Preparedness for when

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The mince dish for making a sauce to pour over veg is in the Marguerite Patten wartime cookery book (The Victory Cookbook) and is called Vegetable Mince, It's something we have regularly as it's blooming delicious!!! Lyn xxx.

thriftwizard

On the pudding front, does anyone else make the French dish Clafoutis? It's basically just a slightly-sweetened batter poured over some tart-ish hot fruit & baked. Takes seconds to make & it's utterly delicious; smooth & velvety & not too sweet. We grow raspberries by the ton and I can buy them very cheaply too if ours are temporarily out of production, so Raspberry Clafoutis is our standby Sunday dinner dessert. Highly recommended!

Have had a look at the M&S calculator & would take it with a pinch of salt; it made me a D when IRL I'm a FF/G. Another one first fitted by Rigby & Peller here; I used to have to take the train up to London to buy my underwear as a teen as nowhere in the South-West had anything beyond a D cup (DD if you were really lucky, but NEVER in the sale) back then! Thank heaven the buyers are a little more - broadminded? - now.

PS - with long-term SHTF situations in mind, I invested some time ago in a corset-making course. Bras, in the larger sizes at least, really aren't do-able without some serious engineering input but a corset can achieve the same effect without quite so much need for a handy steel-mill. I am now the proud possessor of an elaborate confection (or possibly constriction) made from the cover of a 1950s z-bed...

DawnW

GreyQueen wrote: »

I heard that there are women who love to shop for clothes. Much in the same way that I've heard of unicorns............:rotfl:

Couldn't agree more!!

nuatha

GreyQueen wrote: »

I heard that there are women who love to shop for clothes. Much in the same way that I've heard of unicorns............:rotfl:

A friend of mine wrote an academic paper on the search for unicorns, it drew together lots of folklore and then used some rather fancy maths to predict that the best place to find a unicorn would be Central Park in New York in the hour before dawn, the problem being that Unicorns are only drawn to unsuspecting virgin girls.

I have dated a lass who was an avid clothes shopper - the worst was being dragged around 32 clothes shops for a dress for a function, she bought the first dress she tried on (2nd shop) which was identical to two dresses already in her wardrobes. That was 10 hours of my life that I'll be pleased not to repeat.

lucy_lemon

Quickly delurking (I read pretty much everything but rarely post) to say that I have just bought a secondhand Pashley Princess bike! I'm super excited, and knew you guys wouldn't think I was weird! I've wanted one for ages and ages and have been stalking ebay trying to find one fairly local and the right frame size. And I finally did! Looking forward to being able to cycle more - eventually hoping to cycle to work instead of taking the bus.

And I feel it's kind of a prepping thing to do - I should imagine the price of secondhand bikes will go up by quite a lot as more and more people realise they can't afford to run a car. I know I couldn't :cool:

pineapple

Bras, bikes and suet puddings. This thread is so versatile! :rotfl:

RAS

:Tand unicorns:T

greenbee

RAS wrote: »

:Tand unicorns:T

Especially unicorns :cool:

cornishchick

:)My husband loves to shop, he drags me into clothes shops, goes around the rails grabbing things for me to try on, he's amazing at matching things up then pays for what he thinks suits me..:j

think he's really Gok. ,,!

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A Pashley Bike LUCY I'm so envious, they are the rolls royces of ladies bicycles, enjoy it pet, you're a lucky lady, Lyn xxx.