The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

LameWolf

Fuddle thank you for setting up our emergency fence; I've dug through under the current Fence and found it (sorry about the paw prints in the fresh paint.... my bad ).

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Let's hope the thread continues for a very long time to come and that MSE Old Style has enough relevance to continue for a very long time too. I think we're all only talking contingency plans should there ever be a time when the Old Style Boards aren't here. Until that day we'll just all lean on the fence with our preferred beverage and hopefully a custard cream or three and carry on nattering in the sunshine, CHEERS M'DEARS! xxx.

Very well said - mine's Earl Grey tea with a slice of lemon in it.

fuddle wrote: »

at all. When I come to wear them I look like The Wreck Of The Hespress. (anyone know who that was? My mam used to say it)

http://ingeb.org/songs/itwasthe.html
Here you go.

I've just taken a carrot'n'orange cake out of the oven, if anyone fancies some when it's cool enough to cut?

Meanwhile, Dusty Dog is giving me "that" look, so I reckon it's time for Walkies.

MMF007

Hedges are cut, cuttings are cleared up, trip to Aldi for some storecupboard items, a HM sharing platter thingy for lunch (very tasty but no cake!), just relaxing with a coffee and catching up with you all
The day is flying by!
I want to finish the multipurpose room clearout / tidy later. Have made great progress but want to extract a small cabinet that takes up space but has virtually no storage space in it. I think a small CoD would serve me well. As I plan on dropping off 4 surplus chairs and the small cabinet at local CS on Tues I shall check what they have in stock. If nothing there I'll check the local auction for something well made and ridiculously cheap (ie, brown firnuture that no one seems to be buying atm).

ivyleaf

I'd love a small piece please LameWolf! Helebore is sensibly not opening the chocolate one until her birthday

And besides, if it has carrot and orange in it, those are two of my five-a-day, right?

I haven't done any baking today, but we went to see DD1, and when we came home I did some washing and hung it out. I'm now on here, and OH is watching football on BT Sport. I do sort of feel I should be doing something more useful

ETA nursemaggie Glad you were able to register in the end. I do find any other style of forum very confusing!

LameWolf

As well as carrot and orange, it also contains sultanas and raisins; so you're well on track to your 5-a-day, ivyleaf.

Dusty is being such a good boy; he didn't even regard a passing cyclist as meals-on-wheels. He's here til Monday. :T
I have a meet'n'greet with a new client and her two dogs next Friday; I always find these very stressful, but if it means new canine friends, I must find my Big Girl Knickers and get on with it. In fact on this occasion, it may mean a new Lurcha friend! I must brush up on my Docky-speak. :rotfl:

Then next Saturday, Honey the Shih Tzu is coming for her main holiday (she had an overnight stay just before we went on holiday, as a "taster" to see how both she and her Mum coped).

Is anyone else finding that when they post, there are loads of blank lines between their paragraphs? I keep having to go into Edit mode and remove them, or there'd be more blank space in my posts than writing!:think:

Jazee

Yes to the line spaces. I thought I'd pressed return too many times.

mardatha

How about a nice homemade fruit cake. Melted recipe, not rich xmas cake type. Or flapjack. Should I offer something for those that don't like fruit. Coffee and walnut, or how about a carob cake for those that can't eat chocolate?
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Yes that will be quite acceptable.. two of each (just in case of droppages) ;)

Knit_Witch

Hmm there is always groups.io - I think you can have nicknames on there!

Knit_Witch

Okay joined t'other group in case - now playing catch up after crash and burn from the trip to a funeral!

monnagran

Ah it's just me with the clothes then. I think I have lived this chaotic life where I could be up a ladder painting walls and an hour later taking a church service, then rushing up to the kitchen and cooking lunch for an unknown number of people. Or I would be at a funeral in the morning, a wedding in the afternoon and roughing it with my homeless friends in the evening. Added to which, in my working life and in my day Headteachers were supposed to look the part, no jeans or trousers. In fact when we were training in the 1950s we were told that every teacher should have 6 suits. Yeah. like that was going to happen when we were earning less than a shorthand typist.

No I have to work on my mindset now.

I'm writing this while watching the highlights of the cricket......with the sound off. It's depressing enough just watching it, no need to rub it in by having to listen as well.

Fuddle, I remember learning that poem at school, about the schooner Hesperus sailing on wintry sea andvthe Captain's little daughter who went with him for company. Very tragic it was.

I've not had trouble with gaps between lines but until very recently my 't's nestled so close to the next letter that they were all but invisible. That seems to have stopped now.

Enjoy your weekend visitor LameWolf. A pity you aren't nearer. My family are in Cornwall this week and Dora the Dalmation has gone back to stay with the family that bred her, so she will be with her Mum and Dad and a brother. Not sure how that will go down, she meets them on the beach sometimes and displays complete indifference to them.

Well, we've had none of the thunder showers predicted for today, its been wall to wall sunshine so May be we will miss the rain altogether.

I should be writing thank you letters but have drifted through the day accomplishing very little. Perhaps I will do better tomorrow.
Would you like a small change from cake. I can offer cheese scones, mini-quiches and sausage rolls. If you insist on cake I can do a wicked lemon drizzle or individual lemon m eringues. Just put your order in.

Slinky

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

SOFTSTUFF on hose rare occasions when I find YS steak I cook it by the 10 minute rule. Put your griddle on the hob and get it as hot as it takes to not be able to hold your hand over it at a height of 6" because it's just too hot. The 10 minute rule as invented by Tamasin Day Lewis is that however you like your steak 10 minutes is all it takes for cooking and resting even for well done SO once your griddle is hot enough whack on your extractor fan full blast and close any doors you can to keep the cooking effects in the kitchen, if it's summer open the windows and whack on your steak thus:-

1) for rare steak cook for 2 minutes each side, turn of the heat and leave the steak on the griddle but off the hottest part for 6 minutes, then serve

2) for medium steak cook for 2 and a half minutes on each side and rest for 5 minutes then serve

3) for well done steak cook for 3 to 3 and a half minutes each side and rest for 4 or 3 minutes then serve

I've used the method for years and unless you get a 'wafty' steak that's tough because it hasn't been hung for long enough the results are consistent. There are degrees of medium so you could try the 2 and a half minutes and if that's too much do 2 and a quarter if it's not enough do 2 and three quarters and adjust the resting time accordingly, really works, good luck!

Thanks Mrs LW, OH has just cooked us a lovely steak on the griddle as it was too windy to light the BBQ. The only thing we'd have changed is close the windows during the resting phase as they were a little cooler than we'd have liked, but will use this method again rather than grilling