Mundane News

[potsy]

I've done the watering in the garden, newly planted stuff and pots.

Should have waited and let the Manc weather do that for you... won't be long

 

[potsy]

We got given a little thank you voucher yesterday at work, can be used at the Trafford Centre...

I hate the Trafford Centre

Do I sound ungrateful?

 

[Illaveago]

I think a bad day is starting . The fairies have just arrived .

 

[Illaveago]

I think its linked to me walking the Clarendon Way thus weekend . I'm digging out the storm cape .

Is that what they call that type of dancing ?

 

[potsy]

Morris dancing is not something to which I am attracted .

Now I'm not easily surprised, usually

 

[Tenacious Sloth]

I could listen to Jonathan Agnew read the phone book.

TMS = Sheer Bliss

 

[MikeG]

I could listen to Jonathan Agnew read the phone book........

He played the organ at my wedding. Well, he should have done, but he chickened out at the last minute and paid someone else to do it instead.

 

[Reynard]

So, right next to your scales is a particularly floury calculator?

I have an old fashioned balance-beam set of scales, with cast iron weights. It's semi-permanently loaded with 500g. The only thing I weigh is the flour. The rest is all done by volume...........except the oil, which I just slop in.

Actually, no I'm so used to using the 600g of flour for my everyday breads that I don't need to do the maths.

My notebook with all my formulae for breads are mostly written in bakers' percentages, so it's easy to scale up or down. And do the maths. Because hydration for bread typically ranges from 60 to 70%, depending on the bread type (I run out of baking talent if my dough is wetter than 65%). Bagels are at 55% hydration, no-kneads and ciabatta between 75 and 80%. Salt is always 2%.

P.S. I have several sets of old scales of different kinds, but my go-to scale for breadmaking is an electronic one that I picked up in Lidl for a fiver.

 

[Reynard]

Is that soft or hard water ?

Hard water here chez Casa Reynard.

 

[Reynard]

Had a particularly fine piece of fillet steak for lunch. Smoking hot pan, a minute and a half per side, bit of salt and pepper, home made butter and fresh thyme and rosemary from the garden.

Made a truly delectable steak sandwich.

Suitably fortified, I am off to furkle weeds and clear up some broken branches with the chain saw.

 

[postman]

Ok lunch was brilliant.We went to a Miller and Carter Steak House.We split the bill three ways,it was only fair.It was a bit more upmarket than Nandos,just a bit.Full rack of ribs,chips and slaw,followed by a massive chocolate bomb,orange sauce,vanilla and raspberry ice cream that was stunning.Feeling full.

 

[Reynard]

Didn't get round to the chainsaw in the end. But I furkled up several wheelbarrows' worth of weeds and cleared up three large elderberry trees - which I had to remove in order to clear up the top half of a bullace that snapped in one of the early spring gales.

Packed it in 20 mins ago because it started chucking it down. Now sat down with a banana and a well-earnt

 

[Speicher]

I felled over this afternoon.

Next door's dog is a very sturdy very large very strong Labrador. He playfully jumped up and bopped my nose with his nose. I was on uneven ground and lost my balance, stepped backwards, partially regained my balance, did a piroutte, lost my balance, took another step to try and regain my balance but gradually gravity won, and I toppled (gracefully) over onto the edge of the field.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

I felled over this afternoon.

Next door's dog is a very sturdy very large very strong Labrador. He playfully jumped up and bopped my nose with his nose. I was on uneven ground and lost my balance, stepped backwards, partially regained my balance, did a piroutte, lost my balance, took another step to try and regain my balance but gradually gravity won, and I toppled (gracefully) over onto the edge of the field.

You're alright I hope?

 

[Reynard]

Ouch. Hope it's only your ego that's bruised, Wol xxx