As The Workhouse Approaches....How To Do Everything To Avoid It, the Old Style Way

Skint_but_Optimistic

kittie wrote: »

I think I`ll experiment with tear and share bread this afternnon. I`ll make the enriched dough in the panasonic and I think I`ll spread choc spread or choc chips and/or chopped roasted hazels before rolling. The cinnemon one I made was excellent and stayed very soft right to the last bite. I suppose I could do banana and maybe syrup or apricot pieces

That sounds absolutely amazing.

7_week_wonder

kittie wrote: »

I think I`ll experiment with tear and share bread this afternnon. I`ll make the enriched dough in the panasonic and I think I`ll spread choc spread or choc chips and/or chopped roasted hazels before rolling. The cinnemon one I made was excellent and stayed very soft right to the last bite. I suppose I could do banana and maybe syrup or apricot pieces

La la la I'm not listening! I'm meant to be working on my thesis at home at the moment but I think I've just been presented with the perfect displacement activity.........:D

anguk

grandma247 wrote: »

I have known men who say they feel they cannot relax in their own home for fear of creasing the cushions!They can relax in a "lived in" home.

My childhood home was like that, no food or drink in the living room, no putting your feet up on the settee, it was all very restrictive and uncomfortable, everything had to be like a show-home at all times.

Back then I vowed that when I had my own home it would never be like that, I would never want my children to feel uncomfortable in their own home so my house has a definite "lived in" look. Plus it's a good excuse for my laziness!

westlothianlass

Afternoon all,
Still on holiday at the moment but have been trying to make sense of all the crud and crap that seems to gather in the house and garden. Hubby and I are bad for keeping things just encase:o but as it turns out we rarely need them:rotfl:so already been to the recycling and tip twice, but at least the garden is looking more habitable, and the house less chaotic.
I suppose its just trying to keep a balance as like most people I feel I don't have enough time to get everything done. I try to grow as much as i can and cook/bake from scratch which means the other stuff has to wait, and sometimes the wait is a tad long.
On a positive note got some more home made wine on the go and have cleared down some from a couple of months ago (the irony of having enough time to make wine has not passed me by:D).
Scottishminnie i have a similar pot and it's lasted really well, so hope your happy with your purchase.

Right the oven is beeping at me so i will go and rescue the bread.
x

GreyQueen

Skint_but_Optimistic wrote: »

I want a baby monkey thing!! I am a child (ish) wrong side of forty, and I have an affinity with tiny monkeys!! I wouldnt put them in dresses or anything I would just love one and look at its tiny monkey hands!.

I know its wrong and I should stick to German Shepherds and cats.

Its thrown me quite off kilter, and I shall have to "calm down".

Hiya skint, monkeys are sooooo cute but they can't be housetrained so you'd have a mucky time of it. I don't have pets as space and money a bit too tight and the environment not pet friendly but I would kinda like one of those little flat robotic vacuums called Roomba (or something similar) which seem to be cute and useful. I suppose I could always glue-gun some fake fur and googly eyes onto it to give it the ahhhhh factor.:rotfl:

I agree that old homemaking and similar books are fascinating. We had one around at my childhood home called something along the lines of the Hoover Book of Home Management; had a predominately blue dust jacket if memory serves. 1960s publication, I think. Anyway, it had some absolute gems inc how asbestos tiles were ideal for the nursery. :eek: After a discussion with my brother we decided that this and various other info inside was in the "too dodgy to be allowed onto his online bookseller accounts" and put it on the fire. I know you go straight to hell for bookburning but we considered it was an Elf and Safety issue.

Am shattered due to being mobbed out at work (off duty now) and fit only to lie in a corner and gibber. Think I may have to go into the library and soothe my troubled mind with some paper therapy.

Can never say what have heard today but suffice to call to mind that old adage about how, if all the troubles in the world were put in a great pile, and we were each obliged to shoulder an equal share, most of us would be only too happy to pick up our existing burdens and struggle on with what we know.

Keep your chins up ladies, it helps to hide the jowls (for those of us inc me for whom this may be a concern;))

Skint_Catt

Had to check out that book GreyQueen!
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5172/5558896536_de79666c88.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.flickr.com/photos/bollops/5558896536/&usg=__kOZMJEsV0XQPCH-WGueSxsugUPE=&h=500&w=375&sz=170&hl=en&start=0&sig2=8lQvuuq7pOLv-KSv7qHVmQ&zoom=1&tbnid=Jx4ReLc6WDDYbM:&tbnh=153&tbnw=119&ei=aFwcTsKsFo7QsgbchfXrBg&prev=/search%3Fq%3DHoover%2BBook%2Bof%2BHome%2BManagement%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-gb:IE-SearchBox%26biw%3D988%26bih%3D610%26tbm%3Disch&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=47&page=1&ndsp=15&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0&tx=68&ty=91

C xx

GreyQueen

Skint_Catt wrote: »

Had to check out that book GreyQueen!
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5172/5558896536_de79666c88.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.flickr.com/photos/bollops/5558896536/&usg=__kOZMJEsV0XQPCH-WGueSxsugUPE=&h=500&w=375&sz=170&hl=en&start=0&sig2=8lQvuuq7pOLv-KSv7qHVmQ&zoom=1&tbnid=Jx4ReLc6WDDYbM:&tbnh=153&tbnw=119&ei=aFwcTsKsFo7QsgbchfXrBg&prev=/search%3Fq%3DHoover%2BBook%2Bof%2BHome%2BManagement%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-gb:IE-SearchBox%26biw%3D988%26bih%3D610%26tbm%3Disch&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=47&page=1&ndsp=15&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0&tx=68&ty=91

C xx

Oh my goodness, that's the one! Well, not the one, of course, as I burned it myself (and expect to suffer in one of the levels of hell, presumably just below the one reserved for people who hang up knitwear on metal coathangers).:)

EDIT just googled the Roomba and it has a sibling called a Scooba that washes floors. Am suffering momentary covetousness but will be OK again soon.

CRANKY40

My house definitely has the lived in look....apart from the kitchen which I like to be organised. I don't like having to play "hunt the table" at meal times either.

I have an old british gas cookbook upstairs somewhere that has a recipe for brains on toast - not that I'm in any hurry to try it out :rotfl:

I harvested half of my cherry crop yesterday - one cherry. The other one isn't quite ripe yet. Never mind, the raspberries are doing well. I'm already picking the ones that aren't usually ready until autumn though. Hmmmm.

Take care all of you

jamanda

Talking about house proud - when I was young my aunt and uncle always had a lovely full fruitbowl. My parents couldn't afford to do it, and they apparently had even less money than my parents. It transpires the fruit was for show only and they weren't allowed to eat it. No idea what they did when it was on the turn.

suzitiger

CRANKY40 wrote: »

I have an old british gas cookbook upstairs somewhere that has a recipe for brains on toast - not that I'm in any hurry to try it out :rotfl:

This sounds like an amazing book. I love social history and the way people used to make ends meet. I feel like so many of us have lost those skills now, hence why i joined this thread so i could learn from the best :T
At the moment I have a passion for reading old children's books like swallows and amazons, the family from one end street and milly molly mandy...i just love them!