I am staying home and you may thank me for it 161
Following up to Chris Bacon read the threads "everybody OK" and "i'm really sad". or here are the postings that caused the argument...

I am staying home and you may thank me for it 162
It was great. Miles from anywhere. Badgers, hares, owls, swallows, skylarks, rabbits, wild flowers (violas etc), miles...

Buitoni pasta
Price shopping I would presume. I had no idea Nestle had bought Buitoni! They are still here, still very community...

Ping AMT
I like them every once in a while but it's true the sea water taste can be overpowering. The way I like them is to discreetly tilt the shell into the serving tray when helping...

Robert's charcuterie
graham Thanks for the complements Graham, as I said to you there are a lot of people hear...

skint 166
Following up to sarah found it next to Scrambles in Snowdonia, what a filing system. "Bojo" Lange Leidsedwarsstraat Indonesian open 4 pm-2am Sat Sun noon-4am, when we left at 4.30am...

OT Hotels was skintappropriate
Following up to sarah I try and never stay in those modern soulless places you are talking about, better a pub...

skint 168
The town itself is mostly unchanged and has many old buildings. The waterfront (not seafront) has altered a bit over the years. I went to HJ's house a few years ago...

OT next knee fingy 169
June is my official announcer so I expect she will do that when I am unable:) Some months ago I heard (on radio...

OT next knee fingy 170
Some months ago I heard (on radio 4) about a man who had invented a special cream to help his wife's skin problem. It seemed that this...

OT next knee fingy 171
Anything to help, just being practical, but at least you will, I hope, be able to get down and do some floor...

Local food vs. Supermarkets
Just to let you know about this week's interesting programme on BBC Radio4's "The Food Programme". Programme details Sunday 31 July 2005 Sheila Dillon wonders...

Local food vs. Supermarkets 173
Following up to Enrico C that's the fantasised world of when women stayed at home and joined the WI, when the civil service made women retire when they married, we went...

Local food vs. Supermarkets 174
A number of responses to below: The "fantasised world" of people moving to the country to get a better lifestyle? There was this thing called the bus service. Or the...

Local food vs. Supermarkets 175
Following up to Jane Gillett No, I wasn't talking about people doing that. Isn't that over now anyway? The old "white flight" thing, many young people...

Local food vs. Supermarkets 176
White flight? We shopped more often - had a small shop (2 in fact) a couple of minutes from the house; and ate less. Milk was delivered; so...

Local food vs. Supermarkets 177
Enrico C The Beeb (along with parts of the government) seem to run a crusadejihad (pick your language-religion) against supermarkets. Erm, where's the problem? What supermarkets...

global knives questions 178
sided, I think you have to learn a knife. The knife is made right, you just haven't learned to use...

global knives questions 179
If it says not to use on one edge knives, then it won't. I can use it for scissors with great...

OT Agent 3 is out 180
Following up to The Reids Now I am used to Agent 3, a final comment for anyone interested. If you want to use...

OT Agent 3 is out 181
Following up to Giles Todd most things become clear after a while. However, they seem to have become obsessed with downloading from multiple connections all at once (does anybody...

OT Agent 3 is out 182
On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 08:33:22 +0100, The Reids I do now! :) It's good for people whose main...

Tarragon
graham The twigs will make nicely flavoured toothpicks. Would a tarragon pesto be feasible? Ah yes, I see it is. This recipe is from the "Pike Place" cookbook. BAKED SALMON...

How do you cut your cheese
General principle: think of the others and cut it so that the last one really has some cheese left. Now adapt to all kinds of cheeses. :) Why of...

global shinaskin water sharpener Mailcopiesto: never
I'll add more detail to that (I used to sharpen microtome blades as part of my job). Don't just wet the stone: if you...

Dried beans and chickpeas 186
As the LD is where I spent my formative years, I take exception to people ranting about walking there. There are some people, like...

OT: walking was Dried beans and chickpeas Mailcopiesto: never
Very pretty :-) Did you get a lift in the helicopter? I think one of the things we like best about...

OT: walking was Dried beans and chickpeas
Following up to sarah They landed right in front of me, as you could see in the last picture, crewman...

OT: walking was Dried beans and chickpeas Mailcopiesto: never 189
I might have done a comic begging act, or offered trays of deadly chocolate brownies but...

OT: walking was Dried beans and chickpeas Mailcopiesto: never 190
Ouch. More accurately, I'd like to be. We do, well, did long day hikes (18-20 miles across country) alternating with shorter hikes-days sightseeing. We haven't camped in the UK since a horrible wet...

Dried beans and chickpeas Mailcopiesto: never 191
As far as I'm concerned, it's just a shape in which to cook material prepared in a way that means some of the other people in the house might forth if...

Dried beans and chickpeas 192
sarah They don't have to. A bean soup is a clbuttic of Italian cuisine. Beans go beautifully in a stirfry or curry. Or in a range of other recipes: for example...

Dried beans and chickpeas Mailcopiesto: never 193
Ah, no. If the dish contains recognisable beans or has the distinctly grainy starchy texture characteristic of mashed beans (with no other redeeming features), it's not worth trying. I have persuaded committed...

Dried beans and chickpeas 194
Following up to June Hughes there's various nature reserves near me. One is a reedbed supporting Bittern, but it got there from old mine working subsistence, so I suspect Nick would not have it as...

Dried beans and chickpeas Mailcopiesto: never 195
Thank you . You were unwise to buttume that everyone you encounter gets all their information from journalists. Personally I have no desire to see large areas of lowland or upland Britain covered by...

OT: conservation was Dried beans and chickpeas Mailcopiesto: never
I remember the first time I say plantations, on the welsh hillsides. It looks as though...

OT: Woodland Trust was Dried beans and chickpeas Mailcopiesto: never
We're lucky, with some large (for small values of large) areas quite close by, although without a dog we don't use them as much as we used to...

Salad Cream
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:36:59 +0100, "Oxymel of Squill" I recently "rediscovered" it too. My mother bought some recently (well, in the last couple of years). She'd heard somewhere...

coca cola syrup
of guess we're not allowed to choose what we like to drink anymore, neither of...

Help please I'm in a jam
We'll drink a drink a drink To Lily the Pink the Pink the Pink The saviour of the human race For she...


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