all those clowns who bought a thousand loo rolls and forty tons of cereal and pasta and tinned tomatoes will be eating it for the next three months
Serve 'em right. I used the last of my malted bread flour yesterday. If we can't get any this week it'll have to be white bread next week. I've been looking for the last 2 weeks - none anywhere. I'm contemplating having a run at our nearest W'rose this week, but it'll depend how work is going. I've been too busy the last fortnight so OH has done the shopping in the village. We can get most fresh stuff there, but we're starting to run low on staples now after 3 weeks. We won't starve though
Lovely weekend here. Spent yesterday sowing seeds, in between laundry and bread baking duty. Today we've repaired most of the veg garden fence - just need to secure the gates and I'll be able to get my thoroughly chitted 1st early potatoes into the ground, as well as the dwarf/early peas I started a couple of weeks ago. Also did some highly inadvisable moving of mature fruit bushes. Too late in the spring, I know, but they had to move and I needed OH and his digger to do it - couldn't get them out on my own. So they're in their new bed, well watered, and I'll just have to hope for the best.
Venus was exceptionally bright in the western sky last night. Just sayin'
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I agree @raisingirl ... we always make our own bread, but the other day I couldn't get any wholemeal bread flour of any sort ... had to have granary ... it'll play havoc with my fillings ... or rather the one that's missing ... and all that lovely wholemeal bread flour is sitting in the cupboards of folk who'll never bake a loaf of bread in their lives .................
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
... and all that lovely wholemeal bread flour is sitting in the cupboards of folk who'll never bake a loaf of bread in their lives .................
Quite. I bake all our bread because OH has food allergies that make shop bread risky. I did buy some mixed, toasted seeds a while back, so it may have to be a 'seeded white' mix. Ho hum
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I'm just wondering what would happen if folk who were found to be contravening the regulations more than once, were banned from taking part in the Furlough 80% salary payments, and had to go on Benefits instead ............
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When I did my weekly shop on Thursday the choice of flours was very poor - all white - tho one was locally grown and milled. No dried yeast and only 3 packets of baking powder left but plenty of fresh yeast over on the end of the freshly baked bread counter.
The last time I made granary bread I broke a tooth. 1000€ for a crown so now I make wholemeal soda bread or spelt bread with yeast and I sometimes add linseed, sunflower seed, walnuts.....
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 local fruit and veg shop had obviously managed to get a small number of those little tins of dried yeast in, but rather than sell them, they'd transferred it into small bags so more customers could have a little rather than a few having a lot. They have stepped up amazingly well in all this - all our local shops are doing a really excellent job - working together to do deliveries to the vulnerable people in the village, so they get one box which has bread from the bakery, meat from the butchers, fruit and veg and fresh milk from the greengrocer. Costcutter even had some toilet rolls last week, apparently
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
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Lovely weekend here. Spent yesterday sowing seeds, in between laundry and bread baking duty. Today we've repaired most of the veg garden fence - just need to secure the gates and I'll be able to get my thoroughly chitted 1st early potatoes into the ground, as well as the dwarf/early peas I started a couple of weeks ago. Also did some highly inadvisable moving of mature fruit bushes. Too late in the spring, I know, but they had to move and I needed OH and his digger to do it - couldn't get them out on my own. So they're in their new bed, well watered, and I'll just have to hope for the best.
Venus was exceptionally bright in the western sky last night. Just sayin'
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The last time I made granary bread I broke a tooth. 1000€ for a crown so now I make wholemeal soda bread or spelt bread with yeast and I sometimes add linseed, sunflower seed, walnuts.....
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Home from the coal face.
Some highs, some lows.