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Pops, just read your email. Composing reply!Erma Bombeck, American writer: "If I had my life to live over again... I would have burned the pink candle, sculptured like a rose, that melted in storage." Don't keep things 'for best' - that day never comes. Use them and enjoy them now.0
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MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »FUDDLE we make cider every year from our own and other peoples windfall apples. Yes you are quite right it does take lots and lots of apples but is really simple to do. Basically you chop up the apples (I use an old food processor) and then put the apple mush through a fruit press to get the juice out (I was lucky enough to find a second hand press for under £5 at a boot fair) then you let it ferment out , we add a sachet of specific cider yeast and a little sugar, he who knows has a formula for how we like the cider to taste. Then it is a case of letting it ferment out fully and settle in it's container as there is always sediment from the process. At the end of all that you syphon it off, bottle it and cap the bottles and store it for a few months until it is ready to use. It takes a bit of effort, and a bit of space as it is a reasonably long process but for us it is a very good use of waste apples and a very useful end product. If you want a go I'll get him to write down the whole process and send it to you. Cheers Lyn xxx.
Thank you Lyn. Goodness, no please don't type out the process because I don't think I could do it. I would have to buy the apples in abundance so not a very cost effective way of having a Saturday night tipple but stored up there (taps head) if ever I find myself with a lot of apples.
Thank you for the positive comments re: childminding. I will look into them further when I get more knowledge0 -
Pops I bought a vaccuum this week - a refurb from B!ssell - we have had few refurbs from them and have always been impressed at the service.
That's the make that I have...:)The situation sounds worse from what I write but if you were here you'd realise how silly it has become...
Thanks for responding to the e-mail mcculloch"A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!" ~Thomas Jefferson
"Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in" ~ Alan Alda0 -
yes, fuddle, I did the course, but over 3 weekends full days. I'm a member of the NCMA and friends with two childminders, who were full at the time of my registration but no longer are
I never really saw this as a particularly deprived area, but more and more people are out of work and a new foodbank is to open over the next couple of weeks.
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We don't buy apples FUDDLE lots of people, some of whom we do and some of whom we don't leave us carrier bags of windfalls on the doorstep, our front garden is Wasp Heaven in the Autumn. It's the village grapevine at work and we have a couple of friends made through freecycle who have offered thier excess apples in the past and they ring now and we share some cider with them when it's drinkable. He Who Knows often picks up apples put out at doorsteps saying help yourself, and last Autumn one man said would you like some more , come into the garden and help yourself, oh you make cider, come and see me next year and you can have all my windfalls, he has 50 trees, no money just goodwill!!!0
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Welcome home Fuddle, glad you had a good time. You certainly have a very clear vision of how you want your life to be so just you go for it. Holidays are good times to find out what is good about your life and what you would like to change. The danger is that the vision often fades when ordinary life takes over again. Don't try too hard to make your family life fit your picture, you'll find that the rest of the family haven't read the script and don't know their lines! Or perhaps that's only me..
Pops: All I can say is that it's a good thing no-one comes to inspect our garage! It does seem a good idea to get rid of the car though, it would give you a lot of extra space.
Mrs LW: I am still fulminating about that wretched woman. We have a family like that in one of our churches. Think they own the place. I always say, if you want to see dirty politics at work - join a church. However, if challenged all hell breaks out, but it's a bit like lancing a boil, horrid at the time but usually some good comes out of it. Your dragon-lady needs to be challenged I think.
I'm burbling, sorry. Bought some runner bean plants in the market today as I thought the slugs were looking a bit thin and pathetic. I've been collecting eggshells for some time now so will see how they like scratching their little tum-tums on crushed shells on their way to dinner.
I seem to have stopped making any sense at all so will take myself off to bed.
Night all.
zzzzzzzzzzI believe that friends are quiet angels
Who lift us to our feet when our wings
Have trouble remembering how to fly.0 -
I can but try Lisa, can but try.
Lyn, oh I so would love to get by like that. Here have a bit of this in return for a bit of that. Don'tcha think living life and earning a crust has gotton a bit waylaid?
A good lesson about fat cats with the kids late this afternoon. Of promised them new Pm's this afternoon as they had sweated in their fleecey numbers while we were away. True to form they picked hello kitty and one direction ones £9 a piece. There were pj's there for £3.50. I managed to educate them about paying over the odds for a want rather than basic price for a need and practically giving money away to the rich people (the till operators mam? Lol) I told them to take away the feeling of not adding to the riches of the families who had lots of money buy knowing that their cheaper sparkle PM'd are lovely and means we have more money in our family. I so told th about the word bargain. They have took it in I tell you, especially as I was dig in the ribs to stop talking about it walking past asda staff on their cigarette break. And! I was ID'd with my bottle of cider33, no make up on and an 8 and 4 year old in tow. Double
So yes, a bit tipsy on my cider but I do like the oldy worldy stronger stuff rather than the generic fashionable stuff. Apologies for any typos. On phone and heading for zzzzzzzzzz night night0 -
Sleep well, I'm having a small tipple myself:p"A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!" ~Thomas Jefferson
"Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in" ~ Alan Alda0 -
I can but try Lisa, can but try.
Lyn, oh I so would love to get by like that. Here have a bit of this in return for a bit of that. Don'tcha think living life and earning a crust has gotton a bit waylaid?
A good lesson about fat cats with the kids late this afternoon. Of promised them new Pm's this afternoon as they had sweated in their fleecey numbers while we were away. True to form they picked hello kitty and one direction ones £9 a piece. There were pj's there for £3.50. I managed to educate them about paying over the odds for a want rather than basic price for a need and practically giving money away to the rich people (the till operators mam? Lol) I told them to take away the feeling of not adding to the riches of the families who had lots of money buy knowing that their cheaper sparkle PM'd are lovely and means we have more money in our family. I so told th about the word bargain. They have took it in I tell you, especially as I was dig in the ribs to stop talking about it walking past asda staff on their cigarette break. And! I was ID'd with my bottle of cider33, no make up on and an 8 and 4 year old in tow. Double
So yes, a bit tipsy on my cider but I do like the oldy worldy stronger stuff rather than the generic fashionable stuff. Apologies for any typos. On phone and heading for zzzzzzzzzz night night
Aw fuddle I hope your new plans for your life come to fruition. Just be careful about buying those cheap pjs. I hate to think of the conditions they are made in to be able to charge so little for them.
Sorry but the working conditions in the factories of some of those big companies really upsets me.
*goes back to lurking*Life is too short to waste a minute of it complaining about bad luck. Find joy in the simple things, show your love for those around you and be grateful for all that you have.0 -
Monnagran - you haven't seen nasty until you get a group of mediums falling out - maybe all that love & spirituality fair takes it out of you!0
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