Daydream thread continues.....

rhiwfield

Alf, you will buy from dodgy sellers

Had a good week last week but not a single bid atm on 60 listings

Off for a preview this morning in an unheated auction house so its thermals for sure

We're only 4 miles from the Mway, 15 miles from airport, big town 5 miles so never get total quiet or darkness.

Our local town is a bit like a mini Totnes in terms of independent shops, but we're getting an invasion of chains atm. Started with Costa, then a WH Smiths, now a Waitrose, but 3 new shops built in the centre and rumours of Boots and Starbucks. As far as I'm concerned you can take Boots, WHS and S*******s and shove them where the sun dont shine, Costa and Waitrose I dont mind

lostinrates

Ooohhhh

Something is messing with the 'me' in me obviously. Griping about the cold, and now rhiwfield's post has made me crave those seasonal coffees they sell in coffee chains...with gingerbread flavour or nutmeg biscuit, etc etc. I could murder one of those.

(I Do not think the best part of a fiver for coffee is a good deal, so don't opt for that sort of experience unless I have to for some social reason, and I usually don't go for fake flavour).

Lotus-eater

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

We didnt have bacon form these two, as the owner recommended we have larger pigs for that, plus they have to be cured for 2 weeks, ( and it cost alot more to be processed) so we are going to gorw on the last 2 and try that.

Why don't you have a go at curing them yourself, I haven't done it, but I've read books about it, both bacon and ham... and it seems reasonably simple.

Itismehonest

No frost or ice here, thankfully. Some very large black clouds keep going over but, so far, haven't dropped anything just here.
The road still has running water so any more rain will just turn it back into a river again.

Get a decent coffee machine, lir, & you can do all the fancy things for yourself. :cool: They're expensive to buy but they soon pay for themselves if you're a coffee lover.

We once smoked a ham (for Christmas) up the inglenook, Lotus
It was more than 20 years ago so I can't remember how long we had it hanging up there (luckily the old bars are still in situ).
It worked well & we lived to tell the tale :rotfl:
There was the inevitable "hanging hook" in the old lean-to which has since been demolished.

lostinrates

Itsme, I gave up coffee earlier this year, at new year I think. Before I was 70 % caffiene. I find out now I should give it up a it is contraindicated with the new problems and medicine.

Dh is Italian......we make stove top coffee from ground beans which then you can do anything with. I would consider a bean to coffee machine but no other sort. But tbh, the stove top meets all our needs and leaves some spends for decent beans

Itismehonest

lostinrates wrote: »

Itsme, I gave up coffee earlier this year, at new year I think. Before I was 70 % caffiene. I find out now I should give it up a it is contraindicated with the new problems and medicine.

Dh is Italian......we make stove top coffee from ground beans which then you can do anything with. I would consider a bean to coffee machine but no other sort. But tbh, the stove top meets all our needs and leaves some spends for decent beans

It's a bean-to-coffee which we have - a Jura. It's several years old now but still going strong.

Davesnave

You only have to look at my avatar to know where I stand on tea v coffee!

lostinrates

Feels like snow here. Since that first really cold, cold winter what...five years ago? Well, I feel the snow in my nipples....like other people smell it.

Other people sniff the air and say..'snow's acomin' ' where is I feel the pressure change in my swollen head and get 'the nipple issue'.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Feels like snow here. Since that first really cold, cold winter what...five years ago? Well, I feel the snow in my nipples....like other people smell it.

Well I guess we'll have to wait a bit to see how right you are there, but to me it doesn't smell or feel like snow yet. I've high hopes for a decent spell in November to cancel out some of the wetness we've had to endure.

Our bottom field is a mess, with new vigorous areas of creeping buttercup where the springs have kept things wet for so long. There's more soft rush too, but not for long!:mad:

It was only yesterday they finished harvesting the maize, and today the huge machines have been ploughing.....Indeed, they are still ploughing with headlights blazing, turning the huge field on the brow of the hill from gold to dark brown.

I've spent some of the day reclaiming the compost we used for the toms and the peppers that are done with. We'll use it to improve deep beds, and with a bit of tweaking, to re-pot perennials we haven't found homes for yet. DW has been cleaning and sorting pots. Yes, a really fun day all round!:rotfl:

lostinrates

We've had some this evening, nothing sticking, nothoing heavy, just a few flakes. But it was only my left nipple, so that probably it. Lol