Isilme: We have a conservatory. It is filled with my husband's tools, lots of planks of wood, tables (covered in tools of course), a few garden things like pots and trowels, a bench drill and a huge great lathe. He really needs a large workshop so I can put the conservatory to better use! The patio is completely covered in tyres with beans growing in them (runner beans and gigantes - butter beans). Fortunately our living room window faces south and overlooks fields (and the sheep are making quite a racket today), so we still have somewhere to enjoy sitting.
We have various lurking ladies, inc. those of some of our chaps but they stay relatively hidden and it would be gauche to take it any further, so I shan’t. I warned Toodles though that I was doing this.
See, this all comes down to a comment by Amfortas the other day, referencing one episode in the Wimmin series:
Some women have the remarkable knack of looking fabulous no matter what they wear. Some, not all or most.
Immediately I thought of a lady wearing working ‘duds’, barefooted, masses of hair tied back, stepping off the porch to attend to some matter in the garden shortly before the troops arrived - daughter and grandchildren - and of course she’d fixed some kind of eats for the crowd. Hubby stopped by from the office [the one referred to as Cuddles] because he was not going to miss out on any of this.
The deep South has the things we can imagine about southern belles and in Toods’ case, well let’s just say she was an Azalea Trail Maid some time ago and I feel she could still hold her own … I’ve seen some of the pictures, remember … hair’s auburn by the way … but it also has other things, the South.
One of these is the horrific storm, the hurricane, which a year ago nearly wrecked their house by the river … still not completely repaired and it’s hurricane season now until November … yikes!
The other is culturally. Not only the secular children, just as it is worldwide, under the demonic globo but also their parents and grandparents have succumbed to varying degrees … at various functions Toods and hubby attend, the things coming out of people’s mouths now … people they’ve known for decades … are jawdropping.
Not to us at N.O. and similar soc-med, as we’ve sadly seen how vile it gets but the culture and respect for the old ways are most certainly falling away. Then there are the refugees from blue states, the carpetbaggers I call them … buying up in the best suburbs and driving prices sky high … these sort of things are the prime concern of people everywhere today, along with food supply, even currency … we all know the score.
Yesterday I made a weird observation to Toods about the eggs I’d cooked:
Eggs! There’s something wrong with them today, these days. I did them in the pan which should have cooked through but there were still gelatinous type bits still liquidy. Something not right. Taste was not great - the texture. The chicken this evening was awful … Birds Eye.
Among Toods’ commentaries on various topics stateside today was this:
Eggs. Yes. I cooked two very small large ones Wed. I was cooking them over medium easy...if that makes any sense. I like the white firm but to dunk my yellow. I ended up cooking them more than usual even where it appeared they were overcooked on the bottom. Why? Because of what you described about the part that looked gelatinous.
PD also mentioned the horsemeat scandal some time ago. The implications for those of us walking into stores and buying everything, a one stop shop … well, it seems to me to be over. Don’t forget, in Soviet days over there, long queues for basic foodstuffs which even when I got there still existed, those queues … I’ve been in such queues and I’ve seen empty shelves as well. Rice, cabbage and dogmeat.
Anyway, Toodles has sent this for today to get the ball rolling:
Things you may have already seen.Tulsi Gabby or is it Gabby Tulsi or is her name Tabby Gulsi...?
I’m running Toodles’ links over at NOWP as well in case you can’t access them at ONO. There they expand and can be watched.
How to egg-samine your oeuf.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.wikihow.com/Tell-if-Your-Eggs-Are-Fresh
Thing is … we’re not talking fresh nere, we’re talking something in those eggs which was wrong. Impossible to get across if you’ve not noticed it. It’s recent.
DeleteGood start though to tell if it is fresh first then eliminate that possibility before further investigation. I've noticed sloppy egg white before which stays sloppy and we only buy organic eggs.
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