Author Topic: First-World Problems.  (Read 333828 times)

Wowbagger

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2250 on: 30 March, 2020, 06:30:32 pm »
I last had a hair cut about 20 years ago. I reckon I'll cope with a bit of quarantine.

The last time I went to the hairdressers it cost me 2/-*.

* for people almost young enough to be my children: 2/- is oldspeak for two shillings.
Which part of East Africa were you in?  :D

The hairdresser in question was in Billericay. The year would have been about 1968. I think this was the building: https://goo.gl/maps/wPDVX2PMDXq46icQ6 . There seems to have been a change of use...
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2251 on: 30 March, 2020, 06:32:44 pm »
Okay, I think that's Tanzania...
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Wowbagger

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2252 on: 30 March, 2020, 06:42:14 pm »
I look quite like a yeti
I come from Serengeti
And I'm doing...

Vizuri sana.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2253 on: 30 March, 2020, 07:00:41 pm »
 ;D ;D
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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2254 on: 31 March, 2020, 11:45:55 am »
What I thought were sachets of yeast in cupboard are actually baking powder

Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2255 on: 31 March, 2020, 01:27:20 pm »
What I thought were sachets of yeast in cupboard are actually baking powder

Well they both make things rise.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Mrs Pingu

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2256 on: 05 April, 2020, 06:27:53 pm »
Pingu pointed out we were low on rum for tonight's pina colada and I wanted flour and to see if I could get any pasta. So on the way home from our government approved walk we stopped at Lidl being as it was the only shop on the way home. It was dead.
I got lots of spaghetti, a huge bag of fusilli but sadly no risotto rice (it was boil in the bag or nothing).
Got a bottle of Lidl rum. Thought it would be fairly cheap & nasty.
Pingu just did a back to back taste test. It was fairly nasty.
Hopefully the coconut milk will hide the taste...
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ian

Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2257 on: 05 April, 2020, 06:53:34 pm »
Waitrose pretty much had everything in stock today. The apocalypse has been shelved for the middle classes at least.

nicknack

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2258 on: 05 April, 2020, 07:03:34 pm »
Pingu pointed out we were low on rum for tonight's pina colada and I wanted flour and to see if I could get any pasta. So on the way home from our government approved walk we stopped at Lidl being as it was the only shop on the way home. It was dead.
I got lots of spaghetti, a huge bag of fusilli but sadly no risotto rice (it was boil in the bag or nothing).
Got a bottle of Lidl rum. Thought it would be fairly cheap & nasty.
Pingu just did a back to back taste test. It was fairly nasty.
Hopefully the coconut milk will hide the taste...
Aldi rum is one of my favourites.
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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2259 on: 05 April, 2020, 07:20:37 pm »
I have a massive quandary this evening.

I have Adnams Broadside in the house.

I have also taken delivery of a case of red wine.

This lockdown could be your downfall, or is that fall down Mr. Wow?

Mr Larrington

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2260 on: 06 April, 2020, 11:54:00 am »
Waitrose pretty much had everything in stock today. The apocalypse has been shelved for the middle classes at least.

Dr Davis, my highly-esteemed b-i-l, reports that while the car park of Tesco in Banbury* was absolutely rammed when he went foraging the other day, it was possible to park and stroll straight into the Waitrose half a mile away.

* Chipping Norton is nearer, but then they run the risk of accidentally encountering Jeremy Clarkson or the gammon-faced pig-botherer Cameron while weighing up the relative merits of different brands of home-broasted organic artisanal Covfefe.
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bhoot

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2261 on: 06 April, 2020, 12:01:18 pm »
Waitrose pretty much had everything in stock today. The apocalypse has been shelved for the middle classes at least.
But still no flour or baking powder in the Canary Wharf shop when a kind neighbour went shopping for us yesterday. My ability to make cakes as thank yous for shopping favours is getting rapidly diminished.

PaulF

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2262 on: 06 April, 2020, 02:22:28 pm »
The cable on my new lawnmower is 2m too short to cut the whole lawn so I have to use an extension cable.

On the plus side it only takes 15 minutes to cut my lawn compared with 2 hours at my previous abode.

Vince

  • Can't climb; won't climb
Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2263 on: 07 April, 2020, 05:10:35 pm »
The toilet rolls I finally managed to acquire are only 2-ply.
216km from Marsh Gibbon

ian

Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2264 on: 07 April, 2020, 05:25:48 pm »
Awful.

We have standard Waitrose stuff, which I thought was pretty posh, but I used the public loo at a local stately home the other weekend.

Oh my, it was like using velvet cushions.

rogerzilla

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2265 on: 07 April, 2020, 05:28:00 pm »
The Sainsbury's "House 247" stuff leaves you with men in the rigging. I have 9 rolls as a last resort before I use my hand.
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2266 on: 07 April, 2020, 07:02:53 pm »
Waitrose pretty much had everything in stock today. The apocalypse has been shelved for the middle classes at least.
But still no flour or baking powder in the Canary Wharf shop when a kind neighbour went shopping for us yesterday. My ability to make cakes as thank yous for shopping favours is getting rapidly diminished.

Apparently it's down to a shortage of bags.

There's no problem with flour production keeping up with demand. The problem is that a significant proportion of flour produced is now required direct to the public rather than indirectly (people buying baked goods and the flour going to the food manufacturers).

The flour producers are built around the majority of flour being bagged in 16kg+ bags and they can't easily adapt things to supply domestic sized bags of 1kg-2kg.

This means my own FirstWorldProblem is that I can't get hold of any strong white flour and fast action yeast to be able to bake some cinnamon buns (soon my pretties, soon).
"Yes please" said Squirrel "biscuits are our favourite things."

Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2267 on: 07 April, 2020, 07:10:18 pm »
We're down to about three loaves' worth of dried yeast. Disaster looms.
Rust never sleeps

Vernon

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2268 on: 07 April, 2020, 07:21:03 pm »
You could try making a sponge (50/50 flour and water) with some of your yeast and keeping it as a starter, à la sourdough.

Tim Hall

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2269 on: 07 April, 2020, 08:04:12 pm »
We're down to about three loaves' worth of dried yeast. Disaster looms.
The science behind this doesn't seem to stack up, or it's explained badly, but here's a way to overcome your yeast shortage.

https://www.leaf.tv/articles/how-to-make-bread-yeast-from-potatoes/

A quick skim would suggest you're cultivating wild yeast, either floating in the air and/or on the spuds. 
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Mrs Pingu

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2270 on: 07 April, 2020, 08:25:33 pm »
Mmm cinnamon buns....
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Feanor

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2271 on: 07 April, 2020, 08:42:13 pm »
Mrs. F returned from Mr. Sansbury's House of Tooth Comestibles this afternoon with two bags of Strong Flour!
Along with a shit load of gin and wine, obv.

Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2272 on: 08 April, 2020, 01:34:02 pm »
We're down to about three loaves' worth of dried yeast. Disaster looms.
The science behind this doesn't seem to stack up, or it's explained badly, but here's a way to overcome your yeast shortage.

https://www.leaf.tv/articles/how-to-make-bread-yeast-from-potatoes/

A quick skim would suggest you're cultivating wild yeast, either floating in the air and/or on the spuds. 
Hmmm. OK. Better worded as "We only have enough yeast left to make three loaves."

Well, that was the case until this morning. Tesco have dried yeast back in stock.  Huzzah !!
Rust never sleeps

Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2273 on: 10 April, 2020, 01:06:04 pm »
I can’t believe I’m writing this, but here goes:

The weather is too nice to have the bonfire that I really need to have to get rid of the garden waste...

nicknack

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2274 on: 10 April, 2020, 01:50:28 pm »
Someone had a bonfire near here last night. Due to the lack of wind I think the smoke spread about 1km in all directions at about ground level. Stinky, especially when they started burning plastics (by the smell of it).
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