"get a man in" something you will find tattooed on all wimmin's foreheads in invisible ink!I agree with her (for once!) you need to start chilling and taking this retirement malarkey seriously!
Hope you feel better Dan, take it easy
Like the face on yer totem pole!I have now filled and weighed 4 toolboxes
I have put the weight on each one so they know what they are lifting. I had to make straps for the lower boxes as they are not locking like the upper ones.
Total so far is 136.4 Kgs
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No, you didn't!When we moved here we drove over 2 trailers 1 small box with the RR. then a bigger box with the pickup. All boxes were weighed and written on so they could be distributed and heavy 1s on the bottom, Also had to try and offset a 500lb bike
Yep we didnt bring much
J
We used our huge box trailer over and over again.
But then we did bring over a kitchen, a utility room, including american fridge and all white goods, two bathrooms, three bedrooms and the lounge diner, i.e. two leather 3 seater sofas, two leather recliners, 10 dining chairs, a huge dining table to seat 14 and a huge sideboard. To say nothing of hallstand, wardrobes, linen cupboard, display cabinet, coffe tables, garden furntiture, bookcases, lamps, occasional tables etc etc etc. That trailer earned it's money.
Oh and a pergola, two lots of decking, a biggish shed, the poly tunnel, wood flooring for the master bedroom and walk-in wardrobe, tiles for two bathrooms and the kitchen/utility.
When i think how much we moved it makes my hair fall out.
But this was spread out over a period of about 5-10 years! Though most was moved in the first 2-3 years.
If we had to sell up and move out I hate to think what we'd do.
Glasgie
Well-Known Member
Prefer to let coolHey @Glasgie !
Don't you put the tops on as soon as they are filled? We do, as in the past we have had the odd one go off through not doing that. I know they are hot anorl but it lets then do the vacuum sealed thing.
But then we keep our jams for years! (Neighbour counted our fruit trees when we were away and told us we have 47. That's a lot of fruit a lot of which we make into jam.)
Do you use a jam funnel?
We find ours speeds things up enomously!!
Frogs love their preserves!
Anyways! yours looks lovely. Yum Yum!
Dont use a jam funnel
We are on our last jar from last year, kept in the fridge so taste as good as when we made it.
Pal's apple tree is hanging with fruit so Apple jelly next on the list
We don't have room in a fridge for all our jam! (Though i expect you mean, "once opened")
We noticed the old green mould thing forming on one or two jars a while back, so from then on did the "hot lidding" since when it has occurred no more. (This is after all how tis done industrially.)
We currently have 91 jars some dating back to 2017 and we have a load back in the UK that we have taken over , over the years.
Re jam funnels, we bought our first one more or less for a laugh at a pottery exhibition locally here, but once used it is so quick, so clean and so precise that we bought a stainless one for use in the UK. OK, so we do huge quantities.
Amazon product
Like this thing, though you can tell the photographer is not a pro as you would never use such a stupid little spoon to do it with, a decent sized ladle is what is required!!!
We turn our apples into apple juice. Pre Covid we took them to an apple juice festival run by one of the local boar hunts. the guys turned up with lorries and cut up, crushed, pressed and pasteurised the juice. Sold you bottles if you didn't have any. Then you had a lovely meal, etc etc. Typically French.
But with Covid last year we had to take them to a pro. He only charged us about 60 cents per bottle to make the juice from our apples. 1€ on top if you had to buy the botts. (1 litre). We had a bumper crop last year so we had boxes and boxes of botts, but this year the weather has been totally against us so I don't think we'll be bothering him!
So you have done bettern us this year with the apples.
Have a mate in the UK who goes in with two others every year to make scrumpy. Wish we were there for that!
The self catering bit maybe. But with the price of oil competing with beer, I didn't do many oil changes in my stoodent days.Takes you back to ya single/student days does it
Beer next
J
There is an apocryphal story of a scots student who was admitted to hospital with scurvy.
When asked what on earth he had been eating, or not eating he told the following story.
Some way into term he realised ,at the rate he was spending his grant on beer, he'd never be able to feed himself so he had a great idea.
He bought a load of porridge and lined a wardrobe drawer with greaseproof paper. He cooked it all up, poured it into the drawer and let it set.
From then on he continued to imbibe and if he got hungry he went and cut himself a slice of porridge.
Until he fell ill!
Toad in the hole tonite!!!
Yummy.
With sossidges we brought over last year and froze.
Won't be able to do this now, "thanks Brexit"
Yummy.
With sossidges we brought over last year and froze.
Won't be able to do this now, "thanks Brexit"
Is it my imagination or it is slow on here tonite?
Summat must be happenin!
Much more of this and I'll end up talking to Wifey!
Summat must be happenin!
Much more of this and I'll end up talking to Wifey!
I do remember that. I recollect that it was reported he was the first person to be treated for scurvy for something like 150 yearsThere is an apocryphal story of a scots student who was admitted to hospital with scurvy.
When asked what on earth he had been eating, or not eating he told the following story.
Some way into term he realised ,at the rate he was spending his grant on beer, he'd never be able to feed himself so he had a great idea.
He bought a load of porridge and lined a wardrobe drawer with greaseproof paper. He cooked it all up, poured it into the drawer and let it set.
From then on he continued to imbibe and if he got hungry he went and cut himself a slice of porridge.
Until he fell ill!
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That is the arm of a chair my youngest daughter made in school. I am not allowed to get rid of itLike the face on yer totem pole!
so it is coming to the new place!
Shimsteriom
Master Procrastinator
Evening Everybodies
Had a cracking afternoon on a few of the lanes on me Island. I didn't get too many photos as I was guiding the nervous one
No, we weren't driving the j**p
Had a cracking afternoon on a few of the lanes on me Island. I didn't get too many photos as I was guiding the nervous one
No, we weren't driving the j**p
Shimsteriom
Master Procrastinator
Oh bugga... that perhaps I have damaged myself with all the scaffold-tower climbing, painting etc. etc.
My neck is very sore & stiff and makes a gristly grinding noise as I turn my head left/right. My shoulders too are sore and my back feels like it is going to go into "spasm" at any moment.
Feck! Feck! Feck!
I have far too much to do for this sort of nonsense to be happening.
Shimsteriom
Master Procrastinator
+1 ^^^^
Shimsteriom
Master Procrastinator
but apart from that you had a good Sunday?
Not bad, painted caravan chassis ready for fitting flatbed and it was a pleasant day weather wise, ready for a brandy now and early nightbut apart from that you had a good Sunday?
so you ain't postin from your laptop then!?
