h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

That's very interesting.
I have several things in my fridge that NEED eating - (otherwise I'll be contributing to the current South Wales e-coli outbreak!!)

Hello to everyone - and thank you for welcoming me back!!

Thanks for that Titania - I can now go and argue about it with Gnomon

Hello RainbowTears!

S wishes me to point out that I might have misleadingly given the impression that he a) very rarely washes up and b) doesn't like my singing. He insists neither of these are true. Well, he's right about a), he does do his fair share of washing-up (I was really being amazed that he was washing up in the evening as we normally leave it in the sink until either the next evening or we run out of clean mugs). As for the singing thing, I think he is blissfully prejudiced in my favour as he is in love with me. I am convinced I sing like a six-year-old on helium.

*regards Kelli's Grammar* Hmm. I think they both look correct, though the needs to be taken in looks slightly more formal and more 'written', whereas 'taking in' looks spoken.

Anyway, S is on holiday, so we are sitting about in our jim-jams eating bacon butties at MIDDAY! It is absolute bliss. And later we shall go and buy a decent camera, as our current camera is no better than a mobile phone one and hey, you can't even scream 'I'm on a train!' into it. Well, you could, and possibly it would be considerably less annoying for the other passengers than actually using a phone because you'd be behaving in an interestingly odd way. But you wouldn't be able to embarrass the friend sitting twenty miles away who just KNOWS that an entire carriage of mildly irritated persons is glowering at the flagrant breach of good manners you have unwittingly been made party to.

I am glad someone else is in their jim-jams. I've just lied to a delivery man who arrived at the door and told him that I was in my 'track-suit' (and bedroom slippers). Sadly having eventually found my house after driving around for over an hour, he realised he had forgotten to put my parcel on his van - good start to the week....

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Isn't the usual approach to washing up for those who don't have one of them new fangled electric dish washer things?

Washing up in the Dreadful household can be a source of friction as I am firmly of the belief that it doesn't need doing until we've run out of plates and the sink has developed its own eco-system.

I'm glad I'm not in my jim-jams... the rest of the people at work might have me carted off if I was.

I wish I was in my jimjams, but I'm in dungarees instead revising for a maths test tomorrow because I'm going out this evening to the Glee Club to see David Ford.
My english teacher didn't show and I decided to skip geography in order to finish my....geography homework and do my english homework, which was a poster on irony...posters at Alevel! I ask you!

Hey rainbow!

Whenever I'm alone I make exciting meals and then as soon as there are other people I panic and plan meals really carefully but everything goes to pot and we eat decadently to start with and by the time it's shopping day again we're eating dried weetabix and cans of kidney beans.

Kat

I expect washing up to be done when I need the stuff that's dirty. That means any day we eat a proper meal, as due to a number of accidents over teh years we only have two big plates . The slo cooker still needs doing though, and it's about a fortnight since I used that...

Hello Rainbows Tears

*wonders just whose kitchen needs sending Kim and Aggie round

*realises her own culinary department isn't exactly squeaky clean

We once had a major family argument during a game of Scattergories when I insisted that Things Found in the Fridge, beginning with M, should include mould.
I had to march them into the kitchen to prove my point.

Anything in my kitchen that doesn't fit into my 'new fangld cleaning machine' doesn't get cleaned - hence my oven is extremely dirty. (When I bought it 6 years agono-one told me you could get ovens that DIDN'T clean themselves. Now I'm stuck with this filthy thing that has no concept of personal hygene)!!

Kat, at the university here there is an annual poster competion for the research students in the faculty, so doing posters isn't confined to lower levels of the educational system.

I agree with the wash it up whan needed approach, it's served me well for many years so far.

Hello Rainbow!

RAINBOW!!!!

It's lovely to have you back!

My fridge has Jars in it. Two jars of peanut butter for example, and I don't really like peanut butter. My Ma used to slow-cook a brisket and keep the dripping on one side for use later. Unfortunately there isn't much you can use dripping for, so she'd end up with bowls and bowls labled 'beef' or 'lamb' or - more worryingly - '?'.

My Ma-in-Law-as-was used to 'put it in the fridge to go mouldy', and her younger daughter now has nothing in the house over two weeks old. Apart from the children. Who are 6 and 9. Years. *Because* she has nothing else in the house over two weeks old. I really wish I hadn't started on that one.

The stepson made me very crabby about domestic tidyiness and hygiene. I am not particularly clean or tidy, but I do get much crabbier these days about the whole thing. Luckily I am learning to find houseworth soothing. I rather wish I hadn't started on that one either.

B

I'm coming to the conclusion that best approach might be to live with an obsessive-compulsive who is besotted with you.

Unfortunately I have yet to find one!

B

I have bowls of dripping, but since both members of the householdlike it on toast, it doesn't stay there long. In fact, it's probably one of the few food stuffs that go in my fridge that never gets the chance to go mouldy.

I do have containers of left over stew in the freezer with labels like 'beef (probably)' though. Him in doors steers around them when looking for food to snaffle.

Dripping doesn't actually go mouldy KA.

Gravy splits. But Dripping lasts for months, or possibly years.

I do agree with you about dripping on toast though.

B

If you don't put the lid on then the jelly dries up, mind you. I found that out a few months ago.

The jelly lasts long enough to dry up? I assumed that the whole 12 hour process of cooking a brisket was to create the quarter of a pint or less of beef jelly!

Tell you what, KA, I'll eat the jelly and you guys have the dripping. Would that work?

B