Chitchat thread #24

[Florence Fennel]

That's probably why I went home for lunch (walking both ways) and hated it if on some rare occasions I had to stay at school. I made that journey, hail, rain or snow, with my mother while at infants, my friends through juniors and seniors and then I became weird and/posh

[mothhawk]

School dinners.... some you love, some you loathe......anyone else remember chocolate concrete served with pink custard?

[Florence Fennel]

Never had that MH, but I did hear horror stories from my friends about it. As I remember on the rare occasions I had to stay for dinner, it always seemed to be cheese pie and a milk pudding. Yuk

[Bren In Pots]

School dinners.... some you love, some you loathe......anyone else remember chocolate concrete served with pink custard?

I remember that

[greenishfing]

School dinners.... some you love, some you loathe......anyone else remember chocolate concrete served with pink custard?

I remember pink custard...but not what we had with it. When I was young I really didn't care what I ate....... it was just fuel. All I ever cared about was if there was "seconds".

[bramble]

We never did school dinners here in Ireland.
Instead, we brought our own lunch from home
We just got half an hour for lunch and went home at 2.30 instead.

[Nicos]

Prunes!…I could never get enough….I adored them. If I went up for thirds, I was always refused. Probably just as well!

Pink custard?…I always thought it was unset blancmange yuk.

[Nicos]

Mornin n’alln’all

Such a complicated day in the end yesterday, but basically we now have two new tyres for the car…and the MOT revisit this morning.

We did however buy our Charlotte seed potatoes and Mikor shallots from the farm supplies shop…plus a few primroses which were less than half price and covered with flower buds and a tray of pansies.
We’ll be popping into the garden centre today…hopefully!

Right- best get ready ….Kettle’s hot- help yourselves….enjoy your day peeps.
Not seen the smiles yet…maybe they are hovering over the garden centre!

[Snoop Puss]

Morning all.

Good luck with the MOT, Nicos. I bet those smiles are waiting at the garden centre already. They headed off late, though. I couldn't sleep, so got up early to do some work and get some bread on the go. They're never around for that, so they wanted to watch Sunny Jim (name of my mixer - yellow, obviously!) in action. Anyway, that done and doing its first rise. Got a starter for a Dan Lepard (anyone else ever want to call him Def Leppard?) fruit loaf on the go as well. Haven't made it in ages. We really like the flavour but it isn't half dense. Bit more experienced at breadmaking now, so have tweaked the recipe a bit in a bid to improve it. Fingers crossed...

Mr Snoop is taking one of the dogs to the vet's today and will do some shopping at the 'big shops' while he's out. I'm staying at home to keep the other dog company. With any luck, I'll get a bit of work done rather than fretting and fractiousing, which is what the dog with me will do.

Right, better get on with the show. Have a great day, everyone.

[greenishfing]

Good morning all. Not a particularly good one as I've been awake since about 4am, tossing and turning. In the end I just got up. Also my wi-fi is down. I had had an email saying they were doing work on the network last night, until 5am, but it is still out, with an annoying red light on the modem.

Just broke off to go out to alert a neighbour, a night worker, that he had left his car lights on when he came in.

I did all my shopping yesterday without ever going into the city centre. I couldn't deliver my brother-in-law's banana loaf as he was out so I must do that today when I go pick up our prescriptions at the chemist or Mr GF will get too attached to it. It really wants leaving wrapped in clingfilm for a couple of days after baking to go a bit sticky anyway.

Thinking about what Nicos said about French people eating food in season I remember the first time I ever drove on country roads in France, as opposed to motorways, and seeing stalls set up by peoples gates. That was how I tasted my first, perfectly ripe Charentais melon. I think it was the nicest melon I'd ever tasted.....until I grew my own.

[Bren In Pots]

Morning

Nicos I'm a fan of prunes especially dried ones I munch them instead of sweets, I sometimes have tinned ones on my oatmeal. Hope your car passes today.

Snoop i've never made a fruit loaf my sourdough loaves are usually half white half wholemeal must try something new.

It looks like being a good day here only a bit of morning rain, but we'll see.

GF you'd best hide that banana loaf somewhere safe or 'someone' will be after it

[Snoop Puss]

Thanks for the reminder, Bren In Pots. All very well having the starter but I've forgotten to soak the fruit a bit beforehand.

Edited to add: There's something to be said about always making the same loaves. I bet you're a real expert at them and they always come out well. My loaves are sometimes a bit hit and miss, if I fiddle with the amount of liquid or change the flour type. Nothing inedible so far. Hope that's not famous last words.

[Florence Fennel]

Good Morning All and Happy Friday Drizzling here. Undecided as to what to do today. First job is to book a slot for my grory hop in March. See you later have a good day

[bramble]

Good morning all.
Dull and grey here but its dry.

I am another fan of dried prunes and apricots
They are a healthy snack.

We are away for the weekend so just finished packing.
We are going to a hotel for a country music weekend.

Have a good day all.

[mothhawk]

Morning all.

Lost my mojo today so I'm still here playing about instead of getting on doing something. Chuffed to do the phrazle first go today - it was an easy one I think - and did the redactle in 63 goes, instead of running well into 3 figures. Also got the flagle and globle, so while my mojo may be missing, my brain is evidently in top gear today

Time for a mid morning cuppa now I think