Excellent news @chicky and worthy of celebration by your dad, the family and the treatment team.
Have been awake most of the night listening to howling winds and rain. Thank good ness it seems to be blowing over today and we should have some calm, sunnier stuff for a few days.
Love those photos @Pat E - very green and lush looking. Hope your service goes well @Busy-Lizzie and the decs look good. I might just try making my own festive wreath this year. Never seen gammon here @Dovefromabove tho they do have big hunks of whole dried hams on sale here now.
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Lyn, our eastern boundary is the river where I was standing to take the last photo. On the other side of the valley, there is also a road between the paddocks and the hills. Since our village has a very small population, we know who they all are, so we could ask to walk through their land without any problem. However there is also a rough track that we can drive on with our 4wheel drive behind all their properties, so we could do that, but the hills are too steep for an oldie like me. 😁🙄. Besides, it’s all just bushland (eucalyptus and rocks). No nice tracks to walk on. I’d rather walk on the bush tracks in our hundred acres. At least we can see where we are going. 😂
I make a dish using "gammon" and just ask my butcher to prepare X steaks of jambon d'York, the thickness I require. @Busy-Lizzie and @floralies I hope the carol service goes according to plan.
@Chicky Wonderful story about your Dad!! What a positive attitude he must have had. Love the bird box. The wood looks beautiful - what sort is it?
Fantastic news @chicky … so thrilled for you all … as you know my brother is also having immunotherapy treatment so I’ll pass your news on. He’ll find it hugely encouraging. 😊
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@tui34 the farm shop had 2kg gammon hocks for £2.99. 👍 They’ll be just past their date at Christmas but what the heck … salting and smoking is a way of preserving meat and my grandmother kept bacon for months without the aid of a refrigerator or freezer.
Yours is on its way over to you …
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Quick question for all the cooks. Can I reheat defrosted roast chicken slices and do a kind of stir-fry tonight? SM didn't deliver a chicken & mushroom pasta readymeal yesterday for me (OH is having a curry) so I thought I'd eat the frozen chicken up instead. Now having second thoughts whether it's safe to reheat.
That's a nuisance @Punkdoc just when you thought you'd recovered.
It's dry, sunny but chilly so far. OH had done a bit of leaf clearing using the blower and we're waiting for our neighbour, who is a central heating engineer, to come and service the boiler. I'm also waiting for two new saucepans to be delivered, the lid handles on the old ones keep breaking. They are/were riveted onto glass lids. and there's no easy way of mending them, such a shame, they are lovely stainless steel saucepans.
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Have been awake most of the night listening to howling winds and rain. Thank good ness it seems to be blowing over today and we should have some calm, sunnier stuff for a few days.
Love those photos @Pat E - very green and lush looking. Hope your service goes well @Busy-Lizzie and the decs look good. I might just try making my own festive wreath this year. Never seen gammon here @Dovefromabove tho they do have big hunks of whole dried hams on sale here now.
Lyn, our eastern boundary is the river where I was standing to take the last photo. On the other side of the valley, there is also a road between the paddocks and the hills. Since our village has a very small population, we know who they all are, so we could ask to walk through their land without any problem. However there is also a rough track that we can drive on with our 4wheel drive behind all their properties, so we could do that, but the hills are too steep for an oldie like me. 😁🙄. Besides, it’s all just bushland (eucalyptus and rocks). No nice tracks to walk on. I’d rather walk on the bush tracks in our hundred acres. At least we can see where we are going. 😂
@Chicky Wonderful story about your Dad!! What a positive attitude he must have had. Love the bird box. The wood looks beautiful - what sort is it?
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I don't often post on this thread ... but I just wanted to say I'm so pleased for your Dad.
I know he's also a fellow scouser ... and a fan of the Mighty Reds.
Let's hope the boys can win something this season YNWA.
Best wishes to you all,
Bee x
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hope for your brother as well @Dovefromabove.
Quick question for all the cooks. Can I reheat defrosted roast chicken slices and do a kind of stir-fry tonight? SM didn't deliver a chicken & mushroom pasta readymeal yesterday for me (OH is having a curry) so I thought I'd eat the frozen chicken up instead. Now having second thoughts whether it's safe to reheat.
That's a nuisance @Punkdoc just when you thought you'd recovered.
Hope it's nothing nasty @Busy-Lizzie.
It's dry, sunny but chilly so far. OH had done a bit of leaf clearing using the blower and we're waiting for our neighbour, who is a central heating engineer, to come and service the boiler. I'm also waiting for two new saucepans to be delivered, the lid handles on the old ones keep breaking. They are/were riveted onto glass lids. and there's no easy way of mending them, such a shame, they are lovely stainless steel saucepans.