The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

greenbee

Ooh... good idea Ivyleaf. Today is DEFINITELY a good day for washing rugs!

mumilini

FairyPrincessk wrote: »

Mar I'd gladly send you a slice but I don't think it would survive Royal Mail.

Pops, how frustrating on the cord length! Things like that drive me batty. I'm planning to go and have a hack at our back garden, but I'm just waiting for the neighbor to go inside. He and his mates all have 2L bottles of cider going and I don't really fancy a chat given how far down they are. It is never as entertaining to be the sober one in a conversation.:rotfl:

Shopping trip mostly successful although I'll have to settle for a half-sized cheesecake as a few items could only be bought in larger sizes than what I'd priced so I had to leave one 75p tub of cream cheese behind. Still, I came in .70p under budget. OH cheated, he bought his pudding out of his spending money instead of the challenge allowance, but he did get all of his meal ingredients for the exact budget so I guess I'll let it slide. Plus, I think I'm using substantially more from what we have in our stocks. It was a nice walk as well down a popular cycle/footpath surrounded by trees.

Recipe for a very decadent baked cheesecake, adapted with an OS twist. Cheesecake mixture taken from an old American cookbook by a woman known as Fannie Farmer (the puerile among you will enjoy that one!) Warning--this will be a dense and creamy cheesecake with a consistency closer to a custard cream rather than the fluffy cheesecake more common in the UK.

-Make one batch of Twink's hobnob recipe and press into the base of a 9in pie pan to form a biscuit base (I usually have quite a bit leftover but not quite enough to halve Twink's recipe), bake at 180 for around 10 mins

-Cream 1lb cream cheese until soft(basics is fine but must be full fat) Add 1 Tbsp flour, 1/2 cup sugar and mix. Add 4 egg yolks, 1/4 cup double or whipping cream and 1/4 cup soured cream and 2tsp vanilla and beat well. Beat the 4 egg whites with 1/4 tsp of salt until stiff peaks form and then slowly fold into cream cheese mixture. Pour onto biscuit base and bake 45min at 200. Allow to cool.

Goes deliciously with fresh fruit. I'll be serving it with a blackberry coulis because we have blackberries in the freezer but I don't like the seeds.

crikey its july 1st and i only just got back...i went looking for the recipe for twinks hobnobs ..got waylaid somewhere or other and completely lost myself!
forgot all about twinks blummin hobnobs until i found myself back here at fairy`s recip for cheesecake!!
please folks if you do a recip put ALL the instructions etc. it may take you longer but who knows how many other peeps are lost roamin the interwebs never to find their way back.........dunt bear..now is that the right bear? who knows? who cares..thinkin about....
sounds like a lovely recip .......if only i could find twinks hobnobs......................:rotfl:

nursemaggie

mumilini you should find those in Squeaksindex under recipes. You will find that at the beginning of the OS threads after the monthly grocery challenge.

ivyleaf

Been to the hospital today to have a mole checked out.

The specialist was lovely, and said we could monitor it, or remove it as a precaution because I got badly sunburnt as a child.

I said I'd prefer to have it removed, so that's going to be done on Saturday

nursemaggie

ivyleaf one thing it is a nice simple procedure. No pain all over in seconds.

ivyleaf

Yes, and I'm really pleased that it can be done so quickly. It's only a week since I went to my GP!

burtha

Ivyleaf glad they are going to remove it ,hope the appointment comes through quick ...
Nothing much going on here ,kids chilling before I switch there lights off at 9 30 ,waiting for the washer to finish ,boy do we do some amount of washing !! Dh gone to bed .....still need to do 1000 more steps before I go to bed ,was only a quick walk tonight with dogs cause of the rain ..
x

Popperwell

Well, Take your pick...I have two thermometers here and one says 18c, the other 22c. I'm hot but I'm back in from an hour's gardening. Happy with what I've done. Going to go back into it at 5am and try and another hour or so.


Been a quiet day but I purchased a new watering can for £2(6litre)originally I saw a red one for £3.50(7litre)its good enough for me. I have liquid weed killer(that's expensive for a decent/safe one)got it down to three applications for £5. A spray bottle too.


I'm putting the garden out of my mind for the weekend and health and weather permitting I am seeing a fete in Howden Le Wear about old fashioned street organs and there are stalls of cakes, plants and other things(I've never been to Howden Le Wear before)There is a day of brass bands playing in the grounds of a museum(I'll miss the first 90 mins due to Sunday bus service.


That day I'll take a folding chair/water and a small salad.


My own town has a ten day festival of its own but nothing to interest me so I am having to go off town for entertainment. Not strictly true there is a Pipe Band and Brass Band but they are only playing an hour or so. They clash with other events.


In the town centre we're going to get a noisy youth type concert which I suspect will be aimed at a particular section of people and the suggestion is the music will not vary much. The other events are not entertainment based.


Next weekend its up against the Durham Miners Gala. Just as it ends the following week we have street entertainment around Durham and some of those are quite close.


I hope everyone has a lovely weekend doing something they enjoy whether pottering around the garden, baking, walking, spending time with family. Look after yourselves and stay cool.

Jazee

Morning fencers.

Hope you enjoy your weekend plans Pops.

I'm off to a church event here today to climb up into the tower, just to see if the knees are still working properly.

Other than that, just gardening between showers as I've done a mad thing and entered a garden competition and judging is in less than two weeks. Some of the lilies are out though and they look really pretty.

Pops - did you get out in the garden this morning or was it too stormy?

Have a great day everyone.

ivyleaf

Good morning everyone! Sunny here atm. We had a big storm in the late evening y'day, but looking at the map of the lightning strkies other places had it a lot worse during the night :eek:

Phone has just rung and it was the hospital; they want me to come for my minor op this morning instead of this afternoon Glad it's being done so quickly, but our careful plans for today based on being there at 3.20 are up the spout.

See you later If my arm's very sore I may not post for a few days.