Chicky, you will love Kuranda. Go up on the train, do the dukw amphibious vehicle tour of rainforest, visit Jack the ripper croc, and back down on the cable car. Finish off with the aboriginal culture place.tjapukai. it's an excellent day trip.
If you have not already booked the hotels arrange it, pickup and drop off at your hotel.
Hot air ballooning over the Atherton tablelands, good.
I wouldn't bother with the lava tubes again. A long ride to see a cave.
Some people swear by tomato ketchup to get rid of the smell. I've never found it terribly successful - just makes the dog slightly sticky IME. Vinegar does work, but by making the dog smell of vinegar instead of fox poo. Which is marginally less offensive I suppose.
Bread is kneaded and on it's first 'rise' so I've got the kettle on. Took your advice Dove and made it a bit wet. I'm now wearing a fair proportion of it but what got into the final round looks respectable
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I've just had a message from our old next door neighbour from Hants ( who now lives in Derbyshire ) a christmas card has arrived at my old house and the owner wants to forward it to us.
I sold the house 6 years ago, and the girl who bought it, lived there 3 years.
No idea who sent the card,( clearly somewhat "out of the loop" ) but we're stopping at old NDN's house on our way to Birmingham airport next week. She's forwarding the card to them.
Someone creeping out of the woodwork Hosta? Glad you had a good sleep.
The only thing that works for fox poo and coypu poo is a bath! Or a t least a good shower and shampoo of the offending area. Nasty stinky stuff and if you let it dry to a crust it drops off in bits all over everywhere.
RG - I much prefer granary or wholemeal or multi cereal or spelt to plain old white bread unless it's ciabatta or maybe a focaccia. I might try making fougère myself after seeing the price in a specialist bakery for traditional bread. 12€!! One thing I learned years ago was not to try making wholemeal soda bread with added sunflower seeds. The bicarb turns them bright, emerald green!
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Really? Now I'm thinking it's worth trying that just to see it . I'd prefer granary myself but I'm trying to learn to make bread (something I've failed at a few times) and according to my book, granary is very forgiving of poor technique and white bread is much more difficult, so in the interests of my education, I thought I'd better try to make white bread as it may help me make better granary bread in the long run.
I'm trying to learn to make my own because OH gets migraines from soya and a lot of shop bread has soya flour or soya lecithin added. If I make it myself at least I know for sure what's in it
One piece of good news yesterday on this subject - almost all cheap chocolate has soya in it. But on reading the packets in the supermarket yesterday, I found that Quality Street doesn't. It's the only one of the C**mas chocs that doesn't, but having foregone chocolate entirely last year, I'm happy to have one option, anyway
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Drinking coffee in the city. New reading specs ordered plus some distance ones (first time) He said I don't really Need them for driving yet, but it'll make Wimbledon more enjoyable if I can read the score without having to buy a TV the size of a house wall. I have some unused frames I really like (from last times 2 for 1 deal) and the frames for the distance ones were formerly 'Designer' but now on the £45 section so have saved a bit there, but it still added up to £114 but I s'pose that's not too bad.
When I've had my coffee ill get some fish from the market and head for Carluccio's.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Having lived 25 years in Belgium and now living in France, I don't do cheap UK chocolate or even local French chocs as they, quel horreur, also use vegetable fat rather than cocoa butter.
I'd stick with just perfecting the granary. Do you watch Bake Off? As Dove says, Hollywood is always banging on about having a moist dough and a good knead and a slow rise to get the gluten to stretch and the air holes to form for a better texture and taste. Quite a lot of nutrionists now believe that the fast rise (chemically induced) breads introduced in the last few decades and now used for commercial breads are the cause of most gluten intolerance.
Something esle to try is stone ground flour if you can find it. It's a cooler process and leads to a better flour. I made the best naans I've ever eaten from some unbleached, stone ground white flour from the last working mill in Namur province. It was in the village and did open days where they gave flour samples away.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
The trouble with good chocolate is it has a very high cocoa content, which also gives him a migraine. I usually ask for a bar of the good stuff for myself as a present, and the rest of the year we manage fine without any chocolate at all. But there is something essentially Christmas about the really sweet naff chocs you get in shiny foil wrappers in a big tin. Must be my working class upbringing
My granary was really not too bad, so I thought I'd move on. I've actually gone with 3/4 white, 1/4 spelt but I'll call it white - hopefully it'll have a little more flavour though. And no, I don't watch Bake Off. That bloke makes my skin crawl
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
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Hi all.
Still in bed, drinking coffee and eating toast, very pleasant, although the bed may not be so comfortable tonight.
Listening to After The Goldrush, by Neil Young, I love this record.
More blood tests later, all good things must end I suppose.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
NannyB.....that will be some stink
Hosta, you will be full of bounce today after your sleep
A lovely sunny morning but ground damp.....must have been overnight rain.
Chicky, you will love Kuranda. Go up on the train, do the dukw amphibious vehicle tour of rainforest, visit Jack the ripper croc, and back down on the cable car. Finish off with the aboriginal culture place.tjapukai. it's an excellent day trip.
If you have not already booked the hotels arrange it, pickup and drop off at your hotel.
Hot air ballooning over the Atherton tablelands, good.
I wouldn't bother with the lava tubes again. A long ride to see a cave.
Some people swear by tomato ketchup to get rid of the smell. I've never found it terribly successful - just makes the dog slightly sticky IME. Vinegar does work, but by making the dog smell of vinegar instead of fox poo. Which is marginally less offensive I suppose.
Bread is kneaded and on it's first 'rise' so I've got the kettle on. Took your advice Dove and made it a bit wet. I'm now wearing a fair proportion of it but what got into the final round looks respectable
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I've just had a message from our old next door neighbour from Hants ( who now lives in Derbyshire ) a christmas card has arrived at my old house and the owner wants to forward it to us.
I sold the house 6 years ago, and the girl who bought it, lived there 3 years.
No idea who sent the card,( clearly somewhat "out of the loop" ) but we're stopping at old NDN's house on our way to Birmingham airport next week. She's forwarding the card to them.
Intrigue.
Someone creeping out of the woodwork Hosta? Glad you had a good sleep.
The only thing that works for fox poo and coypu poo is a bath! Or a t least a good shower and shampoo of the offending area. Nasty stinky stuff and if you let it dry to a crust it drops off in bits all over everywhere.
RG - I much prefer granary or wholemeal or multi cereal or spelt to plain old white bread unless it's ciabatta or maybe a focaccia. I might try making fougère myself after seeing the price in a specialist bakery for traditional bread. 12€!! One thing I learned years ago was not to try making wholemeal soda bread with added sunflower seeds. The bicarb turns them bright, emerald green!
Really? Now I'm thinking it's worth trying that just to see it
. I'd prefer granary myself but I'm trying to learn to make bread (something I've failed at a few times) and according to my book, granary is very forgiving of poor technique and white bread is much more difficult, so in the interests of my education, I thought I'd better try to make white bread as it may help me make better granary bread in the long run.
I'm trying to learn to make my own because OH gets migraines from soya and a lot of shop bread has soya flour or soya lecithin added. If I make it myself at least I know for sure what's in it
One piece of good news yesterday on this subject - almost all cheap chocolate has soya in it. But on reading the packets in the supermarket yesterday, I found that Quality Street doesn't. It's the only one of the C**mas chocs that doesn't, but having foregone chocolate entirely last year, I'm happy to have one option, anyway
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Drinking coffee in the city. New reading specs ordered plus some distance ones (first time) He said I don't really Need them for driving yet, but it'll make Wimbledon more enjoyable if I can read the score without having to buy a TV the size of a house wall. I have some unused frames I really like (from last times 2 for 1 deal) and the frames for the distance ones were formerly 'Designer' but now on the £45 section so have saved a bit there, but it still added up to £114 but I s'pose that's not too bad.
When I've had my coffee ill get some fish from the market and head for Carluccio's.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Having lived 25 years in Belgium and now living in France, I don't do cheap UK chocolate or even local French chocs as they, quel horreur, also use vegetable fat rather than cocoa butter.
I'd stick with just perfecting the granary. Do you watch Bake Off? As Dove says, Hollywood is always banging on about having a moist dough and a good knead and a slow rise to get the gluten to stretch and the air holes to form for a better texture and taste. Quite a lot of nutrionists now believe that the fast rise (chemically induced) breads introduced in the last few decades and now used for commercial breads are the cause of most gluten intolerance.
Something esle to try is stone ground flour if you can find it. It's a cooler process and leads to a better flour. I made the best naans I've ever eaten from some unbleached, stone ground white flour from the last working mill in Namur province. It was in the village and did open days where they gave flour samples away.
The trouble with good chocolate is it has a very high cocoa content, which also gives him a migraine. I usually ask for a bar of the good stuff for myself as a present, and the rest of the year we manage fine without any chocolate at all. But there is something essentially Christmas about the really sweet naff chocs you get in shiny foil wrappers in a big tin. Must be my working class upbringing
My granary was really not too bad, so I thought I'd move on. I've actually gone with 3/4 white, 1/4 spelt but I'll call it white - hopefully it'll have a little more flavour though. And no, I don't watch Bake Off. That bloke makes my skin crawl
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”