venere08 Forum Posts (9,996)

RE: Slow cooking

A slow cooker(yes, I recall crock pot days - why 'crock??)is a wonderful invention, and serves you best by turning it on 'auto' in the morning, and you come home later in the day, to fabulous cooking smells and meal prepared ready to eat.

You can literally throw in a whole lot of stuff together, such as chopped meat and range of chunky veges, herbs and always remember enough liquid(such as water or chicken stock, about 2inches deep.

I've even cooked a whole chicken in it. It makes the tenderest stewed lamb shanks imaginable, especially yummy with Moroccan spices. Great for healthy winter meals when you're time strapped.

What is your idea of a challenge?

Yes, I feel like contacting the company and ask if I could be put in touch with this Angie. I'd like to know what she eats and drinks, and order the same.

What is your idea of a challenge?

Yeah, right, sure thing, not a worry...I can do that!

What is your idea of a challenge?

I think if the instructions are CLEAR and all pieces are there/holes in right place, that's half the battle won. Unfortunately, time and again, instructions are too brief, illegible and so on. Makes for a right challenge!

What is your idea of a challenge?

Well done to you, kizzy! Sounds heavenly. Some hard work there, but fantastically satisfying, no doubt.

What is your idea of a challenge?

Hi Sunshine, the person who succeeds will go in the Guiness book of records!

What is your idea of a challenge?

My feeling exactly, Rob!...Did you check out the comments from the satisfied customers, where the 41yr old 'granny' build one of their huge homes, single-handedly??

What is your idea of a challenge?

Why would anyone want to build a house which doesn't comply with such fundamentals is crazy, not just about keeping councils happy, but the bloomin thing could fall to bits.

By the way, Rob and epi, in regards to the kit I'm talking about, they are manufactured by a company call pal with a double 'aa'. If you get a chance to look it up, let me know what you think, and if you've heard of it? ...Ta.

What is your idea of a challenge?

Boy, some challenge, Rob! Well done to you and your friend. Bugga about the steel expanding etc. I know that's a complaint that apparently has been addressed by the steel frame home companies, in the way the pieces interlock, or something.

So where to from here now that you've conquered some a major challenge? Everything else might pale into insignificance.

(Now I know who to turn to if I ever go down that path. It would be well worth putting you up in a hotel for 2 months!!)

p.s. to share in epi's comment...Some white ants you got there!!!

What is your idea of a challenge?

Right now, I'm adjusting to the end of daylight saving which kicked in this morning - I woke up early, dammit.

I know what you mean. I've had pieces missing , holes not aligned...
Years ago, I stayed up 'til the wee hours of the night to figure out a really complicated(for me) knitting stitch. It had become a battle b/w the animate and inanimate. I worked it out around 3am.

So, does it boil down to wanting to get rid of the frustration that comes with the challenge, or to overcome the challenge itself?

What is your idea of a challenge?

p.s. I'm thinking along the lines of a really large dog kennel, as a starter kit home project.

What is your idea of a challenge?

Yesterday I came across a website for house building kits. They deliver to your block of land and pieces stacked in order of usage...You undergo an owner builder course, which then qualifies you to build it yourself, and the kit comes with a manual.

Apparently, it's like building one very big Meccano set. You just follow the steps. Each piece is clearly numbered, and corresponds with the plan diagram. Simples....Yeah right!

Yet, as ridiculous as it sounds, I can't help being tempted. I think that would be the ultimate challenge, for someone like me who has only ever played with jigsaw puzzles and lego when my son was little.

Why do we do want to do these things to ourselves?... Anyone here taken on a challenge so big, but went on to successfully finish it?
Or if you didn't finish it, what happened?

RE: What the heck should i do??

It seems clear that the benefits outweigh the downside, that is, your g/f's capacity to lie quite brazenly.

We all have our little secrets, you say? Well, I guess you can expect many more over time with this person. It's in her nature.

I note a contradiction in your post. On the one hand, you say want to just let everything pass. On the other, that you will keep it for future reference - Perhaps you're not letting it pass at all.JMO.

All the best though.

RE: Cuspys words that Rhyme

bliiiiiiiiss

RE: How Australians view this kind of relationship

How can this man be thinking of starting a 'serious' relationship if he is coming from the point of dishonesty.

RE: How Australians view this kind of relationship

So you never became an Aussie citizen? (the term was 'naturalised'(whatever that means) in my time)...Just curious.

RE: Men haters

Spare a thought for the Irish...They have to be separated for five years before they can get a divorce, and at least 4, before they can try to apply for one. That's longer than most marriages these days.

RE: What type of books do you read?

I've read them all except for Tender Morsels, and only a few pages into that one. The narrator's voice is very different to the others, so it's been a bit of a trudge but I'm assured that it will become weird and wonderful, with 'magicked bears' 'n all.

I received my 2 academic books from amaizon today, one has print so tiny, they should have included a magnifying glass with the book. Why do publishers do that? I know they wouldn't do it to a Steohen King novel.

RE: Men haters

It might be asking a bit much here, but it would be preferable that you keep your comments rational and not making personal attacks. It's called projecting. How have I attacked daggy's wife, and why the heck would I???...I'm sure that daggy knows I have not. His posts served as an academic exercise, where I comment on emotional and irrational content. I do believe he has accepted the posts to be in that vein. He's a stirrer, dear daggy, but at least it allows for commentary, to pass time when I come here to chill.

So you see, there is no need for personal attacks. It's not what this thread is about. Please refrain.

RE: Men haters

And how does your comment relate to my post, which in itself, was a fair question in response to daggy's post?


I think I will join faithe with some


(btw...Confucious say: Bait is better used to catch fish)

RE: Resurrecting the what have you read lately thread ...

RE: Resurrecting the what have you read lately thread ...

The course I'm doing this semester means I'm reading all kinds of Young Adult fiction/fantasy, including:

The Graveyard Book
Coraline
After the First Death
The Hungers Games(movie just released, haven't seen it yet)

Plus a host of young children's books. A lot of great talent out there.

Then there's heavy stuff that does my head in.

RE: Cuspys words that Rhyme

bread

RE: Pain Management

You see, you survived both really well. Everything else will be a walk in the park.

RE: Men haters

Btw, daggy, have you tried that yet? Yanno, living together in a hot tin shed and living off the earnings of your rice harvest? If not, why not try it - sounds blissful....I'm sure you should be able to get internet reception away from the rice fields, so you can post on CS and tell us how it's going.

RE: Any thing goes

Just make sure you check with the seismologists first - I know you might like the earth to move for you, but not that way.

RE: Society

Yes, and while you're at it, bring back the strap.

RE: If I could

Go diving and swim with the fishes.

Be a rock chick singer in a band.

RE: Tradie on the job

Could be the way you phrase a lot of things as a question?

RE: Pain Management

oops, here you are