Moan, Moan, Moan - 2011

[Brian Ellis]

That sounds worth waiting for Lesley 

[angie]

My new oven/cooktop still hasn't arrived but that's understandable with the snow we've had. Expected now on Friday morning and I'll make a chocolate cake first thing, then onto Cook's corner with the recipe. It's the best I ever made.

Lesley it's a pity I couldn't taste your chocolate cake, no point me looking on Cooks corner as I have only made a cake once before and it went on fire.
I was having friends round a while back and as I can't cook we just get a take away Chinese meal. Don't laugh but I put everything in the oven till we ate the starters and I melted all the containers. We couldn't even open the containers. So if I ever say come round for tea you are probally better giving it a miss.
Lesley already thinking of your chocolate cake 

Angie

[mark smyth]

it's too warm today 26C 

[Darren]

Too warm Mark? I reckon Susan would say the same. Personally I don't even stop feeling cold until the temperature gets past 30C...

[Lesley Cox]

You slay me Angie. EVERYONE can cook; men and boys, even little children. Even Roger. But if I can ever come to tea I'll bring it with me.

[ranunculus]

You slay me Angie. EVERYONE can cook; men and boys, even little children. Even Roger. But if I can ever come to tea I'll bring it with me.

I'm with Angie ... I can't even scramble bacon!   

[Hoy]

My nephew had to call mum to ask how he added water to the instant soup

[angie]

You slay me Angie. EVERYONE can cook; men and boys, even little children. Even Roger. But if I can ever come to tea I'll bring it with me.

Lesley my mum was a cook, she couldn't get over how many disasters that I had. She was a cook in the Towns House, Aberdeen. She fed all the councillors for years, they were never happy about anything, nothing has changed there.
My mum tried to learn me German ,tried to show me how to knit, none I was good at but she did pass the love of gardening onto me. What more could I ask for.

Angie

[Lesley Cox]

I'll bet you can fry an egg though Cliff.

By being a (reasonably) good cook I get to eat what I want for meals, not someone else's choice.

[ranunculus]

I'll bet you can fry an egg though Cliff. : 

No, but I can grill a pilchard ... they crack eventually!   

[annew]

At last I've started repotting the daffs. I've had a 12 module tray in the kitchen for weeks since I did the chipping - each cavity holding a different clone of daff hybrid, carefully labelled, to pot up as insurance in case the chips fail. I took them out to my potting station, and put them on the table ready while I made up the compost. After bashing the lumps out of the JI compost with my rake, I leaned it against the table. You're ahead of me aren't you?
15 seconds later I tripped over the rake which clipped the edge of the tray and catapulted bulbs and labels all over the accumulated pots etc that tend to congregate around me (not my doing you understand). After a long hunt, the bulbs are now all in one pot along with their labels, but since most were not flowering size, it'll be a couple of years before I can attempt to match them up.
That'll teach me. Except it won't.

[Martin Baxendale]

Been there, done that, Anne. Hence the number of snowdrop pots I have with a name on the front of the label and a note on the back "May be mixed with...and....and maybe also some...." etc.

[Martin Baxendale]

I still can't quite believe the Sky news item on the East Africa famine that I caught late last night while de-potting snowdrops, which the news reader prefaced with the words "The following report contains images of malnourished children". Just in case anyone wanted to look away. For ***** sake!!

[mark smyth]

It's not just SKY, Martin

[Martin Baxendale]

Viewers can always avert their gaze if they find the images of starving children really starts to get too upsetting. It just amazes me that the TV people actually think it's necessary or desirable to forewarn viewers, presumably so that they don't have to see starving children at all, even for a second. We NEED to see them.