The KonMarie method

iQueen

Baking Queens!

Does anyone (still) have The Hamlyn All Colour Cook Book? (1970s ed)

I have a copy... but it hasn't surfaced in 26 years, so it may be in one of the 6 boxes of books, buried in the Room of Doom (so not much chance of finding it for quite a while! )

I really, really want to bake the Family Fruit Cake in there! If anyone has it, please post the recipe. I promise I'll kondo it immediately it's cool enough! :rotfl:

Floss wrote: »

Well I KMd 6 bags to my local charity drop-off centre, and KMd 2 large flexi-buckets of weeds on the lottie, but brought home some beans, 4 cucumbers, tomatoes, 3 courgettes, 0.75kg raspberries, 5 blueberries & 1.5kg blackberries!

Ooo! Thanks for the heads-up, Floss! Must check my bramble covered gardens! And kondo some space in the freezer! :j

Good luck with the plates and pictures, iTwin! I hope they raise loadsa money for the goal-posts.

perrywinkle

iQueen wrote: »

Baking Queens!

Does anyone (still) have The Hamlyn All Colour Cook Book? (1970s ed)

I have a copy... but it hasn't surfaced in 26 years, so it may be in one of the 6 boxes of books, buried in the Room of Doom (so not much chance of finding it for quite a while! )

I really, really want to bake the Farmhouse Fruit Cake in there! If anyone has it, please post the recipe. I promise I'll kondo it immediately it's cool enough! :rotfl:

Hi, I have that book but can find a family fruit cake but not a farmhouse fruit cake - is that the recipe that you are looking for?
perrywinkle

perrywinkle

Family Fruit Cake

from Hamlyn All Colour Cook Book

Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 2 hours 30 minutes
oven setting: 310 F; gas mark 2

5 oz plain flour
5 oz self-raising flour
8 oz butter
8 oz soft brown sugar
grated rind of 1 orange
5 eggs
1 lb mixed fruit
4 oz peel, finely chopped
4 oz glace cherries, quartered
1 tablespoon black treacle

Grease and line an 8 inch square or 9 inch round cake tin with greased greaseproof paper. Sieve the flours together.

Cream together the butter, sugar and orange rind until the mixture is pale and creamy. Add the eggs a little at a time, beating well after each addition. Fold in the flour alternately with the dried fruit, peel and cherries. Finally, blend in the treacle. Turn the mixture into the prepared tin and bake in a very moderate oven for 2 1/2 hours or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.

Remove the cake from the oven and leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes. Turn it out on to a wire tray to finish cooling; remove paper

juliebunny

I've got a Christening gown I found while clearing my mums house. Not sure if it was mine or not but I've kept it. Haven't got much lefy from my childhood so decided I had room for this.

Can we all come to the fete?! I'd love to poke around all the posh people's rejects! We have a similar annual event and I've haft some great buys for 20p!!

Really tired tonight but day off tomorrow so hoping for some kinspirstion around the house tomorrow! !

mrs-moneypenny

After sounds lovely, hope it goes well
Kondoed a load of weeds and clippings from mils garden this morning.
Kondoed a spare strimmer to DD2 as she needed one
Have agreed to kondo a black and decker workmates bench to DD1, she asked us to get her one at the carboot, but the one belonging to her late grandpa is still in his garage and I'm sure he'd sooner she had it and it was used rather than sit gathering dust and rust.
Did some more patchwork today and kondoed the small scraps into the bin rather than just keeping them 'incase'

mavvymoo

I would love you all to come to the fete We would have such a good time and such a laugh As no one would be allowed to buy anything :rotfl:Can you imagine 'Oh you are kondoing not buying more even if it is 20p Put it back move away from the Chicken tray as you really dont need it do you ????? Put the cat plate back, Do you really need a Budda to sit on the shelf that you have just kondoed ? :rotfl:

Sorry changed my mind I think you lot would be very bad for sales :rotfl:

I must be honest we have had some wonderful stuff donated and I could buy quite a bit I do think I might have to buy two small paintings (as they are on my wall while I do my 'research)' ) To see if I still love them next week at the moment they bring joy but not the frames as they are really 1970s Teak type colour.:oGood job my friends a framer

Will update on the most unjoyful items we have received Once I sort it all out Friday afternoon I am sure I spotted a frog collection lurking at the back :rotfl:Poor person who once in a very brief chat many years ago told someone she liked frogs :rotfl:And regretted it every Birthday and Christmas since

Mav x

iQueen

perrywinkle wrote: »

Family Fruit Cake

from Hamlyn All Colour Cook Book

Thank you so much, perrywinkle! OMG, I've missed that cake! Daren't think how many times I've bought black treacle, 'in the hope' of finding the book.

The recipe is now loaded in my recipe folder, and I'll print a hard-copy tomorrow, belt & braces! Thank God you didn't kondo that book! :rotfl: :T

mrs-moneypenny wrote: »

Kondoed a load of weeds and clippings from mils garden this morning.
Kondoed a spare strimmer to DD2 as she needed one
Have agreed to kondo a black and decker workmates bench to DD1, she asked us to get her one at the carboot, but the one belonging to her late grandpa is still in his garage and I'm sure he'd sooner she had it and it was used rather than sit gathering dust and rust.
Did some more patchwork today and kondoed the small scraps into the bin rather than just keeping them 'incase'

I really admire you, mrs-mp, you are so focused - a real inspiration to plodders like me! :T

And your stash is diminishing? Are you onto (shhh!) C presents yet?

mavvymoo wrote: »

I would love you all to come to the fete We would have such a good time and such a laugh As no one would be allowed to buy anything :rotfl:Can you imagine 'Oh you are kondoing not buying more even if it is 20p Put it back move away from the Chicken tray as you really dont need it do you ????? Put the cat plate back, Do you really need a Budda to sit on the shelf that you have just kondoed ? :rotfl:

Sorry changed my mind I think you lot would be very bad for sales :rotfl:

I must be honest we have had some wonderful stuff donated and I could buy quite a bit I do think I might have to buy two small paintings (as they are on my wall while I do my 'research)' ) To see if I still love them next week at the moment they bring joy but not the frames as they are really 1970s Teak type colour.:oGood job my friends a framer

Will update on the most unjoyful items we have received Once I sort it all out Friday afternoon I am sure I spotted a frog collection lurking at the back :rotfl:Poor person who once in a very brief chat many years ago told someone she liked frogs :rotfl:And regretted it every Birthday and Christmas since

Mav x

Great laugh - fantastic endorphin rush!

I hope you are going to pay the market value for the pics - might be worth a fortune! The kids can have stadium-quality posts! Or buy Beckham!:rotfl:

maman

mrs-moneypenny wrote: »

Did some more patchwork today and kondoed the small scraps into the bin rather than just keeping them 'in case'

Can I ask what you're making with your patchwork. I'm in the middle of kondoing my fabric stash and in the same cupboard was a load of hexagon 'flowers' that I sewed many years ago when I used to do a lot of train travel. They do bring joy as there are fabrics there from my (now grown up) DDs school dresses and many other good memories. I did bin pieces that were far too small to be of any use but I don't want to just store it away again. I'm thinking a winter project, along with the photos and......

Eyeore

Love love love catching up with this thread!
Just wanted to post an update as I don't post very often but try and keep up with you all! I have been kondoing since March, this is because since coming out of the fog of being poorly for a number of years I had one of those moments where it was like I opened my eyes for the first time and saw my house and thought - blimey who left all this carp here! So I have done little bits as I have gone along, fitting it in around RL, and this way has definitely worked for me. I still have more to do but it is amazing that even if I get back from work very late I will still 'see' something and think - ah I can kondo you! I know it sounds a bit woo but it's like I can breathe again at home. So my advice to anyone starting out or struggling is do keep on with it, it really does work! :j

GreyQueen

:T Good going, Eyeore!

Last week I was thinking that there wouldn't be a chazzer bag for a while as I had donated all I could donate, and felt a bit sad about that. Not that I am Pure or anything; there's still too much Stuff of certain kinds, but it's Stuff which is in the process of being used up and then won't be replaced, so long-term.

Then, I thought of a shrug-style cardi which I wanted to wear on Sunday and tried it on and Oh! what a disaster, doing me no favours, straight into the chazzer bag. Then a quilted tablecloth became a nuisance, and I laundered it and decided I didn't want to put it back, now I'm reading a book which has sat around for a few months, and then that will be added and before you know where you are, there's another chazzer bag on the way.

Happy days. Keep up the good work, everyone, you're all inspirational.