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

On Saturday, we went to Bakewell farmers' market; and spent an obscene amount of money - the organic meat stall, before we even went in, cost us £86 squid. Local venison, goat, locally sourced ostrich, goose and burgers and sausages various.

Most favourite were the vegetables: I have never tried gerusalem artichokes - they are wonderful. We bought the normal stuff - carrots, parsnips, swede, turnips, cauliflower, onions, leeks, potatoes etc.,

I decided to make some soup!! Yesterday, I made cauliflower soup with red chillies. It was delightful.

I also made a beef stew; which of course entailed loads of veg - I used all the peelings and bits and bobs to make a vegetable stock; which was to be used for the basis of the carrot and corriander soup for today. However! There's always a however!! When I got up this morning, I could not find said stock. Questioning SS - he said "stock? - I thought it was dirty water and threw it away"

There are times!!!

The next lot of stock is currently cooking with a note to say 'THIS IS STOCK - <****> off note at the side!!

I have a husband like that. When I asked him were the mini vaccuum cleaner was, he said;

'You haven't used it in over a year, so I took it to the dump'

What would we do without them Lil?

Count yourself lucky you have husbands!

I have to do everything myself, and nothing gets chucked out. Washing-up doesn't get done if I don't do it, and DIY is a nightmare to organise.

However, the TV remote belongs to me, and there's no-one snoring on the other side of the bed. The pristine bathroom is just as I left it, clean with towels hung up



On the other hand (counts again) there's no-one to escort me to the two family weddings and a christening this year, and I'll be suffering from sore-thumb syndrome again



Whatever happened to that hubby-in-a-drawer idea of Wilma's, lil?

Oh, I like the husband in a drawer idea too I'll have one of them please.

Jerusalem artichokes are delicious but they give me terrible wind so I rarely eat them. Apparently if you boil them with the skin still on, then peel it off just before eating, the side effects aren't quite so bad. Can't say it works for me though

'Hubby-in-a-drawer' GB? Is that where you get them out to play, work or whatever, but only when required?

Hey, girls I have one of those husbands too Thankfully, he is not computer literate!!!

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My wife alway insists no one else would put up with me. I'll have to show her this thread and go