Re: Diary summary week ending 21st september 2025

[BushInn1746]

Hello Jeff

When my late Mum used to do homemade chips. She would cut them up and soak them in water for an hour or two, to get rid of the starch. Put them in the frying basket and let all the water drain off.

When my Mrs P was around she did similar to get the starch out, then use an Air Fryer and spray them with a little Frylite spray.

I do miss either of the above and if buy a nice large freshly fried cod from the next village, I never buy chips.

Nothing compares to homemade chips!

Mark

[mare]

Can't remember how many decades it may have been since I made deep fried chips, basket rested and drained above oil pot after first dip and down for a second. Always nice and did a bit back then with family at home before deciding oven wedges were easier  These days for the 2 of us or when the grandchildren are staying, I have a bag of frozen oven chips tucked away if need be and the potato at least is always good with those. I still make a tray of wedges or oven chips occasionally if we have company, perhaps to have with drinks outside etc. We also earlier this year bought a very small air-fryer with a basket just big enough to prepare enough of anything for the two of us and takes up about as much room on the bench as a kettle which was a factor as didn't want anything as big as our coffee machine!

Hope your week has improved somewhat TY and that your OH is OK. Our weekend just ending better than last one where we had two rather unexpected funerals of friends, one our age and one too young again sadly.  Fair to middling Spring weather here and a bit 'breezy' but a nice outing in new car today and lunch out, pleasant way to while away a Sunday.

Perhaps you Gillg and LM will finish the week on a happy Turkish delight note  ... Cheers again all, be well ...

[Gillg]

The Turkish Delight proved to be a bit too much for me - very fancy with things like various nuts and rose petals in it and rolled in coconut, which I really dislike.  It's nothing like the old Fry's Turkish Delight!

Although we have escaped much of the rain felt by other areas this week today is rather chilly.  The sun has popped out from time to time from behind the clouds, but although we are forecast to have a dry week ahead, we are told that the temperature will be around 16 degrees.  Time for the central heating to go on, I fear.

Panic set in least night when the internet was down and it was still down this morning.  We do a lot of things online, including banking, but Plusnet were very helpful and manged to restore it via the phone.  They are sending an engineer round tomorrow to see what the problem might have been, though they suspect it may be the router.  It's frightening to see how much we depend on the internet these days.

[Viktoria]

I would be a bit anxious putting wet chips in to hot fat ,the chip pan could boil over !
In Belgium they cook the chips until just soft  enough,take the basket out of the oil, get that really hot and flash the basket back in for a couple of seconds and then drain well.
They are lovely and not too greasy.

A sunny but cold day here.
Flood warnings ,probably at Stubbins further up river where there iis a device which sends warnings to a flood station .
The land is high on one side but very low on the other.
The park in Ramsbottom is low lying and does flood fairly often as the river has a big meander there .

Well, The Duchess of York seems to be mixed up with Epstein now!
Honestly -such wealth and privilege and yet huge debts and scandals—

Well another week, they do fly by .
Cheerio.
Viktoria.

[BushInn1746]

Hi Viktoria

Thanks, I agree, wet chips in hot oil, as you say can boil over.

Yes being famous or well known, has its drawbacks, the Press are not far away on your shirt tails.

Turkish Delight, is a big NO from me these days owing to sugar, but many years ago I did love Fry's Turkish Delight.

Take Care All.

Mark

[louisa maud]

Well folks my Turkish delight  arrived this afternoon,
mixed fruits with rose, Lemon, Orange and mixed flavours,  daren't read the ingredients.

 Even quite a nice pleasant day after a not so nice day  in Lewes  yesterday, never felt so exhausted as I  did after  the hills.

Last time I cooked chips the pan caught alight, never cooked them since,  oven chips suit me now.

Collected  a few conquers  today and as a consequence  have  been bitten  by midges, what  an itchy  nuisance.

New week tomorrow,  doesn't time fly?

LM

[BushInn1746]

Hello All

Really cold outside early on, but sunny here.

I went for a walk yesterday and caught my shoe in some thorny bramble creeper, next I couldn't hold my balance, reached out and managed to slow the landing on my ribs, but in the final motion my head went forward and forehead struck the dirt path.

It hasn't helped my pre-existing belly and digestion issues.

At home, very minor, wounds were cleaned with a Detol like Dr Johnson's substitute, had a shower and retreated.

Yesterday's clothes were put on a long wash cycle and now hanging in the sun.

Mark

[Viktoria]

Glad it wasn’t much worse Bushinn,I fell at my grand daughter’s wedding ,in the marquee ,over a tripod foot that was holding up a heater or light .
Soft landing as it was ion grass  with a thick floor covering .
However I fell on my Rt hip, no problems but now a month later I have a lot of pain going down my leg and in hip joint.
I can walk round the house but it is really painful at night.
I must enquire as having a pacemaker in October and maybe   Xrays are to be avoided then
.
Sunny but crisp here, washing on the line and ironing to do but T,V is down ,I like to watch whilst ironing .

Hope you feel better soon .
Viktoria.

[Gillg]

It seems to be so much easier to fall as we grow older.     I'm on blood thinners and was told that if I fell and hit my head I must go to A&E in case there was a bleed on the brain!  Of course it did happen and we went off to our nearest hospital and spent 6 hours there waiting for various people to see us.  They then told me that they didn't find anything to worry about and sent us home.

Viktoria and Mark
So sorry to hear that  you fell and hope that you will soon recover.  It's the shock/embarrassment of it, as well as the pain, of course.  I was once entertaining some friends in our tiny sitting room and managed to trip over someone's feet and go headlong onto the floor, which is tiled and rather hard, as I discovered.  One of my guests remarked that I should have fallen onto him, as I would then have had a soft landing! (He is quite a plump fellow!)

Lovely sunny day today, but rather chilly.  I have washed the bedding and it's soon going to be dry enough to iron.  The sheet label says that you don't need to iron them, but I can see that that's not true, so I'll be ironing out the obvious creases.  I do like a smooth bedsheet. The engineer has called to deal with our computer and thinks he has solved the problem, but wasn't over confident about it.  At least the internet is working at the moment.