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Naff potatoes disposal ?
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| Broadback 2006-09-30, 9:25 am |
| Can I compost all the small potatoes that I have this year, without them
sprouting up like weeds where I apply the compost? My wife refuses to
peel the marble sized ones, let alone the pea sizes! :-) Potatoes
growing where they were planted the previous year is pain enough without
exacerbating the problem.
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| Mary Fisher 2006-09-30, 9:25 am |
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"Broadback" <wen@towill.plus.com> wrote in message
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> Can I compost all the small potatoes that I have this year, without them
> sprouting up like weeds where I apply the compost? My wife refuses to peel
> the marble sized ones, let alone the pea sizes! :-) Potatoes growing where
> they were planted the previous year is pain enough without exacerbating
> the problem.
Don't bother peeling them, boil them whole and serve with a bit of butter.
Delicious!
Mary
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| On 30/9/06 11:13, in article 4o6u9iFd8o66U1@individual.net, "Broadback"
<wen@towill.plus.com> wrote:
> Can I compost all the small potatoes that I have this year, without them
> sprouting up like weeds where I apply the compost? My wife refuses to
> peel the marble sized ones, let alone the pea sizes! :-) Potatoes
> growing where they were planted the previous year is pain enough without
> exacerbating the problem.
But those are the best kind! When they're the very early new potatoes
coming up tiny, they're called chats in Jersey. Don't even think of peeling
them. Roast them with rosemary and coarse salt. Wonderful!
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/
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| Broadback 2006-09-30, 9:25 am |
| Sacha wrote:
> On 30/9/06 11:13, in article 4o6u9iFd8o66U1@individual.net, "Broadback"
> <wen@towill.plus.com> wrote:
>
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> But those are the best kind! When they're the very early new potatoes
> coming up tiny, they're called chats in Jersey. Don't even think of peeling
> them. Roast them with rosemary and coarse salt. Wonderful!
>
These are main crop potatoes, of which this year I have lots of small
ones, I know earlies are delightful when small, but does this also apply
to main crop?
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| David \(in Normandy\) 2006-09-30, 9:25 am |
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"Broadback" <wen@towill.plus.com> wrote in message
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> Sacha wrote:
> These are main crop potatoes, of which this year I have lots of small
> ones, I know earlies are delightful when small, but does this also apply
> to main crop?
We do! All the potatoes that are too small to bother peeling we simply leave
in soak for a little while to loosen any soil, then inspect each one for any
insect holes. They boil up lovely with their skins on - even the pea sized
ones. And as someone else said served with a little butter are delicious.
Any leftovers are nice the following day too - simply fried gently in a
little butter to warm them up and brown them a little. Yummy!
--
David
.... Email address on website http://www.avisoft.co.uk
.... Blog at http://dlts-french-adventures.blogspot.com/
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| Mary Fisher 2006-09-30, 1:25 pm |
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"David (in Normandy)" <NotValidForDavidInNormandy@invalid.none> wrote in
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> "Broadback" <wen@towill.plus.com> wrote in message
> news:4o7ah4Fd7bc6U1@individual.net...
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> We do! All the potatoes that are too small to bother peeling we simply
> leave in soak for a little while to loosen any soil, then inspect each one
> for any insect holes. They boil up lovely with their skins on - even the
> pea sized ones. And as someone else said served with a little butter are
> delicious. Any leftovers are nice the following day too - simply fried
> gently in a little butter to warm them up and brown them a little. Yummy!
Warmed up with some unpeeled garlic cloves ... <drool >
Mary
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| Lionel 2006-09-30, 1:25 pm |
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"Broadback" <wen@towill.plus.com> wrote in message
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> Can I compost all the small potatoes
It's adviseable not to compost them or peelings from others.
Lionel
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| JennyC 2006-09-30, 1:25 pm |
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"Broadback" <wen@towill.plus.com> wrote in message
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> Can I compost all the small potatoes that I have this year, without them
> sprouting up like weeds where I apply the compost? My wife refuses to peel
> the marble sized ones, let alone the pea sizes! :-) Potatoes growing where
> they were planted the previous year is pain enough without exacerbating
> the problem.
Fry or boil them in their skins !!
Jenny
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| On 30/9/06 14:41, in article 4o7ah4Fd7bc6U1@individual.net, "Broadback"
<wen@towill.plus.com> wrote:
> Sacha wrote:
> These are main crop potatoes, of which this year I have lots of small
> ones, I know earlies are delightful when small, but does this also apply
> to main crop?
I've tried it and enjoyed it so I think you probably will!
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/
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| Alan Holmes 2006-09-30, 1:25 pm |
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"Lionel" <lionel george@virgin.net> wrote in message
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> "Broadback" <wen@towill.plus.com> wrote in message
> news:4o6u9iFd8o66U1@individual.net...
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> It's adviseable not to compost them or peelings from others.
Why not?
Alan
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> Lionel
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| Broadback 2006-09-30, 1:25 pm |
| JennyC wrote:
> "Broadback" <wen@towill.plus.com> wrote in message
> news:4o6u9iFd8o66U1@individual.net...
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> Fry or boil them in their skins !!
> Jenny
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>
Thanks all for your culinary tips, you live and learn, I thought (silly
me) that only "new" potatoes could be treated that way.
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| Cat(h) 2006-10-02, 9:25 am |
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Alan Holmes wrote:
> "Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hear, hear, or chould it be here, here?
>
> Alan
>
I thought we'd established that... though I can't quite recall *what*
we'd established.
Cat(h)
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| Cat(h) 2006-10-02, 9:25 am |
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Broadback wrote:
> JennyC wrote:
> Thanks all for your culinary tips, you live and learn, I thought (silly
> me) that only "new" potatoes could be treated that way.
Silly you indeed :-) Some of us pay extortionate money to purchase
750g bags of tiny spuds, which are lovely put into the oven with the
sunday roast (in a separate dish), tossed in olive oil, coarse salt and
pepper, and with sprigs of rosemary - I think someone has already
suggested it.
Well scrubbed, the skins are quite edible. For what it's worth, I
always eat the skin of my boiled spuds, even big main season ones.
Cat(h)
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| Cat(h) 2006-10-02, 9:25 am |
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Alan Holmes wrote:
> "Lionel" <lionel george@virgin.net> wrote in message
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> Why not?
>
Because they do sprout in compost? I had loads of potato and tomato
seedlings in my garden, which got there via my compost heap. Franky,
they are among the easiest weeds to pull, and I have even left a few to
do their thing - got about 500 grs worth of toms from a few of them...
I haven't lifted the couple of spuds yet.
Cat(h)
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| Mary Fisher 2006-10-02, 1:25 pm |
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"Cat(h)" <cathy_ie@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
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> Well scrubbed, the skins are quite edible. For what it's worth, I
> always eat the skin of my boiled spuds, even big main season ones.
I don't even peel potatoes to make mash, except at Christmas.
Mary
>
> Cat(h)
>
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| "Cat(h)" <cathy_ie@yahoo.com> writes
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>Alan Holmes wrote:
>
>I thought we'd established that... though I can't quite recall *what*
>we'd established.
>
Hear, hear, as in 'this guy's talking sense, listen to him'
Also, it's 'bated breath' (abated, holding your breath) not 'baited
breath' which always makes me think of an open mouth with a sardine on
the tongue hoping to catch goodness knows what.
--
Kay
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| Cat(h) 2006-10-02, 1:25 pm |
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Mary Fisher wrote:
> "Cat(h)" <cathy_ie@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1159793280.228168.57410@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> .
>
> I don't even peel potatoes to make mash, except at Christmas.
>
> Mary
I wouldn't get away with that... though I wouldn't mind it myself :-)
Cat(h)
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| Cat(h) 2006-10-02, 1:25 pm |
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K wrote:
> Hear, hear, as in 'this guy's talking sense, listen to him'
> Also, it's 'bated breath' (abated, holding your breath) not 'baited
> breath' which always makes me think of an open mouth with a sardine on
> the tongue hoping to catch goodness knows what.
> --
> Kay
Thank you for that. Hear hear is my only challenge, I knew not to put
an unfortunate sardine flavoured "i" in bated.
But because of you, I now have very odd images trotting in my brain...
Cat(h)
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| On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:39:52 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
<mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
>
>"Cat(h)" <cathy_ie@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:1159793280.228168.57410@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>.
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>I don't even peel potatoes to make mash, except at Christmas.
You have mash for Christmas dinner?
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| La Puce 2006-10-02, 5:25 pm |
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Tony wrote:
> You have mash for Christmas dinner?
She's foreign ;o)
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| Helen Deborah Vecht 2006-10-02, 5:25 pm |
| Broadback <wen@towill.plus.com>typed
> JennyC wrote:
> Thanks all for your culinary tips, you live and learn, I thought (silly
> me) that only "new" potatoes could be treated that way.
I don't think we've peeled any potatoes for years...
....or done any ironing.
--
Helen D. Vecht: helenvecht@zetnet.co.uk
Edgware.
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| Helen Deborah Vecht 2006-10-02, 5:25 pm |
| Sacha <sacha@privacy.net>typed
> On 30/9/06 11:13, in article 4o6u9iFd8o66U1@individual.net, "Broadback"
> <wen@towill.plus.com> wrote:
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> But those are the best kind! When they're the very early new potatoes
> coming up tiny, they're called chats in Jersey. Don't even think of peeling
> them. Roast them with rosemary and coarse salt. Wonderful!
Lazybones like me put them in the microwave in a closed container with a
little butter & seasoning.
Zap for a minute or so.
--
Helen D. Vecht: helenvecht@zetnet.co.uk
Edgware.
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| David in Normandy 2006-10-02, 5:25 pm |
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"Helen Deborah Vecht" <helenvecht@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
> ...or done any ironing.
You do the ironing in the microwave? Bet that gets the laundry steaming :-)
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| On 2/10/06 17:46, in article QpHz66GNJUIFFwOp@scarboro.demon.co.uk, "K"
<k@scarboro.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> "Cat(h)" <cathy_ie@yahoo.com> writes
> Hear, hear, as in 'this guy's talking sense, listen to him'
> Also, it's 'bated breath' (abated, holding your breath) not 'baited
> breath' which always makes me think of an open mouth with a sardine on
> the tongue hoping to catch goodness knows what.
The latter is one that always strikes a particularly strong visual emphasis
with me! A kipper hanging on the edge of the lip......eugh.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/
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| On 2/10/06 20:36, in article 45216a44$0$5097$ba4acef3@news.orange.fr, "David
in Normandy" <David-in-Normandy@nowhere.none> wrote:
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> "Helen Deborah Vecht" <helenvecht@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
>
> You do the ironing in the microwave? Bet that gets the laundry steaming :-)
>
You can do some of the ironing on top of the AGA...
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/
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| In article <C1474C27.3A613%sacha@privacy.net>, Sacha <sacha@privacy.net>
writes
>The latter is one that always strikes a particularly strong visual emphasis
>with me! A kipper hanging on the edge of the lip......eugh.
Its a mouthful of maggots that worries me.
--
regards andyw
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| Mary Fisher 2006-10-03, 9:25 am |
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"La Puce" <helene@rudlin.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> Tony wrote:
>
> She's foreign ;o)
We don't eat many potatoes, it has to be a special occasion. On even more
special occasions we have mash. For the ultimate feast - Christmas Dinner -
we have mashed AND roast potatoes. It turns the meal into a feast :-)
Yes, I AM foreign - for five generations I'm pure English. Whatever that is.
But I married a man who had an Irish grandmother, one of our boys married a
Scot, another a Welsh girl, a daughter married a man with Jewish Russian
forebears, one grandson was born in Wales and another grandson has an
Angolan girl friend so the purity (!) is now lost.
HAHAHA!
Mary
>
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| Mary Fisher 2006-10-03, 9:25 am |
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"Helen Deborah Vecht" <helenvecht@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> I don't think we've peeled any potatoes for years...
> ...or done any ironing.
I have never, ever, ironed a potato.
Mary
>
> --
> Helen D. Vecht: helenvecht@zetnet.co.uk
> Edgware.
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| David in Normandy 2006-10-03, 9:25 am |
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"Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> I have never, ever, ironed a potato.
> Mary
I wonder if that is what waffles are?
David.
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| Helen Deborah Vecht 2006-10-03, 9:25 am |
| "Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk>typed
> "Helen Deborah Vecht" <helenvecht@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:3130303037363935452175DB25@zetnet.co.uk...
[color=darkred]
> I have never, ever, ironed a potato.
[color=darkred]
> Mary
I suppose some bright spark will suggest mixing egg, milk, water &
instant mash, then putting the mix into a waffle iron...
--
Helen D. Vecht: helenvecht@zetnet.co.uk
Edgware.
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| Mary Fisher 2006-10-03, 9:25 am |
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"Helen Deborah Vecht" <helenvecht@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk>typed
>
>
>
> I suppose some bright spark will suggest mixing egg, milk, water &
> instant mash, then putting the mix into a waffle iron...
I'm not bright enough for that. On the odd occasions I've made waffles I've
used a flour based batter mix. But that was about fifty years ago my boy
friend bought a little gizmo from and Ideal Homes exhibition. What a faff!
Is instant mash still made?
Mary
>
> --
> Helen D. Vecht: helenvecht@zetnet.co.uk
> Edgware.
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| On 3/10/06 11:24, in article
45223a43$0$29541$4c56ba96@master.news.zetnet.net, "Mary Fisher"
<mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
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> "Helen Deborah Vecht" <helenvecht@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:3130303037363935452244F088@zetnet.co.uk...
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> I'm not bright enough for that. On the odd occasions I've made waffles I've
> used a flour based batter mix. But that was about fifty years ago my boy
> friend bought a little gizmo from and Ideal Homes exhibition. What a faff!
>
> Is instant mash still made?
>
Not only made but undergoing a considerable revival and publicity campaign.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/
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| Mary Fisher 2006-10-03, 9:25 am |
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"Sacha" <sacha@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> Not only made but undergoing a considerable revival and publicity
> campaign.
> --
I must live under a stone!
Mary
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| On 3/10/06 11:47, in article
45223fb9$0$29540$4c56ba96@master.news.zetnet.net, "Mary Fisher"
<mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
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> "Sacha" <sacha@privacy.net> wrote in message
> news:C147FE84.3A6BF%sacha@privacy.net...
> I must live under a stone!
>
My children often say that to me......!
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/
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| Janet Baraclough 2006-10-03, 9:25 am |
| The message <45222952$0$29547$4c56ba96@master.news.zetnet.net>
from "Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> contains these words:
> "Helen Deborah Vecht" <helenvecht@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:3130303037363935452175DB25@zetnet.co.uk...
[color=darkred]
> I have never, ever, ironed a potato.
How else do you think they make crisps?
Janet
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| Mary Fisher 2006-10-03, 9:25 am |
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"Sacha" <sacha@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> On 3/10/06 11:47, in article
> 45223fb9$0$29540$4c56ba96@master.news.zetnet.net, "Mary Fisher"
> <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
>
> My children often say that to me......!
Ours call us hippies ... it used to be the Aged Parents but that was when we
were in our thirties! I don't know if being seen as a hippy is an
improvement. The silly thing is that they have no idea about real hippydom!
Mary
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| Mary Fisher 2006-10-03, 9:25 am |
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"Janet Baraclough" <janet.and.john@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> The message <45222952$0$29547$4c56ba96@master.news.zetnet.net>
> from "Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> contains these words:
>
>
>
>
> How else do you think they make crisps?
Well, I know because I've done it :-)
But ironing would produce a flatter version ...
Mary
>
> Janet
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| On 3/10/06 12:41, in article
45224c85$0$29545$4c56ba96@master.news.zetnet.net, "Mary Fisher"
<mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
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> "Sacha" <sacha@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> Ours call us hippies ... it used to be the Aged Parents but that was when we
> were in our thirties! I don't know if being seen as a hippy is an
> improvement. The silly thing is that they have no idea about real hippydom!
>
We get referred to as the crumblies, the 'rentals, or occasionally, our
owners. And when he really wants to wind me up my son calls me Mater.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/
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| Broadback 2006-10-03, 9:25 am |
| Mary Fisher wrote:
> "Janet Baraclough" <janet.and.john@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:313030303930323945224B7F66@zetnet.co.uk...
>
> Well, I know because I've done it :-)
>
> But ironing would produce a flatter version ...
>
> Mary
>
>
How come you Wrinklies have taken over this thread, shame on you, you
should be old enough to know better! ;-)
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| ®óñ© © ² * ¹°°³ 2006-10-03, 9:25 am |
| On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 11:24:02 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
<mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> wrote and included this (or some of this):
>
>Is instant mash still made?
Smash is being marketed again as you speak
--
®óñ© © ² * ¹°°³
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On 3/10/06 12:58, in article 4of1j5FeddcvU1@individual.net, "Broadback"
<wen@towill.plus.com> wrote:
> Mary Fisher wrote:
> How come you Wrinklies have taken over this thread, shame on you, you
> should be old enough to know better! ;-)
We are, that's why we have. ;-)
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/
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| Helen Deborah Vecht 2006-10-03, 9:25 am |
| Sacha <sacha@privacy.net>typed
> We get referred to as the crumblies, the 'rentals, or occasionally, our
> owners. And when he really wants to wind me up my son calls me Mater.
My youngest brother (19 years my junior) calls the 'The Olds'. I just
call them Mum & Dad but they don't seem old to me...
--
Helen D. Vecht: helenvecht@zetnet.co.uk
Edgware.
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| Mary Fisher 2006-10-03, 1:25 pm |
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"®óñ© © ² * ¹°°³" <ron@spamall.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 11:24:02 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
> <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> wrote and included this (or some of this):
>
>
> Smash is being marketed again as you speak
Super.
<ahem>
:-)
Mary
>
>
> --
> ®óñ© © ² * ¹°°³
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| Mary Fisher 2006-10-03, 1:25 pm |
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"Sacha" <sacha@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> We get referred to as the crumblies, the 'rentals, or occasionally, our
> owners. And when he really wants to wind me up my son calls me Mater.
Ours sometimes do that too, I quite like it :-)
I'm not so sure about Mama ... but wouldn't let them know or I'd never hear
anything else :-)
Mary
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| Mary Fisher 2006-10-03, 1:25 pm |
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"Broadback" <wen@towill.plus.com> wrote in message
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> Mary Fisher wrote:
> How come you Wrinklies have taken over this thread, shame on you, you
> should be old enough to know better! ;-)
We're making hay while the sun shines, who knows if we'll be here tomorrow
....
Mary
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| On 3/10/06 16:19, in article
45227f89$0$29545$4c56ba96@master.news.zetnet.net, "Mary Fisher"
<mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
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> "Sacha" <sacha@privacy.net> wrote in message
> news:C1480D44.3A6DA%sacha@privacy.net...
> ...
>
>
> Ours sometimes do that too, I quite like it :-)
>
> I'm not so sure about Mama ... but wouldn't let them know or I'd never hear
> anything else :-)
>
I get Mama sometimes but only from my son and pronounced in the Italian
style. Possibly because that's what his father called his Italian mother.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/
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| On 3/10/06 16:21, in article
45227fe5$0$29545$4c56ba96@master.news.zetnet.net, "Mary Fisher"
<mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
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> "Broadback" <wen@towill.plus.com> wrote in message
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> We're making hay while the sun shines, who knows if we'll be here tomorrow
> ...
>
Thud.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/
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| JennyC 2006-10-03, 1:25 pm |
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"Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "Sacha" <sacha@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> I must live under a stone!
> Mary
http://www.premierfoods.co.uk/brands/smash.cfm :
Smash is the UK's favourite instant mash potato with enough Smash produced
every year to make 140 million servings.
Jenny "~))
| |
| JennyC 2006-10-03, 1:25 pm |
|
"Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> wrote
> Ours call us hippies ... it used to be the Aged Parents but that was when
> we were in our thirties! I don't know if being seen as a hippy is an
> improvement. The silly thing is that they have no idea about real
> hippydom!
> Mary
Let them read this......... http://www.hipmarket.com/hippy/glossary.htm
Jenny (aging hippy!)
| |
| Broadback 2006-10-03, 1:25 pm |
| Sacha wrote:
> On 3/10/06 16:21, in article
> 45227fe5$0$29545$4c56ba96@master.news.zetnet.net, "Mary Fisher"
> <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Thud.
sorry, can you repeat that? Mt hearing has deteriorated with age. Damn,
didn't want to reveal that!
| |
| Mary Fisher 2006-10-03, 5:25 pm |
|
"JennyC" <Jenny.squirrel@chello.nl> wrote in message
news:4ofi8nFd8agnU1@individual.net...
>
> "Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> wrote
>
> Let them read this......... http://www.hipmarket.com/hippy/glossary.htm
> Jenny (aging hippy!)
Ah, but that's American hippydom, nothing like British hippies! I know, I
was there ...
Mary
>
>
| |
| Mary Fisher 2006-10-03, 5:25 pm |
|
"JennyC" <Jenny.squirrel@chello.nl> wrote in message
news:4ofi5hFeesj1U1@individual.net...
>
> "Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:45223fb9$0$29540$4c56ba96@master.news.zetnet.net...
>
> http://www.premierfoods.co.uk/brands/smash.cfm :
> Smash is the UK's favourite instant mash potato
That could be because it's the ONLY imp ...
> with enough Smash produced every year to make 140 million servings.
Whatever turns them on.
Of course it might be different now from the Bad Old Days but why? I mean,
mashing potatoes isn't rocket science ...
Mary
>
> Jenny "~))
>
>
>
>
| |
| Mary Fisher 2006-10-03, 5:25 pm |
|
"Sacha" <sacha@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:C148503C.3A718%sacha@privacy.net...
> Thud.
<kiss of life>
There, that'll teach you to play to the gallery :-)
Mary
>
| |
| Mary Fisher 2006-10-03, 5:25 pm |
|
"Broadback" <wen@towill.plus.com> wrote in message
news:4ofkvgFeaqegU1@individual.net...
> sorry, can you repeat that? Mt hearing has deteriorated with age. Damn,
> didn't want to reveal that!
I'm being fitted with a pair of digital hearing aids :-)
<smugly>
Mary
| |
| Mike Lyle 2006-10-03, 5:25 pm |
|
Broadback wrote:
> Can I compost all the small potatoes that I have this year, without them
> sprouting up like weeds where I apply the compost? My wife refuses to
> peel the marble sized ones, let alone the pea sizes! :-) Potatoes
> growing where they were planted the previous year is pain enough without
> exacerbating the problem.
As Cat says below, it doesn't matter if you get a few springing up, as
they are so easy to pull up. I hope you don't think there's anything
culpable about a non-text-book compost heap: not very many people
actually manage the full sweltering bit, even if they've actually got
enough material to. It all breaks down in the end, and if a few spuds
appear, who's going to complain? It's nettles which show one's not on
top of the job: they really do need to be got out before they take
over.
--
Mike.
| |
| Janet Baraclough 2006-10-03, 5:25 pm |
| The message <4522adc3$0$29538$4c56ba96@master.news.zetnet.net>
from "Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> contains these words:
> mashing potatoes isn't rocket science ...
I have seen ready-made mashed potato, porridge, omelette, and baked
potato in Marks and Spencer. All you have to do is drive to M and S,
park the car, trail round the aisles, stand in a queue, buy your
ready-made omelette etc, return to the car, load car, drive home, put
the omelette in the microwave and warm it up. What could be more
convenient? :-)
Janet.
| |
| BoyPete 2006-10-03, 5:25 pm |
| Janet Baraclough wrote:
> The message <4522adc3$0$29538$4c56ba96@master.news.zetnet.net>
> from "Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> contains these words:
>
>
> I have seen ready-made mashed potato, porridge, omelette, and baked
> potato in Marks and Spencer. All you have to do is drive to M and S,
> park the car, trail round the aisles, stand in a queue, buy your
> ready-made omelette etc, return to the car, load car, drive home, put
> the omelette in the microwave and warm it up. What could be more
> convenient? :-)
>
> Janet.
Calling a take away? ;)
--
ßôyþëtë
| |
| Mary Fisher 2006-10-03, 5:25 pm |
|
"Janet Baraclough" <janet.and.john@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:31303030393032394522C14000@zetnet.co.uk...
> The message <4522adc3$0$29538$4c56ba96@master.news.zetnet.net>
> from "Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> contains these words:
>
>
> I have seen ready-made mashed potato, porridge, omelette, and baked
> potato in Marks and Spencer. All you have to do is drive to M and S,
> park the car, trail round the aisles, stand in a queue, buy your
> ready-made omelette etc, return to the car, load car, drive home, put
> the omelette in the microwave and warm it up. What could be more
> convenient? :-)
I haven't a microwave ... tell you, we live under a (very primitive) stone.
So it's back to pounding boiled potatoes :-)
Potatoes of our choice, prepared by hand, with love and to our liking.
Sometimes even grown by us. Not at all convenient but, well, I'm too stuck
in my ways to change.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
Mary
>
> Janet.
| |
| BoyPete 2006-10-03, 5:25 pm |
| Mary Fisher wrote:[color=darkred]
> "Janet Baraclough" <janet.and.john@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:31303030393032394522C14000@zetnet.co.uk...
>
> I haven't a microwave ... tell you, we live under a (very primitive)
> stone.
> So it's back to pounding boiled potatoes :-)
>
> Potatoes of our choice, prepared by hand, with love and to our liking.
> Sometimes even grown by us. Not at all convenient but, well, I'm too
> stuck in my ways to change.
>
> That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
>
> Mary
I have great trouble finding a good potato masher. The run of the mill
varieties all seem to have too large holes, and pounding for ages still
leaves lumps. Yuk!! What do you use?
--
ßôyþëtë
| |
| Mary Fisher 2006-10-03, 5:25 pm |
|
"BoyPete" <petcrow@lineone.net> wrote in message
news:4ofv2lFed5hpU1@individual.net...
>
> I have great trouble finding a good potato masher. The run of the mill
> varieties all seem to have too large holes, and pounding for ages still
> leaves lumps. Yuk!! What do you use?
A grandson, who of course knew everything at 17, said that a potato ricer
was the Only Thing so I bought an expensive device from John Lewis. Because
of my proclivity for mashing potatoes with their skins on it wasn't 100%
effecient and caused much use of expletives unsuitable for someone of my
vintage so I reverted to my ancient chrome plated one which was part of a
set we were given as a wedding present*. The chrome is coming off in parts
but it works!
But I can't use it on my beloved Circulon pans so I bought a plastic masher
which wouldn't risk scratching the lining. As you say, the holes are too
large.
So until Spouse makes me a tool like a wooden mallet with the head on
sideways I'll have to boil potatoes in the steel pans :-(
Mary
* in 1960
| |
|
| On 3/10/06 19:37, in article
4522ae00$0$29538$4c56ba96@master.news.zetnet.net, "Mary Fisher"
<mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
>
> "Sacha" <sacha@privacy.net> wrote in message
> news:C148503C.3A718%sacha@privacy.net...
>
>
>
> <kiss of life>
>
> There, that'll teach you to play to the gallery :-)
>
Blech. And more Thud.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/
| |
|
| On 3/10/06 20:00, in article 31303030393032394522C14000@zetnet.co.uk, "Janet
Baraclough" <janet.and.john@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
> The message <4522adc3$0$29538$4c56ba96@master.news.zetnet.net>
> from "Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> contains these words:
>
>
> I have seen ready-made mashed potato, porridge, omelette, and baked
> potato in Marks and Spencer. All you have to do is drive to M and S,
> park the car, trail round the aisles, stand in a queue, buy your
> ready-made omelette etc, return to the car, load car, drive home, put
> the omelette in the microwave and warm it up. What could be more
> convenient? :-)
>
Oh, I think the baked potato beats everything. Really, I do. How hard is
it to wash a potato, prick its skin and stick it in the oven? And the effort
and agony of opening a can of tuna or a packet of grated cheese - see, that
could be allowable - just. But really - buying baked potatoes is the nadir
of instant cookery, surely?
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/
| |
|
| On 3/10/06 21:21, in article 4ofv2lFed5hpU1@individual.net, "BoyPete"
<petcrow@lineone.net> wrote:
<snip>
>
> I have great trouble finding a good potato masher. The run of the mill
> varieties all seem to have too large holes, and pounding for ages still
> leaves lumps. Yuk!! What do you use?
Find one of those Italian things that turn them through a sieve rather like
an old fashioned meat mincer. BUT, the real trick is that once you've
mashed your tatties with an ordinary masher, you take a wooden spoon and
whip it round the potatoes to give a creamier texture, adding extra milk,
cream and butter to your taste. That enhances the texture very much.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/
| |
| Janet Baraclough 2006-10-03, 5:25 pm |
| The message <4ofv2lFed5hpU1@individual.net>
from "BoyPete" <petcrow@lineone.net> contains these words:
> I have great trouble finding a good potato masher. The run of the mill
> varieties all seem to have too large holes, and pounding for ages still
> leaves lumps. Yuk!! What do you use?
Lakeland made mine. It's squat and about 7 " high with an easy grip
handle across the top and two side bits which hold the mashing bit.
Costs about 11 quid but is worth every penny. Smooth fluffy mash every
time and no lumps.
Janet
| |
| Mike Lyle 2006-10-03, 5:25 pm |
|
Mary Fisher wrote:
> "BoyPete" <petcrow@lineone.net> wrote in message
> news:4ofv2lFed5hpU1@individual.net...
>
> A grandson, who of course knew everything at 17, said that a potato ricer
> was the Only Thing so I bought an expensive device from John Lewis. Because
> of my proclivity for mashing potatoes with their skins on it wasn't 100%
> effecient and caused much use of expletives unsuitable for someone of my
> vintage so I reverted to my ancient chrome plated one which was part of a
> set we were given as a wedding present*. The chrome is coming off in parts
> but it works!
>
> But I can't use it on my beloved Circulon pans so I bought a plastic masher
> which wouldn't risk scratching the lining. As you say, the holes are too
> large.
>
> So until Spouse makes me a tool like a wooden mallet with the head on
> sideways I'll have to boil potatoes in the steel pans :-(
Potato mashers are a funny game: they seem very keen on selling ones
which don't actually mash potatoes. For an old-fashioned hand one, the
one I've finally settled on has holes half an inch long and
three-sixteenths wide: Pete should take a ruler into the shop and he'll
be OK: ignore fancy brands and "design", and go by the ruler. Next
consideration is a comfortable handle, not a pretty one -- as with any
other tool. Devices which make you turn a handle work very well, but
you can't use them for mashing up tomatoes in the pan, or fruit in your
wine-bucket, and things like that.
--
Mike
| |
|
| Janet Baraclough <janet.and.john@zetnet.co.uk> writes
>The message <4ofv2lFed5hpU1@individual.net>
>from "BoyPete" <petcrow@lineone.net> contains these words:
>
>
>
> Lakeland made mine. It's squat and about 7 " high with an easy grip
>handle across the top and two side bits which hold the mashing bit.
>Costs about 11 quid but is worth every penny. Smooth fluffy mash every
>time and no lumps.
>
I mash roughly with a fork then finish with a small electric hand held
beater. Smooth fluffy mash with no lumps, and no need for a dedicated
bit of equipment
--
Kay
| |
| Mary Fisher 2006-10-04, 9:25 am |
|
> I mash roughly with a fork then finish with a small electric hand held
> beater. Smooth fluffy mash with no lumps, and no need for a dedicated bit
> of equipment
But you can't use either in my Circulon pans :-(
Mary
| |
| Mary Fisher 2006-10-04, 9:25 am |
| >>
> Oh, I think the baked potato beats everything. Really, I do. How hard is
> it to wash a potato, prick its skin and stick it in the oven? And the
> effort
> and agony of opening a can of tuna or a packet of grated cheese - see,
> that
> could be allowable - just. But really - buying baked potatoes is the
> nadir
> of instant cookery, surely?
I didn't know you could. My astonishment rating always shoots up when I see
tinned potatoes, and custard. Still, some must like them, if the demand
weren't there they wouldn't be produced.
Mary
| |
| Mary Fisher 2006-10-04, 9:25 am |
|
> Blech. And more Thud.
LOL!
| |
| Broadback 2006-10-04, 9:25 am |
| Mary Fisher wrote:
> "Broadback" <wen@towill.plus.com> wrote in message
> news:4ofkvgFeaqegU1@individual.net...
>
>
> I'm being fitted with a pair of digital hearing aids :-)
>
> <smugly>
>
> Mary
>
>
~Ah Mary, I have them, a bit improvement, but nothing is as good as good
hearing! :-(
| |
| Janet Tweedy 2006-10-04, 9:25 am |
| In article <4522c35a$0$29543$4c56ba96@master.news.zetnet.net>, Mary
Fisher <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> writes
>I haven't a microwave ... tell you, we live under a (very primitive) stone.
>
>So it's back to pounding boiled potatoes :-)
But some types of potatoes make terrible mash, they have sort of solid
lumps in them. Other varieties mash like a dream.
I have to admit using Smash on top of shepherd's pie as I find it easier
to smooth it across the meat!
--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk
| |
| Janet Tweedy 2006-10-04, 9:25 am |
| In article <31303030393032394522E50D45@zetnet.co.uk>, Janet Baraclough
<janet.and.john@zetnet.co.uk> writes
>
> Lakeland made mine. It's squat and about 7 " high with an easy grip
>handle across the top and two side bits which hold the mashing bit.
>Costs about 11 quid but is worth every penny. Smooth fluffy mash every
>time and no lumps.
>
> Janet
Lakeland make a lot of really useful items, though I did send a letter
complaining as I wanted to fins the casserole dishes you could use on
the top of the cooker as well (I was told it used to be called Pyresil)
They were brilliant as you could brown meat, add casserole stuff, shove
in oven and then serve. Even better they could be frozen and microwave
without a calamity.
--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk
| |
| Mary Fisher 2006-10-04, 9:25 am |
|
"Broadback" <wen@towill.plus.com> wrote in message
news:4ohimfFefd5dU2@individual.net...
> Mary Fisher wrote:
> ~Ah Mary, I have them, a bit improvement, but nothing is as good as good
> hearing! :-(
No, but I'm fed up of asking, "what did s/he say?" at the theatre or
watching a son's telly when everyone else laughs ... I'm also fed up of
asking people not to turn away or cover their mouths with their hands when
they speak. I don't lip read but need to have a shape to the sounds.
Shakespeare was right:
"Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second
childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans
everything."
In fact my taste and smell are still very good and not *everything* else has
gone. But he didn't mention the pain of arthritis nor the breakdown of other
bodily systems which beset us :-(
It's being so cheerful as keeps me going!
(not Shakespeare!)
Mary
| |
| Broadback 2006-10-04, 9:25 am |
| Mary Fisher wrote:
> "Broadback" <wen@towill.plus.com> wrote in message
> news:4ohimfFefd5dU2@individual.net...
>
> No, but I'm fed up of asking, "what did s/he say?" at the theatre or
> watching a son's telly when everyone else laughs ... I'm also fed up of
> asking people not to turn away or cover their mouths with their hands when
> they speak. I don't lip read but need to have a shape to the sounds.
>
> Shakespeare was right:
>
> "Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second
> childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans
> everything."
>
> In fact my taste and smell are still very good and not *everything* else has
> gone. But he didn't mention the pain of arthritis nor the breakdown of other
> bodily systems which beset us :-(
>
> It's being so cheerful as keeps me going!
>
> (not Shakespeare!)
>
> Mary
>
>
Sadly Mary I find mine are of little help in the theatre, (the loop
system is poor, to me) films or TV, subtitles are a blessing. One
really, really big plus is bird song, wonderful, let no one tell you
there are not as many birds about, I can never remember hearing so many!
:-))
| |
| Mary Fisher 2006-10-04, 9:25 am |
|
"Broadback" <wen@towill.plus.com> wrote in message
news:4ohr29Feng2nU1@individual.net...
<digital hearing aids>>>[color=darkred]
> Sadly Mary I find mine are of little help in the theatre, (the loop system
> is poor, to me) films or TV, subtitles are a blessing. One really, really
> big plus is bird song, wonderful, let no one tell you there are not as
> many birds about, I can never remember hearing so many! :-))
>
Bird song is no problem, I hear it and even do bird song surveys. I was
assured that the aids are improving all the time, that it would be like
standing on the stage with the actors and that if they weren't good enough
they could be adjusted. I live in hope of all that ... On Sunday we went to
see Humphrey Lyttleton and Acker Bilk, I could hear Humph when I could see
his mouth, I got absolutely nothing of what Bilk croaked. At least it was
that way round :-)
We don't go to films and have no tv but when we did I found subtitles
intrusive and not easy to read.
This is so OT now that others will be irritated, I wouldn't mind continuing
personally.
Sorry, folks,
Mary
| |
| Mike Lyle 2006-10-04, 9:25 am |
|
Janet Tweedy wrote:
> In article <4522c35a$0$29543$4c56ba96@master.news.zetnet.net>, Mary
> Fisher <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> writes
>
> But some types of potatoes make terrible mash, they have sort of solid
> lumps in them. Other varieties mash like a dream.
>
> I have to admit using Smash on top of shepherd's pie as I find it easier
> to smooth it across the meat!
Or you can just make the mash a bit wetter than usual. But it's the
bumpy bits that brown best: I roughen the surface with a fork. When I
can't be aced to make mash, I top with overlapping boiled potato slices
instead of mash and trickle some oil over them: this has probably got a
fancy gastro-name.
--
Mike.
| |
| Rupert \(W.Yorkshire\) 2006-10-04, 1:25 pm |
|
"Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:4523c066$0$29546$4c56ba96@master.news.zetnet.net...
>
> "Broadback" <wen@towill.plus.com> wrote in message
> news:4ohr29Feng2nU1@individual.net...
> <digital hearing aids>>>
>
> Bird song is no problem, I hear it and even do bird song surveys. I was
> assured that the aids are improving all the time, that it would be like
> standing on the stage with the actors and that if they weren't good enough
> they could be adjusted. I live in hope of all that ... On Sunday we went
> to see Humphrey Lyttleton and Acker Bilk, I could hear Humph when I could
> see his mouth, I got absolutely nothing of what Bilk croaked. At least it
> was that way round :-)
>
> We don't go to films and have no tv but when we did I found subtitles
> intrusive and not easy to read.
>
> This is so OT now that others will be irritated, I wouldn't mind
> continuing personally.
>
> Sorry, folks,
>
> Mary
>
No apology needed. At a future date someone will advise on how to rid
digital hearing aids of Greenfly and soil:-)
| |
| Rupert \(W.Yorkshire\) 2006-10-04, 1:25 pm |
|
"Mike Lyle" <mike_lyle_uk@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1159971322.247753.189160@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>
> Janet Tweedy wrote:
>
> Or you can just make the mash a bit wetter than usual. But it's the
> bumpy bits that brown best: I roughen the surface with a fork. When I
> can't be aced to make mash, I top with overlapping boiled potato slices
> instead of mash and trickle some oil over them: this has probably got a
> fancy gastro-name.
>
> --
> Mike.
>
All too fancy for me. We just put lumps of onion in the mash which disguises
the lumpy bits of potatoes:-)
| |
|
| On 4/10/06 15:18, in article 4523c2ba@212.67.96.135, "Rupert (W.Yorkshire)"
<reply@newsgroups.com> wrote:
>
> "Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:4523c066$0$29546$4c56ba96@master.news.zetnet.net...
> No apology needed. At a future date someone will advise on how to rid
> digital hearing aids of Greenfly and soil:-)
>
>
This sounds remarkably like a Gold Slippers moment..... ;-)
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/
| |
| Cat(h) 2006-10-04, 1:25 pm |
|
Mary Fisher wrote:
> "BoyPete" <petcrow@lineone.net> wrote in message
> news:4ofv2lFed5hpU1@individual.net...
>
> A grandson, who of course knew everything at 17, said that a potato ricer
> was the Only Thing so I bought an expensive device from John Lewis. Because
> of my proclivity for mashing potatoes with their skins on it wasn't 100%
> effecient and caused much use of expletives unsuitable for someone of my
> vintage so I reverted to my ancient chrome plated one which was part of a
> set we were given as a wedding present*. The chrome is coming off in parts
> but it works!
>
> But I can't use it on my beloved Circulon pans so I bought a plastic masher
> which wouldn't risk scratching the lining. As you say, the holes are too
> large.
>
> So until Spouse makes me a tool like a wooden mallet with the head on
> sideways I'll have to boil potatoes in the steel pans :-(
>
> Mary
> * in 1960
After many years, I found a perfect masher. I can't remember where I
bought it. It is stainless steel (no good for your Circulon, then, but
posh Circulon is wasted on potato boiling anyway) rock solid, and the
business end looks very like this one (first in the page):
http://www.reluctantgourmet.com/potato_ricer.htm
Used with spuds like Queens or Kerr Pinks, it makes perfect fluffy
mash.
When we were kids, we used to make mashed potato with this fellow:
http://www.auravita.com/products/AURA/FAFX10970.asp
But it was way too much of a song and dance to dismantle and mash every
time.
My wire masher is up there with my cleaver and my granite mortar and
pestle among my favourite cooking implements :-)
Cat(h)
| |
| Mary Fisher 2006-10-04, 1:25 pm |
|
"Cat(h)" <cathy_ie@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1159974468.743149.232550@c28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>
>
> After many years, I found a perfect masher. I can't remember where I
> bought it. It is stainless steel (no good for your Circulon, then, but
> posh Circulon is wasted on potato boiling anyway)
Oh no! They cook much qhicker than stanless so cutting down gas use and
they're so easy to wash!.
> rock solid, and the
> business end looks very like this one (first in the page):
>
> http://www.reluctantgourmet.com/potato_ricer.htm
I have an enormous one of those, industrial capacity, which I used for
mixing honey ... it won't fit in any pan I use for potatoes these days.
>
> When we were kids, we used to make mashed potato with this fellow:
>
> http://www.auravita.com/products/AURA/FAFX10970.asp
>
> But it was way too much of a song and dance to dismantle and mash every
> time.
That's terrifying!
>
> My wire masher is up there with my cleaver and my granite mortar and
> pestle among my favourite cooking implements :-)
I have a range of cleavers, small, large, old (very) and new and love them.
My mortar (and its pestle) is a laboratory Wedgewood one. I still think that
my very favourite kitchen tools are very sharp knives and the means to keep
them thus.
I'm determined not to buy any more kitchen gizmos though, what I have work
and there's no point in having more.
Mary
Mary
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| Mary Fisher 2006-10-04, 1:25 pm |
|
"Sacha" <sacha@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:C1498C1F.3A7F6%sacha@privacy.net...
> This sounds remarkably like a Gold Slippers moment..... ;-)
?
Mary
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| Cat(h) 2006-10-04, 1:25 pm |
|
Mary Fisher wrote:
> Oh no! They cook much qhicker than stanless so cutting down gas use and
> they're so easy to wash!.
Fair point - I was merely thinking of the second to none non-stick
surface.
>
>
> I have an enormous one of those, industrial capacity, which I used for
> mixing honey ... it won't fit in any pan I use for potatoes these days.
My one is human sized :-)
>
>
> That's terrifying!
Not, not really.. and the above should read "wash", not "mash". That
Mouli is still in the vast collection of family heirlooms, some place.
I am pretty sure some one of my siblings have appropriated it. It
never breaks down, and is excellent for all manners of vegetable or
fruit mashing. We used to use it to make (large family portion) fruit
jelly, soups, tomato sauces, etc.
>
> I have a range of cleavers, small, large, old (very) and new and love them.
> My mortar (and its pestle) is a laboratory Wedgewood one. I still think that
> my very favourite kitchen tools are very sharp knives and the means to keep
> them thus.
Hear hear :-)
>
> I'm determined not to buy any more kitchen gizmos though, what I have work
> and there's no point in having more.
I make that pledge on a regular basis... then end up drooling and
weak-kneed in some sweet sho... errr.. kitchenware shop :-)
Cat(h)
| |
|
| On 4/10/06 16:43, in article
4523d6a0$0$29544$4c56ba96@master.news.zetnet.net, "Mary Fisher"
<mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
>
> "Sacha" <sacha@privacy.net> wrote in message
> news:C1498C1F.3A7F6%sacha@privacy.net...
>
> ?
>
You getting garden detritus in hearing aids and Judith gardening in her Gold
Slippers which rapidly turn into not-Gold slippers, or get lost altogether!
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/
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| Janet Baraclough 2006-10-04, 1:25 pm |
| The message <4523c2ba@212.67.96.135>
from "Rupert \(W.Yorkshire\)" <reply@newsgroups.com> contains these words:
> No apology needed. At a future date someone will advise on how to rid
> digital hearing aids of Greenfly and soil:-)
:-)
John cleans them out with the little pokey cleaner that comes with
the digital hearing aid.
Janet
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| JennyC 2006-10-04, 1:25 pm |
|
"Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:452378b0$0$29544$4c56ba96@master.news.zetnet.net...
>
> I didn't know you could. My astonishment rating always shoots up when I
> see tinned potatoes, and custard. Still, some must like them, if the
> demand weren't there they wouldn't be produced.
> Mary
I use a 'frozen food delivered to your doorstep' service and they had a new
product last month : potatoes !!!
The world going mad, Jenny
| |
| JennyC 2006-10-04, 1:25 pm |
|
"Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> wrote >>>
> <digital hearing aids>>>
> This is so OT now that others will be irritated, I wouldn't mind
> continuing personally.
>
> Sorry, folks,
> Mary
That's OK Mary :~)
A lot of us are getting older and it's good to be prepared :~)
Jenny
| |
| Mary Fisher 2006-10-04, 5:25 pm |
|
"Cat(h)" <cathy_ie@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1159977754.348647.141310@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>
>
> Not, not really.. and the above should read "wash", not "mash". That
> Mouli is still in the vast collection of family heirlooms, some place.
> I am pretty sure some one of my siblings have appropriated it. It
> never breaks down, and is excellent for all manners of vegetable or
> fruit mashing. We used to use it to make (large family portion) fruit
> jelly, soups, tomato sauces, etc.
Good. But I don't want one, thank you. No room. Too complicated for a white
haired old woman ...
>
>
> I make that pledge on a regular basis... then end up drooling and
> weak-kneed in some sweet sho... errr.. kitchenware shop :-)
SHADDAP!!!!
Hrumph.
Mary
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| Mary Fisher 2006-10-04, 5:25 pm |
|
"Sacha" <sacha@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:C149AC47.3A81C%sacha@privacy.net...
> On 4/10/06 16:43, in article
> 4523d6a0$0$29544$4c56ba96@master.news.zetnet.net, "Mary Fisher"
> <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
>
> You getting garden detritus in hearing aids and Judith gardening in her
> Gold
> Slippers which rapidly turn into not-Gold slippers, or get lost
> altogether!
Oh, I missed that nugget!
Mary
> --
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| Mary Fisher 2006-10-04, 5:25 pm |
|
"Janet Baraclough" <janet.and.john@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:31303030393032394523F8E319@zetnet.co.uk...
> The message <4523c2ba@212.67.96.135>
> from "Rupert \(W.Yorkshire\)" <reply@newsgroups.com> contains these words:
>
>
>
> :-)
>
> John cleans them out with the little pokey cleaner that comes with
> the digital hearing aid.
I use my fancy toothpick.flosser for all such probing ... such as the
earpiece in my personal radio. When I can't turn up the volume high enough I
do a de-coke.
Mary
>
> Janet
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| Mary Fisher 2006-10-04, 5:25 pm |
|
"JennyC" <Jenny.squirrel@chello.nl> wrote in message
news:4oia0uFekru1U1@individual.net...
>
> "Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> wrote >>>
>
> That's OK Mary :~)
> A lot of us are getting older and it's good to be prepared :~)
> Jenny
You'll all get older - with luck. It's better than the alternative I always
say.
Although sometimes I wonder ...
Mary
>
>
| |
| Helen Deborah Vecht 2006-10-04, 5:25 pm |
| "JennyC" <Jenny.squirrel@chello.nl>typed
> That's OK Mary :~)
> A lot of us are getting older and it's good to be prepared :~)
> Jenny
Ummm... How many of us *aren't* getting older?
Do they have a Time Machine I could borrow?
--
Helen D. Vecht: helenvecht@zetnet.co.uk
Edgware.
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| BoyPete 2006-10-04, 5:25 pm |
| Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:
> "JennyC" <Jenny.squirrel@chello.nl>typed
>
>
> Ummm... How many of us *aren't* getting older?
>
> Do they have a Time Machine I could borrow?
I'm not ;)
--
ßôyþëtë
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| JennyC 2006-10-04, 5:25 pm |
|
"Helen Deborah Vecht" <helenvecht@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:313030303736393545241A6258@zetnet.co.uk...
> "JennyC" <Jenny.squirrel@chello.nl>typed
>
>
> Ummm... How many of us *aren't* getting older?
>
> Do th> Helen D. Vecht: helenvecht@zetnet.co.uk
> Edgware.ey have a Time Machine I could borrow?
DIY :
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?ar...0FB809EC5880000
Jenny "~)
| |
|
| Janet Tweedy <jan@lancedal.demon.co.uk> writes
>In article <4522c35a$0$29543$4c56ba96@master.news.zetnet.net>, Mary
>Fisher <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> writes
>
>But some types of potatoes make terrible mash, they have sort of solid
>lumps in them. Other varieties mash like a dream.
>
>I have to admit using Smash on top of shepherd's pie as I find it
>easier to smooth it across the meat!
>
Try mixing in a tiny bit of milk into the mash - makes it more
spreadable.
--
Kay
| |
|
| Mary Fisher <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> writes
>
>I didn't know you could. My astonishment rating always shoots up when I see
>tinned potatoes, and custard. Still, some must like them, if the demand
>weren't there they wouldn't be produced.
>
They have their place. Sometimes life gets just too busy. And tinned
custard comes in handy if you've run out of milk.
--
Kay
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| Mary Fisher 2006-10-04, 5:25 pm |
|
"Helen Deborah Vecht" <helenvecht@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:313030303736393545241A6258@zetnet.co.uk...
> "JennyC" <Jenny.squirrel@chello.nl>typed
>
>
> Ummm... How many of us *aren't* getting older?
>
> Do they have a Time Machine I could borrow?
They absent-mindedly left it in the future ...
Mary
>
| |
| Mary Fisher 2006-10-04, 5:25 pm |
|
"BoyPete" <petcrow@lineone.net> wrote in message
news:4oiheaFeiegvU1@individual.net...
> Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:
>
> I'm not ;)
I used to think that I wasn't, that I'd live for ever.
Now I'm beginning to think that I might not.
Worse, I'm not sure that I WANT to :-(
It might come to you ... remember this in a few decades.
Mary
> --
> ßôyþëtë
>
>
| |
|
| In article <4ofv2lFed5hpU1@individual.net>, BoyPete
<petcrow@lineone.net> writes
>I have great trouble finding a good potato masher. The run of the mill
>varieties all seem to have too large holes, and pounding for ages still
>leaves lumps. Yuk!! What do you use?
I find that a standard potato masher is fine - however, the real keys
are:
to have the spuds well cooked (but not actually disintegrating);
to drain well then put back in the pan and put the pan over a very low
heat for a minute or two, stirring to make sure the spuds don't catch.
This helps drive out any extra water.
I then leave the low heat on whilst mashing, occasionally taking it off
the heat if it starts steaming too much. The drier the spuds are, the
easier to mash and the fewer lumps.
Also, don't add butter or milk until near the end when the serious
mashing is done. Oh yes - when you've finished mashing, mash it some
more.
After adding the butter/milk, whip it up with a fork for a minute or two
to aerate it.
Works for me everytime
Never use a food processor - I tried it once out of interest. you get a
disgusting gloop.
--
regards andyw
| |
| Janet Baraclough 2006-10-05, 5:25 pm |
| The message <4522cdd6$0$29539$4c56ba96@master.news.zetnet.net>
from "Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> contains these words:
> So until Spouse makes me a tool like a wooden mallet with the head on
> sideways I'll have to boil potatoes in the steel pans :-(
Here's my non-abrasive silicon coated potato masher; doesn't scratch
pans at all
http://www.lakelandlimited.co.uk/pr...ke/kitchentools!10038?src=ga062
Janet
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| Mary Fisher 2006-10-05, 5:25 pm |
|
"Janet Baraclough" <janet.and.john@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:31303030393032394525644546@zetnet.co.uk...
> The message <4522cdd6$0$29539$4c56ba96@master.news.zetnet.net>
> from "Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> contains these words:
>
>
>
> Here's my non-abrasive silicon coated potato masher; doesn't scratch
> pans at all
>
>
> http://www.lakelandlimited.co.uk/pr...ke/kitchentools!10038?src=ga062
Hey - that looks good. I think we have a Lakeland in Leeds now, not that I
go to town often, but I'll try to remember. Thank you.
Mary
>
>
> Janet
| |
| Alan Holmes 2006-10-09, 5:25 pm |
|
"Cat(h)" <cathy_ie@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1159808345.808400.310190@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...
>
> K wrote:
>
> Thank you for that. Hear hear is my only challenge, I knew not to put
> an unfortunate sardine flavoured "i" in bated.
> But because of you, I now have very odd images trotting in my brain...
Thank goodness for that, I had a horrid feeling I was on my own, but
considering the state of the memory I'll have forgotten it before I press
the send button!
Alan
>
> Cat(h)
>
| |
| Alan Holmes 2006-10-09, 5:25 pm |
|
"Cat(h)" <cathy_ie@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1159794538.112280.203980@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
> Alan Holmes wrote:
>
> Because they do sprout in compost? I had loads of potato and tomato
> seedlings in my garden, which got there via my compost heap. Franky,
> they are among the easiest weeds to pull, and I have even left a few to
> do their thing - got about 500 grs worth of toms from a few of them...
> I haven't lifted the couple of spuds yet.
I found a few potatoes in my compost heap and left them to grow, quite
rewarding it has been.
Alan
>
> Cat(h)
>
| |
| Alan Holmes 2006-10-09, 5:25 pm |
|
"Cat(h)" <cathy_ie@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1159793280.228168.57410@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>
> Broadback wrote:
>
> Silly you indeed :-) Some of us pay extortionate money to purchase
> 750g bags of tiny spuds, which are lovely put into the oven with the
> sunday roast (in a separate dish), tossed in olive oil, coarse salt and
> pepper, and with sprigs of rosemary - I think someone has already
> suggested it.
> Well scrubbed, the skins are quite edible. For what it's worth, I
> always eat the skin of my boiled spuds, even big main season ones.
I've never done that, but I always eat the skins of baked pots.
Alan
>
> Cat(h)
>
| |
| Alan Holmes 2006-10-09, 5:25 pm |
|
"Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:452140da$0$29547$4c56ba96@master.news.zetnet.net...
>
> "Cat(h)" <cathy_ie@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1159793280.228168.57410@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> .
>
> I don't even peel potatoes to make mash, except at Christmas.
Lazy devil!(:-)
Alan
>
> Mary
>
>
| |
| Alan Holmes 2006-10-09, 5:25 pm |
|
"Helen Deborah Vecht" <helenvecht@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:3130303037363935452175DB25@zetnet.co.uk...
> Broadback <wen@towill.plus.com>typed
>
>
>
> I don't think we've peeled any potatoes for years...
> ...or done any ironing.
What's ironing?
Alan
>
> --
> Helen D. Vecht: helenvecht@zetnet.co.uk
> Edgware.
| |
| Alan Holmes 2006-10-09, 5:25 pm |
|
"Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:45222952$0$29547$4c56ba96@master.news.zetnet.net...
>
> "Helen Deborah Vecht" <helenvecht@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:3130303037363935452175DB25@zetnet.co.uk...
>
> I have never, ever, ironed a potato.
You don't know what you are missing!
Alan
>
> Mary
>
>
| |
| Alan Holmes 2006-10-09, 5:25 pm |
|
"JennyC" <Jenny.squirrel@chello.nl> wrote in message
news:4ofi5hFeesj1U1@individual.net...
>
> "Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:45223fb9$0$29540$4c56ba96@master.news.zetnet.net...
>
> http://www.premierfoods.co.uk/brands/smash.cfm :
> Smash is the UK's favourite instant mash potato with enough Smash produced
> every year to make 140 million servings.
That is two and a bit for every person in the country!
Alan
>
> Jenny "~))
>
>
>
>
| |
| Alan Holmes 2006-10-09, 5:25 pm |
|
"Janet Baraclough" <janet.and.john@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:31303030393032394522C14000@zetnet.co.uk...
> The message <4522adc3$0$29538$4c56ba96@master.news.zetnet.net>
> from "Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> contains these words:
>
>
> I have seen ready-made mashed potato, porridge, omelette, and baked
> potato in Marks and Spencer. All you have to do is drive to M and S,
> park the car, trail round the aisles, stand in a queue, buy your
> ready-made omelette etc, return to the car, load car, drive home, put
> the omelette in the microwave and warm it up. What could be more
> convenient? :-)
All that time wasted in the store and driving there and back!
Alan
>
> Janet.
| |
| Alan Holmes 2006-10-09, 8:25 pm |
|
"Sacha" <sacha@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:C1489594.3A75A%sacha@privacy.net...
> On 3/10/06 20:00, in article 31303030393032394522C14000@zetnet.co.uk,
> "Janet
> Baraclough" <janet.and.john@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Oh, I think the baked potato beats everything. Really, I do. How hard is
> it to wash a potato, prick its skin and stick it in the oven?
Or the microwave!
But you have to be a bit careful with this, I went to a class for 'cooking
for one' some years ago and a fellow there tried to cook a potato in the
micro it started smoking and when he took it out, all there was left was the
skin!
Alan
| |
| Alan Holmes 2006-10-09, 8:25 pm |
|
"Broadback" <wen@towill.plus.com> wrote in message
news:4ohr29Feng2nU1@individual.net...
> Mary Fisher wrote:
> Sadly Mary I find mine are of little help in the theatre, (the loop system
> is poor, to me) films or TV, subtitles are a blessing. One really, really
> big plus is bird song, wonderful, let no one tell you there are not as
> many birds about, I can never remember hearing so many! :-))
When I got my digital aids, I couldn't believe the sounds I could hear!
Alan
| |
| Alan Holmes 2006-10-09, 8:25 pm |
|
> The message <4523c2ba@212.67.96.135>
> from "Rupert \(W.Yorkshire\)" <reply@newsgroups.com> contains these words:
>
>
>
> :-)
Dont put your head on the ground!
Alan
| |
| Alan Holmes 2006-10-09, 8:25 pm |
|
"Janet Baraclough" <janet.and.john@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:31303030393032394523F8E319@zetnet.co.uk...
> The message <4523c2ba@212.67.96.135>
> from "Rupert \(W.Yorkshire\)" <reply@newsgroups.com> contains these words:
>
>
>
> :-)
>
> John cleans them out with the little pokey cleaner that comes with
> the digital hearing aid.
I didn't get a pokey thing with my digital aids, but then mine are NHS!
Alan
>
> Janet
| |
| Alan Holmes 2006-10-09, 8:25 pm |
|
"BoyPete" <petcrow@lineone.net> wrote in message
news:4oiheaFeiegvU1@individual.net...
> Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:
>
> I'm not ;)
You're not what, a time machine?
Alan
> --
> ßôyþëtë
>
>
| |
| Alan Holmes 2006-10-09, 8:25 pm |
|
"Helen Deborah Vecht" <helenvecht@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:313030303736393545241A6258@zetnet.co.uk...
> "JennyC" <Jenny.squirrel@chello.nl>typed
>
>
> Ummm... How many of us *aren't* getting older?
I'm getting older every day, at least I think so, can't be sure of anything
these days!
Alan
>
> Do they have a Time Machine I could borrow?
>
> --
> Helen D. Vecht: helenvecht@zetnet.co.uk
> Edgware.
| |
| Mary Fisher 2006-10-10, 9:25 am |
|
"Alan Holmes" <alan.holmes@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:ZUzWg.15386$yf2.5@newsfe5-win.ntli.net...
>
> "Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:4523781e$0$29544$4c56ba96@master.news.zetnet.net...
>
> What's a Circulon pan?
As the man said, if you don't know you can't afford one!
Mary
| |
| Janet Baraclough 2006-10-10, 9:25 am |
| The message <H4AWg.15393$yf2.8233@newsfe5-win.ntli.net>
from "Alan Holmes" <alan.holmes@nowhere.com> contains these words:
> "Janet Baraclough" <janet.and.john@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:31303030393032394523F8E319@zetnet.co.uk...
[color=darkred]
> I didn't get a pokey thing with my digital aids, but then mine are NHS!
So is his. You've been shortchanged if the NHS didn't supply you with
a free pokey thing :-)
Janet
| |
| Mary Fisher 2006-10-10, 9:25 am |
|
"Janet Baraclough" <janet.and.john@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:3130303039303239452B74A153@zetnet.co.uk...
> The message <H4AWg.15393$yf2.8233@newsfe5-win.ntli.net>
> from "Alan Holmes" <alan.holmes@nowhere.com> contains these words:
>
>
>
>
> So is his. You've been shortchanged if the NHS didn't supply you with
> a free pokey thing :-)
I'll remember to ask tomorrow, if they don't give me one!
Mary
>
> Janet
| |
| Martin 2006-10-10, 1:25 pm |
| < |