Chatback #17

[bramble]

Good morning all.
Bright and dry do hoping to get some time tidying up the garden.
Have a good day all.

[burnie]

Morning, we have another dull and damp and foggy day, still and mild again, there's a rumour we might see the sun later this week, I have my doubts looking out the window.
We went to Dundee yesterday to get grand children's pressies for Santa to deliver, there's no gardening toys on show, a pity that.

[burnie]

I note in this months magazine, we are now referred to as "GYO website" rather than as a forum, will that increase their interest in us ?

[veggiechicken]

We're a Forum on page 47.
Does anyone know what a podcast is - since there are going to be some GYO ones. Is it just audio or are there pictures? I like pictures.

[Thelma Sanders]

Podcasts don't have pictures it's like old stylee radio - you remember those? LOL

[veggiechicken]

I remember radios - big thing the size of a kitchen cabinet with a dial to find the stations and a lot of interference (that may have been my Dad.)

[Snoop Puss]

I made the Yorkshire pud in our woodstove last night Snoop. Things seem to cook differently in there.
It was wonderful and crisp on the outside and lovely and moist in the middle-just as I like them.
Funny thing is I you either like them like that or prefer them hard and crunchy like my mom always made.

OH prefers to make his bread in there too.

What does your OH do about temperature?

Ours has a cast-iron door, so to check a thermometer means opening it. But even then an oven thermometer seems not to work very well, as the oven is extremely hot at the top, much less so at the bottom. And the front of the oven is cooler too. So I've abandoned the thermometer. The only thing I do is stick my hand in to see if I think it's hot enough roughly in the middle. Some loaves take longer than others... I've bought a cast-iron cocotte to try and even out the temperature a bit (works a treat).

As for Yorkshire puds, sounds like you and I like them the same way. Might have to make some shortly, now you've mentioned them. Been a while. Maybe tomorrow in fact.

[Aberdeenplotter]

Ap, have you seen this website..........https://51hd.co.uk/
It may fill in a few gaps for you while you wait for the book.

Thanks for that VC. . I've come to the conclusion that the history we were taught in school in the fifties and sixties almost ignored the reality of war and we certainly weren't pointed towards what happened to the servicemen from our area in the 1940's. I know that those who were incarcerated must have endured ongoing trauma and I fully understand why my Dad wouldn't talk about it.

I'm grateful that he survived which he may not have if he hadn't been incarcerated so that is a positive but it rankles a bit that my dad and the 10,000others in the 51st were effectively sacrifised so that the Dunkirk evacuation could take place.

[Nicos]

I'll ask him about the temperature for you .
At the moment I have a rice pudding and jacket potatoes slowly baking away

[burnie]

We're a Forum on page 47.
Does anyone know what a podcast is - since there are going to be some GYO ones. Is it just audio or are there pictures? I like pictures.

Rary, Teds Mum and Mark Riga on page 97

[veggiechicken]

Thanks for that VC. . I've come to the conclusion that the history we were taught in school in the fifties and sixties almost ignored the reality of war and we certainly weren't pointed towards what happened to the servicemen from our area in the 1940's. I know that those who were incarcerated must have endured ongoing trauma and I fully understand why my Dad wouldn't talk about it.

I'm grateful that he survived which he may not have if he hadn't been incarcerated so that is a positive but it rankles a bit that my dad and the 10,000others in the 51st were effectively sacrifised so that the Dunkirk evacuation could take place.

School history never reflects what happened to the ordinary people who were sucked into fighting. Usually only learn which side won.
There are a lot of different books about the 51st on Amazon. Plenty of reading for the dark winter nights.

[veggiechicken]

Rary, Teds Mum and Mark Riga on page 97

Any pictures of them?

[burnie]

Any pictures of them?

It's not that sort of mag chuck...……………………………………….lol

[veggiechicken]

Trying to imagine them in a centrefold pullout........I think that's the term.

[Can the Man]

Evening all, not a lot doing these late dark cold damp evenings