My father was a master baked but when he retired and we visited for lunch I was taken aback by the fact he bought white sliced bread, the really cheap supermarket own and they certainly weren't poor.
On a serious note @B3 it's cos they use cheap, crap, low protein flour and a process that produces "bread" in 3.5 hours when anybody knows that decent bread needs strong flour and 2 slow proves to develop the gluten and flavour and texture.
@NorthernJoe I could do all the sine, cosine, logarithm stuff cos it was a process we learned to do but nobody ever said what it was for or how it could be used to enhance life, solve practical problems so how could it become instinctive?
@BenCotto love an oxbow lake and geography in general.
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)."
I always loved Maths at school and still enjoy 'playing' with numbers. At one time I worked in IT for a major financial institution and was chatting to one of their accountants. He was explaining how they made their money, basically from lending massive amounts of money at comparatively low interest rates. He started giving an example of a deal with an interest rate of say .73% and I said the approximate answer before he'd finished putting the numbers into his calculator. "How the hell did you do that?" he asked and the honest answer is that I don't know, it's just something I've always been able to do.
I love that raisin girl,I can't abide white sliced bread,don't mind fresh sourdough or soda,but otherwise it's got to be seeded,nutty with a bit of ooomph.
@Dovefromabove - yes, we've been in Bungay for nearly 20 years now. Moved to be nearer my husband's family. His ma and pa were originally in Earsham then moved to Poringland (now both sadly deceased) and his sister lives in Halesworth. My daughter and family moved here to Bungay from Spain after the financial crash, so we all feel right at home. And I'm on loads of committees and things - love the community feeling here. We go and visit the Sainsbury's Centre as often as we can - enjoyed the Art Deco exhibition. We'll have to meet up there when we are all allowed to do such things again! And of course Norwich for shopping - especially the Lanes! My granddaughters are now 14 & 15 so they are now visiting Norwich for shopping too, with their friends. Won't be long before they are going out there in the night-time - and expecting their Dad to come and pick them up!
Oxbow lake formation made an appearance on TV very recently. I can't remember the programme but it had a shot of a classroom with a poster showing the formation stages behind the person in the shot. It could have been the news.
I have a degree in Mathematics, and still follow recent discoveries in Maths - it doesn't all need advanced knowledge to understand. There are several Youtube channels about Maths which are quite easy for laymen to understand, such as Numberphile. I couldn't care less if Maths is useful or not, the main thing is that it is interesting, and anyone can enjoy a clever proof or interesting result - for example, the mind-boggling Banach-Tarski paradox, or this Trig identity: In any triangle ABC, Tan A +Tan B +Tan C = Tan A x Tan B x Tan C.
One branch of maths that interests me is the many ways that Statistics can go wrong - it is an absolute minefield, and even great mathematicians have been know to get it wrong. One famous example is the Sally Clark trial (no relation) in 1999, when she was found guilty of murdering her two babies after badly flawed mathematical reasoning from an expert medical witness. She was sentenced to prison but after a public outcry she was eventually pardoned, but soon after she died of alcohol poisoning. I would love to have been on that jury! Ignorance of mathematics can cost lives.
It's a complicated process involving old cardboard boxes and unused carrier bags. Plus some special chemicals to remove the blue dye from the bags. And some sugar. It's a technological wonder.
Ahh yes but you missed the extra cotton wool, they use as a "bulking " agent😉
The grump of the day people! Yesterday lunchtime went to my local Tesco Express, there have always been two queues one by cashier, pretty obvious,then a thick blue and black band separating it from the queue for self service till,both clearly marked. It was like this pre Covid. I go to the self service queue, there is someone using the machine,lady in front of me with just a packet of crisps. Lady at counter has a large trolley,big shop. Bloke guessing 40s bypasses us, pushed past lady at counter,goes to self service till. I am heartily sick of being the little quiet 70 year old,I had desided some time ago, I wasn't letting anyone else push in.I said there are two people queueing in front of you to use the machine. He turned round and said we should have got there then shouldn't we.I told him we were polite ladies,not prepared to push past lady at counter,and what happened to social distance,he just stormed past Mr and out. Hubby said he told me before not to bother,and one day (bearing in mind this is the first time I have done it) that one day someone will hit me. What would YOU have done?
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@NorthernJoe I could do all the sine, cosine, logarithm stuff cos it was a process we learned to do but nobody ever said what it was for or how it could be used to enhance life, solve practical problems so how could it become instinctive?
@BenCotto love an oxbow lake and geography in general.
In any triangle ABC, Tan A +Tan B +Tan C = Tan A x Tan B x Tan C.
One branch of maths that interests me is the many ways that Statistics can go wrong - it is an absolute minefield, and even great mathematicians have been know to get it wrong. One famous example is the Sally Clark trial (no relation) in 1999, when she was found guilty of murdering her two babies after badly flawed mathematical reasoning from an expert medical witness. She was sentenced to prison but after a public outcry she was eventually pardoned, but soon after she died of alcohol poisoning. I would love to have been on that jury! Ignorance of mathematics can cost lives.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.