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[Speicher]

Btw, Margarite Patten books? Are you showing your age, or is it a very old book mended with sellotape?

 

[Reynard]

Out of curiosity, @Reynard, when you take YS items to your neighbour, does he insist on paying for them, or does he do the odd favour for you? You might be doing it, just because you like to.

He pays me, @Speicher - though he does compensate me for my time by giving me fruit, veg & nuts from his garden. He can't get about so well (he'll be 90 in October) and hence I do part of his grocery shopping for him. Besides, he's a lovely chap and he enjoys the chat when I drop stuff by.

 

[postman]

You need to mark them with an 'L' and an 'R'.....

But well done for being man enough to tell the story!

It was pointed out to me.There are blue markings and red markings on the tubing.Red for right.Now i need an appointment with Specsavers to see the markings.!!!

 

[TVC]

Work is dragging today, still at least I'm off to see a Doctor tonight, Dr Phil Hammond.

 

[Reynard]

Btw, Margarite Patten books? Are you showing your age, or is it a very old book mended with sellotape?

I collect cookery books. Or rather, mum collects them and I seem to have acquired a fair few over the years. The Marguerite Patten book I use predates me by quite some time It's not quite mended with sellotape, but it's certainly well thumbed.

The oldest book I use dates from around 1900 - it's a German cook book and has some fabby cake & biscuit recipes in it.

 

[Speicher]

I collect, or used to collect, foreign language books. I have the French equivalent of a "Weight Watchers" recipe book. I can understand most of the recipes. Some of the terminology is tricky, but in the context I can usually work out what it means. That gets the grey cells working!

I now have enough foreign language books to last me the rest of my lifetime. The languages include colloquial Arabic and South American Spanish, amongst others.

 

[Reynard]

I collect, or used to collect, foreign language books. I have the French equivalent of a "Weight Watchers" recipe book. I can understand most of the recipes. Some of the terminology is tricky, but in the context I can usually work out what it means. That gets the grey cells working!

I now have enough foreign language books to last me the rest of my lifetime. The languages include colloquial Arabic and South American Spanish, amongst others.

It's the same with me and my German, French and Dutch cookbooks. If one is a dab hand around the kitchen, experience and a dictionary can get you through the recipes.

I'm a book-a-holic Motorsport, sci-fi and photography are my main areas of interest.

 

[Reynard]

One of my dogs (when I had dogs, being a dog person rather than a cat person) once managed to drag a whole container of butterlike margariney substance off the kitchen worktop and eat it all. The results were spectacular. I won't go into too much detail, but I did have to buy a new living-room carpet.

Oh.
Dear.

I know I shouldn't laugh, but I did...

None of my cats have done anything quite like that, but I have had two sit / walk across my paint palette and then track paint paw prints over a wooden floor. And I've had a rancid mouse barfed up *in* my bed.

 

[PeteXXX]

The weather forecast said 'Clear and cool'. It precipitated it down..
Luckily we were back from our ride in time to stay dry.

 

[Reynard]

Don't you find some older recipes are just incredibly full of fat and sugar? The old Good Housekeeping book that is very good for jams and pickles contains some horrendous meals that I would find inedible now, and I think Marguerite Patten had a lot to do with that style of cooking in the 1960s and 70s.

It depends. Anything post WW2 isn't quite so bad re fat & sugar. It're the pre-war ones that have meals that are far too rich and involve ridiculous amounts of meat. The food in the wartime books and leaflets (admittedly some of mine from that era are modern day reprints) are probably the closest to modern cooking, especially the vegetarian dishes.

Some of the 1950s stuff (immediately post-rationing) is very weird, and the 70s & early 80s stuff has also got its strange moments.

Either way, it just proves how food (and tastes) have changed.

P.S. I've really enjoyed watching "Back in Time for Dinner" and now "Further Back in Time for Dinner".

 

[EltonFrog]

My Sat nav watch has today incurred my displeasure, I have had to sod about with it, for two hours and had to reset the blumen thing.

 

[Speicher]

My Garmin watch has today incurred my displeasure, I have had to sod about with it, for two hours and had to reset the blumen thing.

Have you got some gardening books in German?

 

[marknotgeorge]

[QUOTE 4685672, member: 21629"]A restaurant in High Street is looking for a kitchen chef assistant. I went in to ask about that position. Usual blah blah and I was asked a question - "have you got work visa?" Wtf, I thought. I don't need work visa since 01-04-2004. So I said "I don't need it, I'm EU national". Woman I was talking to looked at me strangely ... "I'll give you a call next week".
Fakin 'ell, internal cleaning at my previous work from bloody immigrants, questions about work visas, what's next?
I've got absolutelly unpredictable dog, I'll call her Brexit.[/QUOTE]
To be fair, there are severe punishments for failing to ensure someone has the right to work in the UK.

 

[marknotgeorge]

A couple of threads on here have highlighted how smug, self-satisfied and mean-spirited people can be. I'm also firmly in the drift part of my sprint-and-drift monthly budget. I am not in a good mood.

 

[fossyant]

In A&E with the MIL. Fallen at home again. She's only been back home 8 weeks since the last fall in July.

The place is rammed to the rafters with beds in the middle of corridors.

The fun starts again