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HELLO FORKERS - April 2020 🐣

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  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    Don’t know those chops Dove. Can you describe them for me.  By the way, how did your bread go.
    S. E. NSW
  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    On reflection, it sounds like something Obelixx could dance to. 😂😂😂
    S. E. NSW
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    These are Barnsley Chops @Pat E https://www.thespruceeats.com/what-is-a-barnsley-chop-435339

    I’m very pleased with the bread ... 


    When you feed the leaven you discard some of it ... I saved it and made pancakes for breakfast and had them with apple and cinammon compote. 
    Next time I’m going to just make one loaf and save some of the ‘preferment’  mix to freeze in lumps  then I can thaw and feed a lump the day before I want to bake. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    Yum! The bread looks really tasty. Interesting about the chops.
    S. E. NSW
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    That far one looks like it's gurning!!

    I have toothache!  Feels like a wee infection as it's throbbing so I didn't sleep well.   Can't see a dentist but have had a chat with one who's sending a prescription to the local chemist for me.    Ibuprofen not allowed during Covid and paracetamol not doing the trick so codeine for bedtime and antibiotics for a week.

    It's dull and grey here which is fine as we hadn't planned any gardening today other than putting up some gates to keep the dogs off the potager - very important when we do get hens - and tidying up all the pots in my potting shed.   We did a bit too much yesterday and got a bit pink too - not burned, just gentle tanning.

    Lovely to see your new growth @Pat E.   Hope all chicklets and fairylets are doing well now.  

    Good health to all posters and their families.


    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)."
    Plato
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    Bread looks great Dove ....maybe I’ll have toast for breakfast 😋.  Our bread is made in a bread making machine - although Mr C has started using the machine for making the dough and then baking it in the oven, so that he can vary the size/shape of the loaf.

    Great to see the bush regenerating @Pat E ......wonder how long it will take the wildlife to recover .....much longer I would think ☹️

    I think we get one more fine day before the rain sweeps in.  Just enough time to let me pot on all my acers - a job that is about 2 years overdue 🙄.  

    Then we will be confined to barracks for awhile......I have downloaded the stage version of Les Mis to watch when I have a spare 3 hours.  Its the production we went to see last year, and it was goosebump making, so hope it translates to the small screen well.  The National Theatre are also doing free versions of some of their stuff online.  Its a different play every week ....Twelfth Night (with Tamsin Grieg) this week and Frankenstein (with Benedict Cumberbatch) next week.  I need more hours in the day please 🤣
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    @chicky I heard there's a version of Mathew Bourne's Swan Lake available to watch, but can't find it. Any clues?
    I just caught the tail end of Zoe Ball mention it, but didn't catch the website
    Devon.
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    Chicklet is making good progress - up and about now (although still moving gingerly) and able to navigate the stairs.  She has another week off work, so should still be able to do lots of sleeping to recuperate.  The hospital sent her home with ibuprofen ......I thought you only shouldn’t take it for Covid symptoms?  Thought it was ok to use it for other things??
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Hi all.

    @Obelixx, would not worry about brufen, it is one of the drugs being trialled as a possible treatment for COVID. The idea that it might makke things worse never made any sense to me.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    its on youtube @Hostafan1

    https://youtu.be/rQsECoq9XGM

    ........looks sumptuous.......will add it to my watching list ......this week I will be a couch potato 🛋 🥔 
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