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Hi optomistic-LOL, is that good or bad not to expect me!!!

LOL Blue. going now, enjoy your day all.

Oh I'm used to teenagers about Bluey, they're no problem just throws me into temporary chaos when the mouths to feed increases over whats planned LOL

Stockbunny- I guess that is where baked beans on toast is a good standby ;0).

Ahh, lovely cuppa. Work beckons. See y'all.

LOL except the lad concerned hates baked beans but otherwise you are quite right.

Stockbunny- he'll have problems as a university student then!!!

Morning everyone. When I was at Uni an absolutly stunning girl was trying to figure out how to cook a tin of baked beans. She ended up phoning her Dad who was in the middle of a board meeting for his company - he didn't know either! I think she ended up with a Pot Noodle.

What's the phrase - all intellect and no common sense LOL

Good morning J Stratford- see that would have cost her at least twice as much and not as nutritious as baked beans. Why didn't she use her inituitive and ask another student, or better still google it in the computer if she didn't want to embarrass herself!!!

Bluey, your asking me to explain the thinking behind this girl? Now come on, you should know me better than that after my last couple of months!!!

Hi J Stratford- I'll have to reread your story then ;0). As I said I remembered you for a girl incident, phone calls sent to you in the wee hours of the morning and you thought she left you. You having a long pointless journey and the others consoling you when she wants you just as a friend.....but must admit I didn't read the beginning part.

Anyway, trust me female thinking is something I am trying to understand myself!!!

Morning all from a nice and sunny Hastings.

bunny, you know you should always have a couple of boxes of haddock fish fingers in the freezer...

JS,
I would have told her that you had to boil then in the can for about 45 minutes!

I didnt go to uni but I used to spend a lot of time with my mate Alex while he was at UMIST, I was in one of the kitchens with him once and there was a pompous idiot, who we did not know, who was haranguing everyone about how to eat sensibly.

Eating sensibly I simply not something that 18 year old students did in 1978 (he was ahead of his time!!).

Anyway Alex and I decided to liven up the kitchen a bit so we went back to his room and collected a number of ingredients and returned to the kitchen to cook them, the ingredients were a little unusual, but mainly consisted of cigarette dog ends and orange peel and an egg. We then spent about 15 minutes cooking this lot into a sort of omelette, all the while talking fairly loudly about how nice dog ends were in an omelette and how the orange peel really enhanced the flavour, pompous idiot was literally stunned by this and simply could not believe what we were doing. As we finished cooking and started to serve out the omelette he rushed out to get his camera and some of his mates, we used this opportunity to dump the omelette and disappear. I still laugh out loud when I remember this episode.

Spacie - LOL - now fish isn't a problem neither is veggie as we eat mainly those things but this lad doesn't, can't eat fish apparently makes him sick. LOL

Best way to heat up a can of beans/soup etc. is just to put it on the stove as it is, mixing the contents with a spoon as they heat up. Works with electric and gas stoves but do remember to open the can first :-) Very energy efficient and only a spoon to wash up afterwards. The label doesn't burn since the metal underneath distributes the heat and keeps it below the temperature necessary.

Spacie, Healthy eating and students is still something of a rarity. Lucky for me that I was a few years old than those around me. I still have nightmares about going round to see my mates in their shared house (7 blokes), if you liked your shoes you just didn't stand still in the kitchen but did some kind of Irish Jig to keep your feet of the floor!

Bluey, I wouldn't bother re-reading. Think it's safe to say the girl doesn't know what she wants. She spent last week down here with me, took her home on Thursday and haven't heard anything since. So as I say, don't ask me to understand female logic!!! I'll write the book about it all one day.

I'll put the kettle on.

Hi J Stratford- Oh she was the lovely Jo who helped you with the spring cleaning!!!

Close, who I did all the spring cleaning for... she did mention how clean it was down here!

Spurred on by yesterdays discussions about cars I decided to get the Audi A6 working and take it for a drive. The was very little that I had to do, just put the battery back in and check a few things like tyre pressures. All went well and I took it for a drive and the car was fine, even better after a high speed (but legal) run down the A21. Got back home and I found a major problem, I could not get it into reverse.

I had to get my neighbour to help me push the car as I had started a turn in the road that needed reverse to complete before I found the problem, luckily there is no through traffic so I was spared the embarrassment of holding up any other traffic. I then spent 2 hours trying to sort it out ....... the problem? I had forgotten that in the Audi you have to press the gear stick down to select reverse !!!

I think this illustrates very well just what a car expert I am.....


Kayak, I like the co friendly bean cooking process, even if the label did burn a bit it would probably just enhance the beans by adding a slight smokey flavour.

Old asbestosfingers is full of bright ideas.
Aren't you Kayak? ;)