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O/S Daily Friday 26 June 2020
O/S Daily Friday 26 June 2020 This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already. Everyone’s welcome,…
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Venturing out into the wider world again
Who feels nervous or not quite ready to venture out regularly into the wider world again? The older generation are supposed to be the ones with the cash to get the economy moving again but after three months of self isolation I sense a general nervousness from many people about rushing out to take advantage of new freedoms…
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O/S Daily Thursday 25 June 2020
O/S Daily Thursday 25 June 2020 This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already. Everyone’s welcome,…
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O/S Daily Wednesday 24 June 2020
O/S Daily Wednesday 24 June 2020 This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already. Everyone’s welcome,…
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O/S Daily Tuesday 23 June 2020
O/S Daily Tuesday 23 June 2020 This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already. Everyone’s welcome,…
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Making bread
I’m a bit late to the lockdown breadmaking party but am trying to follow the recipes in Ken Forkish, Flour Water Salt Yeast. So I am folding rather than kneading. Get a great initial rise, but then transfer to proving basket knocks a bit of the rise out. It doesn’t rise as well in the proving basket. Then it has to be…
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O/S Daily Monday 22 June 2020
O/S Daily Monday 22 June 2020 This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already. Everyone’s welcome,…
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Poor potatoes
Not sure if this is the right place but ...For many months, all the potatoes I have bought have been a) partly damaged b) sprout almost instantly despite good home storage c) have eyes that are huge and unsightly (and wasteful). I've tried all kinds of varieties, top quality, top price, but all similar. It seems the…
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Weekly Flylady Thread 15th June 2020
What is FLYLADY? Well, it's our version of the US
flylady idea - but we work on the principle that housework is not fun, it's
boring, can be time-consuming, is often thankless but, unfortunately,
necessary. It's here on Old Style to provide the support we all need and to
make the whole task easier and quicker. We also…
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Scratchy hard towels - how to soften
We live in a hard water area, and I have several oldish towels, still good colour, but feel hard and stiff, just like cardboard. To soften, have tried adding white distilled vinegar, different fabric softeners, different detergents, and nothing works. I dry outside when possible, but it's looking like they will have to go…
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O/S Daily Sunday 21st June 2020
O/S Daily Sunday 21st June 2020 This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already. Everyone’s welcome,…
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Homemade hobnobs?
Insert From Martin (2008)... Twink's World Famous (well MSE Famous Hobnob recipe) MoneySaver Twink's Hobnob recipe has been tried, tested and heartily recommended by many MoneySavers its meant to be CHEAP and YUM (i've not tried it yet). It was originally posted in the fourth post below, but to make it easier I've copied…
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O/S Daily Saturday 20 June 2020
O/S Daily Saturday 20 June 2020 This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already. Everyone’s welcome,…
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Just done a list of strong white bread flour in order of price (from My Supermarket)
Just done a list of white bread flour in order of price (from My Supermarket) thought I would post it on here in case others (bread makers) find it useful. Asda is in green Tesco is in blue Waitrose is in purple Sainsburys is in orange 61p (4.1p / 100g) ASDA Strong White Bread Flour (1.5Kg) 66p (4.4p / 100g) MORRISONS…
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O/S Daily Thursday 18 June 2020
O/S Daily Thursday 18 June 2020 This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already. Everyone’s welcome,…
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O/S Daily Friday 19 June 2020
O/S Daily Friday 19 June 2020 This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already. Everyone’s welcome,…
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O/S Daily Wednesday 17 June 2020
O/S Daily Wednesday 17 June 2020 This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already. Everyone’s welcome,…
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Brexit and Covid
Hi there, Brexit was likely to hit the UK economy pretty hard the effects have been seen for the last 3 years add on top of that Covid and supply chain disruptions and economic hit for that. I had a good stockpile ready, but covid means i've been eating it since march... i'm now worried that i may not get back working even…
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Adventures in Homebrewland (image heavy - you have been warned!)
Hello boys and girls! I started my first homebrew experiment off yesterday (cheapskate's cider), and took lots of pictures :D Here's my method if anyone else fancies having a go :beer: [1] First of all, get your kit sorted: Sterilised demi-john (or any big bottle tbh, large 5l plastic squash bottles could be ok) Some…
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O/S Daily Tuesday 16 June 2020
O/S Daily Tuesday 16 June 2020 This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already. Everyone’s welcome,…