I would just like to say

WhiskyLassie said:

Tbh if it's just me at home I get my head down and get on with it. Nae idle convos I don't wanna partake in. I'm an introvert at heart and working alone I thrive on.

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Def90man said:

I work on my own the majority of the time but if I was at home I would soon be digging through all my ‘stuff’

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Brown said:

I think you might need to eat them raw for that to happen. One of my favourite meals at the moment consists of 2.5 Kg of potatoes (boiled and mashed) 1 Kg of onions (fried) and about a kilo of cheese. I mash a load of cheese and butter into the potatoes, add the fried onions and then put it into an oven dish and grate the rest of the cheese on top, and put it in they oven to melt the cheese. I'm not trying to boast or anything, but I can eat most of that at a sitting. So if 5 lbs of potatoes were lethal I'd have been dead years ago. Simple fare, but I can carry on eating it until I'm quite uncomfortable. In fact I think I'll make another one this evening.

Potatoes are in the solanaceae family along with the nightshades, so have the capacity to make a number of highly toxic alkaloids in their little solar powered chemical factories.

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Brown said:

And here's what 2.5 Kg of potatoes, 1 Kg of onions and about 3/4 Kg of cheese looks like. That's my dinner this evening.
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There's loads of oil floating to the surface of the cheese too. Lovely!

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WhiskyLassie said:

No I just got it done all sooner than expected and I'm happy with that.

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Turktowner said:

Hear that clanging sound? Is my arteries slamming shut in sympathy

And yes, I will be making some (wif @WhiskyLassie style crispy bacon bits,) fink I might Brown mine a bit more though...

Har, har.. I'll be here all week, chicken inna basket!

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Turktowner said:

So you has definable goals on a daily basis, as opposed to what ever turns up ad hoc?

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WhiskyLassie said:

With what?

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Def90man said:

Here’s a puzzle! The other day I reached the dizzy heights of 10,000 posts. I’ve since lost over 400. Did I really post 400 pictures in top totty?

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kermit_rr said:

Eh wot happened to that thread? Have i been away and missed summat?

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DanClarke said:

I would confess to being a bit of an "odd-ball" in that I really ascribe to the mantra "if a jobs worth doing, it's worth doing well".

Yesterday I noticed that the stainless steel sink in the utility room looked disgusting with all sorts of minging crud adhered everywhere. Best not to start a row with the missus, she only ever wipes stuff over and never does a deep clean (because it hurts her arthritic little handy-pands). So I spent about 30 minutes cleaning it so it looked like new. No problem it wasn't a hard job.

Today it was the cooker hob's turn. Same issues, looked like it had not been cleaned in about 5 years. Burnt & baked on grease etc. everywhere. All the gas-rings were burnt black and dried/caked baked on crap all over the pan-stands.

So while she was gardening (a chore she likes and I hate) I set to and cleaned every part of the hob with a range of utensils until I was satisfied (about 90 minutes work) due to the sheer scale of the crud burnt on in layers.

I was happy with the result. She said (when she came back in from her gardening "Yes, that really needed doing; glad you did it."

I just wish this cleaning urge extended to my Rangie.

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DanClarke said:

I would confess to being a bit of an "odd-ball" in that I really ascribe to the mantra "if a jobs worth doing, it's worth doing well".

Yesterday I noticed that the stainless steel sink in the utility room looked disgusting with all sorts of minging crud adhered everywhere. Best not to start a row with the missus, she only ever wipes stuff over and never does a deep clean (because it hurts her arthritic little handy-pands). So I spent about 30 minutes cleaning it so it looked like new. No problem it wasn't a hard job.

Today it was the cooker hob's turn. Same issues, looked like it had not been cleaned in about 5 years. Burnt & baked on grease etc. everywhere. All the gas-rings were burnt black and dried/caked baked on crap all over the pan-stands.

So while she was gardening (a chore she likes and I hate) I set to and cleaned every part of the hob with a range of utensils until I was satisfied (about 90 minutes work) due to the sheer scale of the crud burnt on in layers.

I was happy with the result. She said (when she came back in from her gardening "Yes, that really needed doing; glad you did it."

I just wish this cleaning urge extended to my Rangie.

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Turktowner said:

Hear that clanging sound? Is my arteries slamming shut in sympathy

And yes, I will be making some (wif @WhiskyLassie style crispy bacon bits,) fink I might Brown mine a bit more though...

Har, har.. I'll be here all week, chicken inna basket!

Edit. That has to be 2k calories in spuds alone?

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