Maintaining civilised standards in adversity

[FierceKitty]

Viva Italia! They may have no idea of medical planning, but their soups are meaningful components of a meal.

[Matt J]

You have bread 

How! Where!

[Last Hussar]

(Think. .And my eyes read 'condoms', rather than cardamoms. 

Chewy. Makes it last longer

[mmcv]

You have bread 

How! Where!

Managed to nab a bag of bagels and some pitta while the hordes were distracted by the sliced white... At this rate though I'm going to have to start making my own bread again.

[Ithoriel]

Managed to nab a bag of bagels and some pitta while the hordes were distracted by the sliced white... At this rate though I'm going to have to start making my own bread again.

If you can get flour you'll be doing well, if my local Tesco is anything to go by!

[Techno]

You make bread with flour ? 

I thought it was made from a type of seaweed.

(Never actually tried laverbread (?)......anyone ever tasted that ?)

But as Mike says, I'd imagine flour's one of the things that the hoarders have been stockpiling.

When we cleaned out the MIL's kitchen, after she'd gone into residential care.....There was a full bag of flour in one of the cupboards that appeared to have fossilised.
I kid you not.....It felt like a piece of breeze block !

Cheers - Phil

[mmcv]

If you can get flour you'll be doing well, if my local Tesco is anything to go by!

True, even Amazon is short on bread flour. I have half a bag of plain flour as a bag of masa harina  in the cupboard so it's cakes and corn tacos for a while!

[Orcs]

Nearly all flour/rice contains Weevils eggs.  So if they keep it for two long their cupboards will be full of weevils.   

[FierceKitty]

I've had laverbread. It was pretty good, too.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Never had a problem with Weevils, but I alus taps me 'ard tack.

[mmcv]

Nearly all flour/rice contains Weevils eggs.  So if they keep it for two long their cupboards will be full of weevils.   

Yup, have had this exact issue when I bought a big multi pack of flour for bread making a couple of years back. Ended up having to chuck it along with all the flour in my cupboards. Then had recurrent issues with them if I had flour sitting for ages. I've taken to freezing flour for a few days when I get it and sealing it in airtight containers where I can to try and stop this happening again.

[FierceKitty]

And microwaves don't kill them, which is a bit alarming to see.

[Orcs]

When I was in Zambia for a month as a child they used to pour the rice in water, stir it up a bit and the weevils would float to the surface. you then skimmed them off and cooked the rice.

Obviously you cant do this with flour.

[Ithoriel]

I'm with mmcv - freeze the flour for a few days when you first get it. Seems to work.

[Last Hussar]

" Maintaining civilised standards in adversity"

Not going to lie, it will be difficult.

I'm out of gin.

[sultanbev]

"I'm out of gin."

as long as you're not out of unpainted lead, paint and brushes, you'll be fine 

Que DM story tommorrow:
Brushes swept away
An unexpected outcome of the pandemic is a run on miniature paint brushes, as suppliers report running out of fine detail brushes. A spokestroll from GHames Verkshup said "It's unprecedented! We may have to revise our figure rerelease manufacturing output, as there is now a danger that unpainted lead piles across the country will be finished, and that according to the latest Hocrus, is armmageddon."

[Westmarcher]

Started my annual fight against the moss on the lawn today (or should it now be called a 'moss'?). I believe moss may have been used in Medieval times instead of toilet paper. Not quite ready for that ...  I wonder if it's flushable?*   

*(Don't do this at home, kids - it's not).

Nearly all flour/rice contains Weevils eggs.  So if they keep it for two long their cupboards will be full of weevils.   

Two long whats ......?   

[Steve J]

Lawn still too wet to give it a good scarifying and also I aerated last week so don't want to walk on if for a bit, to avoid compacting it again.

[Orcs]

Started my annual fight against the moss on the lawn today (or should it now be called a 'moss'?). I believe moss may have been used in Medieval times instead of toilet paper. Not quite ready for that ...  I wonder if it's flushable?*   :-

*(Don't do this at home, kids - it's not).

Two long whats ......?   

My garden is laid to moss as well.  I thought about using that grass weed a feed stuff, but realised if I killed all the moss the lawn would look more like the Somme than a lawn, so was too frightened to use it.

[Techno]

Best lawn story I've got concerned one of our old neighbours, when we lived near Newark.

Chris, (for it was he) used a strong weedkiller on the little patio he had at the back of his house, to get rid of all the weeds growing between the laid bricks.
All well and good......He then walked across his lawn.....Of which he was immensely proud, to put the sprayer away, in the shed.

Can you see what's coming ?

Yes....a couple of weeks later, there was a trail of dead grass from the patio to the shed......In absolutely perfectly formed footprints, where he'd walked the weedkiller onto the lawn.
He didn't half get in the neck from his wife ! 

Cheers - Phil