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May 25, 2019 03:36PM
I think you'll have to check first with George Venizelos just in case it turns out that you are also an Imposter - one who is impersonating yourself without you knowing it ;o>
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Is that DoppelBungler back again? :)
I think I met McColl’s employee of the month in Dundee today.Me: Do you sell batteries?
Salesperson: Aye, but only Duracell, and they’re £4.99. You’d be better going to Home Bargains, you can get a really big packet for a pound.
he probably only thought you were insane! naebuddy buys batteries ootta mccoll's unless they're thusly blessed, or a millionaire! parp!
nocheese wrote: "I think I met McColl’s employee of the month in Dundee today.Me: Do you sell batteries?
Salesperson: Aye, but only Duracell, and they’re £4.99. You’d be better going to Home Bargains, you can ge..."
From our local paper last Thursday:
http://www.rodeasdown.com.au/home-ent...
Wow, that’s a comprehensive and well-researched moan!Since I was replacing cheap leaking batteries in my friend’s tv remote, I channelled my inner insane millionaire and went for the Duracell. Oh, well.
Oh, and the lovely person behind the counter so concerned to save me money was a she.
You did right, nc, 'Which?' says the cheapo ones really are crap. Panasonic are good if you watch out for special offers.
Gordon, L.o.D is actually all about golf. We just pretend otherwise to keep it special.I'm struggling to find anything wrong with the re-labelling. I might well have done the same as a temporary measure. I hope to be back to normal soon.
"British food is stereotypically held in low regard by other countries, but a recent YouGov survey found that 91% of Britons enjoy their own national cuisine. Now, new YouGov Realtime research delves deeper into that statistic and reveals the popularity of 50 classic British foods" ...
I would eat and also enjoy almost everything on both Lists except for the Laverbread and the Jellied Eels. I would eat the Bakewell Tart but it has never especially been one of my favourites.I'm a little surprised at some of the positions of Food Items on both Lists and also by what there isn't showing up at all. Perhaps Lasagne, Pizza, Spag Bol, Chocolate Cake, Lemon Meringue Pie, and Carrot Cake weren't offered up as Voting Choices though?
I would argue that they are classic British Dishes as they have been the mainstay of most Restaurant and Café Menus for as long as I can remember - certainly as long as Chicken Tikka Masala has been around for anyway and much longer than Banoffee Pie ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: ""British food is stereotypically held in low regard by other countries, but a recent YouGov survey found that 91% of Britons enjoy their own national cuisine. Now, new YouGov Realtime research delv..."No wonder we're a nation of corpulent, gummy and toothless lard-arses with nuclear-grade halitosis, IBS, chronic flatulence and impacted colons.
I've been thinking about this a lot recently. Not so many decades ago our Parents and Grandparents had unenviable jobs involving much more intensive manual work and they needed the Calories to keep themselves going - but times have changed so much now, haven't they?Maybe it IS time for us all to start living off a Diet of mainly Salad nowadays?!! ;oO
"I would argue that they are classic British Dishes as they have been the mainstay of most Restaurant and Café Menus for as long as I can remember - certainly as long as Chicken Tikka Masala" - I think the key point is that the Tikka Masala is an entirely Brit invention; they've never heard of it in south Asia whereas pizza and the rest originated elsewhere and are artery-hardening imported cuisines.
Yeah, I take your point ;o>I've always thought of Banoffee Pie as being an American Dessert so I Googled it and was very surprised to discover that Banoffi Pie was invented in the 1970s by the Owner and the Chef of The Hungry Monk Restaurant in Jevington in East Sussex.
Apparently, in 1984, a number of Supermarkets began selling it as being an American Dessert - which lead to the two of them offering up a £10,000 prize to anyone who could disprove their claim to be the English inventors.
Well that's something unexpected and new that I've learnt today! ;o>
A few years ago I was at my GP's (she's French, about as wide as she is tall with greasy hair and ze comedee accent) when she said she wanted me to have a check up including blood-testing for diabetes. Oh sez I is that the one where you starve after tea and get tested early next day. No, she said, the modern tests aren't affected by what you eat. My appointment was for 7.30pm so no way was I going to wait till after 8 for some scran and went to the chippy for a jumbo haddock and chips.I phoned the surgery to ask for the results and could I have an appointment with the nurse? 'Oh no Mr Neck, you need to see the diabetes nurse". I spent the next 2 weeks crapping myself and thinking about all the lifestyle changes about to crash my little world. When I saw the diabetes nurse she said I wasn't diabetic nor even pre-diabetic (whatever that is) and that she'd be having a word with the Dr! I'd have had summat to say too if I've have seen her at the moment.
Anyway back to my fry-up with a pie and chips side order with a knickerbocker glory to follow, slaked down with a 2 litre bottle of White Lightning Buuuuurp, faaaart, slobber.
My Dad always squeezes a quarter of a Lemon onto his Fish whenever he has Fish 'n' Chips - and swears that it counts as being one of his Eight A Day! - LOL!!! ;o>
I'm going to amaze everyone by saying that I honestly really enjoyed almost all the food on my recent hospital stay. The soups were particularly yummy. Pasta dishes were great too. Everything was made on the premises using local ingredients wherever available. Plenty of choice too. The staff agreed - their canteen had the same menu. The only things they failed on were fish and chips - fish was a solid bricklike substance and the chips were soggy. Tea and coffee however were pretty vile.
Ohhh well, your unexpected Hospital Stay wasn't all bad then?! - LOL!!! ;o>
No, once I started feeling better, I enjoyed having everything done for me. The staff were fantastic, specially the student nurses. They work incredibly hard and some patients are quite challenging.I was too weak to be bolshie!
Lez wrote: "I'm going to amaze everyone by saying that I honestly really enjoyed almost all the food on my recent hospital stay. The soups were particularly yummy. Pasta dishes were great too. Everything was m..."'You and Yours' phone-in on hospital food right now - give them a call Lez.
Just had a letter from the bank to confirm that we have changed our preferences and are now paperless for statements and other communications.
! ... ;o>I must admit I'm holding out on that for now as I like to go through and check out my Bank Statements in their Paper Format each month rather than online.
If they would let you somehow tick, or cross off, or put a line through each Transaction listed onscreen as you check them out then I'd very happily go paperless in an instant ;o>
Drones have taken to the skies above Cheshire to mark the switch of Northwich-based Roberts Bakery’s top-selling Loaves into revolutionary new paper packaging.
Doing something ‘drastic about plastic’, Roberts has reduced plastic in its Bread bags by 53% - switching its core ranges into sustainably sourced paper. It’s the first Bakery brand in the UK to do so.
Dubbed the 'Bread Arrows', the Drones performed an acrobatic display to mark the new paper bags hitting shelves of 300 Tesco stores across the UK – giving the nation’s Bread buyers an environmentally-friendly option.
The new bag has 53% less plastic than before and is made from sustainably-sourced paper with a very thin poly prop coating to ensure that the Loaves stay fabulously fresh.
Sounds similar to the packaging Iceland use for their bread?
From today's 'Tipping Point':Q. The number one thousand and nine in Roman numerals forms what short English word?
A. (From a 40ish woman) "Well, I know a thousand is 'C' and nine is VIIII, so I'll try 'cove'"
Definitely got her letters "mix"-ed up there :)
I'm guessing that I must be in a minority on this one? - but I'm afraid I haven't got a clue and I wouldn't have dared to even try to offer up any answer to it.All that I know about Roman Numerals is that they sometimes turn up on Clocks and Sundials - LOL!!! ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "I'm guessing that I must be in a minority on this one? - but I'm afraid I haven't got a clue and I wouldn't have dared to even try to offer up any answer to it.All that I know about Roman Numeral..."
...and the end of most old films and many TV programmes. People of my age all learnt Roman numerals in primary school, no idea why!
Yeah, my Dad has often said "when was this Programme filmed?", read the Credits, and then translated the Date out loud - and we actually had a Clock in the Hall for many years with only Roman Numerals on it and so you'd really think that I'd have come to know them from that, wouldn't you? ... but, thinking about it now, I've just realised that I only ever tend to look at just where the position of the Hands on a Clock are when wanting to know the Time - LOL!!! ;o>
Nowadays if you want the time, just ask Alexa. And if she tells you in roman numerals, start worrying...
I'm not ready or willing to have an Alexa in our Home yet ;o>My Neighbour has just bought himself a very very VERY expensive Coffee Machine and Toaster Set that flashes up things like ... "Good Morning" and "Have a nice day" ... and that was more than a freaky enough concept for me to take in!
I can't stop thinking about that utter nightmare of a talking Toaster on Red Dwarf now! It was supposed to be just another funny futuristic joke, but ... ! ;oO
Soon you won't be able to get dumb toasters any more...
I think that genuine 'smart intelligence' is in the sensing and knowing when to just be quiet and to sit peacefully in companionable and contemplative silence ... just like the Toasters and Kettles that most of us have now already do ;o>
I've never owned a toaster nor has my sister. We never had one at home either. I've used one in holiday cottages but was never on friendly terms with them.
We got our first Toaster when we had to finally say goodbye in the late 90's to our beloved 1950's Baby Belling with it's integral Overhead Grill Pan that me and Mum always used - even though, being so short in stature and arm length, we both had to stand on a Foot Stool to be able to do so - LOL!!! ;o>
To quote Cicero circa 60BC, "It's all Greek to me!"
suzysunshine7 wrote: "We got our first Toaster when we had to finally say goodbye in the late 90's to our beloved 1950's Baby Belling with it's integral Overhead Grill Pan that me and Mum always used - even though, bein..."By great coincidence, I've just ordered a new gas cooker as my 23-year-old one has died. None of the burners will light and it can't be safely repaired. I'm really upset as the oven still works perfectly as does the very efficient eye-level grill. I've had overhead grills all my life as has my sis who's also just had to replace hers.
There are now only 2 makers who do this and they're very hard to track down. There aren't any New World available anywhere at the mo, so I'm stuck with a Flavel/Beko one which aren't as good.
Awww Les? - is there no room available in your Kitchen for the installation of a separate Worktop Hob instead so that you can still keep and use your Oven and Grill as it is?One like these? ... https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=gas...
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Awww Les? - is there no room available in your Kitchen for the installation of a separate Worktop Hob instead so that you can still keep and use your Oven and Grill as it is?One like these? ... h..."
Sadly no. I really wanted an induction hob which can be plugged in anywhere but there's no suitable space. I asked the gasman if it was possible to close off the gas hob and simply place the new one on top, but he said there'd be all sorts of safety issues.
Have posted a pic on my profile.
That's a real shame because it still looks in very good condition ;o<We were so sad to see the Baby Belling go - it was like family - LOL!!! - and I still feel I made some of my very best Cakes ever in it's lovely little Oven.
It was pretty much falling apart though and showing up rust spots despite always being treated with much tender loving care. It just gave up one day and there was nothing Dad could do to fix it anymore.
I have grown to like our new Cooker but it is a Fan Oven with so many Settings on it that we haven't got a clue about or any use for - and it apparently prefers to work far more like a fast furnace and greatly dislikes the traditionally slow and very careful baking of a really good old-fashioned Fruit Cake.
We also had a Baby Belling when I was growing up. I think it was about 1965 or so before my Mum was able to afford a new cooker. She was so proud of her Moffat (made In Canada) with it's eye-level grill.I too had difficulty reaching the eye level grill.
Here in Oz we always used the grill on our cooker for toast (plus a whistling kettle on top) until my Dad came to stay with us in 1982. He couldn't believe how we could live without "modern appliances" so he went straight out and bought a 4-slice toaster and an electric kettle (both Russell Hobbs which had a good reputation then).
Our cooker is really struggling at the mo. I don't have 100% faith in the oven temperatures and the gas burners are showing signs of metal deterioration. But we cling on to it because it's set in an alcove in the kitchen (with the extractor fan above and the front is flush with the wall) and at 75cm wide it is a perfect fit. But guess what? Stand alone cookers only come in two widths these days - 60cm or 90cm. We've got used to the extra space on the stove top and the wider oven and we would need to have building works done to accommodate the bigger one, so we'll just press on with our old locally made Modern Maid (who aren't in business any more).
Looks a bit like this except half as wide again.
The flat we rented when we got married and moved to Sheffield in 1972 was furnished entirely with wartime stuff including a Baby Belling. It was brilliant, I used to do a full roast dinner every Sunday, cooking all the veg in my pressure cooker on the hotplate. I'd put an apple pie in while we were eating. J. thought all his birthdays had come at once! Our kettle was a Russell Hobbs Forgettle - state of the art at that time!
Val wrote: "Our cooker is really struggling at the mo. I don't have 100% faith in the oven temperatures and the gas burners are showing signs of metal deterioration. But we cling on to it because it's set in an alcove in the kitchen (with the extractor fan above and the front is flush with the wall) and at 75cm wide it is a perfect fit. But guess what? Stand alone cookers only come in two widths these days - 60cm or 90cm. We've got used to the extra space on the stove top and the wider oven and we would need to have building works done to accommodate the bigger one, so we'll just press on with our old locally made Modern Maid (who aren't in business any more)"Awww, Val. I suppose you have already tried eBay and places like Gumtree to see if you can still find Spare Parts for your Modern Maid such as a new (or Used but Like New) Oven Thermostat and some Gas Burners?
It may end up in costing more than a Stand Alone Cooker Oven (but then again so would the re-designing of your Kitchen to accommodate a much bigger or a smaller Cooker Oven) but have you thought about possibly buying a separate 95cm Gas Oven to fit the space with the Oven size that you prefer and seeing if you can also get a 95cm Gas Burner Hob to fit over the top of it?
You can source and buy a few more choices of size options by doing this when it comes to Cooking Appliances in the UK so perhaps the same might also be true of Australia? ;o>
Thanks for your help Suzy. I have looked on-line in the past without success. Maybe it is time to try again. Even getting separate appliances would necessitate some structural work, which would be possible, only there are other things in this old house that require attention first. We're waiting on son-in-law to be available to redesign the back verandah roofing. At present the roof is angled back towards the house and even our all-new guttering struggles when we have a heavy downpour. I want the roof to be angled the other way and S assures me it can be done so we wait until he has a weekend free. And then after that there's the side gate which needs replacing, the garage needs some serious attention, the .......
My new neighbours have arrived. So far I haven't seen any people, just removal vans and a couple of cars. Some windows are open.No noise of kids or dogs so perhaps all will be well!
Well, it may only prove to be little more than wild Goose chase rather than a perfect and practical solution? - as any 75cm sized Appliances around may unfortunately be known for being really cwappy budget Brands with terrible Feedback on them?I don't know the best, most reliable, and trusted places to look in Melbourne for such things so I've only done a very brief look at eBay for Australia and found a few 75cm separate Appliances on there. You will be the one to know if they are actually any good and worth considering when looking elsewhere on the Internet - LOL!!! ;o>
I don't know quite how I got there but I eventually ended up on here! ;o> ...
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/RARE-GAS-...
https://www.webxgear.com.au/product/r...
Lez wrote: "My new neighbours have arrived. So far I haven't seen any people, just removal vans and a couple of cars. Some windows are open.No noise of kids or dogs so perhaps all will be well!"
The three hyperactive Kids under 5, two Guard Dog Dobermans, massive Paddling Pool, and Giant Garden Trampoline will all be scheduled to arrive on Monday, Lez ;o>
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