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Random Irritations

SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Making good old Scottish Shortbread and Tablet for this evening.

My mum‘s shortbread recipe is quite prescriptive and works well for me; my Aunt Nancy’s tablet recipe calls for the butter, sugar and milk to be brought to the boil slowly, then boiled ‘for a while’…eh?

Ah well, will just give it a go. Have a good Hogmanay one and all, my neighbours will be sampling my shortbread and (hopefully) tablet.??
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Ooh tablet - de-bloody-licious (y)
 
IanM said:
Some of the prices for cottages in Cornwall next year. Comical. West Wales it is for the Spring Break then! :)
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We have friends who have a cottage in Carbis Bay, St Ives - and another couple who have a place in Noss Mayo in Devon. Both couples have stopped general public rentals - friends and family only, and each let us have it for £600 for a week…we’ll be going down outside of school holidays ?. Yes I know, we are very fortunate to have such friends, very irritating for everyone else ?
 
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SwingsitlikeHogan said:
It’s on the stove at the moment, and taking ages to bring slowly to the boil…think I am going to have to can the idea of a few holes this afternoon, though might just fit in half an hour on the range…?
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I think you should. I'm thinking the shortbread, a layer of not yet firm tablet and a layer of chocolate ganache - now that would be a trillionaires shortbread!!
 
Trying to get simple medication. Went to Boots in the Oracle. No pharmacist until around 12.00 (this was 9.30) so couldn't serve. The Boots further down the main stretch in Reading didn't have any soluble Solpadene and nor did Superdrug.
 
The downstairs loo choosing New Year's Eve to block, compounded by the Minister for Home Affairs deciding that I needed advice on how to deal with it.

Must try telling her how to type one day & see how well that goes down; about as well as the toilet I'd imagine...
 
Blue in Munich said:
The downstairs loo choosing New Year's Eve to block, compounded by the Minister for Home Affairs deciding that I needed advice on how to deal with it.

Must try telling her how to type one day & see how well that goes down; about as well as the toilet I'd imagine...
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Can i watch when you mention it to her ????
 
OLD GIT WITH NOTHING BETTER TO DO BUT MOAN - REVIVALIST.

I got my head on the pillow way before 11pm, as usual, in order to be able to have a good moan when fireworks and dog-yapping woke me up. I was not disappointed.

This morning while doing all the washing up that I had naturally neglected last night, I suffered a puncture in the left marigold. Its a bad one. I don't think that my 1972 John Bull bicycle repair kit can help me.

But hey, life goes on, what doesn't kill you just makes you stronger etc etc etc.

The course is open, but only the front nine. That's only a half-moan, then.
 
AmandaJR said:
I think you should. I'm thinking the shortbread, a layer of not yet firm tablet and a layer of chocolate ganache - now that would be a trillionaires shortbread!!
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Well the shortbread is splendid; the tablet is firm on top with very slightly squidgy beneath…and I have some very nice Arran chocolates…hmmm…
 
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