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PIC - the most fitting statement to your horrid old bat is something seen very often in terrier circles - those who stand in fields with their terriers on leads being judged very often get annointed by their (and often someone elses) dogs - we learned to wear wellies. Now if you could do a little soupcon of judicious training and get one of your poochies near enough - well, just imagine the satisfaction you'd feel!!!!!!! Me I'm BADDDDD - Cheers Lyn x.

fuddle

Creased I am, just creased. Loved catching up on the last few pages and then that pic of the celeriac was the icing on the cake. Toughies tonic. If we could bottle the good times on here we would be alright!

Welcome Smoosh

Pops you could make allsorts of crumbles and deserts in a ramekin Most of my desert doing is just guess work and you can't go wrong with a crumble topping. even flapjack and custard is a real treat.

I defy you all not to like celeriac soup Surprisingly creamy and delicious. Give me a min and i'll try to find HFW's recipe. I dare you Mar

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FUDDLE - surely that would amount to a dangerous substance - giggle juice if ever I heard of it!!! Cheers Lyn xxx.

westcoastscot

Hi smoosh, nice to meet you.
Didn't know branstons make beans - do they taste of pickle? (if so, sounds nice)
Mar i'm putting stuff over to ebay to get rid, then closing to concentrate on home - it is the home front since this is definitely a war!
Fuddle my eldest just waited almost 6 weeks for his - time of year I suspect.
WCS

Popperwell

PIC it isn't anything you can do anything about, if it gets to you, it does and that's because you love your OH. I did not know of his involvement with the forces nor that he is suffering from a nervous breakdown. It will take time and no there is no easy way to get through such a problem or a set way. I have said elsewhere(even if meant with the best of intentions0The worst thing is when someone says pull yourself together...if you could, you would and who would choose to have depression/a breakdown.

I have seen depression(I have had my own)but probably very mild compared to others but when I had it, it was there all the time and to me it was bad. Everything I did it was at the forefront of my mind.

But I'm telling you what you know already...just trying to give some support.

She was just being awkward and probably has no idea how what she says or rather how it is said affects others...many don't.

Hopefully as the days pass this will not trouble as much...

Smoosh

fuddle wrote: »

Creased I am, just creased. Loved catching up on the last few pages and then that pic of the celeriac was the icing on the cake. Toughies tonic. If we could bottle the good times on here we would be alright!

Welcome Smoosh

Pops you could make allsorts of crumbles and deserts in a ramekin Most of my desert doing is just guess work and you can't go wrong with a crumble topping. even flapjack and custard is a real treat.

I defy you all not to like celeriac soup Surprisingly creamy and delicious. Give me a min and i'll try to find HFW's recipe. I dare you Mar

Thank you

westcoastscot wrote: »

Hi smoosh, nice to meet you.
Didn't know branstons make beans - do they taste of pickle? (if so, sounds nice)
Mar i'm putting stuff over to ebay to get rid, then closing to concentrate on home - it is the home front since this is definitely a war!
Fuddle my eldest just waited almost 6 weeks for his - time of year I suspect.
WCS

Thanks, nice to meet you too

Popperwell

fuddle wrote: »

Pops you could make allsorts of crumbles and deserts in a ramekin Most of my desert doing is just guess work and you can't go wrong with a crumble topping. even flapjack and custard is a real treat.

I have all the gear(and just me to please)so some items don't get used but unless I run out of space if I ever move, I may not buy anything new unless they get broken. But I do have some ramekins;)I can't think what I haven't got.

You are right you can cheat by putting so many things in with custard...fruit, flapjacks etc...and if you don't want to buy propper sponge puddings a small muffin or cake of some kind will do...

I'd like to bake more but for one...I mean really in a freezer shop if there are two small fruit crumbles at two for a £1 you couldn't make them any cheaper...but that really is cheating...

prepareathome

Fuddle your family is jealous, they know what you have been threw and you and your family are still strong and loving, not many can face that. A home remember is what you make it be it a castle or a tent in the middle of a field. Its love and the attitude of the people who live there not all the gold in the world can make somewhere a home without love and the right attitude. You have made a wonderful home.

Many moons ago after we came back here homeless and were lucky and got a nasty aggggg total mind blank on what its called and web search not helped, a flat that has two floors, cannot for life of me remember what they are called. We thankfully were only in it a couple of years as they were knocked down, they were that bad, but anyway a friend who lived here now had a visit from her family from South Africa, where she was from and they came for a meal. Now we had hardly anything as had moved in with nothing and yet when they left they told me they had never been in such a lovely place, I looked at them thinking they were taking the biscuit, but her mother said no it was the feeling not what we had, the place was a true home a place of welcome and solace. Up till then I was like you, things were important, the trappings of wealth so although I strived to make my place as welcoming as possible I saw it as awful, it opened my eyes as I had of course been in Glasgow when growing up in places that were one bed room with bathroom on the landing yet loved them but never understood that. It was a good lesson I was not much younger than you, about 30.

From then on I remembered her words and if I couldn't afford the best or newest, we don't have a flat screen tv I never lose any sleep over it.

I want my home to feel welcoming - maybe I made it to much as daughter then both sons had friends who came and stayed for weeks at a time from about ages 12 - 18, it was our home all they friends wanted to come to after school yet mine were never bothered about staying at anyone else's for more than odd night, for years our home was always filled with children,one of ys friends still would love to move into my home as he still lives at home. Children never went without they had always some of the current must have items but never could afford everything but they were happy, we like you did things together. I used to be much more do from scratch than I am now, as when health got bad I let so much slide but I would involve children in everything from their parties to housework and we had many, many laughs making things - I have videos from those days, local video store used to have a big massive video camera you could hire and I would do so not just for birthdays or Christmas but just for normal days. (Keep meaning to transfer them to DVDs).

So you have much that your mother and sister obviously don't and they will not understand why they are jealous as to their minds you have nothing they want on the surface but there is plenty beneath it.

Hugs and Love to allxxx

GreyQueen

Bottled Toughies, there's a thought. Would it serve as a mixer with slow gin? Never understood that name as it goes down pretty darned fast if I get my paws on a bottle, hic!

Today's gour-may offering from the Old Style Kitchenette at Shoebox Towers will be as follows;

Grilled salmon (from the freezer, defrosted overnight and one of the sections of salmon I bought just before last Xmas when they were going very cheaply. Cost £1.

With steamed allotment potatoes (Kestrel variety) with YS carrots and the ribs from the self-sown chard also from allotment. Cost probably 10p altogether. I may add the chard leaves for a minute to the steamer just before I serve it.

For dessert, if I feel the urge, I may have some of the McVities Jamaican Ginger cake (2 for £1 at Iceland at the mo, get some quick, it'll go like hot cakes) with half a sachet of Tosco Basics custard.

It sounds good to me, and I'm the one eating it, so that's the ticket. I must also get around to making a batch of wholemeal rolls tonight. May let them prove overnight and bake off tomorrow as the extra time equals extra flavour, and hot bread from the oven in the morning is just lush............

PAH, would it be maisonette?

paidinchickens

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

PIC - the most fitting statement to your horrid old bat is something seen very often in terrier circles - those who stand in fields with their terriers on leads being judged very often get annointed by their (and often someone elses) dogs - we learned to wear wellies. Now if you could do a little soupcon of judicious training and get one of your poochies near enough - well, just imagine the satisfaction you'd feel!!!!!!! Me I'm BADDDDD - Cheers Lyn x.

Will be googling dog training tips

Silly thing to get wound up about but we go to forget our troubles, an hour a week is it too much to ask ?????

Acquired a kenwood slicer and just had my first go on it, scary stuff and a bit of a clat to clean or am I doing it wrong ?

PiC x