It was getting tough in 2006 and the workhouse still threatens us in 2011

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Red_Doe wrote: »

Does anyone have an idiot proof guide, please, for making sourdough bread? Am I right in assuming you need to make a starter first? I think I feared the 'fiddly-factor' of it and that's why I haven't really made it.

Hi Red Doe,

This thread has lots of information and advice on making sourdough. Post #12 by Mr Proctalgia is particularly useful.

Anyone make Sourdough Bread?

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HariboJunkie

Morning all :hello:

More preserving today. I managed to do jars and jars of courgette chutney, strawberry jam and starwberry and blueberry conserve yesterday. Today I will be dealing with the 2 kilos of victoria plums. Luckily I have 2 preserving pans but OH keeps making comments about cauldrons when he comes into the kitchen.

Kittie and ChocClare are very quiet atm. Where are you ladies?
Well done on the cellar of doom Redlady. x

I'm at a loss to find the personal comments referred to yesterday so they must have been deleted.

Have lovely days everyone. x

jem132

Hi i am over weight i know i am but no matter how much i do i never loose any pounds lol anyway its keeping me warm :j

I never every go to docs havent been in 5 years since i had my last baby and they told me he was over weight at 2 weeks old and breast fed he was 7.4oz when he was born never lost any weight ..... They are silly kids are going to be weight mad .

I am fit just over weight i do zumba 2 a week plus every day on the wii with the kids

Gintotmelinda

Charis wrote: »

I can't eat any supermarket bread. It sends my heart into an erratic rhythm and it pounds away for an hour or so. I can eat bread I make at home, in small quantities. Maybe I've found the reason

My goodness thanks for this Charis-my family had their own bakery and shop until 60's redevelopment forced it's closure. I have been flirting with making my own but now it's a must. :eek:
Off to look for good recipes....

Gintot

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HariboJunkie wrote: »

I'm at a loss to find the personal comments referred to yesterday so they must have been deleted.

The posts you are referring to should still be there as there have been no posts removed from this thread in the last couple of days.

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GreyQueen

Came back from a 3-day weekend with my parents and found a message on my answer-machine and shot across the block. Friend and neighbour SuperGran (who leaps tall buildings with a single bound) had made the mistake of jumping off a low wall on an outing with a friend on Sunday and something in her leg went grounch.:(

A & E checked it out with X-rays and it's not a break but probably something horrible in the tendon-ish department so she's on crutches in a first floor flat and I shall be doing her shopping on my way home from work today. Bit concerned as I go off on holiday first thing on Saturday and she goes on holiday herself a few days after I'm leaving, so have to hope she heals up soon.

I could've smacked another neighbour on who lives on the same side of the block and is always poncing milk off SG and favours etc etc. Anyway, this woman came around earlier yesterday, saw the state SG was in, and had the blooming cheek to come back in the afternoon and say could SG drive her up to the hospital as she had to get a prescription!!!!!!! This is an able-bodied middle-aged woman btw, and the hospital she refers to isn't the main one outside the city but a little community hospital about a mile and a bit away. You could walk up there in half an hour even if the buses weren't running and some of them were, yesterday. The cheek of the woman leaves me speechless.

Anyway, on a happier note, I then went on to a mate's, she who roped me into the mad cake decorating episode a month ago, if you recall. I'd got a couple of marble lazy-susan thingies to give to her to help with the next cake extravaganza and said I'd just pop them in with a cuppa and after I'd been there about 5 mins she mentioned that the Bridal Couple (whose effigies I had made in sugarpaste, which ended up looking like trolls, and which have been kept as souvenirs) were about to drop in also.

I'd never met them and was soooooo embarrassed that I was about to run out the door ahead of their arrival when they arrived anyway. They were absolute sweeties, as I would expect as friends of my friend, but it was an unexpected moment. My mate has loaned my her ThermaRest sleeping pad to take on holiday so we had a laugh inflating that and practising curling up on it.:o

Enough drivel. I have to get dressed and take some bags of stuff to the c.s where I'm registered for GiftAid as Mum was having a wee turn out at the weekend and this is the most effective way of maximising the value of the donation as she's not a tax-payer.

((hugs)) to everyone and I hope the day pans out well...we have sun at the moment.

3v3

Don't know if anyone has watched them (or even has the channel) but I recorded episodes of "Ration Book Britain" last week on the "Yesterday" channel. Only watched the "Olympics" one and the "Make Do & Mend" one so far, but they are so interesting. Felt quite inspired by the MD&M one and I shall be taking a different perspective on some of my clothes. Actually, its a subject which came up earlier in this thread, but seeing the episode has fired my imagination. I think they repeat these programmes so worth looking out for (if you are interested in that kind of thing).

GreyQueen - that woman sounds so incredibly self centred! Unlikely to ever change though. So, how did she get her prescription in the end?

Red_Doe

Don't know if anyone has watched them (or even has the channel) but I recorded episodes of "Ration Book Britain" last week on the "Yesterday" channel.

That sounds just my cuppa tea! I don't have that channel though, does anyone please know if it's available to watch online anywhere?

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Red_Doe wrote: »

That sounds just my cuppa tea! I don't have that channel though, does anyone please know if it's available to watch online anywhere?

Just did a quick search ... this is all I could find ... its the video for the Make Do and Mend one http://uktv.co.uk/yesterday/item/aid/640896
Haven't checked the "video" (time pressures) but I'm assuming it's the full episode.

ETA: Here is the Google Link which shows all the videos available online for "Ration Book Britain" (on closer inspection, that is only snippets. The only episode I can find is the one on MD&M )

GreyQueen

3v3 wrote: »

GreyQueen - that woman sounds so incredibly self centred! Unlikely to ever change though. So, how did she get her prescription in the end?

Don't know, hun, and frankly don't care; as I left I was asked by SG to help her draw her kitchen cutains (kitch being alongside front door) so this woman couldn't see inside if because SG didn't intend to get up and answer the door to her the 3rd time in one day. It's not the first time she has has to "hide" in her own home from this neighbour who lives a few doors down the landing. One day she came around 22 times and the Police had to be called to give her some words of advice.

Yes, she is incredibly selfish. She is a heroin addict of 30 years' standing who has been on methadone for a long time but still abuses the real stuff and also abuses alcohol and other non-prescription drugs. She never does a stroke to help another human being but just takes-takes-takes. Any little blimp in her life and she calls her "worker" out to sort it for her, gets stuff like appliances and carpets provided for her for free and probably has as much benefit income as SG has pension but is always on SG's doorstep scrounging milk by the pint, bread, coffee, cereal, teabags, you name it. I've been around there and witnessed it with my own eyes. There is a 24/7 corner shop 3 mins walk from here, btw.

SG is a good Christian woman and gives lifts to a lot of little old ladies in her little old car (she is herself pushing 70) and they insist on giving her little thank-you gifts like tins of bikkies etc and she always passes these to this neighbour. She even does her a hamper at Xmas and this is the way she gets treated in her hour of need. Fer crying out loud, even with help from a friend and a pair of crutches, she took several minutes to get up one flight of stairs to her flat on Sunday night and the hospital suggested she should go up on her bottom (they've obviously never seen our stairs:p).

Oh, and the thing which would've caused me to tell the neighbour where to stuff her scrounging was that one time when she got arrested by the police (she has a considerable record) she gave SG's name and address as her own!!!!!!!!!! She ended up with yet another criminal conviction for that.

I am not a good Christian woman, just a heathenish generally-well-disposed-to-help-but-don't-ever-play-me-for-a-fool-type and if I catch her trying it on again with SG I shall have some words of advice all of my very own. Possibly including the kind which merit asterisks in polite society.

Anyway, the 3 bags of charitable donations are with the c.s and that means I can now move in my hall (it's only 75cm wide so bags of any kind aren't good accessories). Mum watched that programme on TV by Jasmine Whats-her-face about her hoarding mum and I think she had a wee bit of a moment (she is nowhere that bad, I hasten to add, but she has issues). She'd taped it as it was starting too late for her and we watched it again together at the weekend.