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21-09-2007, 01:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Cazzie  Erm... how can you have Kate Humble as a hobby  | ooh I am sure it could be managed!  |
21-09-2007, 02:00 PM
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And I keep wondering why I can't around to processing my latest pics from the Cornwall holiday . . . 
Must pick myself up off the floor, switch this machine off and get ready for work - mores the pity - haven't laughed so much for months 
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21-09-2007, 02:02 PM
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Originally Posted by ChasCreek ooh I am sure it could be managed! |
Oh gawd, not another one!
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21-09-2007, 02:04 PM
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Originally Posted by PMG And I keep wondering why I can't around to processing my latest pics from the Cornwall holiday . . .
Must pick myself up off the floor, switch this machine off and get ready for work - mores the pity - haven't laughed so much for months
Pauline | Glad your back Pauline, us girlies could do with a bit more back-up methinks! 
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21-09-2007, 02:10 PM
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Originally Posted by ChasCreek to the pub - with or without Kate? | With out - it's only a hobby.
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21-09-2007, 02:29 PM
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Think dans hobby is cross stitch and tiger basher!!
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21-09-2007, 11:19 PM
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I have just made granary rolls using the method Sven told us of. It works!!!!!.. takes a long time but it is soooo easy. They will go well with the butternut squash, red onion and lentil soup in the hide tomorrow. Hope my Knight In Shining Armour approves of them hehe
Thanks Sven.. might get back into the bread making again.
jaki
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21-09-2007, 11:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Garden Carpet I have just made granary rolls using the method Sven told us of. It works!!!!!.. takes a long time but it is soooo easy. They will go well with the butternut squash, red onion and lentil soup in the hide tomorrow.
Thanks Sven.. might get back into the bread making again.
jaki | Ahhh glad it worked...ill try it one day .
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21-09-2007, 11:27 PM
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Dan, I found it a very easy method.. I used fast start dried yeast which I mixed with the sugar and the butter required.. and spread it on the dough at the first stretch and fold session. It might work better another way though.. but cant see how to add it in a wet form.
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22-09-2007, 06:09 AM
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Originally Posted by geppetto My two main hobbies are astronomy and building 12th scale dollhouses and
miniatures.
The modelmaking is a great stress buster for me...
My houses on here Dollhouse and miniatures home page  | You must have shed-loads of patience geppetto! Very clever indeed.
Have you thought of making miniture houses that are actually nest-boxes? I should think they'd be very marketable.
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22-09-2007, 07:50 AM
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Blimey.
All this talk of baking!
I thought I'd left all that behind!
I was trained and employed as a skilled craft baker for close to ten years before I packed it in and started doing what I'm doing now, (employed in the environmental sector).
I've baked all over Britain, in olde worlde village bakeries mainly, making pretty well any loaf / bread / roll you could care to mention. No to mention pastries etc...
People ask me to bake them things, or give them recipes etc... and I've got to admit I make a rule and tend not to. It was never really a hobby, it was my trade!
Much happier now, out of the baking world, and doing what I always hoped to.
As for my hobbies now? Sport mainly. Rugby. Running. Tennis. Golf. Swimming. Parachuting (when I can).
Also I'm trying to get back to my painting days. Bought a nice acrylic set t'other day (easel n all) and hope to produce a few pieces over the next year or so.
I like going to gigs too. Rock gigs in the main.
As for reading... I really find ancient history books fascinating, escpecially ancient Egypt, but NOT the "pyramidiology" books.
Well. Thats me!
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22-09-2007, 07:57 AM
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Have you thought of making miniture houses that are actually nest-boxes
| Yes, I've got some designs in mind...
Got a big garden and it has ten ordinary nest boxes (well used) scattered about
but I fancy building two or three "special" houses for the little guys.. 
Won't be going into mass production though, major back problems have put paid
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22-09-2007, 08:38 AM
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Originally Posted by geppetto Yes, I've got some designs in mind...
Got a big garden and it has ten ordinary nest boxes (well used) scattered about
but I fancy building two or three "special" houses for the little guys..
Won't be going into mass production though, major back problems have put paid
to anything like that | Excellent! Show a picture of them when they're made then won't you!
Sorry to hear about your back.
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22-09-2007, 09:11 AM
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Back in those far off days (before t'internet, WAB and BROADBAND!) When I was unemployed I used to make all my own stuff, jam, marmalade, curd cheese, bread, grow mung beans etc (child of the 60's me right down to remembering 'flower children' cept me mother would never let me join in just in case I came into contact with an illegal substance!!!) anyway I'm rambling - I remember my bread recipes used a small amount of milk and I used to put the yeast and sugar in that and leave it in front of the fire to 'grow'. Also was told by my neighbour to put a nugget of butter into bread mix - helps the loaf to have a bit of shelf life - not that a good loaf lasts long!!
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22-09-2007, 11:52 AM
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Originally Posted by geppetto Yes, I've got some designs in mind...
Got a big garden and it has ten ordinary nest boxes (well used) scattered about
but I fancy building two or three "special" houses for the little guys..
Won't be going into mass production though, major back problems have put paid
to anything like that | Sorry guys your too slow..the shops have been full of "house" style nest boxes for the last couple of years...very cute they are too.
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22-09-2007, 08:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Dan Salter Sorry guys your too slow..the shops have been full of "house" style nest boxes for the last couple of years...very cute they are too. | Yeah but they're mass-produced. Give me one-offs of someone's own handiwork any day! |
22-09-2007, 11:07 PM
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Both the bread and the soup recieved top votes from my Knight In Shining Armour today. Yippeeeeeee
jaki
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23-09-2007, 12:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Garden Carpet Both the bread and the soup recieved top votes from my Knight In Shining Armour today. Yippeeeeeee
jaki | For a minute, earlier, I dreamt I was your Knight in Shining Armour for giving you the 'new' technique. I guess the main thing is you get a good slice now and again.
I made my second batch with the folding method today - as a gift - went down a treat.
Any chance of a baking section here? There seems to be a demand!
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23-09-2007, 09:24 AM
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Sorry Sven, that position is taken, and unlikely to become vacant for some considerable time
jaki
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24-09-2007, 08:20 AM
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Originally Posted by dragonfly hya mines my allotment its realy goodwatching things grow and watching nature at the same time | I have an allotment too, and member of various allotment forums including the one that does a monthly photo competition (my August entry was a crab). Am now impatient for seed catalogues, though it will be another couple of months before I get the one I use for heritage seeds. |
22-10-2007, 08:16 PM
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Another loaf - just to show Dan isn't the only bread maker! 
henrya
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22-10-2007, 08:27 PM
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Henry, can I come over tomorrow instead of Saturday.. I suspect there wont be any bread left by then... oh no.. tomorrow is Tuesday.. you wont be there....
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22-10-2007, 08:45 PM
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Originally Posted by PMG Back in those far off days (before t'internet, WAB and BROADBAND!) When I was unemployed I used to make all my own stuff, jam, marmalade, curd cheese, bread, grow mung beans etc (child of the 60's me right down to remembering 'flower children' cept me mother would never let me join in just in case I came into contact with an illegal substance!!!) anyway I'm rambling - I remember my bread recipes used a small amount of milk and I used to put the yeast and sugar in that and leave it in front of the fire to 'grow'. Also was told by my neighbour to put a nugget of butter into bread mix - helps the loaf to have a bit of shelf life - not that a good loaf lasts long!!
Pauline | i was a teenager in the sixtys and i wanted to join the flower children,i felt i would have loved their life,but like you i never got there cos mum and dad put their foot down,sorry i am rambling now,anyway if you want to make butter for that yummy bread pour cream off of two or three pints of full cream milk, put it in a screw top jar and shake the hell out of it,you will never taste butter like it again unless you make more,my mum did this for me years ago and i have never forgot.yummy. |
22-10-2007, 08:45 PM
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Don't worry jaki, I'll be making another!
henrya x
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22-10-2007, 08:48 PM
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Originally Posted by naturelover anyway if you want to make butter for that yummy bread pour cream off of two or three pints of full cream milk, put it in a screw top jar and shake the hell out of it,you will never taste butter like it again unless you make more,my mum did this for me years ago and i have never forgot.yummy. | I doubt this will work nowadays unless you can get hold of unhomogenised milk, sad to say!
henrya
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