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Karmacat

boredofbeingathome wrote: »

My kenwood has similar attachments- we make a lot of smoothies with the jug attachment-it is a pain to clean,but very yummy- Whizz up some Rachel's organic yoghurt with fruit, you can even freeze it into lollies..nom nom.

I have a dishwasher :j:D:j:D:j I also have dairy intolerance but smoothies will be on the menu, I promise :j

youareallhelpingme wrote: »

Wasn't meant to be criptic . Peterborough is not too far, you went north, I went south :rotfl:.

Aha! Peterborough was fascinating - to my great grandad, it must have seemed like the big city, coming from the tiny, tiny little village of Staverton as he did. Nice big open square too. There was a painter working at one of the houses I looked at, and he was really worried for me because I said that some relatives lived there. He waited a beat or so and said, there's a Pakistani family living here (he was Pakistani too). I could see he was worried about this weird white woman storming up to the house and demanding to know where they've hidden her grandfather but I reassured him that my timescale was a bit different - the rellie in question died in 1942, after all :whistle::coffee::doh:

Erm, I'm costing more purchases - outdoor clothes airer, water butt, bark mulch ... somebody stop me :eek::rotfl:

boredofbeingathome

DD2 does as well and i use Soya products, or there is a yoghurt that is made with Lactase

http://www.lactofree.co.uk/

Karmacat

Soya for me, I reckon ... probably dried beans I've cooked myself. I need to cut back on the pennies somehow. Possibly smooth tofu that can whizz to nothing...

boredofbeingathome

Karmacat wrote: »

Soya for me, I reckon ... probably dried beans I've cooked myself. I need to cut back on the pennies somehow. Possibly smooth tofu that can whizz to nothing...

That sounds like a good option. I may just have to google some recipes, i haven't tried tofu with her yet.

Triciaxx

Karmacat wrote: »

Aha! Peterborough was fascinating - to my great grandad, it must have seemed like the big city, coming from the tiny, tiny little village of Staverton as he did. Nice big open square too. There was a painter working at one of the houses I looked at, and he was really worried for me because I said that some relatives lived there. He waited a beat or so and said, there's a Pakistani family living here (he was Pakistani too). I could see he was worried about this weird white woman storming up to the house and demanding to know where they've hidden her grandfather but I reassured him that my timescale was a bit different - the rellie in question died in 1942, after all :whistle::coffee::doh::

Time scales are such a weird thing. Friends of ours ran a 'Victorian Farm' in the '80s and I helped with school trips wich included Indian and Pakistani mothers exclaiming that they had the same things 'at home' before coming to England.

They were a bit bewildered when I said "So did I - AND I STILL HAVE!" I have a clothesmaid I have a Tala cooks measure The clothesmaid is around 65 years old and the measure is around 35 years old.

Now they are trendy :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Karmacat

:j:j Hi Tricia! We had one of those clothesmaids in the living room when I was little - we called it a pulley, mind I still have (and use) what we call a clothesmaiden - a series of stands that open up from a central pole - its only about four feet high. Mine is beautifully made, tho its very rickety now. My mum bought it for me in a junk shop in Ruthin in North Wales in about 1975 :T

Never had the cook's measure - my mum never cooked, I've sort of inherited that from her. I did buy a measure something like that once, it went rusty before I could use it :cool:

gilligansyle

we had one of those pulley's in the house we grew up in. It came with the house, and probably went with the house, as you needed high ceilings for it to be out of the way. I'd forgotten about it until seeing it there.

redsquirrel80

Lots of shopping there, but lots of bargains by the sounds of it Can we have a link to the bag please?

Karmacat

My mum and dad got rid of ours before we left that house ... nowadays, I guess they're mostly used to hang kitchen cookware from?

Anyway, today is another one of those days ... I've had two postponements, thank heavens, so I have a chance of getting my to-do list done, as well as focussing on the trading. Pattern seemed to work today - I wasn't logged on yet, it was at 7am and I'm not currently doing those really early stints, but if I'd been able to manage to stay in until the proper exit time, it would've made about 35 points.




ETA - good one Squizz! What I'm doing is taking a pic of all the acquisitions of the last few weeks and putting them into a little album of their own on photobox, or whatever photo account it is that I've got I'll post the link on Wednesday - after the fascinator arrives

gilligansyle

It's all coming good; when do you leave for the wedding?