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  1. My top time saving tip is very simple, lots of recipes call for boiling water but when I watch the kettle it seems to never boil! So I fill the kettle with water and wait for the click, then, when you have your boiling water place it in a suitable container and then freeze it, then when you need boiling water just take it out and bingo! **note** I’m not allowed in the kitchen very often.
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  2. Are you thinking of splashing out on one, like Bill?
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  3. We all need a few hours off doing our duty
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  4. Reference buzzards. Yesterday I was watching the newts in my pond when I was disturbed by some seagulls getting agitated overhead. Looking up I saw a pair of buzzards circling and being mobbed by about half a dozen gulls. While watching I saw a red kite come for a look at what was causing all the noise. The buzzards just drifted away and the kite followed them. Nice to see it's still around, I just wonder if it nests in our area as there are some good trees nearby. Some good news on the newt front. Due to the recent warm and sunny weather, the newts are spending more time in the warmer top water and are spawning well. Well, the pond weed is later this year so I've had to "improvise" with some dried reeds which I grow in and by the pond. I've broken some of the longer stems off and laid them on the surface and there was some spawn in the leaves when I checked this morning. When I went for a look this evening with a torch I was pleasantly surprised to see I've gained a female GCN, so I now have 3. She must have hatched 3 years ago before the cat/pond disaster and lived on land around the pond under the log or leaf pile. She is slightly smaller than the other two so it must be her 1st year of spawning. She should help the gene pool a bit. Just need some frog and toad spawn to complete the amphibian family. I was told of some frog spawn that had been put in a ditch but when I looked for it there was nothing to see, fox or ducks probably had a feast. Well, I'll end on a high note for a change. Some more good news. My wife came out to see the newts by torchlight after her night out at the cinema with my sister and niece and we spotted yet another female GCN, this one was a younger one, probably 3 years old and her first spawning, this now makes the numbers up to 4 females so all good so far. I'd not seen her in the pond before so she may have been hibernating under the log or leaf pile and the recent sun has awoken her. I had a young GCN given to me by a neighbour today, her cat brought it in, unharmed, it was last years hatch so I suppose with all the rain it had traveled far from my pond but it went in without a problem, too young to tell what sex it is. The next problem is Daphna to feed them when they hatch as most of my "green water" that I breed them in has been seriously diluted with all the rain so it will be an "expensive year" again. Look on the bright side Norman, the pond is looking healthy and full of life since the disaster. Fingers crossed.
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  5. No its nothing to do with cold women! Just bought a soupmaker ,its basically a kettle and a whisk combined but it works better than i thought. Got it sunday so started playing yesterday .Pretty simple you chuck stuff in it ( food not bolts or other car parts) and soup comes out .Yes pots do the same but my attention span means half the time the soup is baked onto the bottom and arouses wrath from my personal cold woman. Plenty of recipes out there but most have ingrediants we dont have in the cupboard at the moment .But i needed to try it (my wife dislikes cooking but can fry eggs and bacon so has some use in the kitchen) Anyway yesterdays efforrt was potato and onion soup ,chucked in 4 cut up strong onions ,no real spuds so used a tin of them ,seasoned it and bunged in an oxo cube .Machine made steamy noises and sudden roaring noises and 19 minutes later a tiny tiny beep was heard (our Echo Flex in the kitchen listens for beep and our Echo show 8 (told you i was a Neophile (sp?)) shouts out "somethings fooking beeping " you cant use the f word Alexa ignores it but 'fooking' sounds ok lol ) unfortunately the tiny beep went unheard by Alexa but the machine keeps the end product warm anyway. Result .....it was great ,bit watery as i filled it to the max line with plain water but even my cold mrs emptied her bowl and the remaining soup went into the freezer for my lunch in the future.Nice and warming the onions were a little noticable but if you like onions its fine . Today i chucked in an inch of sundays chicken (meat chopped up into half inch bits) to much rain to go outside for another tin of potatoes so i chucked in a tin of butter beans ,a tin of carrots and two chicken stock cubes and seasoning .I set the beast in action ,usual sounds and those tiny tiny beeps were heard (not by Alexa or my cold woman though) opened it up ,strange orange colour but thicker than yesterdays. I didnt tell mrs about the butter beans she hates them and its not phsycological she made the uuuurrrr !noise and declined it .I bravely took my bowl and whilst it was ok dunking bread in it when it came to spoon action it was uuuurrrr! From me aswell . Not a great loss the cost was less than a tin of real soup . Consigned to toilet for trouts and sickly roach to eat in the sewage outfall if will get disharged from in the excuse its raining . I will try seeing what canned tomatoes and some other tin of something will come out with tomorrow and keep you informed whether you want to be or not!
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  6. What! They poke a handfull up there and feel it swelling lol. hmm interesting nightime sex play though makes a diiference to a whole mackeral i suppose. OH you mean 'eaten' by the mouth ,whoops
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  7. https://www.bwpawards.org/2024-winners Nice little video about Bitterling wins the Video category....
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  8. It seems a bit counterproductive buying a device (machine A) that produces things fast but to put in an ingrediant i have to go into the garden open cupboard 3 and get my pressure cooker out t( a nice multicooker machine B)to make a ingrediant suitable to go in machine A . I do have some pulse and grain additive somewhere its several years old but dry so i may resort to the old fishing method of putting some in a big vacuum flask covering it with boiling water and leave it overnight to see if its soft enough 12 hours later .Thinking about it boiling the water in my water dooda is machine C and perhaps the flask technically is machine D .Bugger once its made and i reheat it its done in a microwave (machine E) or on the stove top machine F .I may aswell just open a soup kitchen or a hotel kitchen lol No soup today i made sausage rolls i ate 5 ...they were awfull ! But i wont give them to the foxes after my hard work .Best use cheap sausage meat methinks 97% stuff doesn't work so well No soup because i had run out of potatoes and onions i kinder liked soup 1 and freezer 3 in shed 3 has a lot of room in it for errr soup and stuff i just wish frozen tomatoes came out better but are only fit for ........soup Ps i can recomend the 5.7l version of this ,not the cheapest but not a ninja ,the support staff are brilliant they sent a free silicone seal for my soupmaker after i asked if they sold replacements https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pressure-Electric-Cooker-Litre-Chrome/dp/B06XC7R53Z/ref=sr_1_3?c=ts&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.vnR2NiGIhLudKaS1WsIObiIibzEtKB9DX5JN2G0qkTYSQV0YymfJ1x4WjVJylEQQ0m013YqsZf5QeQ-ggPS7stGP9mqnkl_5jDmLrJEiyHZDYVZ8qzXAYw1ojl9y1VrbXlJuxpwyPL1qDf-CzaRoNs_-XdGqgACA6SGFC0XuVamlbJRVczuQBfg_ABOBjOjkkA_6goBcL6N98tFmgQtbzYz-dtACxItGjgKwoeZVnk0.NEckwzsQ0LnzlNTXKZyj2xG5sMHoG3zJZ8KmMmOZS8U&dib_tag=se&keywords=Electric+Pressure+Cookers&qid=1710454213&s=kitchen-appliances&sr=1-3&ts_id=3538346031 PS the mrs hates it lol as i mentioned shes no cook ,never used my combi oven bar as a microwave ,never used my breadmaker (s),never used my air fryer .........BUT uses the hotpoint hot water dispenser so could be trained eventually lol
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  9. We always used to use Pearl Barley in our Turkey leftover stews after Christmas which we cooked in the pressure cooker. I didn’t take very long at all to cook in the pressure cooker and it thickened the Turkey Stew nicely and took on the flavours it was cooked in. Unfortunately we no longer have our pressure cooker, which is a shame as me and our son always looked forward to a good turkey stew after Xmas. Keith
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  10. Makes an interesting risotto variation too. It takes forever to cook, though.
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  11. I will try some but i dont think you can use them directly in the machine (nor our vast quantity of dehydrated tomatoes from our crop last year ) The process from start to finish lasts 19 minutes so neither would soften or rehydrate quick enough . In the winter i make Scots potato soup using a family recipe but as bones are used its not suitable for a soupmaker (well once perhaps lol) but i may stove make it then use the machine to see what its like in smooth form (i wish there was a 'medium' setting ) then soak the pearl barly and chuck it in in a potfull it will then be smooth but with whole grains
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  12. “Neophilia you say Lance Corporal, mmmmmm, take two aspirin and come and see me in a month, NEXT!”
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  13. The letter was delivered by post, with no links to dodgy sites. If I remember rightly the same happened last year
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  14. The Data Protection Act is your friend. Drop them a "Subject access request" for details of everything they hold.
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  15. Has been accepted as a new record.... https://anglingtrust.net/2024/02/29/new-british-record-pike/
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  16. I have never found one with an "active" ingrediant ,most are just a thickish liquid that coats the throat trying to remove the 'tickle" that may cause the cough. Mentholated ones are fairly good opening up the sinuses but little else,the best cough mixture was dr collis brown but coming off the high not so great whether it worked on coughs i have no clue . Unfortunately chemists are full of quack cures and snake oil anything that actually works is prescription only and i have a great doubt half are useless. If it wasnt for quack cures and womens "products" chemists wouldnt exist . Talking of chemists the local one that delivers (a very active 80+ year old lady that calls everyone 'mate' delivers ours) couldnt get hold of my mrs epilepsy pills so we had to get the dr to issue a paper prescription so we could go and get it elsewhere ,cost us c£15 for a taxi each wway (£29 in total) luckily the trip from the station where we got off had a loo the cost of living in a village far from a bus route with a mrs on crutches and me with a problem that keeps me near the bog . I got home a wreck i was so knackered not sure why i think something more sinister is going on but the dr insists my recent camera and ct scan proves theres nothing so refuses to investigate further .I get fricking tired sleeping somethings going on perhaps its 'long' covid but i cant remember getting covid lol Beeng as self sufficiant as possible i have bought a treadmill (if i cant walk around the village without crapping myself keeping 10 feet from the bog works for me) hard to find one with a decent weight limit i am not a thin waif any more , but found one cheap enough that folds flat incase one day we get a visitor ,but what a bloody boring thing it is even with a tv showing suedo real walks in front of you .the mrs is thrashing me we got one with arms so she can hold onto them ,using crutches on a treadmill could be problematic for her and anyone within 6 feet if she fell on it lol i get knackered just switching it on and logging into the fitshow app on my pad Chesters1 top tip "fitness bands" watches dont work counting steps on treadmills very well but we upgraded from a fitband 6 to an 8 it can sit in a little dooda that clips to your shoe and makes you feel inadequate when the mrs thrashes you on steps aswell .i even enables a competition mode in its app just to remind me lol
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  17. Alarm Bells are ringing!! I assume that came in the form of a Letter ? & not by email/online. The scammers are getting smarter day by day so, if it's the latter, do not respond!! Even if it's by Letter, you should contact HMRC & ask the Question, how they knew before you. The Letter could also be a Scam, so I wouldn't subscribe to ANY Links provided in the Letter until you have some answers, Directly from HMRC by Telephone. (Google HMRC - Don't use phone Numbers on the Letter) Like to think we're looking out for each other on here buddy.
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