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Re: Wildfood campsite

Postby Gruney2 » Sun May 24, 2020 10:44 am

There was a joke doing the rounds in the early 70s

Why did the skinhead go to Timothy White's?

Because he didn't want to bovver Boots


Ouch!

Here's a modern cringeworthy one.

Why don't ants get coronavirus?

Because they've got anty bodies.

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Re: Wildfood campsite

Postby herbidacious » Sun May 24, 2020 11:06 am

Aw halfateabag, glad Wuzzle seems so much better. Poor blue tit though. Basil had one the other week too :( I am worried about the daft robin that is nesting just 12 feet up in the wisteria. They clearly don't have race memory as he got one that did that last year. He clearly has a new hidey hole as I can't find him for an hours at a time, which I don't like. He might be outside, but he may just have found a secret place indoors. He never sleeps anywhere obvious.

We went on a little outing yesterday. Just got as far as Cudham, near Downe(where Darwin's house is) - about 12 miles away. Nothing splendid. It's still technically Greater London but has a gloss of countryside. (A bit stockbroker beltish though.) 11th century church. The oldest gravestone I could find was mid-17th century, but many of them were too eroded to read. I take photos of gravestones to add to Fina a Grave - a genealogical research website/tool. There was also a promising-looking pub noted for future visits (assuming it survives.) It was nice to get out. I've not left Sydenham, apart from to get our Tesco Click and Collect in outer Croydon, in over two months.

Still rather windy... too windy to garden? I have a lot to do to cram into tomorrow. But motivation is low and anxiety is high. Maybe we'll nip out again. One thing I can/shall do today is make up some insecticide with the neem oil and castile soap that arrived yesterday. I have two artichokes on one plant and the plant is crawling with aphids and their ant farmers. I might have another bash at my ogre story retelling for work too. Would be good to get a draft done to edit and work on post-appointment.

Badger's Mate I have quite a lot (40ish) of those (small format) Sainsbury's books. I bought a lot at the time they were available in the shop, but have sort of collected a few since. Some of them seem quite dated now, and I have no idea how authentic the recipes are in the county-themed ones, but I think there are some good recipes in them. I have used the Spanish one a lot over the years. The Mexican and Middle Eastern (Claudia Roden) ones too, and some, I admit, I have never cooked from. I have just pulled out British Cooking at its Best. Some interesting things in it. (Smells a bit musty though and the cover is almost enough to put you off.)

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Re: Wildfood campsite

Postby Stokey Sue » Sun May 24, 2020 11:09 am

I remembered the bovver boots joke!

I met Timothy White’s son, Sir Dimmock White who lived just down the road from us when I was a child, he was in his 80s and drove a coach and four in hand

I’m surprised how little upmarket beauty stuff Boots sell now, they used to sell Kerastase but as Herbi says no longer, and of the scents I might choose only one is available

I’ve got that Glynn Christian book, I like his comment to the effect that trifle includes jelly if made for children and Australasians

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Re: Wildfood campsite

Postby herbidacious » Sun May 24, 2020 11:25 am

Stokey Sue wrote:
I’ve got that Glynn Christian book, I like his comment to the effect that trifle includes jelly if made for children and Australasians


:D I am looking at the desserts and tea time things now. Most of the savouries won't do for me.

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Re: Wildfood campsite

Postby mistakened » Sun May 24, 2020 11:26 am

Stokey Sue wrote:I’ve got that Glynn Christian book, I like his comment to the effect that trifle includes jelly if made for children and Australasians

My Mother used to quote that :D :D :D

Thanks to a suggestion made by Zosh on the Food Dominoes thread we are now having Salad Caprase for lunch. I have taken some good local tomatoes from the fridge to come up to room temp, I have a Buffalo Mozzarella, the basil is getting rampant, so together we some toasted Ciabatta we shall have a nice, light lunch. There is a bottle of Prosecco in the drinks fridge. :)

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Re: Wildfood campsite

Postby liketocook » Sun May 24, 2020 11:39 am

Good morning everyone,
Next door's cat seems completely uninterested in the fledglings that are about my garden just now - he's getting older and I think it just too much effort or he's biding his time ;) . He much prefers to stalk spiders in my log store :lol:
I have a couple of the Sainsbury's books from the 1980s, a curry one and an "Easy Entertaining" one. I've not looked at them in years though I used them quite a bit at the time. On a similar vein I have a complete collection of books by Good Housekeeping that were published for BP garages and you collected with petrol reward stamps in the late 1980s. My late FIL was a tyre rep and got all of the promotions. My two trifle bowls came from the same route though the matching pudding bowls are long since broken.
It's still windy here but has dried up a bit, yesterday was wild all day and the bean plants on my deck waiting to be planted took a bit of a battering. I'm hoping they'll recover if the weather perks up a bit.
I cooked two of the globe artichokes with a lemon, vermouth and butter dipping sauce as a starter for dinner last night. While he ate it my son said he preferred the Jerusalem ones, I think he felt there were too much faff for not much food. Whereas I enjoyed every buttery mouthful :yum .
He's heading to Lidl this morning for a cycle helmet as his is in Newcastle and they are having a promotion on bike stuff, no doubt he'll pick up some deli bits while he's there.

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Re: Wildfood campsite

Postby scullion » Sun May 24, 2020 11:43 am

good morning, all.
overcast at the moment but with a forecast of full sun from eleven, for the rest of the day.
a friend posted on facebook that tesco in launceston was heaving with holiday makers, yesterday. she said the person who worked in the petrol station there knew they were holiday makers as they were asking if there was a coffee shop and pharmacy in store. she didn't go in to do her elderly, infirm parents's shopping.
we went for a short walk on the beach.
there were few people and no lifeguard cover but the slsc were meeting (without much social distancing) and had put up a red flag.
the disconcerting thing was that a family arrived as we were leaving, settled themselves at the top of the beach and then loosed their two very small children to their own devices - which was - head straight for the sea at a rapid rate without parental accompaniment. it was low tide so the sea was two or three hundred metres away. the smallest child, about three, headed back after a fifty metre foray but if the other child, about five, hadn't stopped and thrown some rather exuberant choreiform movements when it had got most of the way down to the sea (before running back again), i doubt even usain bolt could have made it in time to rescue it from the pounding surf (and the rip in the middle of the beach if it had continued to the water).
nothing planned, no sewing to do, maybe i'll get some potting on done.
coffee half finished.
have a good day, everyone.

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Re: Wildfood campsite

Postby KeenCook2 » Sun May 24, 2020 11:53 am

scullion wrote:t was low tide so the sea was two or three hundred metres away. the smallest child, about three, headed back after a fifty metre foray but if the other child, about five, hadn't stopped and thrown some rather exuberant choreiform movements when it had got most of the way down to the sea (before running back again), i doubt even usain bolt could have made it in time to rescue it from the pounding surf (and the rip in the middle of the beach if it had continued to the water).



I had to look up "choreiform" scully :oops: :oops: :lol: :lol:

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Re: Wildfood campsite

Postby aero280 » Sun May 24, 2020 11:54 am

I need to do some baking today. Another loaf, and maybe a malt loaf and some Dan Lepard crackers.

I spent yesterday investigating why the Philips steam iron wasn’t steaming. It all came apart OK, and no sign of any electronics burning out, but it wouldn’t clear the “low water” warning. Then I realised that the level sensor was a float and it was stuck. :( A bit of prodding and it came free - in bits... It’s a plastic lump with a magnet in it. It had let water in, and the iron magnet had rusted and swollen up and burst the plastic, jamming it in the tube. It’s only fixable with a new, detachable, water tank, which of course is now unavailable. A new tank would have been around £16. A whole new steam generating iron is anything from £100 to £400. Not happy.

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Re: Wildfood campsite

Postby scullion » Sun May 24, 2020 12:02 pm

i think my steam iron cost £12 from lidl, a few years ago. it doesn't get a huge amount of use unless i'm sewing.
i assume you are doing extreme ironing if you have an iron of that spec!

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Re: Wildfood campsite

Postby Stokey Sue » Sun May 24, 2020 12:14 pm

I have a Phillips Carezza steam iron - not a steam generator just an iron with good steam

I bought it about 14 years ago, a colleague was struggling with things a bit, and her MiL having watched her iron decided to assist by getting her the Which? Best Buy iron, so she was singing the praises of the Phillips iron (and her MiL), they were on offer in Argos so …

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Re: Wildfood campsite

Postby Earthmaiden » Sun May 24, 2020 12:16 pm

A victim of throwaway society aero :evil:. Long gone are the days when you expected anything to be repairable (and cheaper to repair than buying a replacement!).

scully, what madness! :o. It must be so sad to live near the coast and to have to endure all the idiots now. Not quite as serious but I watched a very small child stand at the very edge of the lake yesterday, feet overhanging the slippery bank whilst its parents looked on indulgently from some way away. I agree with allowing children a little freedom but :?.

I got rid of a lot of my Sainsburys cookery books when I had a book cull. I rather wish I'd kept them all now.

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Re: Wildfood campsite

Postby herbidacious » Sun May 24, 2020 12:21 pm

Where on earth are they staying, Scully? Takes two to tango vis a vis people illicitly going on holiday.

They are clearly not watching the news if they think cafes etc. might be open, unless they think that in deepest darkest Cornwall you don't abide by the rules... that sense of 'anything goes' on holiday? I'd be too racked with guilt to enjoy such a holiday. Clearly some people are not torubled by a conscience.

I was toying with the idea of asking a friend if we can rent one of her holiday cottages in Derbyshire for a weekend when the lockdown is eventually further relaxed. I really don't want to stay with my mother with all those carers coming and going... But not sure if I'd trust cleaning efficiency to meet sufficiently anti-virus standards anywhere. I suppose if the Cornwall holiday makers are not in second homes they will be the first in and not have to think about this.

EM, I'd have bought them off you!

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Re: Wildfood campsite

Postby Stokey Sue » Sun May 24, 2020 12:27 pm

Don’t forget that the virus won’t survive more than a few days outside a human

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Re: Wildfood campsite

Postby Suelle » Sun May 24, 2020 12:28 pm

Stokey Sue wrote:I have a Phillips Carezza steam iron - not a steam generator just an iron with good steam

I bought it about 14 years ago, a colleague was struggling with things a bit, and her MiL having watched her iron decided to assist by getting her the Which? Best Buy iron, so she was singing the praises of the Phillips iron (and her MiL), they were on offer in Argos so …


When I got married 46 years ago, my OH had most household appliances, but not an iron. We bought a Philips steam iron then, and I still use it. Probably a measure of how little ironing I do rather than the quality of the iron though. :lol:
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Re: Wildfood campsite

Postby scullion » Sun May 24, 2020 12:41 pm

herbidacious wrote:Where on earth are they staying, Scully? Takes two to tango vis a vis people illicitly going on holiday.

there have been many, many camper vans moved on at four in the morning in the newquay area!
those who flout lockdown are not averse to flouting trespass rules and parking up off-road - and wild camping.
the (private) road to the right of the beach had a notice about clamping of vehicles last year, not for ordinary vehicles but aimed at the camper vans who parked for days/weeks on end, leaving their 'potty' contents on the road - rather than walking the fifty metres to use the public loo in the council car park. there are some very 'unsocialised' people around.

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Re: Wildfood campsite

Postby Pepper Pig » Sun May 24, 2020 1:04 pm

But are the Public loos open? I haven't seen any round here that are.

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Re: Wildfood campsite

Postby PatsyMFagan » Sun May 24, 2020 1:12 pm

Stokey Sue wrote:Don’t forget that the virus won’t survive more than a few days outside a human


I was watching a programme a couple of days ago about the return of holiday lets - apartments/caravans/lodges ... some of the rules will be that a week is left before each letting and it was also mentioned that the virus survives a very short time outside of a human body ...

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Re: Wildfood campsite

Postby Stokey Sue » Sun May 24, 2020 1:16 pm

That was last year I think that they weren’t using the loos

Big local row over this
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The park loos aren’t open because of risk of transmission and lack of possibility of distancing, certainly without a full-time attendant

So people are using the shrubberies

Some people want the loos reopened to prevent this, some people definitely don’t want this as it may encourage groups to hangout together drinking

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Re: Wildfood campsite

Postby Suelle » Sun May 24, 2020 2:11 pm

Pepper Pig wrote:But are the Public loos open? I haven't seen any round here that are.


They've re-opened one of the public toilets here - by the riverside, where there are bars and restaurants open for take-away business. I guess keeping them clean is a better option than having to clear up mess from elsewhere. Unless the thinking is that if people want to spend time in public spaces that might become crowded, they probably wouldn't mind the risk from using public toilets.
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