The Home Front meets Covid-19

basketcase

Pyxis said:

jinny said:

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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^^^^^^ This

It was weird seeing real live people again!😁

Agreed.

Anybody else find themselves watching TV programmes, seeing people close together and thinking "this must be recorded"?  Or do I just have too much free time/brain space...?

Pyxis

basketcase said:

Pyxis said:

jinny said:

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
       🤍 NHS💙

^^^^^^ This

It was weird seeing real live people again!😁

Agreed.

Anybody else find themselves watching TV programmes, seeing people close together and thinking "this must be recorded"?  Or do I just have too much free time/brain space...?

Not just you! I’m also mentally telling them off! 😂😂

Sayschezza

Basketcase I always use scissors to cut up meat as I find it easier and less messy.

PipneyJane

Pyxis said:

halfamo said:

You can do laundry in a plastic bag. It needs to be able to seal shut. I made one for camping out of one of those big vacuum bags with the valve part cut out and sealed the smaller resulting bag with the cool iron and some foil to stop it melting right through. The bag needs to be strong enough not to burst open. Then you open the zip end, put your laundry in and some water and you can use liquid soap, dissolved powder or Bicarbonate of soda . Shut the bag with as little air in as possible and then lay the bag down (the bath, sink ,draining board or outside would work..Kneed the laundry around in the bag for a few minutes. Then empty and refill with clean water(you don't need loads) and do it again .When you've done, roll the laundry in the bag with the end open to expell water to the drain or grass and then lay a dry towel down and roll the wet things in it and then hang it all up.

That’s a good tip!

It also reminded me of the towel trick for smaller items and clothes.......you know....rolling the wet item up in a towel, and then holding the ends of roll and swinging it round and round several times. Gets all the worst of the water out and the item can be hung up to dry.

You missed "and drenching you in the process" .  Well, that's what always happens to me when I've tried the towel trick.  It's got to be done out of doors.  

- Pip

basketcase

PipneyJane said:

Pyxis said:

halfamo said:

You can do laundry in a plastic bag. It needs to be able to seal shut. I made one for camping out of one of those big vacuum bags with the valve part cut out and sealed the smaller resulting bag with the cool iron and some foil to stop it melting right through. The bag needs to be strong enough not to burst open. Then you open the zip end, put your laundry in and some water and you can use liquid soap, dissolved powder or Bicarbonate of soda . Shut the bag with as little air in as possible and then lay the bag down (the bath, sink ,draining board or outside would work..Kneed the laundry around in the bag for a few minutes. Then empty and refill with clean water(you don't need loads) and do it again .When you've done, roll the laundry in the bag with the end open to expell water to the drain or grass and then lay a dry towel down and roll the wet things in it and then hang it all up.

That’s a good tip!

It also reminded me of the towel trick for smaller items and clothes.......you know....rolling the wet item up in a towel, and then holding the ends of roll and swinging it round and round several times. Gets all the worst of the water out and the item can be hung up to dry.

You missed "and drenching you in the process" .  Well, that's what always happens to me when I've tried the towel trick.  It's got to be done out of doors.  

- Pip

jinny

Yes basketcase my mam did stuff like that.  However she couldn't cook for toffee. My Dad and his mother my grannie taught me to cook and clean n wash.  I used to ask my brother when i got in from work who had made the tea. Bless her she worked too and really didnt have time. Plus she was left an orphan so had nobody to teach her. I don't think ‘housewife'was her thing tho.   She threw everything in the twin-tub washer together.  We ‘knew`she used a Heinz tomato sauce bottle and swapped it for the cheap stuff. Im making corned beef hotpot tonight or tettie pot we call it here. She used corned beef a lot, reminds me of her.  

ToastLady

I don't know if this is a Scottish thing, but when Mum made stewing steak/steak pie, she'd cook 3 lbs steak and later on in the process, she'd add 1lb chopped up beef sausages, but suppose you could use any type really. Gave it a great taste, and the sausage padded the expensive steak out a bit for our rather large family. I remember her giving me the amounts when I just got married, and it's always stuck in my head, as I was vegetarian by then, so it was only for hubby. 

Pyxis

PipneyJane said:

Pyxis said:

halfamo said:

You can do laundry in a plastic bag. It needs to be able to seal shut. I made one for camping out of one of those big vacuum bags with the valve part cut out and sealed the smaller resulting bag with the cool iron and some foil to stop it melting right through. The bag needs to be strong enough not to burst open. Then you open the zip end, put your laundry in and some water and you can use liquid soap, dissolved powder or Bicarbonate of soda . Shut the bag with as little air in as possible and then lay the bag down (the bath, sink ,draining board or outside would work..Kneed the laundry around in the bag for a few minutes. Then empty and refill with clean water(you don't need loads) and do it again .When you've done, roll the laundry in the bag with the end open to expell water to the drain or grass and then lay a dry towel down and roll the wet things in it and then hang it all up.

That’s a good tip!

It also reminded me of the towel trick for smaller items and clothes.......you know....rolling the wet item up in a towel, and then holding the ends of roll and swinging it round and round several times. Gets all the worst of the water out and the item can be hung up to dry.

You missed "and drenching you in the process" .  Well, that's what always happens to me when I've tried the towel trick.  It's got to be done out of doors.  

- Pip

Oh I thought I’d let people find out that fun part for themselves!😂😂😂😂

jinny

basketcase said:

Pyxis said:

Anybody else find themselves watching TV programmes, seeing people close together and thinking "this must be recorded"?  Or do I just have too much free time/brain space...?

Yes and people shaking hands and hugging in older programs 
you think oh we cant do that now.

Pyxis

jinny said:

basketcase said:

Pyxis said:

Anybody else find themselves watching TV programmes, seeing people close together and thinking "this must be recorded"?  Or do I just have too much free time/brain space...?

Yes and people shaking hands and hugging in older programs 
you think oh we cant do that now.

And meeting and then kissing and ending up in bed! 

(😱 Not that I used to do that before. I hasten to add! 😱)