Moan, Moan, Moan - 2011

[Anthony Darby]

Seeing the benefits already Cliff. Here's to health and a rapid recovery.

[Paddy Tobin]

Good to hear you are doing so well, Cliff. Continued improvement now day by day, I hope.

I always found that long pupils were good for basketball, by the way.

Paddy

[maggiepie]

Lesley, we make all our own bread, use the machine to do the kneading and then cook it in the oven.
Fantastic bread.
We just use the french bread recipe which has no sugar, oil or milk.
Makes great toast too.
You might never want to buy another loaf again.

[Paul T]

Congratulations, Cliff.  If you're already feeling it was worth it, then it really must be a quick recovery.  Keep up the good work. 

[Peter Maguire]

Good to hear you're on the mend Cliff, I'm not sure I could sit there and have someone work on my eye like that.

I suppose seed harvesting is out of the question this year?    

[ranunculus]

I suppose seed harvesting is out of the question this year?    

I could always try coconuts, Peter! 

[David Nicholson]

Cliff, my eyes watered just reading your post!

If you can manouvre the magnifying glass Cliff I left some music for you on Reply 514 on the Happy thread. You can just close your eyes and drift away.

[Anthony Darby]

Lesley,

I have found myself unconsciously adopting an accent if I am speaking to someone for a while.  I try to stop myself, as it may come across that I am trying to make fun of them when I am not.  I just find myself doing it without meaning to. 

Time for some mirth.

[Lesley Cox]

Lesley, we make all our own bread, use the machine to do the kneading and then cook it in the oven.
Fantastic bread.
We just use the french bread recipe which has no sugar, oil or milk.
Makes great toast too.
You might never want to buy another loaf again.

Is that a recipe on the early pages of Cooks' Corner Helen? I seem to remember some bread recipes. Roger also machines the mixing but bakes in the oven but he lost the right recipe eons ago so it's all a bit hit and miss. I never buy milk now, it's become very expensive here but I make up milk powder every second day, very quick and easy, tastes EXACTLY the same and costs about half.

[Lesley Cox]

Well done Cliff, and the surgrons. So pleased you don't have a third eye.

[angie]

Great to see you back Cliff.

My husband laughed at me when I filled my on line donor card. I said I am keeping my eyes but they can have everything else. He said but why would you keep your eyes. I replied I don't want anyone else seeing what I have seen in my lifetime. He just shook his head. Well they are my eyes 

Angie

[maggiepie]

Lesley, this is the recipe we use.
It came with a previous breadmachine and is the best for us.
French bread loaf.

Btw, we just use the dough cycle.

We use the ingredients for the 2lb loaf

Water- barely warm 1.5 cups ( 375ml)
Salt- 1.5 tspns ( 7 ml)
Bread flour, we use unbleached-4 cups ( 1litre)
Yeast, active dry , instant or bread machine ( we use bread machine yeast) 2.25 teaspoons ( 11ml)


Just put the ingredients in the breadpan in order of ingredients.

We bought a different brand breadmachine after replacing the pan 3 times, tried the recipe for French bread from the new machine's book but it wasn't as good.

If you try the recipe, let me know what you think.

[ranunculus]

Cliff, my eyes watered just reading your post!

If you can manouvre the magnifying glass Cliff I left some music for you on Reply 514 on the Happy thread. You can just close your eyes and drift away.

I drifted away and now I'm back ... many thanks David ... music to my ears!

[mark smyth]

After years of use/abuse my bat detector had to go back to the manufacturer. I sent it last Monday. It arrived with them on Tuesday, they fixed the broken solder and put it back in the post the same day.

Guaranteed next day delivery and insurance cost me just under £3.

To fix the solder and put it back in the post they charged me £20!!

It took FedEx 6 days to get it back to me.

[Hoy]

Probably my last contribution to the forum for a while as I'm putting myself through the cataract operation again tomorrow (and even paying for the privilege this time), so my eyes should be 20 - 20 by the weekend (!), but they will then have to settle down for a few weeks before I can test some reading glasses and focus properly on this screen.  After the 'uplifting' experience of my last operation (see below) I am REALLY looking forward (but blurred) to the event.  

During my last encounter with the surgeon I had the novel experience of rising up (seemed like 20 cms at least  ) from the operating table when the anaesthetist inserted his needle into my eye - he had previously insisted it wouldn't hurt - he lied!!!

Cliff, you were very unlucky then! Hope you fare better this time.

A relative of my wife had the cataract operation on one of his eyes earlier this summer. He drove to the surgeon, got the old lens removed and a new multifocusing lens put in. After a couple of hours he drove back home himself. (He is 75 years of age). For the first time in many, many years he could see properly!
In some months the other eye is due for a lens removal.