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I'll make it and let you know how it tastes, send you the recipe if it's any good, Lyn xxx.

Hollyberry

Mrs_T_M wrote: »

If it's anything like our grill/oven (oven on bottom, grill section directly on top of the oven, but with it's own door), ours does that when it cools down quickly (or heats up quickly). It's the metal between the oven and grill expanding and contracting to the point it pops a bit. Really loud and makes me jump every time, even though I expect it now!

Thanks, Mrs_T_M - let's hope it's something innocuous like that. Mine sounds very like yours in design. I suspect I would have heard it popping for heating or cooling before now as we've had the oven for a while now, but I guess it's just the light that's blown. I'll try the top oven over the next few days when I can keep an eye on it, and if it seems ok, I'll just go with it. I don't really want to get someone out to repair it and charge me a lot of money just so the top oven will glow!

All this bread making sounds fab. I make the occasional gluten free loaf for myself, but it has to be said that most GF bread is very disappointing, no matter what I or any manufacturer do. Still, it stops me pigging too much of it!

herbily

GQ, re cinemas - some of the big chains do price promotions, particularly in January - Vue is now doing a "Super Tuesday" that gives you a third off adult ticket prices on Tuesdays if you sign up in advance and give them your email address, but you don't have to get spam from them - they give you a code to use when buying tickets on a Tuesday. You can also use Nectar points to pay for cinema tickets, so don't know if you have any of those?

Feeling all nostalgic now for the old fleapit I used to go to as a student because it was much warmer than the house we lived in! Once I'm an OAP I shall do the same:)

lucielle

GQ saw the second Hobbit last night. It was very good, but take a cushion as its long and my bum was numb by the end!
l

thriftwizard

Our local chain cinema is £10 per head, and don't even ask about the popcorn, which comes in buckets that would feed a small African town & most of it just ends up on the floor. But where my mother lives, 26 miles away, there's a good cinema that only costs £2.50 per head, and the popcorn's cheaper too! For us, that makes it worth the extra mileage as it's 6 slow miles to the local one = 20 minutes, 26 fast miles = 30 minutes, and a saving of about £45 per film, minus say £5 for fuel.

Horrible day here today; cold sideways rain and a wind that kept blowing open the doors of the Victorian arcade we were doing our monthly market in. Wouldn't have been so bad if it had been customers coming in, but they were very sensibly tucked up in the warm somewhere else. The river is right up over the flood plain now & lapping at places that haven't been inundated since we've been here - 21 years now. Doesn't seem possible there's another storm coming in tomorrow; I have to take DS3 back to uni so may have to extract him from his pit quite early so I can try to be back before any of the roads become impassable. Several traders were unable to travel to the market today from that direction; will be checking the road reports carefully before I set off!

jk0

lucielle wrote: »

GQ saw the second Hobbit last night. It was very good, but take a cushion as its long and my bum was numb by the end!
l

Crikey Lucielle, whatever were you doing with the Hobbit?

Mojoworking

Asda do an own brand just add water mash one is bubble and squeak and the other cheesey and they are 2 for 80p currently and I think 60p usually. Just to say they were lovely for every day use so people might like them for store's. I did have it with an fb steak pie lush.

Some strong winds and a couple of down pours but we seem to have been lucky and missed any extremes.

Hope everyone is keeping well.

GreyQueen

herbily wrote: »

GQ, re cinemas - some of the big chains do price promotions, particularly in January - Vue is now doing a "Super Tuesday" that gives you a third off adult ticket prices on Tuesdays if you sign up in advance and give them your email address, but you don't have to get spam from them - they give you a code to use when buying tickets on a Tuesday. You can also use Nectar points to pay for cinema tickets, so don't know if you have any of those?

Feeling all nostalgic now for the old fleapit I used to go to as a student because it was much warmer than the house we lived in! Once I'm an OAP I shall do the same:)

Thanks, Herbily, but I work during each day and Tues evening is my archery club. Don't have Nectar card but hopefully this info will be of assistance to someone else.

lucielle, yes, definately a bit numb b*m but highly enjoyable. It even had archery in it, which is my most favouritist thing atm. Snooty elves getting drunk in the wine cellars, I never imagined that they'd do things like that......:rotfl:Dwarves and humans and hobbits, yeah, but elves?! C'mon, that's another illusion shattered.

As I was looking around the cinema, I bethought me back to the visits to other cinemas in recent years. Not sure how may that particular bit of the Palais sits, but we where about 30-40 peeps and were rattling around in there. Have watched movies in there with as little as 10 people, inc similar experiences in big chain cinemas.

I confess to not understanding the mentality. Surely I would be better to charge £3-£5 a seat and have most seats filled, than run with the thing nearly empty? More peeps means more chance to sell them overpriced popcorn and sweeties, too. Yet the run cinemas nearly empty and people who'd otherwise be happy to be there stay at home watching stuff because it's so much cheaper than going out. Cray-zee bidniss, this capitalism.:rotfl:

Am pleased with the rootle into the undersink cupboard as I found some stuff I didn't know I had, which will be brought into service and mean that money won't be spent unnecessarily. It's all good. And I didn't find what we found in my Nan's undersink cupboard; pkts of flower food chewed by mice. Took 2 weeks worth to trap the little blighter with The Little Nipper.

The kettle calleth...........

lucielle

Glad you enjoyed it GQ. I like the elves, specially the Legolas elf.....swoon.
L

GreyQueen

lucielle wrote: »

Glad you enjoyed it GQ. I like the elves, specially the Legolas elf.....swoon.
L

Yup, definately swoon-worthy.