Sudokuaholics Anonymous

Hi Brenda, Will be over your way. Marlow, Ipswich and Colchester. Then Fly to Oslo and Flam Railway . Copenhagen and a Baltic cruise for 10 days. Back to Brighton, Bristol and into Wales. Back to Marlow for a wedding and then home (5 weeks in all)

I scared every one away again!!!

Hello everyone. Very quiet here in the last 24 hours!! I spent the afternoon yesterday doing the preparations for making cumquat marmalade. We have a large bush & we picked approx 20 kilos of fruit!! We then prepared about 6 kilos of those - hubby slicing & me removing seeds. Hubby is not working today so he is making the marmalade. Anyone got any good ideas for what to do with the other 14 kilos????

Hi, Jenni. You could candy some cumquats or you could do what we do in the south with bumper crops -- give them to your friends.

A friend from Florida would bring my mother kumquats every year, and we just ate them, rind and all.

Ruby, still here?

Thanks for your suggestions Ruby. Unfortunately, I don't have too many friends who are interested in cumquats. Oh well. Hello, Cyndi

Jenni, How about making and botteling a cumquat sauce for serving with chocolate mouse, or over custard, or ice cream>

Slice some, also juice some, put slices in the juice and freeze for using with roasted meats, like pork, turkey, chicken and duck.

Make Brandied cumquats for garnish of meats.

OK, back to bed for me,

Okay, now who has been sitting in my Chair
and Who left Crumbs all over it !!!

Had a lovely weekend. The weather perfect, slightly on the cool side, but beautiful Sunny Days

Hi, Cindi. No, I left.

I used to put them in a jar. Fill the gaps with sugar then cover with brandy and keep rotating till the sugar is dissolved and they keep for ages and ages and you have lovely brandied cumquats.(I am not sure if you would want 14 Kilos of brandied cumquats !!)

But then we could all come to a sudoku brandied cumquat party.

Cute map, Rola. MizT probably got your chair crumby. Where did you go?

Jenni, before you dismiss June's suggestion, think Christmas gifts.

June? Oh, June? Come out, come out, wherever you are! Rola? You, too, now.

Oh, no! Did get you?

Open the pod bay door, Rola.
Open the pod bay door, June.

Color me gone.

Sorry I disappeared for a while. I have been painting and had to go clean the brushes and rollar.

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19.. MizTricia
18.. Rola
16.. Stella
9 … Jenni
7 … Becky
7 … vdV
5 … Cyndi
5 … Ruby
3 … Rena
2 … CP
2 … June
1 … Anni
1 … Jean
1 … Kathy
1 … Mamacita

ROLA, thank you for the new count on TOPPs . STELLA, you are really catching up, must get your house in order and get back here. Jenni is giving us a run for the money, way to go Jen!

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Alien report. I just received an e-mail saying I had a message on my home page, but i got that message 3 days ago! Weird things happening now. ~~~ ~~~

MizTrica..
um whats with the tulips smilies......
hmmmmmmmmm me thinks I might copy and have them for myself.....

as for the report. I noticed that last week... slow coming thru the emails...

TOPPS #19 equal with MizT..

can't count.. go away for 4 days, and lose all sense of where on the page I am...

NEW TOPIC FOR DISCUSSION

Do you have an outdoor clothes line? How often do you use it? Why or why not?

I have a couple lines, on my back porch, so I do not have to do stairs with laundry baskets. I am getting too old for that! I hang our shirts on clothes hangers as I take them from the washer, and bottoms on those plastic hangers with built in pegs, skirt hangers, and hang those on the line. I can get lots of clothes hung in a small space that way. I always hang my knit tops and bottoms. If weather is not good for hanging these outside, I hang on the shower curtain rod over tub indoors.

I just like the smell of air dried clothes. Also hate to add heat load to the house in summer, pay to dry the clothes and pay to cool down the house cause the dryer is running. I hang out everythng in the warm weather, but use dryer more for the towels and sheets and undies in the winter. Yesterday we had such low humidity, and windy too, a load of Al's scrub tops he wears in the summer for work shirts dried in an hour.

just lost a comment into cyber space, again!!



Lets see what it said. and why do I never loose them if I make a copy first??

ROLA, yes, you may copy the tulips, and any other smilie you like. Goes for anyone else on here also. See it. Like it? Copy it! I just got a few new ones approved. Thought you might like the tulips.

STELLA, did you ever copy the KILROY one? Huumm, I had one said TRICIA WAS HERE, turned it in, did not get that one back approved. when i have time, will look into that one and see what happened. maybe it did not go through, it did not appear ANY that I sent went through this last time. I got ONE of them back 3 times, I kept sending

Yes, I have an outdoor Clothes Line. Most Australians would have outdoor lines.. My clothes line is situated under a Patio.
I do have a Clothes Dryer (21yrs old this July) sitting on the wall in the Laundry. Doesn't get used very often.
Winter time, like this evening, I get it off the line and hang the washing on the airer in front of the heater, and it will be dry by the morning..

Like most Australians I also have a clothes line and our days are warm enough to use it in winter as well. We have an enclosed patio and I put clothes on the airer out there when it is wet. My clothes dryer is 33 years old and only gets an occassional use. It is nice to see sheets etc blowing about in the breeze.

DEFINITION PLEASE: What is an airer? Is it something like I had back when I had babies and no dryer? a wooden rack that folds, has from bottom, one dowel rod, then 2, then one again, and two, and one. then a top that has several closely apaced dowel rods on top that flips up to fold and down to stabelize it when using? Similar to this but placement of dowels different, at the corners of the squares the folding frame makes.

http://www.stacksandstacks.com/html/55151_expandable-dry ing-rack.htm

I used this for drying baby clothes and sheets and diapers, yes, I used cloth diapers, disposables just comming into use toward the last of my youngest's diaper days. I had a floor furnace, not forced air heat, in my first appartment and this drying rack could fit over it, and clothes would dry quickly. Later with forced air, I put it over a smaller vent , same effect. BOY I did not pay $75 for my rack hehehe

Good Evening and Good Morning. I wish I had my clothes line back. I had a retractible lime and I think it is sti attached to the house, but nothing to connect it to on the other end. Besides, there's too many trees in that area of the yard. Mr husband took it down for two reasons: 1) allergies eliminates use in the Sprig and early Summer; and, 2) he doesn't like the appearance. I think he's also again looking out for me; he knows I don't do steps so I can't get out there too well and I don't reach up too well either. Maybe when he gets the screened porch done next Spring I can use my rack out there.

Yes MizT. Airer is what you have described, although mine is not wooden..

http://www.onlinedirect.hills.com.au/cattleprod/ products/C1100AIR

I have a rotary airer and use it as much as possible, but would prefer to have a simple clothes line. I must admit I use my electric dryer during our wet winter/summer and for socks, underclothes and towels. The first two items because I hate the tedious job of pegging them on the line and the towels I like the soft feeling the tumble drier gives.

Hi June, Sounds like a lovely trip you have planned.
I hope the weather settles down a bit before you get here. The weekend just gone was really warm (for England) though probably cool compared to weather in NSW, but the week leading up to it was so cold and wet that we had to turn the heatig back on. We are heading west in a couple of weeks time to Canada for a three week break

looks like everyone is asleep at present and I'm talking to myself

Brenda, My DH likes the softer Jeans,towels and undies. I put them into dryer for an AIR ONLY tumble after they dry outside. He does not know the difference.

thanks Rola for the e-mail with photos of your airer and clothes line. I suppose I should have asked what kind of clothes line you had. I was imaging the old kind I and my Mom had, a pair of T bars about 6 feet high, with multiple lines run between Ts. mom's were so long, about 60 feet (aprox 20 meters)the lines needed props in the center. Six lines, so 360 feet or 120 meters total, and she filled it each wash day, and on occasion had to take in the first load fore could hang the last one! For Mom, wash day was Monday and it took all day! Tub washer with a ringer on top, and rinse tubs , the lot made up a square, and the ringer would rotate to help ring the water between rinse tubs.

have you ever got your hand/arm sucked in by a ringer roller?

MizT, how many people was she washing for?

MizT I usually part airdry towels and finish off in dryer, but as I said I hate hanging the socks and underwear out. It is a never ending task in this house. There are five of us but the nuber of socks we get through you would think that there was 10.

The smell of sheets dried outside is fantastic, but they are scratchy if you don't tumble them for a while. Don't dare say the I-word. My secret laundry pleasure is that in the winter I toss whatever I am going to wear into the dryer just long enough to warm it up. My first year out of college I rented a mobile home. I hated it, but I saw how convenient it was to have the washer in the bathroom, so when I built this house I put the washer and dryer in a closet in the bathroom. There is no sense, to me, in hauling your laundry all over the house.

Have you all gone, or were you lurking for Topps?

I remember the type of washer your Mom used. I remember years ago my grandmother coming to my mother's home (when I was a kid) to do the washing on a Monday. Come rain or shine she would arrive. If it was dry and windy mum and grandmother would get through loads of washing and have it dried ready for ironing by evening. If it was wet then we would have washing hanging on airers drying in the house. And this was before we had central heating installed.

I had an apartment with a floor furnace in the hall, and I kept an 'airer' on the furnace particularly for underwear.