The OS Doorstep - a helpful and supportive thread in these tough times

kezlou

oh i know what really make her scream, my nana harker used to water as well when she didn't have enough mil. Oh if was yorkies or tea, then she used all water.

Didn't make a blind bit of difference to them either

cornishchick

kezlou wrote: »

help i'm drowning under paperwork!!!


So far tomorrow i've completed two invoices, been phoning two tenants up
I'm shattered now, !

BLOOMING HECK KEZ
Now we know how you fit in all the things you have to do.
You invented time travel.... :rotfl:

kezlou

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:


swear i'm not loopy *looks shiftily at her feet*

[Deleted User]

KEZ I've used just water and egg to make yorkies and you're quite right, it doesn't make a jot of difference to the end product, half and half milk and water works too!

Byatt

I make yorkshire's by throwing everything in the bowl and then mixing. :rotfl: It works fine

My mother's Yorkshire's were a very different affair, never before seen or since, and I could never make them the same...they were a sort of dense cake affair, made in a square pan, absolutely lush.

I wouldn't spend £48 for a turkey now, in a previous life when I had family (:cool:) and money I might have. It would have to feed me for a month at least now, and not sure I could cope with that much turkey. :rotfl:

fuddle

We had that convo too. I buy nothing other than full fat milk (psychologically better for the girls but I doubt it makes a difference) and when I didn't add water she recoiled in horror. True Yorkshires have water in 'em apparently but I did see her cogs working over my suggestion of maybe yorkshires didn't need water but as it didn't effect them in the long run a really good way of saving the milk and stuck with Osers as the norm. Ill be trying with water next time

I'm no saint kez. Try living in my head at the minute. I'm on the one hand grateful for all she's doing but the other side of my head is full of 'aaaaaaaargh, leave me alone!'

Did extended families live with their in-laws in years gone by? It is really very tough. Or maybe I'm just not as tolerant as I thought I was

floss2

fuddle wrote: »

...Did extended families live with their in-laws in years gone by? It is really very tough. Or maybe I'm just not as tolerant as I thought I was

Nobody had ever experienced independent living, as every generation lived with each other, so that was what everyone knew

kezlou

Fuddle - yep my lot did till they could only just pay the weeks rent, no deposit in them days

I didn't live with lot, but they were at our house every day, and mean ALL day from 8am till sometimes 6am the following. Seriously having over 100 people at one time is not good for anyone. I deliberately put a lock on mu door so i could run away!

None of them taught us how cook, instead we got whacked with tea towel or pan told to leave.Nice eh?


But no way could i do that again, yes with own kids, but that many a 2 bed house, its inhuman. when

lobbyludd

floss2 wrote: »

Nobody had ever experienced independent living, as every generation lived with each other, so that was what everyone knew

I think they also spent a lot of time arguing, biting tongues, moaning about it to their friends and other relatives and trying to rub along. My children have never experienced independent living, doesn't stop them fighting like, well, siblings

The murder rate was higher in days of yore*.

*not saying these two things are connected, but hmmm......

every hour is an hour nearer fuddle!

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I think it was a different social set up back when folks lived in families in the same building, there would have been a matriarch at the top of the family pecking order and she would have set the tasks for everyone under her care, and folks back then were used to the idea of service, so many youngsters ended up going off to be servants or gardeners in big houses with 'staff' and I'm pretty sure that they would have been trained up before they went to a degree. I think what I'm trying to say is that everyone had a known and accepted place when living that way was all they had ever experienced, it is a different thing altogether when you've lived independently in your own home and then have to co-exist with other family members in thier space, it does not make for comfort does it? Lyn xxx.