Awful weather - typical Brits talk

YoungBlueEyes

Farway I often wondered that about the vegetablists (< thank you Jem Clarkson), how do they get round that. Do they just not eat it or what?

Mmmm peanut butter on toast yummy yum yum And this might be the first time I've ever said this - I'm not looking up a word (exudate). If it's anything to do with exuding then that's all I need :bleurgh:  I love new words and weird dictionaries and learning stuff in general, but you've put me right off with that one Less So how do you square the cockroach carcasses circle..? Ignorance is bliss? They died anyway so they haven't been killed specifically for me to eat, like a cow would be? Will you stop eating certain things now you know they have rat poos and hair and tiny wee thoraxes and stuff in them?

That sounds like proper Big Job gardening 2p, yours and your neigbour's both. Doesn't sound like there's much chance of rescuing some of your neighbour's plants if they've a digger going at it   Aye Cissie is my heart's beat, I'm gonna be pure destroyed when she goes. Mind if her mother is anything to go by she's got nearly a decade left :clapping: Granny was 99 when she went and granda was 101 - we're a long-lived people. The only reason I've ever given up smoking is the thought that I'd not live long enough to turn into her if I didn't. True story. 

I've remembered to refresh before posting, look at the sloes Dusty! Mmmm sloe gin Cissie wouldn't thank you for gin, but I used to get through it like it was mother's milk. That was when I lived in Lincs and worked in an olde worlde pub. It was a great range of fellahs that used to come in, all good fun. So when I finished at 3 whoever was at the bar would get me a drink and we'd absorb more and more tables 'til the whole place was one big party, and that'd be the rest of the afternoon and early evening gone. Then I'd walk home and they'd be sat there regretting they'd met me Ah the good ol' days  (There's another 'lifestyle' tip - always drink gin with soda or you'll never properly taste the gin.) 

Anyway. OT. Sun's out and it's lovely. Wind's a bit perky and it's only 7'c but the humidity's gone Rain this aft though, possibly.

YoungBlueEyes

Dusty put your loo roll findings on here - https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4765235/the-great-shrinking-food-and-other-items-hunt#latest

(I don't know how far round this place you get, sorry if that's teaching you to suck eggs.)

pink_poppy

Do you just put sloes in with the gin for a while and let them infuse?? I can't be doing with anything fussier than that.

I've just realised that the pic of the highland coo in the bath is the wrong one. There's another one with a nicer view and that's the one I'm thinking of buying for my DD. I quite like it because it's silly and she loves highland coos, as do I

I also realised last night that my outside tomato that I'd brought inside to ripen on the window sill had disappeared... I found it under the settee - bloomin' cat had been playing with it   Anyway, it's almost fully red now.

I'd agree with the loo roll shrinkflation - I've never tested/weighed my loo rolls (we buy Cushelle), but the last pack we opened feels thinner and they don't seem to last as long...

I have a piece of crunchy peanut butter on toast for my breakfast every day if I CBA to make porridge. I think more insects are going to be on the menu in the future anyway, aren't they?? Another one not looking up/confirming the word 'exudate' haha.

I think the weather is going to be changeable today - it was sunny and raining at the same time earlier.

YoungBlueEyes

pp when I used to make sloe gin all I did was give the sloes a wash, put a few wee slits in their skin and add them to the bottle. Leave for a year or so and it'll be grand You need to sup a bit make room for the sloes first obviously. I did the same for cherry brandy.

Is anyone else having trouble reading the housing+renting board? It was only loading  v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y  earlier, but when I hit refresh it says "something has gone wrong".  Have they maybe closed it off while they strip the good stuff, or have I fallen down the back of the matrix with wm and 2p?

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

Dusty put your loo roll findings on here - https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4765235/the-great-shrinking-food-and-other-items-hunt#latest

(I don't know how far round this place you get, sorry if that's teaching you to suck eggs.)

  I get lost in most of this site. It's a far cry from the old days when you just went own the back stairs, into the passage with the water pipes, past the broom cupboard, to the third door along that read, "Do not enter."

Now, I believe, the stuff that went on in there resides 'in another place,' but much remains conventionally political. I'm not about the usual politics. My new avatar (since no one has asked! ) is from a nefarious alternative news outlet and means 'different parties, same agenda.' It's implications, if one believes them, are pretty scary.

That's why I've decided being here is best. Look at the mainstream, and most of what you see is intentionally depressing and worrisome (back to "Three new ways to tell if you have dementia." ) so posting jolly items while complaining about the weather is positive, and an antidote to all that carp.

And OT, it's actually sunny today, though I gave the boiler a quick wake-up call 2 hours ago, at something like 7c outside.

Our land's finally re-hydrated. I know, because yesterday evening, the stream started running. I heard it coming down the waterfall and was just in time to see it advancing along its dry bed. It will stop again today, but the situation's good for the plants on our dry soil that need an extra boost. e.g. the grapes.

EDIT: I've now posted the bog roll intel over on wherever it is.

Dustyevsky

pink_poppy said:

Do you just put sloes in with the gin for a while and let them infuse?? I can't be doing with anything fussier than that.

I've just realised that the pic of the highland coo in the bath is the wrong one. There's another one with a nicer view and that's the one I'm thinking of buying for my DD. I quite like it because it's silly and she loves highland coos, as do I

I think more insects are going to be on the menu in the future anyway, aren't they?? Another one not looking up/confirming the word 'exudate' haha.

I'm glad Bluey has answered the gin question. We have some made by DD1 at the back of a cupboard, but I've no idea what she did!

I have a picture, taken on our last walk, in what they called a gazebo. It was shot from the window, which actually opened. (Back to framing shots again.) I thought the view was wonderful, but it turned out less good than expected. I'll pop it on here later, perhaps.

Insects as food may not be a conventional Western diet, but it's ages old elsewhere. The question is more about whether we on a 'normal' income will have the ability to choose between insect and animal protein in the future. There are huge implications for British landscapes too. Knowing a few farmers, I hear the production of meat products to a good standard is becoming ever harder to achieve. The use of similar land for other purposes is increasing, but what goes on isn't sustainable long-term, and we can't eat the products of wildlife set-aside.

YoungBlueEyes

Maybe we didn't ask about your avatar because we didn't have to Ok I didn't get it either, but I'm feared of asking too many stoopid questions in case there's a secret quota/limit, and it turns out I'm perilously close to the cliff edge Plus I need to keep my quota for telly progs, books, lifestyle chat, gardening things   

I saw your loo roll post. "Bum deal" <snigger>

LessImpecunious

YoungBlueEyes said:

Farway I often wondered that about the vegetablists (< thank you Jem Clarkson), how do they get round that. Do they just not eat it or what?

Mmmm peanut butter on toast yummy yum yum And this might be the first time I've ever said this - I'm not looking up a word (exudate). If it's anything to do with exuding then that's all I need :bleurgh:  I love new words and weird dictionaries and learning stuff in general, but you've put me right off with that one Less So how do you square the cockroach carcasses circle..? Ignorance is bliss? They died anyway so they haven't been killed specifically for me to eat, like a cow would be? Will you stop eating certain things now you know they have rat poos and hair and tiny wee thoraxes and stuff in them?

As Dusty said, we're probably all eating our fair share of insect bits (plus who knows what else) anyway, from lots of sources - as long as I can't actually see any extraneous identifiable bits there doesn't seem much point worrying about it - unless it's half a caterpillar in my broccoli or half a slug in my salad . Might be more put off if I heard there was meat exudate in my peanut butter though

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

Is anyone else having trouble reading the housing+renting board? It was only loading  v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y  earlier, but when I hit refresh it says "something has gone wrong".  Have they maybe closed it off while they strip the good stuff, or have I fallen down the back of the matrix with wm and 2p?

No bother here.

Just posted there. Didn't mean to, but it was one of my specialist subjects. PS. Did you miss 'fundamental' on the bog roll thread?

Farway

Sun's out & rain on the way. Situation normal as they say.

YoungBlueEyes said:

Farway I often wondered that about the vegetablists (< thank you Jem Clarkson), how do they get round that. Do they just not eat it or what?

The ones I had in mind when I posed the question are the Vegan Taliban, the type who will not eat honey because it exploits bees, or wear leather shoes etc. Just idle curiosity,

I suppose eating insects is size related, aren't lobsters in the same family as insects?

And should we find a chicken size spider, there would be drumsticks for everyone

Lots of work ahead 2P, it sounds daunting, but I know I would rearrange my garden if I was fit & younger, so fully understand why it's time for change

Back in my gin days, I did try for sloe gin, but never any sloes left by the time I was prowling for them. I made blackberry vodka once, not very successfully, I think the pips imparted a woody flavour.

Dustyevsky said:

Our land's finally re-hydrated. I know, because yesterday evening, the stream started running. I heard it coming down the waterfall and was just in time to see it advancing along its dry bed. It will stop again today, but the situation's good for the plants on our dry soil that need an extra boost. e.g. the grapes.

Good to hear the stream's back, a bit like the deserts after rain? I checked my grapes yesterday, they've stalled again, fingers crossed they do not turn into Pac-Man style grapes like my tomatoes did. :'(

I had Mr F catalogue arrive yesterday and had a flick through. Amazed at the daft price of some seeds, even bog-standard tom seeds, over £3 or even £4 a packet. I'm sticking to the offer cheapo ones or self saved.

Photo time, these are my Kong coleus, which I hope to overwinter on the window sill. And these were a bargain offer price, £1 instead of £4.99