Graduates 'Could be Jobless For Years'

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

also, did you get my PM from elswhere? It got stuck in outbox and I couldn't work out if it sent? It was just a thanks.

Yep, but as I said before, no need to thank. Its what keeps the world turning, eh? That and love and money

Yeah, food miles and food: not a good mix:D. I honed my bakewell recipe this weekend too. One day I'll have a kitchen I can keep animals out of to sell my food.:D

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

One day I'll have a kitchen I can keep animals out of to sell my food.:D

OK lir...I get the jist of what you write most of the time.....your condition never affects what you want to say...your written English is absolutely fine...but I am struggling with the above.
Have got an Animal Farm image of cows and donkeys up on their hind legs wearing aprons serving slices of cake.

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

OK lir...I get the jist of what you write most of the time.....your condition never affects what you want to say...your written English is absolutely fine...but I am struggling with the above.
Have got an Animal Farm image of cows and donkeys up on their hind legs wearing aprons serving slices of cake.

:rotfl::rotfl:

I ''sell'' food to friends/friends of friends occasionally, for cost of ingrediants. I can't sell for [rofit or set up a business that I have reasonable interest in (some people I have cooked/baked for my mother used to bake for, and then their children and grnadchildren too!) because I'd need a kitchen that complied with H and S. Our kitchen is a family kitchen, a kitchen where dogs wander through, cats perch on my shoulder t watch me stir, if I'm not firm -which I am not cooking for us . I'm not bothered/settled enough to rent a kitchen here, but I'd love a very small kitchen when we move so I could get a bit of profit on another thing I love to do.

I have been offered a kitchen to use in the village, but its an AGA, and while I love cooking some things in ranges I think, frankly, I'd panic with a lot of stuff. All the ranges I've ''known'' are highly individual personalities with natures predicatble only to their owners

We had a pony once who used to brak out of field/stable and pick his way through the garden, open the bck door and let himself into the kitchen over night, and ages ago, when the neices lived with me, they rode their ponies into the back hall sometimes :rolleyes:

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl:

I ''sell'' food to friends/friends of friends occasionally, for cost of ingrediants. I can't sell for [rofit or set up a business that I have reasonable interest in (some people I have cooked/baked for my mother used to bake for, and then their children and grnadchildren too!) because I'd need a kitchen that complied with H and S. Our kitchen is a family kitchen, a kitchen where dogs wander through, cats perch on my shoulder t watch me stir, if I'm not firm -which I am not cooking for us . I'm not bothered/settled enough to rent a kitchen here, but I'd love a very small kitchen when we move so I could get a bit of profit on another thing I love to do.

I have been offered a kitchen to use in the village, but its an AGA, and while I love cooking some things in ranges I think, frankly, I'd panic with a lot of stuff. All the ranges I've ''known'' are highly individual personalities with natures predicatble only to their owners

We had a pony once who used to brak out of field/stable and pick his way through the garden, open the bck door and let himself into the kitchen over night, and ages ago, when the neices lived with me, they rode their ponies into the back hall sometimes :rolleyes:

I've never bothered cooking because "it's just me". I can't even buy things that I won't use up, which means if I buy 2Kg of potatoes I have to eat potatoes every day until the bag's finished ... it's a bit limiting.

I'd like to cook ... one day I will have a freezer and a kitchen that's mine - and I'll be able to cook stuff and freeze it. No more having to balance quantities of what I buy -v- how much I can physically eat before it's out of date

I made a mistake and bought two midget gems, a small punnet of tomatoes and half a cucumber... damned salad for a week now! Can't waste any of it, so lumbered. The lettuce was reduced so its rate of deterioration dictates the quantities/speed at which I eat the tomatoes/cucumber really. Can't be left with those or I'll have to be eating cheese/tomato/cucumber sandwiches for the following 4 days ... at which point I'd have a surplus of bread ... so I have to think these things through days ahead.

mewbie_2

http://www.minicoolers.co.uk/products/index.htm

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I made a mistake and bought two midget gems, a small punnet of tomatoes and half a cucumber... damned salad for a week now! Can't waste any of it, so lumbered. The lettuce was reduced so its rate of deterioration dictates the quantities/speed at which I eat the tomatoes/cucumber really. Can't be left with those or I'll have to be eating cheese/tomato/cucumber sandwiches for the following 4 days ... at which point I'd have a surplus of bread ... so I have to think these things through days ahead.

I make just for me weekdays too (big difference though) and again, just for my mother sometimes (she's suspicious of ''my'' meals, her's would kill me!). I have to say though, one little gem would be a good main meal salad for me, with quater of a cucumber. I'd probably not have a good source of protein at that meal though: just the veg. (opening a can to add beans is too depressing for one, I agree) What I can do (that in rented is hard) other than chop into little of pepper (hate chopping and leaving in the main) at this time of year, is add a couple of fresh baby beets grated raw, and nasturtium or two.

PasturesNew

mewbie wrote: »

http://www.minicoolers.co.uk/products/index.htm

Only a proper/full-sized freezer does the job.
And ... space is an issue. I bet some people here have bathrooms or hallways bigger than my whole place.

Alan_M_2

fc123 wrote: »

I'm glad you replied as I know you deal in Rocks, big, giant rocks...but it would have come out wrong if I had typed it out post PN's post (rocks off and all that).

I can imagine, PN's mind is firmly in the gutter (That's when she's not providing short hand narratives on property !!!!!! TV shows of course..);)

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

and nasturtium or two.

You eat flowers???

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

You eat flowers???

Of course. Roses, lavender, nasturtium, honeysuckle...lots really, elderflowers, lots of them really. Its not that odd.