Mundane News

[summerdays]

Bins out, porridge eaten ..... Now I need another coffee!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I may have to do some washing up before I can start messing the kitchen up again.

 

[mybike]

It's raining. And dark. Sounds like the council are doing the verges. Turned desk lamp on so I can see the keyboard.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Sounds like The Great British Bake off! Bet you'd win.

yep - and it is too much for me and my back. I can't stand that long. But if I don't bake the loaf of bread I have nothing to eat for lunch, ditto with the pate. I can't just get something out of the cupboard or fridge being allergic to dairy. I have run out of bread in the freezer hence the need to bake some more (which was started 2 days ago.... sourdough starter to make sourdough pre-ferment 2 days ago, sourdough pre-ferment to make sourdough loaf yesterday)... usually 20 mins each day which I can manage. Sadly we ran out of pate yesterday as well, so that meant that the butterbeans had to be soaked overnight last night to make pate today, they are cooking now. As for evening meal well.. that was a case we were out last night (unavoidable relating to my grandfather's death) Our meals being rigged so that we had something left over for last night to eat in the car (pasties made at the weekend), so we have no option but to cook tonight's tea today. The loaf of bread is also for tonight's tea as well.

Scones I could abandon if necessary, but it hardly seems worthwhile. They take 10 mins to make and 15 mins to bake and they are done and out of the way and I will have something for 4 o'clock when I always get hungry and a scone (well mine anyway) come in at roughly 100 calories each which makes my diet much easier! I can't eat conventional biscuits because of the dairy and if I open a packet of biscuits....

I think I may just have to settle for a walk, or go out on the new wheelchair and do an upper body workout instead! Well more of an upper bodywork out than I normally get using crutches and attempting walking! It is now here and I want to get out

 

[Katherine]

yep - and it is too much for me and my back. I can't stand that long. But if I don't bake the loaf of bread I have nothing to eat for lunch, ditto with the pate. I can't just get something out of the cupboard or fridge being allergic to dairy. I have run out of bread in the freezer hence the need to bake some more (which was started 2 days ago.... sourdough starter to make sourdough pre-ferment 2 days ago, sourdough pre-ferment to make sourdough loaf yesterday)... usually 20 mins each day which I can manage. Sadly we ran out of pate yesterday as well, so that meant that the butterbeans had to be soaked overnight last night to make pate today, they are cooking now. As for evening meal well.. that was a case we were out last night (unavoidable relating to my grandfather's death) Our meals being rigged so that we had something left over for last night to eat in the car (pasties made at the weekend), so we have no option but to cook tonight's tea today. The loaf of bread is also for tonight's tea as well.

Scones I could abandon if necessary, but it hardly seems worthwhile. They take 10 mins to make and 15 mins to bake and they are done and out of the way and I will have something for 4 o'clock when I always get hungry and a scone (well mine anyway) come in at roughly 100 calories each which makes my diet much easier! I can't eat conventional biscuits because of the dairy and if I open a packet of biscuits....

I think I may just have to settle for a walk, or go out on the new wheelchair and do an upper body workout instead! Well more of an upper bodywork out than I normally get using crutches and attempting walking! It is now here and I want to get out

It's talk like that, that shows why you have that avatar!! Go girl

 

[Maverick Goose]

I've woken up and it's November outside.

Felt like it on the top of Helvellyn yesterday! Winter is coming....

 

[potsy]

Boiling here, just back from a 9.5 mile ride on the mtb

 

[Mark1978]

10 days till I climb Kilimanjaro. Is that mundane news?

 

[PeteXXX]

I adjusted the angle of the headlights on my car this morning as the nearside one was at a funny angle...
No they're both wrong

 

[potsy]

It has definitely rained overnight or early this morning, trail was quite soggy, will have to give it a wash later

 

[young Ed]

I have just bought a bale of hay.

what size was it? conventional, mini heston, heston, 4ft round, 4ft 6in round, 6 ft round... i've probably missed some
what is the hay like in your bale, roughly what moisture content was it baled at? and does it have any weeds and/or thistles in it? what sort of grass did it come from,? timmothy, rye grass (perennial or italian?), yorkshire fog...? what about clover, does it contain much clover? the grass it came from, how much artifitial granualr nitrogen fertiliser how much liquid fertiliser and how much muck has it had on it this year?

am i boring anyone yet?
i could go on with what sort of bailer twine, humidity ATM how many times has it been handled and in what way, when was it cut, baled and how many times and when was it turned, did it have any rain on it after being cut? and probably much more than that! haha
ok i'll stop now

That really is the last straw.

now, now, now what shall we have to do with you! the difference between hay and straw is HUGE and one you don't want to get mixed up
straw is better for bedding, sheep don't tend to eat straw too much but cows quite happily eat straw with barley straw being the best
if this weather ever dries up we're due to start straw any day now, looking at the local weather forecast that would appear to be next week, maybe end of this week, it's not been a bad year for straw so i expect we will do 2,500-3,500 bales maybe upto 3,500
Cheers Ed

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

It has definitely rained overnight or early this morning, trail was quite soggy, will have to give it a wash later

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that does not count as quite soggy...


sorry brain check needed.

@potsy you are quite right, that is indeed quite soggy, (for you)

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

10 days till I climb Kilimanjaro. Is that mundane news?

yes....

let me know at the 1 day mark please? I can't remember that far in advance....

 

[potsy]

that does not count as quite soggy...


sorry brain check needed.

@potsy you are quite right, that is indeed quite soggy, (for you)

It has been in showroom condition since I bought it, this is it's first taste of mud

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

It has been in showroom condition since I bought it, this is it's first taste of mud

you mean you have actually ridden it?
or did you get someone else to ride it for you and they got it dirty?