A new 'tougher' thread... and so it continues

Mrs_Chip

I was thinking about getting a dehydrator too - now we are selling the house we have agreed to have an amount of money each to spend on non-essentials. Mine is likely to go on a greenhouse, dehydrator and a new, bigger pressure cooker. I think OH is considering buying some music he wants, a case of wine (for him) amd some new pants :rotfl:

Pitlanepiglet

The veg is always fine, it rehydrates beautifully and cooks nicely, I'm really happy with ours and used in conjunction with some skill in the garden it would be fantastic as you can dehydrate a glut of produce rather than trying to find yet another way to use up leeks!

Katie - I also liked the squareness!

ginnyknit

I got the Lakeland de-hydrator for Christmas - its round - and I love it. Just had the veg in a stew and its perfect. its great to have a jar of carrots and onions that can just be dropped into the stew. Mainly want it for fruit in the summer but still think its good just for space saving with veg and not having mouldy carrots in the veg rack. Its made a difference with not filling the freezers full of veg too.

Right off to have my stew and dumplings, suet courtesy of approved foods (or similair site). got so much suet i can afford to treat the birds

meme30

Mrs_Chip wrote: »

Oh blimey, another place I didn't get to before we moved :rotfl:.

I am a bit of a history lover, Time Team is my fave prog. I would love to go to a dig. I used to dig bottles as a kid, down at our local river (on my on, I used to wander for hours and come home black as your hat! Can you imagine that now?) and at some of the big victorian tips on the way out of London. I was an odd child:rotfl:.

I was very lucky to spend a week 'digging' at Vindolanda when I was 14. It was a wonderful experience and I have loved history ever since. We are lucky to live near Hadrians Wall and as a child I used to climb around a bit of it that was near where we lived. As a adult I have taken friends and family to walk the wall near Housesteads and it never fails to amaze them (and me) for sheer scale and ingenuity. After Vindolanda I wanted to be an archaeologist but I just did not have the brains for it!:p
Oh the dreams you have when you are young!.....mind you, the old knees would not be up to it now! :rotfl:

mardatha

I nearlt got divorced after we spent an afternoon there. My husband was verrrry offensive about me going into raptures over Roman drains !

Mrs_Chip

:rotfl:Oh dear, Mard, RV sounds a bit like OH, his eyes glaze over whenever I start waxing lyical about roman bricks and latrine pits .

Byatt

Piglet, sounds wonderful, I am more and more tempted.

Ginny, was it just one kind of dehydrator in La$eland?

It's funny how so many of us are similar in interests and tastes. I too love Time Team, archaeology and history.

Mrs_Chip

Perhaps when it comes time for a new thread we should call it 'When the going gets tough, the tough get digging':rotfl::rotfl:

HariboJunkie

I'm another huge fan of birds of prey. I have nearly crashed the car on lots of occassions looking at buzzards, golden eagles and sea eagles. We have a barn owl nesting in the garden and he seems to be keeping the mouse population down now that the cat doesn't bother anymore. :cool:

Good to see you posting Grey Queen. I got worried when your posts on this thread disappeared _pale_:eek:

Byatt

Mrs_Chip wrote: »

Perhaps when it comes time for a new thread we should call it 'When the going gets tough, the tough get digging':rotfl::rotfl:

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