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

bertiebots

Hugs ((purpleheather)).
We had rain all night..so the pond is full again
Anyone got any ideas how I can make my rug lay flat again? My dd spilt a whole glass of water on it yesterday and its dried overnight all warped! Its only a cheap rug (£25 ebay!) so not the best quality in the world but I dont want to risk breaking my kneck every time I walk across it..its in the middle of my lounge!

Seakay

anguk wrote: »

I loved it, I'm definitely going to try some of the recipes. I was very jealous when they visited the deli, we have nothing like that here, if we want any continental food it has to be pre-packed from the supermarket. Does anyone know of a proper deli in the north-east?

I'm always envious when these food shows visit proper food shops or markets, with the exception of a veg stall and butchers van our local market sells cheap tat.

if you Google your postcode, then a space, then deli you should get some hits

GreyQueen

:mad: Alright, ladies and any gents present, I have to have a little grump; it's 21 degrees and sunny, my allotment is impersonating the Dust Bowl and you keep going on about your rain and it's NOT FAIR!

Sorry, just had to get that off my chest........:rotfl:Don't know what the heck is happening with the weather but by the time the clouds reach my way they aren't loaded any more.

Bertiebots what kind of fibre(s) is your rug and what is its backing? Might be able to rack my brains for a solution if I have a bit more information.

The folks and me went to the lottie for nearly 4 hours and they assembled and tweaked the h.m cold frame and it's very impressive. Needs a little more tweaking to be perfect plus me taking some Ecover washing up liquid up there to give the glass a good scrub as it's feeelthy. I dunno, if it's not one thing needs cleaning it's another. I am playing online until 4 pm then getting into the bath as am covered with dust (formerly known as topsoil). Then I will bail most of the bathwater into containers and take it back to the lottie, thus forming my little part of the circle of life (awww). Waste not want not, as the saying has it.

I was mooching in the library yesterday and got a rental DVD of Ray Mears' "Wild Food" series which I shall watch some of tonight on my pooter. This is ancient stuff, very early food processing techniques as if the leccy goes off permanantly I shall be out there a-foraging.

Mum's brought me a darling little lidded stainless steel frying pan, with gold-y coloured handle and knob, for 50p from the bootfair. What a sweetie. I have a bit of a thing about stainless steel cookware, being one of my many harmless foibles.

Mole Update; it's avoiding the area of the seedbeds where it was eldered-and-brambled yesterday and is now back in the strawberry beds. But not for long........evil cackle.:rotfl:

:)Hope everyone has a great day in the rain with their waterbutts filling up and even their ponds and I'm not a bit jealous, honestly.

littlecal

Well,I was supposed to be culling my books,but.......came across a box of "Birmingham in the 40's/50's/60's" and have spent a very happy hour flicking through them:D Have also found a "Post-war kitchen" book...not sure about the whale meat stew,but lemon flummery sounds good:D

fuddled_2

what is a lemon flummery? Some sort of souffle??

littlecal

Hi Fuddled,I haven't tried it yet but it uses lemon juice &zest,sugar,water,gelatine and eggs.it's put into a mould and chilled until firm.I can only think of a "sort of" blancmange:undecided

bertiebots

Thanks GQ the rug is all man made fibers but i ripped the label off to stop it sticking out:o! It now looks like there is a mole hiding underneath with an escape route leading to one edge of the rug:rotfl::eek: ......I may make the kids all sit on one end whilst I attempt to stretch out the humps..but I doubt its going to work:cool:

The sight of a lumpy rug is slightly irritating to someone whom the kids have knick named Monica for some reason (insert confused smiley here!)........goes off to scour fleebay for alternative rug bargains;)

culpepper

regarding teapots..we have been buying loose tea for months now. We like the yorkshire tea as it is good and strong but quite pricey. Anyway, two teaspoons in a 4 mug teapot is enough for the whole pot to be strong. I make the pot up then pour one mug off and fill up to the top with extra water. Then we just heat up in the microwave as we pour ourselves a mug.
When it gets to the bottom,I put in another two teaspoons full and nuke it for about 1 minute ,30 seconds(not a metal teapot) and then fill again with boiling water and repeat. We only do two pots full this way then start again with fresh but it gives 10 mugs full of good strength tea for only 4 teaspoons of the leaves. You really need to nuke non milked tea as once the milk is added,the flavour gets spoiled by nuking. Don't put the used leaves in the sink, sieve them and add to the compost.

mardatha

I like loose tea as well.

taplady

bertiebots wrote: »

Hugs ((purpleheather)).
We had rain all night..so the pond is full again
Anyone got any ideas how I can make my rug lay flat again? My dd spilt a whole glass of water on it yesterday and its dried overnight all warped! Its only a cheap rug (£25 ebay!) so not the best quality in the world but I dont want to risk breaking my kneck every time I walk across it..its in the middle of my lounge!

how about putting it under your mattress over night to see if that flattens it?

raphanius wrote: »

i never leave home without a flask of tea and a sarnie

once had to buy a bottle of water in london for DS *shudders*

we also always take a flask of coffee and nibbles whenever we go out - just in case! I hate spending a lot of money on inferior coffee and food - much prefer my own and I also take 2 china mugs for the coffee:)