 'slipped through the net' and made several house moves without being spotted.)
I didn't realise that anchovies were already in the tin when they were netted ... you obviously needed a finer mesh!
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When we were packing up to leave Belfast we discovered one or two jars of herbs and spices had labels from a grocer's in Orkney (where we'd left 15 years previously), and decided it was probably time for them to go ... ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
Having said that, we ate out a hell of a lot when we lived there (Belfast is a serious place for good, not-horribly-expensive eateries), but here we cook a lot more ourselves, and have even used up entire jars of herbs and spices and had to replace them.
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In the course of my decluttering I've disposed of a number of jars of out of date herbs and spices. However I bought some more this morning in preparation for cooking tomorrow evening. I plan to tell Mr Nen we're having Piglet's Curry. He may then say - "But I thought we didn't eat pork." ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
I'll let you know how it goes.
In other news, I've been doing jobs round the house and out for lunch with a friend. We're now bracing ourselves for an onslaught of wind and rain later.
Nen - another Aspiring Domestic Goddess.
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Well, that was nice. I was given a large slice of cake at the station this evening for telling them what I thought of the rail service. Please feel free to ask my opinion any time.
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It's not so much your opinion of the service I want as the name of the station.
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Ariel
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It's too late, there won't be any cake left now.
Choice of Victoria Sponge or fruitcake, too.
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Welease Woderwick
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Working on the Notebook again as the new RAM in my PC has failed - aren't warranties a good thing? But now will be PC less until next week as we are going away for the weekend. Today we are going for a 4 hour Backwaters cruise, which should be fun.
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
... the new RAM in my PC has failed - aren't warranties a good thing?
You mean it failed before the warranty ran out??? ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
Kosher salt has been obtained, so bread manufacture will ensue sometime between now and Saturday (I'll see my friend on Sunday, so I can give her a nice fresh loaf).
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Ariel
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More cakes and biscuits to greet us at another station this morning. What a jolly life we commuters lead, pampered and feasted everywhere we go.
(OK it is Children in Need this time, but still, the sight of a table laden with delicious baked goods as you arrive doesn't half brighten up a very soggy dark morning.)
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Gypsy went on her first bus ride today - she was a little star! I have been carrying her on and off since she was ten weeks old, but this was her first 'proper' training bus ride. They don't find them easy due to the hissing brakes and high step, trains are much easier.
As we were getting back in the car (I have to go to the bus in the car - no bus stops anywhere near our house) a lady stopped and asked me lots of questions about her. Then she said "So you are not blind then?" - As I got in the driver's seat!!
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Welease Woderwick
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quote:
Originally posted by Piglet:
quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
... the new RAM in my PC has failed - aren't warranties a good thing?
You mean it failed before the warranty ran out???
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I had a new 4Gb of RAM installed within the last month and it has failed! I sure as heck do NOT expect to pay for its replacement!
We took guests on a four hour Backwaters trip today - just the five of us on a hired boat with three crew - the boat is certified for 25 so it wasn't overcrowded at all - it was a fab time, really nice with chatty, friendly people - and it cost about 50 quid, including the tip - that is total, not per person. I took over 150 photos in that time.
Tomorrow we are off to the mountains and tea country for a few days whilst the Neighbours From Hell have their little party. I hope they enjoy it.
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Originally posted by Boogie:
As we were getting back in the car (I have to go to the bus in the car - no bus stops anywhere near our house) a lady stopped and asked me lots of questions about her. Then she said "So you are not blind then?" - As I got in the driver's seat!!
I used to be an ophthalmic nurse, you'd be surprised how many visually impaired people, especially elderly ones, still drive and end up getting reported to the DVLC.
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Originally posted by Ariel:
More cakes and biscuits to greet us at another station this morning ...
Resist! Resist!
The students where I work are always having cake sales for one thing or another - just about every other day there's a table laden with wee buns just on the way back to my office with my morning Timmy's™.
I'm very good at resisting - I think the only time I succumbed was when one of the sellers was the Dean's daughter, who's a nursing student, and I felt it would be rude not to support her cause ...
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Forgot to mention - we saw our first Christmas tree LAST WEEK! We were on our way back from a meeting and saw a house "trimmed up" with a tree in the window. There are now Christmas lights attached to lamp posts in our town, but not lit yet.
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There has been a Christmas tree in the vestibule of my local pub since the beginning of September...when I protested, the license said that they had actually resisted the blandishments of the brewery to put it there at the end of August.
It fair spoils my trips to the pub, having to walk past a Christmas tree every time in. And out again....
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And I thought our local was bad for having put their decorations up this past week. At least they waited until after Remembrance Day.
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Victoria Station in Manchester is having major building work done with a new roof etc. There are very sad looking Christmas trees dotted around the building site - they look awful!
I don't do Christmas shopping - all mine is done and dusted by October and we are having an Indian take away on Christmas day!!
(Sons are home on the 27th so we're having the proper 'do' then )
But I can't avoid the shops this year as Gypsy has to walk round them for her training - but at least I'm just walking, not shopping
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I think people should really go for Christmas shopping in the immediate post-Christmas sales. Prices drastically drop - so ideally you could get some of next year's decorations and perhaps even some presents the year before. Not that I'm doing much decoration myself, but it always strikes me that should you wait a few days or weeks, they basically chuck the stuff at you.
Shopping done in October sounds good. You can boogie through Advent and enjoy things there and then. Definitely saves you from last-minute ripoffs and all the hassle. ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
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But who can get excited about Christmas shopping in January? Part of the joy of it is that frisson of anticipation, surrounded by all the decorations, lights and Christmas carols. I do like to get it done early, though, to avoid crowds and panic. I have a couple of days earmarked next week for shopping with Mr Nen and Nenlet1. I was at our local garden centre with a friend this week; Christmas starts there at the end of September with a discreet rack of cards and wrapping paper. By now it is in full swing, with decorated trees, lights, shelves of festive food. I love Christmas.
In other news, Piglet's Curry was thoroughly enjoyed yesterday evening. Mr Nen used his last piece of naan bread to wipe clean not only his bowl but mine as well.
Nen - who may never buy a jar of curry sauce again.
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Originally posted by Nenya:
But who can get excited about Christmas shopping in January? Part of the joy of it is that frisson of anticipation, surrounded by all the decorations, lights and Christmas carols.
The decorations and cheesy in-store Christmas music are still there in January. I have been known to buy some things in the January sale, but there's no point buying anything perishable because you've got to keep it all for the rest of the year. Also, it takes up extra space and you have to check on it from time to time to make sure the moths haven't got at it or the summer heat hasn't affected it.
Anyway, I had the allotment tidied up and the weekend's shopping finished by 8 am today, so after that went off to have a look at the early morning mists and autumn trees. It really is very pretty driving along - the trees look like brushes full of warm autumn colours, ready to decorate the landscape.
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Originally posted by Nenya:
Nen - who may never buy a jar of curry sauce again.
Attagirl, Nen - it's a whole other world of flavour.
Seriously, if you want a good and easy-to-use curry recipe book, Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cookery is the biz. Years out of print, alas, but one of the great advantages of the interweb is being able to get hold of such treasures. ISBN is 0 563 16491 3. It has a great recipe for naan bread, which is almost the only reason I keep the breadmaker
Mrs. S, now reduced to prising apart the pages of her curry-stained copy!
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I shop for my main presents in November and then enjoy a stress free December. I do like the Christmas festivities; carol singing, decorating the tree, a huge family dinner Christmas Eve here as we are usually with relatives on Christmas Day.
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One of the lesser-known pleasures of November is the weather being suitable for hot, freshly toasted crumpets, with the melted butter dripping onto the plate. Spread of choice close at hand - Marmite and cheese spread for me.
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Originally posted by Ariel:
One of the lesser-known pleasures of November is the weather being suitable for hot, freshly toasted crumpets, with the melted butter dripping onto the plate. Spread of choice close at hand - Marmite and cheese spread for me.
May I pop by?
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Absolutely. These are Supermarket's Best, made with buttermilk, no less.
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I've just had dinner, but that's made me hungry.
Nom nom nom, crumpets dripping in butter!
*arteries hardening just thinking about it*
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We won tickets to see The Lion King at Cardiff's Millenium Centre on 26th November I've now fouond out that Bellowhead are at the St. David's Hall in Cardiff the same night ![[Mad]](angryfire.gif)
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Originally posted by Nenya:
... Piglet's Curry was thoroughly enjoyed ...
Glad to hear it! It was an adaptation itself, and would be open to all sorts of variations: I think next time I'll add carrots and maybe red peppers ... just use your imagination (and the contents of the fridge).
Now I know some of you will have difficulty believing this, but Domestic Goddess Piglet has been in overdrive today. Bathroom cleaned, laundry in tumble-dryer, stir-fry made and eaten for lunch and - wait for it - Christmas shopping started!
Oh yes, and batch of French sticks doing its thing in the bread-machine, and as I bought a timer, I now have no excuse for bollocksing them up.
The burst of Christmas shopping may have been brought on by hearing my first rendition of the season of Do they Know it's Christmas?, which was playing in the kitchen-shop, and kind of set me off ...
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Set out to go to Stratford on Avon this morning and ran into increasingly thick fog halfway so got no further. Instead, I took a different route and stopped for lunch in a tiny, ancient country pub, getting a seat next to the fire and a very nice Sunday roast lunch. There are some compensations.
The season of Christmas markets has just begun this week and the rest following suit pretty soon. I sent an email round to some interested colleagues to let them know dates and venues for ones they might want to attend. We all agreed that Birmingham is going to be too much of a crush any time after 9am-ish, and that Winchester will be the one to be at this year. I've been to Bath's Christmas Market a couple of years running now and fancy a change - London's South Bank one might be good to go to as well.
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No country pub should be without an open fire. Mm, cosy.
I'm visiting Lincoln, but the weekend before the Christmas market. That maybe the only way to see any of Lincoln itself, rather than just the back of someone's head stuck in pedestrian congestion. Maybe Leeds market tomorrow for a profetje (little Dutch pancake).
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Don't forget The Whisky Shop in Lincoln, just up from the cathedral. In addition to whisky from all over the world it sells some very unusual spirits and liqueurs.
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I'm afraid that my family are very fond of muffins and crumpets whatever the season (my son, reading this over my shoulder, is saying " I like crumpets!!!")
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Winchester christmas market can be an absolute scrum; if you can avoid the weekends, do so. The rather narrow access from the front of the cathedral (those in the know go another way) makes it particularly squashy!
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Get some crumpet rings and make your own crumpets. It's a bit of a faff - especially first thing in the morning - but they are just amazing. It's the combination of warmth and moistness that's so different (yes, I am still talking about the same sort of crumpet).
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
Don't forget The Whisky Shop in Lincoln, just up from the cathedral. In addition to whisky from all over the world it sells some very unusual spirits and liqueurs.
Ooh, that's very useful information. I'm owed a belated birthday present and I'm partial to bizarre alcohol. Problem solved
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... whisky from all over the world ...
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Whisky comes from Scotland, dear boy.
French sticks made using kosher salt worked just fine, and J. was absolutely delighted with hers. I told her just to ask if she wanted any more, and she said she'll probably need another one by the next time I see her (Wednesday ).
Lovely cold sunny day here today (0°C) but as long as there's no sn*w, I don't care how cold it is. Nice Evensong - Murrill in E and And I saw a new heaven - generating much Decanal Grinning™.
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South Bank Christmas market is fun -and you can find quieter moments (and saunter down to Borough and over to Covent Garden to see which stalls have made it over there too).
I didn't realise South Bank registered as one of the bigger Christmas markets.
Really foggy all over Yorkshire and the route up and down all weekend. Radcliffe on Soar in the fog was quite amazing, the smoke/steam from the chimneys hung around the tops and hovered.
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