Travelling On

edwink

When we have Yorkshire puddings here we always make a few extra to have for lunch with jam the following day.  Absolutely delicious especially with homemade jam. 

Another here that doesn't do any ironing although I do have an ironing board. I use the ironing board as a table extension when I am in my sewing room.  Really handy having a bit of extra surface space when I'm pinning things together and I have all and sundry out of my sewing box. 

We get lumps of moss here too and not a day goes by when there aren't lumps all around the house on the ground. We have a lot of nesting birds around here so I am happy for them to take as much as they want. Plus, they help themselves to our hens straw shavings that we drop before going into the hens run. 

Edwink

badmemory

I wonder if they knew what we use our ironing boards for would they change the advertising?

debtfreeoneday

Talking of Yorkies we used to buy the huge ones and then put our roast in the middle of it.

I was only thinking yesterday whether to actually keep our ironing board. It so rarely gets used.  

Alchemilla

I have a massive yorkshire made by my Mum, the kids are getting veg in it for dinner!

Karmacat

Thank you all!  This is so valuable, you've no idea, such a lot of this is foreign territory to me.  I'm replying to Edwink, because she referred to all three topics  

edwink said:

When we have Yorkshire puddings here we always make a few extra to have for lunch with jam the following day.  Absolutely delicious especially with homemade jam. 
I was going to go to the 2oz flour individual portion because the middle seems to be kind of squishy - it's cooked, but unpleasant to eat.  For me, it needs to be much less mix in each container, so it can be flatter.  It's a fan oven that was at 200C for 45 mins.

Another here that doesn't do any ironing although I do have an ironing board. I use the ironing board as a table extension when I am in my sewing room.  Really handy having a bit of extra surface space when I'm pinning things together and I have all and sundry out of my sewing box. 
My sister does this, as well as all you lovely peeps I haven't got round to my craft work yet, but when I do, this is what I'll do My board needs a cover if I'm keeping it, though.  I bought a replacement one made of heatproof material, but it was so finicky to attach and use I sent it to a charity shop, oops.  Some fabric wrapped around would be fine - I'll put it on the list of stuff to do  

We get lumps of moss here too and not a day goes by when there aren't lumps all around the house on the ground. We have a lot of nesting birds around here so I am happy for them to take as much as they want. Plus, they help themselves to our hens straw shavings that we drop before going into the hens run. 

I think *my* lumps of moss are things that the birds have taken from my roof, like teapot's (hello teapot!)  so the place I'm actually providing the moss for them is out of my reach.  Very happy to do it though and eventually the moss is swept up into the green bin, or scooped up and put onto the little border as soil improver.

Karmacat

So, today was the local NT walk - 3 of the 8 beehives have bees going in and out!  Woodpeckers going like the dickens.   And look what the sheep were doing: 
I mean, there were hundreds!  It was a great visual.  I might have time for 20 mins green bin work, but the sheep will be on my mind for the rest of today 🐑🐑🐑🐑

badmemory

I wonder if that is where my lumps of moss come from, I always assumed that the wet & windy weather blew them off the roof.  That makes a lot of sense though.

rtandon27

Lumps of moss are the bane of my existence at the moment - they constantly wash off our roof onto the front steps, the back patio area and onto the flat roof & into the gutter!  I fill a good bucketful every couple of weeks that goes into the garden waste bin!  I wish our local birdies were interested in some of it for their nests! LOL

Karmacat

I'm saying "good morning" because it's currently 11.59, but ... hey ho    got up a bit too early, been shattered for a while now.  Still, dishwasher and washing machine have both done their thing, texted bro that I rang him, texted crazy cousin because she has an operation today after all, that's horrible for anyone, and I've brought writing gear downstairs to write to Sains by hand, and much more pleasantly to write to the niece-in-law, she's collecting donations for the hospital in which she had the baby, and I forgot when I actually saw her  

For the rest of today?  Hmmm, write those letters, and clean living room and bedroom windows just in case the double glazing guy turns up - the appointment has been delayed by a week by them, but if he can suddenly manage it, I want it to be in the right condition for him to touch it (yeah, confession time, mould growing on dust, not nice  ).  I'm not doing anything too physical for today, because of the walk yesterday, and I also did 20 mins hard work in the garden, pulling things up, and my shoulder is killing me.  Such is life.

Alchemilla

Your poor shoulder! Have a lovely afternoon!