As Mr. Heavenly is doing something that I'm fairly sure I'd hate, I think the least you could do is offer to take his turn at making supper. Either that or phone for a takeaway.
I've just made a bowl of mushroom pâté, which may or may not survive to form part of next week's lunches. I'm contemplating pasta with green things for supper, but as I had a fairly substantial, late-ish lunch, It'm not quite hungry enough yet.
Hello, Wesley - good to see you again! As BF said, if you need help with your mince pies, I'd be delighted to oblige. I'll even bring the cream.
Good to see you, Wesley.
Yes, I have cooked - in the oven is pork and mushroom casserole, which will have cream added. We also have kalettes! Which I shall fry.
Having seen the amount of water building up here on the top of the watershed of the Darent and sluicing down the lanes, I would not be surprised at the Medway overstepping its banks.
Good to see you, Wesley.
Yes, I have cooked - in the oven is pork and mushroom casserole, which will have cream added. We also have kalettes! Which I shall fry.
Ah, them wee little Dinky Toys, I remember them well! (Not so much kale.) Oh, the fun we had with the little metal cars with their rubber tyres on really turning wheels, and the better ones even came with opening doors! Childhood bliss. Nothing of that plastic rubbish of later.
NB. And the tragedy of losing one of the tyres, and the joy of refinding it, and remounting it on its wheel. But some were lost, and were not found!
Yes! Now that you're saying it! There was some sort of light intake at the bottom of the rear window (could have been an MG MGB, or some such). And when you put your finger on the intake, the front lights would go dark! Magic. And all without any battery. Die-cast to live for.
ETA: Seems it was - sorry for going on about this:
It did, however, have the all-new ‘Trans-o-lite’ system on board. This was a fabulous new light system, which conveyed light from a ‘light box’ straight to the front headlights. The light box formed part of the rear window and looked like a 1960s de-mister attachment, which were very popular at the time.
Ah, them wee little Dinky Toys, I remember them well! (Not so much kale.) Oh, the fun we had with the little metal cars with their rubber tyres on really turning wheels, and the better ones even came with opening doors! Childhood bliss. Nothing of that plastic rubbish of later.
NB. And the tragedy of losing one of the tyres, and the joy of refinding it, and remounting it on its wheel. But some were lost, and were not found!
[quote="Heavenlyannie;c-384951"We also have kalettes! Which I shall fry.[/quote]
What are kalettes like fried? I usually steam them. The first few times I had them I boiled them like sprouts, but they held too much water and were extremely soggy.
I prefer kalettes stir fried when I've tried them (but I don't boil sprouts much either, and am quite prepared to eat them raw).
Weather here yesterday was horrible - continuous all day sleet at an angle that made the back of legs hurt walking away from it and faces and anything exposed sorrowful when walking into it. We walked the shortest distance from all January as it was so foul.
Today however, is dry and started sunnily, albeit steadily getting more miserable. We headed out early for a walk in the Forest because the amount of moisture descending yesterday was bound to render the fields even more boggy and early might reduce the crowds. I remembered my previous note and reversed the walk, which did nothing to reduce the massed hordes we met, and b) meant we were so busy avoiding bikes, horses, joggers, parked cars and other walkers insisting on walking four abreast on narrow tracks, that we missed a path we wanted to take and ended up on a longer walk than planned.
No chance to see much wildlife which was all sensibly hiding from the many screaming children and joggers shouting conversations while not moving over to give 2m space, let alone the distance I wanted from the amount of breath being expelled.
Here it slightly sunny to start with; dull but still dry when I walked to Asda. It started snowing towards the end of our online service not really settling, but still cold and raw.
Very cold here with sleet this afternoon. It's our busy Zoom day so Mr Nen and I headed out for a whiz round the block after lunch and are now holing up at home for the rest of the day.
We watched the film The Dig last night, which was very enjoyable. Followed by another episode of The Crown. We are well behind with that series and have just watched the first episode with the all-new older cast, which is taking a bit of getting used to.
We watched the film The Dig last night, which was very enjoyable.
Living as we did in Suffolk, I read the book when it came out and felt it would make a good film or TV series.
Question: we don't have a Netflix account. Is it possible to watch films on a "one-off" basis?
If you've not had one before you can often get a free trial, but there's no "pay as you go" mechanism (Amazon has one but it's ludicrously and probably deliberately expensive).
We piggyback on my son’s Netflix. He was here last Christmas and never signed out.
But ...
We can spend half an hour looking for something to watch (we have very much the same tastes so no problem there) then start to watch something and switch it off after twenty minutes.
It’s a ‘water water everywhere’ scenario. Endless film and series available yet nothing appeals to us!
I found that Canadian cable TV was like that - hundreds of channels, but nothing worth watching on any of them. One of these days I'll get round to buying a telly, but for the moment I don't really miss it.
I've been in Domestic Goddess mode today; after a nice little amble to the corner shop to get milk, WINE and electricity, I accomplished bathroom cleaning, Dust Ing and hooverage.
Then SOUP Month* was mentioned again on Facetube, and I thought, why don't I make some for supper? And some breadsticks (the soft ones made of twisted dough) to go with it? The upshot is that there's a pot of bacon, lentil and tomato SOUP bubbling merrily on the stove, and the dough for the breadsticks is doing its thing equally joyously in the bread-machine, while I lounge about on here with a nice cup of tea.
* which officially ends today, but in my book any month can be SOUP Month.
It's so cold, damp, and generally yucky here today that I have to confess to spending a few more hours than I should lying snugly in my Berth...my excuse is that the cold and damp make my poor Legs ache, and lying down at least brings some relief.
As does WINE (but only if taken in Medicinal Doses, of course).
Supper/tea will be SOUP - Tomato, with added Marmite (!).
I spent a lot longer than necessary in the company of my teddy-bear this morning too - and I haven’t got the excuse of leg therapy - I was just being lazy, although in mitigation I had sat up until silly o'clock looking at dining tables on the interweb. I've given up on my original order ever being delivered, so I've cancelled it (thank you Brexshit), but I will still need a table to go with my nice new chairs. I've seen one I like the look of on Ikea's web site; what's their policy regarding delivery of big items?
I'm a bit daunted at the thought of assembling something the size of a dining table, but I managed the chairs ...
We watched the film The Dig last night, which was very enjoyable.
Living as we did in Suffolk, I read the book when it came out and felt it would make a good film or TV series.
Question: we don't have a Netflix account. Is it possible to watch films on a "one-off" basis?
If you've not had one before you can often get a free trial, but there's no "pay as you go" mechanism (Amazon has one but it's ludicrously and probably deliberately expensive).
I spent a lot longer than necessary in the company of my teddy-bear this morning too - and I haven’t got the excuse of leg therapy - I was just being lazy, although in mitigation I had sat up until silly o'clock looking at dining tables on the interweb. I've given up on my original order ever being delivered, so I've cancelled it (thank you Brexshit), but I will still need a table to go with my nice new chairs. I've seen one I like the look of on Ikea's web site; what's their policy regarding delivery of big items?
I'm a bit daunted at the thought of assembling something the size of a dining table, but I managed the chairs ...
To quote Jeremy Clarkson, how hard can it be?
I assembled a large IKEA dining table in our last manse. That house was so big that when we moved in we assigned a spare bedroom for me to assemble furniture in. The problem with the table wasn’t putting it together (just because it is big doesn’t make it hard, can even be easier with fewer fiddly bits), the problem was that once assembled it wouldn’t go through the door of the room, never mind downstairs. So I had to take it to pieces and reassemble in situ. When we left there to come here (a manse with smaller rooms) we left the table as a up gift for my successor.
Bacon and lentil soup is lovely! Am envious, despite Mr H currently making venison stew.
There are brownies in the oven, a rather indulgent dark chocolate and marshmallow version.
In other news the skating on the lochan has been fantastic and I have been three times in two days. Just me and the hills and the wild goats, the clean perishing air and the ring of skate blades on real ice which has real water under it! I do love to skate, it’s how I imagine flying might be.
It's so cold, damp, and generally yucky here today that I have to confess to spending a few more hours than I should lying snugly in my Berth...my excuse is that the cold and damp make my poor Legs ache, and lying down at least brings some relief.
As does WINE (but only if taken in Medicinal Doses, of course).
Supper/tea will be SOUP - Tomato, with added Marmite (!).
It's been cold but dry today.
As worcestershire sauce works in tomato soup, I can imagine marmite would.
We have just had tinned tapioca for pudding, lunch was a bake using sausages, Jerusalem artichokes and cabbage.
I have to be careful at the moment not to overdo the medicinal WINE or alternatives, which is required due to the joys of remote learning for multiple Dragonlets. Thankfully I have multiple devices to handle the morning timetable clash. They just have two storytimes.
We watched the film The Dig last night, which was very enjoyable.
Living as we did in Suffolk, I read the book when it came out and felt it would make a good film or TV series.
Question: we don't have a Netflix account. Is it possible to watch films on a "one-off" basis?
I'd add to what's been said that they don't seem to be doing the trial at the moment, but you can sign up and then cancel at any time - you're not bound to a year of membership or anything. so you can just pay for a month, or two months, etc. This is what I decided to do. There were a couple of things I really wanted to watch, so I decided they were worth the £5.99 of a month of membership. I signed up, watched them, and am now watching other things that look interesting, since I have a month of access. I'll probably keep the membership for a couple of months, as I've found quite a few things that I'd like to watch.
Is anyone watching the Grayson Perry Art Club? I don't have a TV, so watched the first one on the channel 4 website, a couple of months after it was aired, as I didn't even know about it till I found a Facebook group about it. A new series is starting today, so I will watch afterwards on the website. I like this kind of thing.
If you're looking for something to watch on Netflix, I highly recommend the French series Lupin, starring the very awesome Omar Sy, and loosely inspired by the adventures of Arsène Lupin. We've been enjoying it immensely. It's available in English (dubbed, I think).
Is anyone watching the Grayson Perry Art Club? I don't have a TV, so watched the first one on the channel 4 website, a couple of months after it was aired, as I didn't even know about it till I found a Facebook group about it. A new series is starting today, so I will watch afterwards on the website. I like this kind of thing.
Is anyone watching the Grayson Perry Art Club? I don't have a TV, so watched the first one on the channel 4 website, a couple of months after it was aired, as I didn't even know about it till I found a Facebook group about it. A new series is starting today, so I will watch afterwards on the website. I like this kind of thing.
Oh yes - I love it! Tony Hart for adults!
Ha, I did like Tony Hart as a kid too! The childlike part of me wants to submit some art, in the hopes that it will be featured in the show, but they want a video too, and then they might phone you as part of the show, and the thought of that quite horrifies me!
The thought of having to produce "art" that anyone's going to see (let alone a Proper Artist and the Great British Viewing Public) would horrify me! To say I was rubbish at art when I was at school would be a gross understatement.
Piglet, the show is partly aimed at people like you, who think they are rubbish at art, to show that anyone can be creative, and there are different ways of creating art, that it doesn't have to be realistic, etc., and it's very focused on the fun element, the unconventional element, to inspire people during lockdown. I'd be happy for them to see my art, even of it wasn't much good - I would try to do something fun that amuses people, to make them smile - but I would be very self conscious to have my face on TV, or my voice in a phone call during the show. I might try it anyway though, if I can think of something to create to fit their themes.
Piglet, the thing to check on IKEA instructions if there is a two man lift anywhere, because they mean it will take two people to lift the piece of furniture.
Is anyone watching the Grayson Perry Art Club? I don't have a TV, so watched the first one on the channel 4 website, a couple of months after it was aired, as I didn't even know about it till I found a Facebook group about it. A new series is starting today, so I will watch afterwards on the website. I like this kind of thing.
Tonight's episode was mostly a repeat of the last one of the previous series - where Grayson visited various contributors, and as the show was being set up lockdown was imposed.
In the first few minutes he gave details of the subject categories for the new series and, I think, info on how to get in touch, but as my arty days are behind me I didn't take much notice of that bit.
As someone afflicted with art failure, I ought to look that out - GP is technically fantastic, by all accounts he does far more of the dirty work in making his works himself than many other artists, and produced a very funny interview for British Archaeology that made me see him in a whole new light, and he feels the same way I do about flint tools...
Piglet, the thing to check on IKEA instructions if there is a two man lift anywhere, because they mean it will take two people to lift the piece of furniture.
IKEA instructions are quite conservative. I've built several "two-man" bits of furniture by myself - with just one person, you need to take extra care to avoid resting it on a corner and chipping the laminate. For a dining table, I assume you build it on the floor with the legs in the air, then flip it over. You can probably flip it with one person, as long as you have a rug or something soft to protect the edges.
You can find assembly instructions on the ikea website, so you can decide whether you think you can manage the build yourself before you buy...
In other news the skating on the lochan has been fantastic and I have been three times in two days. Just me and the hills and the wild goats, the clean perishing air and the ring of skate blades on real ice which has real water under it! I do love to skate, it’s how I imagine flying might be.
Call me a scaredy-cat; how are you confident that all the ice is thick enough?
@Piglet tucked up with her teddy bears and @Bishops Finger in his berth on the Episcopal Ark sound very cosy. A good way of dealing with cold dark mornings.
@Piglet I managed to put together by myself a round double drop-leaf IKEA table which after some 20 years is still holding up without a problem. So it can be done. And, what's more, I have no recollection of the assembly process, which suggests that it was not that difficult.
@Piglet I managed to put together by myself a round double drop-leaf IKEA table which after some 20 years is still holding up without a problem. So it can be done. And, what's more, I have no recollection of the assembly process, which suggests that it was not that difficult.
Not true. I tried to edit but was blocked by a notice that I needed Vanilaa Comments Edit permission to do that. (What on earth does that mean?)
I now remember that it was delivered assembled, and arrived with one hinge torn away from the underside. It was a bit of a faff to get them to take it away and replace it with an undamaged item.
I've no idea whether anything like that is still in their catalogue, but it takes up very little space and yet can seat four people or more when fully exteneded.
@Leorning Cniht you are a bloke with almost certainly greater strength than most women and I suspect you are at least 6'. Piglet, iirc, is 5'3". I am 5'1", pretty fit, with relatively long arms and legs, but I don't have the arm span to safely lift an IKEA two-man lift on my own and really struggled with the weight last time (it was a wardrobe). I suspect my experience is a more accurate assessment for Piglet on her own.
Conservative for a bloke is making allowance for a small woman.
I'm a 5'1" and a very little bit sized female, and whilst I can do a 6 shelf Billy bookcase on my own (where 2 people are recommended) and stand it upright to get into place with some manoeuvering tricks I learned years ago, anything much heavier and wider would be unsafe.
@Piglet I managed to put together by myself a round double drop-leaf IKEA table which after some 20 years is still holding up without a problem. So it can be done. And, what's more, I have no recollection of the assembly process, which suggests that it was not that difficult.
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Thanks for the explanation @Wesley J but I still don't understand what "Vanilla" (which I mispelt) has to do with it.
"Vanilla "is just a term for "basic". I assume in a forum software context it refers to the ability to edit your own posts as opposed to the host/admin ability to edit the posts of others.
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I've just made a bowl of mushroom pâté, which may or may not survive to form part of next week's lunches. I'm contemplating pasta with green things for supper, but as I had a fairly substantial, late-ish lunch, It'm not quite hungry enough yet.
Hello, Wesley - good to see you again! As BF said, if you need help with your mince pies, I'd be delighted to oblige. I'll even bring the cream.
Yes, I have cooked - in the oven is pork and mushroom casserole, which will have cream added. We also have kalettes! Which I shall fry.
That sounds delicious. What's a kalette?
NB. And the tragedy of losing one of the tyres, and the joy of refinding it, and remounting it on its wheel. But some were lost, and were not found!
ETA: Seems it was - sorry for going on about this:
From here.
VERY happy memories!
I’ve still got two of my toy cars!
Today is no better 😳
What are kalettes like fried? I usually steam them. The first few times I had them I boiled them like sprouts, but they held too much water and were extremely soggy.
Weather here yesterday was horrible - continuous all day sleet at an angle that made the back of legs hurt walking away from it and faces and anything exposed sorrowful when walking into it. We walked the shortest distance from all January as it was so foul.
Today however, is dry and started sunnily, albeit steadily getting more miserable. We headed out early for a walk in the Forest because the amount of moisture descending yesterday was bound to render the fields even more boggy and early might reduce the crowds. I remembered my previous note and reversed the walk, which did nothing to reduce the massed hordes we met, and b) meant we were so busy avoiding bikes, horses, joggers, parked cars and other walkers insisting on walking four abreast on narrow tracks, that we missed a path we wanted to take and ended up on a longer walk than planned.
No chance to see much wildlife which was all sensibly hiding from the many screaming children and joggers shouting conversations while not moving over to give 2m space, let alone the distance I wanted from the amount of breath being expelled.
We watched the film The Dig last night, which was very enjoyable. Followed by another episode of The Crown. We are well behind with that series and have just watched the first episode with the all-new older cast, which is taking a bit of getting used to.
Question: we don't have a Netflix account. Is it possible to watch films on a "one-off" basis?
If you've not had one before you can often get a free trial, but there's no "pay as you go" mechanism (Amazon has one but it's ludicrously and probably deliberately expensive).
It’s the weekend, go for it!
But ...
We can spend half an hour looking for something to watch (we have very much the same tastes so no problem there) then start to watch something and switch it off after twenty minutes.
It’s a ‘water water everywhere’ scenario. Endless film and series available yet nothing appeals to us!
I've been in Domestic Goddess mode today; after a nice little amble to the corner shop to get milk, WINE and electricity, I accomplished bathroom cleaning, Dust Ing and hooverage.
Then SOUP Month* was mentioned again on Facetube, and I thought, why don't I make some for supper? And some breadsticks (the soft ones made of twisted dough) to go with it? The upshot is that there's a pot of bacon, lentil and tomato SOUP bubbling merrily on the stove, and the dough for the breadsticks is doing its thing equally joyously in the bread-machine, while I lounge about on here with a nice cup of tea.
* which officially ends today, but in my book any month can be SOUP Month.
As does WINE (but only if taken in Medicinal Doses, of course).
Supper/tea will be SOUP - Tomato, with added Marmite (!).
I spent a lot longer than necessary in the company of my teddy-bear this morning too - and I haven’t got the excuse of leg therapy - I was just being lazy, although in mitigation I had sat up until silly o'clock looking at dining tables on the interweb. I've given up on my original order ever being delivered, so I've cancelled it (thank you Brexshit), but I will still need a table to go with my nice new chairs. I've seen one I like the look of on Ikea's web site; what's their policy regarding delivery of big items?
I'm a bit daunted at the thought of assembling something the size of a dining table, but I managed the chairs ...
To quote Jeremy Clarkson, how hard can it be?
Thanks.
I assembled a large IKEA dining table in our last manse. That house was so big that when we moved in we assigned a spare bedroom for me to assemble furniture in. The problem with the table wasn’t putting it together (just because it is big doesn’t make it hard, can even be easier with fewer fiddly bits), the problem was that once assembled it wouldn’t go through the door of the room, never mind downstairs. So I had to take it to pieces and reassemble in situ. When we left there to come here (a manse with smaller rooms) we left the table as a up gift for my successor.
There are brownies in the oven, a rather indulgent dark chocolate and marshmallow version.
It's been cold but dry today.
As worcestershire sauce works in tomato soup, I can imagine marmite would.
We have just had tinned tapioca for pudding, lunch was a bake using sausages, Jerusalem artichokes and cabbage.
I have to be careful at the moment not to overdo the medicinal WINE or alternatives, which is required due to the joys of remote learning for multiple Dragonlets. Thankfully I have multiple devices to handle the morning timetable clash. They just have two storytimes.
I'd add to what's been said that they don't seem to be doing the trial at the moment, but you can sign up and then cancel at any time - you're not bound to a year of membership or anything. so you can just pay for a month, or two months, etc. This is what I decided to do. There were a couple of things I really wanted to watch, so I decided they were worth the £5.99 of a month of membership. I signed up, watched them, and am now watching other things that look interesting, since I have a month of access. I'll probably keep the membership for a couple of months, as I've found quite a few things that I'd like to watch.
Oh yes - I love it! Tony Hart for adults!
Ha, I did like Tony Hart as a kid too! The childlike part of me wants to submit some art, in the hopes that it will be featured in the show, but they want a video too, and then they might phone you as part of the show, and the thought of that quite horrifies me!
Edited to add a link about the show.
In the first few minutes he gave details of the subject categories for the new series and, I think, info on how to get in touch, but as my arty days are behind me I didn't take much notice of that bit.
IKEA instructions are quite conservative. I've built several "two-man" bits of furniture by myself - with just one person, you need to take extra care to avoid resting it on a corner and chipping the laminate. For a dining table, I assume you build it on the floor with the legs in the air, then flip it over. You can probably flip it with one person, as long as you have a rug or something soft to protect the edges.
You can find assembly instructions on the ikea website, so you can decide whether you think you can manage the build yourself before you buy...
Call me a scaredy-cat; how are you confident that all the ice is thick enough?
@Piglet tucked up with her teddy bears and @Bishops Finger in his berth on the Episcopal Ark sound very cosy.
I now remember that it was delivered assembled, and arrived with one hinge torn away from the underside. It was a bit of a faff to get them to take it away and replace it with an undamaged item.
I've no idea whether anything like that is still in their catalogue, but it takes up very little space and yet can seat four people or more when fully exteneded.
Conservative for a bloke is making allowance for a small woman.
This shows up when your editing timeframe of 6 minutes has expired, but the little cogwheel for edit is still showing, because you haven't refreshed the page. You need to do a new post, just as you did.
"Vanilla "is just a term for "basic". I assume in a forum software context it refers to the ability to edit your own posts as opposed to the host/admin ability to edit the posts of others.