The Retirement Thread

[Paulus]

Blimey, what a busy morning.
Millie has been walked, the wing mirror has been repaired, the carpets have been cleaned, I probably left it a bit too long to do them. The water looked very muddy in the waste tank.
I have also planted the first early potatoes.
We are going to have omelettes for lunch, smoked bacon, mushrooms and cheese.

 

[Paulus]

Food likes and dislikes are strange aren't they.
I have never (and never will) eat black pudding or tripe.
As a kid my family was poor. Saturday night would often be a sheep's head. The full head on the table, we ate the brain, tongue and all the flesh, euk.

I love black pudding, but I have tried tripe and onions a couple of times but I really dislike it.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Our granddaughter has a taste for sour, she eats lemons and likes pickled gerkins and beetroot etc. She also eats raw sprouts as if they were sweets, and has now developed a taste for olives. Not thought to try her with pickled onions, I'll get some for her to try.

Some people are like that
My Mum had a friend who would buy large jars of pickled onions and eat them like sweets

AND drink the vinegar like kids drink coke

I guess tastes just vary!

(except cheese - cheese is disgusting and the rest of the world is just wrong!!!!)

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Food likes and dislikes are strange aren't they.
I have never (and never will) eat black pudding or tripe.
As a kid my family was poor. Saturday night would often be a sheep's head. The full head on the table, we ate the brain, tongue and all the flesh, euk.

If I tried that with my grandkids they wouldn;t stop running until they fell into the North Sea

screaming all the way!!

so I REALLY should not try it

 

[Dave7]

I love black pudding, but I have tried tripe and onions a couple of times but I really dislike it.

When people mention black pudding I just think dried blood with lumps of fat in.

 

[welsh dragon]

Nice chunk of strong cheese a few pickled onions Crackers with a nice onion chutney.

Sheer bliss

 

[welsh dragon]

Egg on toast today.

I had to go to town for a few things. When we got back Mr WD dropped the large bottle of milk onto the ground and it went all over my handbag, jeans and trainers

 

[Dirk]

Food likes and dislikes are strange aren't they.
I have never (and never will) eat black pudding or tripe.
As a kid my family was poor. Saturday night would often be a sheep's head. The full head on the table, we ate the brain, tongue and all the flesh, euk.

Sheep head?! You were lucky!
We used t' dream of a full sheep's head.
We used t' live on sheep's nose soup.....

 

[briantrumpet]

Well, a(nother) gastroscopy is one way to pass a gloomy Monday morning. Just the throat spray option, so at least I was able to come home and have lunch without a chaperone!

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Egg on toast today.

I had to go to town for a few things. When we got back Mr WD dropped the large bottle of milk onto the ground and it went all over my handbag, jeans and trainers

Jeans will wash trainers can be washed - or at least scrubbed

how recoverable is the handbag


or - more importantly - how much trouble is Mr WD in and do we need to arrange a rescue mission????

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Just been out shopping

SWMBO is very fussy abotu bread (and otehr things - there is a list!!) and like it very fresh

which is a problem as I don;t eat normal bread anymore
so I have been getting her Warbutons Toastie - the small version
but she keeps complaining that it feels and tastes stale when she is about half way through it


so I thought we could try M&S and see if they have one that might last better and the same size

to my surprise their normal white bread is actually cheaper than Warburtons from Tesco

which feels weird


so we now have a list of thing we get from M&S

Posh or WHAT!!!

 

[Drago]

This thing is turning into a cold now

 

[Dave7]

Just been out shopping

SWMBO is very fussy abotu bread (and otehr things - there is a list!!) and like it very fresh

which is a problem as I don;t eat normal bread anymore
so I have been getting her Warbutons Toastie - the small version
but she keeps complaining that it feels and tastes stale when she is about half way through it


so I thought we could try M&S and see if they have one that might last better and the same size

to my surprise their normal white bread is actually cheaper than Warburtons from Tesco

which feels weird


so we now have a list of thing we get from M&S

Posh or WHAT!!!

My nearest M&S is too far away to be viable.

 

[Tenkaykev]

A bit of a mystery yesterday evening. Mrs Tkk decided to give the new electric oven its first use. Pressed buttons and turned knobs but it was dead. I investigated and switched the supply to it off and on - no luck. Checked circuit breaker all ok then decided to leave it until this morning. Texted sparky and he told me there was a small access panel at the base of the oven housing. Pulled that out to reveal the oven connector lying on the floor. It's a special connector for Bosch ovens and of course it fits in the back. Puzzled as to how it had come loose I decided to take the oven out of the housing aided by my new apprentice Mrs Tkk. I slid it onto a packing case and managed to refit the connector which was quite a tight fit. Not wanting the same thing to happen again I fitted a sticky pad to the frame and cable tied the lead in place before refitting the oven and testing.
Just after I finished I had a phone call from the sparky to say that he'd been on the phone to the kitchen fitter whose response had been a pause followed by " Oh sh*t ". He'd been working on the adjacent unit and temporarily disconnected the oven then forgot to reconnect . 😁

 

[Tenkaykev]

Just been out shopping

SWMBO is very fussy abotu bread (and otehr things - there is a list!!) and like it very fresh

which is a problem as I don;t eat normal bread anymore
so I have been getting her Warbutons Toastie - the small version
but she keeps complaining that it feels and tastes stale when she is about half way through it


so I thought we could try M&S and see if they have one that might last better and the same size

to my surprise their normal white bread is actually cheaper than Warburtons from Tesco

which feels weird


so we now have a list of thing we get from M&S

Posh or WHAT!!!

Waitrose " essentials " range is similar. Very good price and quality on the items that we have purchased.