So close, we can smell mortgage freedom!

Suffolk_lass

I can endorse the Ticket to Ride recommendation as we played it with friends then I bought it for DH's birthday. We also bought "The London Game" last Christmas, which is for 6, whereas TTR is only four

Karmacat

Baileys_Babe said:

Have you ever made crumpets from scratch @Karmacat? They are so deliciously morish 😋 I enjoy HM crumpets as well as shop bought, both have their good points.

I haven't - I have the little circlets to make them, I bought them as a moving-in present to myself, but not used them yet.  I don't really buy them any more either, the whole gluten thing is problematic, and the GF ones are too expensive for me to contemplate.  I think you're right, I think I need to push HM GF crumpets up the to-do list 🌈

Madvix sorry to hear about the allium leaf miner, everything else sounds like you're doing really well, particularly the gumbo 😎🥣

Baileys_Babe

Karmacat said:

Baileys_Babe said:

Have you ever made crumpets from scratch @Karmacat? They are so deliciously morish 😋 I enjoy HM crumpets as well as shop bought, both have their good points.

I haven't - I have the little circlets to make them, I bought them as a moving-in present to myself, but not used them yet.  I don't really buy them any more either, the whole gluten thing is problematic, and the GF ones are too expensive for me to contemplate.  I think you're right, I think I need to push HM GF crumpets up the to-do list 🌈

If you, or anyone else, has a good GF crumpet recipe please share. One member of our household is a coeliac. I usually only buy GF crumpets when they are reduced and freeze them. I don't want them to miss out so the rest of us don't have crumpets unless we have some that are GF in the freezer. Being able to make our own GF crumpets would save a fortune and mean we could enjoy them a little more frequently 😋

Karmacat

That's a project I could get behind at the moment, I need something light like that.  Consider me engaged  


ETA - stepping back 😬 I realised I have no clue at all about what makes a good crumpet recipe.  Oops!

savingholmes

Sorry about the leaf miner. 

Well done on the steps and the weeding.

themadvix

Afternoon all,

Glad you enjoyed TTR too SL - although ours was the Europe version and I think 5 could play? It had tunnels and ferries too, just to make things complicated! 😂

Not a huge fan of crumpets myself (but you lot carry on 😉) - although I'm becoming more inclined towards them. Mr MV loves them though. Have never tried making, but probably could have a go.

Had a good day yesterday at the office with my Cambridge friend - there's a lot of 'working in an office' that doesn't feel like work to me! Makes me feel better about the fact that a lot of the time at home I'm not working - when I am I am super productive I think compared to in an office. (No meetings, no chit-chat, no walking around to meetings etc.). Have been invited to two Christmas dos - one on 1st, when I'll go in for the whole day and do some work too and one on the 19th, when I'll just get the train in as it's at 16.30 (but the train will mean I can have a drink too )

Finishing up two of the reports for Cambridge today - I really, really want them off my desk but am faffing with images at the moment as InDesign, which is what I'm using is a bit complicated. Depending on the time then, I'll probably do some more of the work for my client but I also want to get some stuff done around the house and I will prioritise this if time is tight - I will set aside tomorrow to get client's work done once these Cambridge reports are out of the way.

MS things:
* Mr MV discovered someone has used our Ripple referral to sign up (Cheery, was it you? Someone with your real name in any case!)
* He totally forgot about the Octopus saving session yesterday between 5 and 6 (I wasn't in), but doubt he'll have used much energy
* Small ebay sale - postage money transferred to me
* 20p off milk on my Coop card - needed milk anyway (as milkman won't come again until Friday) (unfortunately also bought a pack of biscuits - but I did go for 85p own brand bourbons rather than anything more expensive). Virtually no eggs left in store, no doubt because the media have been stirring things up!
* Had soupy leek rice for dinner on Monday - absolutely delicious and managed to use most of 3 of my hg leeks (recipe recommendation from a friend)
* MM survey done

Gratitudes: 
* Home in time for evening class last night (despite an after-work drink and bus delays)
* Lovely catch up with friend in the car 
* Some really nice colleagues - everyone made me feel very welcome

Have a good afternoon all!

badmemory

If you were looking for free range eggs, then it could actually be a shortage.  I'm not sure when it is due to happen but they are only allowed to be barned for so long before they have to stop calling them free range.  I believe bird flu is rampant, which means barning the chickens.

themadvix

It was the Coop, so I'm pretty sure they only sell 'free range' eggs - they can be called free range for up to three months after they've been 'barned' I think. But I think the panic buying is more likely to have caused the shortage - funnily enough the expensive eggs were still there (laid by heritage browns). 

badmemory

I know they only said 7th Nov all must be barned but I was sure I'd read that in some parts of the country they have been barned for longer than that.

themadvix

That’s true - in Cornwall/Devon it was earlier than that, as the friends we visited were having to keep their chickens in at the beginning of October, but would like to think eggs come from a relatively local supplier. In any case, I suspect the shortage has been caused by the media saying there’sa shortage more than the actual shortage at this point.