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I've never used Facebook nor been tempted to do so. This is the only forum I use. I did for a short time, before I discovered this one, use another Norfolk forum but found it too aggressive and just plain nasty at times, so not for me. I think if users of this one seem to take for granted that things work smoothly that's because mostly they do. The fact that lots of us don't stop to consider how it all happens is probably because there's rarely a glitch and that is in itself an accolade. Without doubt Jonzo and his team have done and are continuing to do a superb job and I hope that they truly know how very appreciated they are. . Reading back over old threads, it's plain to see that people have found friendship, support and assistance just to mention a few great things on this forum,, all things that cannot be understated in their value.
.I get very fed up during the winter, but being on the forum reading all the interesting matters that pop up on a daily basis and sometimes being able to contribute in a small way have helped me enormously so thanks everybody.
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Thank you all so much , I told my husband that if a remedy existed, someone on here would be sure to know what it was. this forum is always my first point of reference. thanks again,
Carole
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2 of the drawers in my upright freezer have cracked down the front and naturally the cracks worsen each time the drawers are used. Spares are no longer available well of course they aren't. Anyone know of an adhesive that will do the job?. I'd prefer that to using joiners of some sort.
Carole
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Sorry Gracie, I'll try to do better. by the way, what happened to the triplets?
Carole
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Kevin, Nigel? Didn't they used to chop wood down Euston Road?
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Congratulations to my No. 2 granddaughter, Phoebe, who passed her driving test this morning. Bad news everybody she's blonde! so if you're anywhere in the vicinity between North London (where she lives) and Boreham Wood (where she attends 6th form college) and you see a peppermint green Fiat 500, take evasive action! Be careful out there!
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22 hours ago, Arthur said:
The media just love to stir up the public with these stories of impending shortages.
Back in the 1970's we had a period where sugar and bread were in limited supply for various reasons.
Shops were rationing or only selling to regular customers.
Then somewhere in the media there came the story that there would be a shortage of toilet rolls.
Within 24 hours there was hardly a bog roll to be found.
I well remember the sugar shortage in 1974/ 75 I was running a small building company and no sugar with their tea was not an option to be considered by our small workforce. Tea just the way they liked it was like oil to a temperamental machine. Fortunately, I used to habitually shop at a supermarket where I had got to know the manager. Who ,even when it got so short that staff couldn't have it either, used to meet me in the car park with a bag of or sugar every week.. I never forgot his kindness it made life much easier for me. The irony was I never took sugar in drinks myself, nor do I have a remotely sweet tooth
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Only here could a post about lettuce lead to an in depth discussion about toilet paper Priceless!
Carole
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While driving on the outskirts of Ely Christmas 2015 I stopped at a road junction behind another car and a man ran across in front of my bonnet I took little notice of him untill he tried to get in the front passenger door. Our car automatically locks as you pull away so he was left on the outside looking in I drove off and reported it to the police as soon as I was able to pull in somewhere. I felt sure the man was of E. European extraction. Our last 3 cars including this one have now all locked automatically but I've been driving in a locked car for the last 25 years at least as there has been scare stories of this ilk going round for at least that long particularly in London where I used to live.
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BOLOGNESE BURGERS Finely chop and gently fry in a little oil or butter an onion until just softened. Put in a bowl together with some beef mince season well add a crumbled oxo cube if liked, mix together, form round palm sized patties with a cube of mature cheddar cheese in the centre making sure the cheese is properly sealed, place patties in an oven proof dish. Lay a generous slice of cheese over the top of each one, pour over the whole lot a tin/jar bolognese sauce. Bake in hot oven for about 40 minutes.
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1 hour ago, Timbo said:
I was discussing the demise of what seems like vast swathes of musical and acting talent with my better half Ellie. She's more au fait with what passes for talent these days. For a change we sort of agreed loosely that those born around or just after WW2 are coming to the end of their allotted span. The forties, fifties and sixties saw an increase in population with more opportunity to raise hell in an environment more tolerant of creativity. We also agreed that Lawrence Olivier was as wooden an actor as you could get...and the modern celebrities when they start shuffling off this mortal coil will have really short obituaries because...well, they are famous for nothing.
I could certainly have done without that observation. I wasn't feeling too perky anyway having had a basal cell carcinoma removed from my nose on Friday followed by a skin graft (ouch!) and having just removed the dressing, not a pretty sight but I still don't feel anywhere near done with the mortal coil yet.so I'm worried how it's going to look long term.
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We saw this product or if not something very similar on a boat moored next to us at Loddon last year. We were really impressed. It looked great and certainly bore the close inspection which we were offered by the owner when we expressed our admiration of it. He was delighted with it and couldn't wait to show it to us and to extoll every aspect of it.
Carole
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I knew absolutely nothing about the Broads other than they were a series of large lakes in Norfolk until we moved the boat here in 2010 and until I found this forum still didn't know much. Every important thing about the Broads I now know I've gleaned from the knowledgeable folk on here which is what I've found so beneficial about this forum. When my husband finds little snippets about The Broads in various boating magazines he reads and recounts them to me I am now able to expand on them and tell him something he didn't know which makes a change and it's all thanks to you Forum Boffins. Many thanks.
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I well remember "Secret Army" thought it very good. I must be one of the few people who failled to laugh at any part o f" allo allo". I honestly thought it was absolute rubbish.
Sadly, I can't imagine any repeats of "Till Death Us Do Part" ever being screened the PC brigade would go into melt down. Likewise "Love thy neighbour" I would imagine. A situation that will endure while these humourless do-gooders fail to be able to tell the difference between reality and plain old British comedy
Carole
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Some friends of ours had a Seamaster 27' and one weekend they had both their adult offspring and respective families on the boat for a weekend so somewhat crowded with bodies bedded down just about everywhere. During the night the gas detector, sited in the cockpit, kept going off. Investigations found nothing amiss, On about the 5th occasion of this Mum sussed he culprit, teenage son who was sleeping in the cockpit had had an Indian takeaway for supper and was known to suffer from flatulence at the best of times! Solution - move son's bed, problem solved.
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I lived very close to a skating rink when a child and went skating at least 6 times a week. On one occasion I had just had my blades ground and having just stepped onto the ice was standing holding the barrier while "scuffing" my blades to get rid of any metal detritus that remained before I started to skate. while doing this 2 American Airmen appeared either side of me promising to make sure I didn't fall over and saying they would teach me to skate. the mischief in me let them get on with it! Half way through the session they used to clear the ice for "Ladies' 'and Gent's speed periods so that competent skaters could exercise their skills without being impeded by learners. My 2 Sir Galahads took me to a seat so that I could watch how good they were while they went through their paces during the Gent's session. With all the confidence of a cheeky 14 year old, as they came off I went on and as I showed them speed, jumps and spins, they knew they'd been had, the roars of laughter from my 20 or so friends that had gathered in the stands to watch was also something of a clue. They took it in good part.
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Come on now Gracie don't beat about the bush say it like it is!
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Like you Helen, I "observed" the forum without contributing for quite a long time, before venturing on to it. I' m so glad I did. It's what keeps me sane while I'm waiting for the boating season to start and suffering withdrawal symptoms big time! Yes, some of them come over as being slightly cuckoo in the nicest way of course but between them they hold a wealth of knowledge on so many subjects, I find myself constantly being astounded by how interesting they can be and above all, friendly, there's never any nastiness which makes it the perfect place to spend the winter, So Welcome from me too and I hope you get the enjoyment that I have,
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Many years ago the fields across the fens used to freeze for months on end, to the extent that people used to skate on them. Fens Skaters are a well known fact in this part of the world. and at a meeting of the IWA a couple of years back the guest speaker was an old Fens Skater. He even brought his old skates for us to look at. His tales were fascinating and his skates very different from any I've seen before . The races they used to hold must have been quite a spectacle. His account of it all conjured up some enthralling pictures.
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A chap who used to moor his boat on Ely marina when we were there a few years ago used to tell the story of how as a lad he, together with some of his friends once drove a Land Rover on the frozen river Great Ouse from Little Thetford to the Cutter Inn in Ely, a distance of about 2 miles I should think, reversing it out up the sloping bank that was there forming something of a slipway, Apparently a small coach did a similar thing at about the same time.,
Certainly it seems to me that we don't seem to get the freezing conditions that were the norm when we were growing up as I well remember skating on a little used lock that had frozen over at Dobbs Weir near Hoddesdon in Hertfordshire during the 1950s. I'd have forty fits at the very thought of a child of mine doing that today.Carole
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17 hours ago, Timbo said:
In the days when I watched television (I haven't had TV at home for eight years now, just two very large computer monitors 46" and 50", and I don't miss it one little bit.) I had a disappearing TV signal. Well to be exact some toerag had nicked my TV antenna.
An added bonus to not watching television is the sporadic visits of the TV Licensing people who no matter how many times you tell them that 'I don't watch TV' insist on calling and look horrified when they discover that...I don't watch TV.
If you're having problems with the TV now is a great time to turn the thing off and leave it off. You would be amazed at how much better you sleep, how much time you now have...a bit like the 'Why don't you' programme when I was a kid, and how much more relaxed you will be. You won't miss anything...any programme worth watching has a book to accompany it which is more detailed.
Is this how you found the time to hone your ironing skills Tim?
Carole
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we don't have sky but we do have a recently fitted state of the art digital aerial. Prior to digital we never had a problem here. Many years ago we lived in Brookmans Park and we had a transmitter of some kind about a mile away which caused all sorts of problems, ie: an Asian radio programme instead of the sound track on the T.V. but only on one side of the house! We also had upwards of 100 trees in the garden which didn't help. But eventually we managed to find a company that knew what it was doing and problem solved
Carole
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Apparently we do have booster ,I think that it's 'just that digital is rubbish and that' s 'the long and short of it. Once more in the name of progress quality has been compromised.
Carole
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In the last few weeks I've lost count of the number of times we have had to re-tune the t.v. because we lose the signal. I found a number to phone and was told that high pressure was to blame. The problem invariably comes on a Friday night. Anyone out here experiencing the same problem?. Although we live in Cambridgeshire when we had a new aerial installed last year on the back of similar problems the installers said that a large tree was causing a reception problem and set the new aerial to receive the signal from the east midlands. So now we get "local news " from Leicester! We had no signal all last evening until about 10.00pm and even then some digital channels were missing or unwatchable.
Carole
Has The Nbn Got A Future? A resounding "Yes"!
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Nobody on this forum wants to ruffle any other member's feathers that's one of the qualities that sets it apart from the rest. If I think" getting my point" across is going to ruffle a fellow member's feathers I don't make the point.
Carole