Still Blue, Still Stocking: The Bluestocking remains open in 2021

Wine, oceans of wine tonight. SO incandescent with rage about Plymouth shooting. Fucking incels mysogeny not a hate crime, fucking hell.
And woke family members, oh just fuck off. Even H was"making excuses"
For the poor ikkle incel shooter.

No bandwidth to even listen, tonight. Taken myself off to my room, to drink wine, eat marmite crisps, watch stuff on my tablet and phone.

Sometimes I really hate the whole world.

Gin from a tin here tonight. Yes, I have reached that point of school holidays desperation.

Salt was used to preserve things for ever wasnt it? Nothing more comforting than marmite on toast. Am raising a toast to all stroppy vipers tonight and hope you all sleep well and safe.

Just for the hell of it, heres a quote:
*
“Women can change better’n a man,” Ma said soothingly. “Woman got all her life in her arms. Man got it all in his head.”
“Man, he lives in jerks-baby born an’ a man dies, an’ that’s a jerk-gets a farm and looses his farm, an’ that’s a jerk. Woman, its all one flow, like a stream, little eddies, little waterfalls, but the river, it goes right on. Woman looks at it like that. We ain’t gonna die out. People is goin’ on-changin’ a little, maybe, but goin’ right on.”*

Eh, I don't really do use by dates. If it smells or looks weird, I'll chuck it but otherwise, it's fine. It helps that I have an iron clad stomach and have never had food poisoning though - I'll probably change my tune if I ever do.

I have food hygiene quals, am a scientist, have been a h & s professional and the whole best before/use by date stuff makes me so annoyed. It generates SO MUCH food waste

Ginger in syrup also has a sell-by. This, I can confirm, can be entirely ignored. Ginger in syrup is immortal.

Yes, it does! And sugar! And vinegar!
None of which are good media for bacteria/mould growth.

[Makes mental note to check if actual salt has a BBE date.]

More expressing surprise that people thought it would go out of date. (unless many years old)

I know. The ? was a bit spurious

Marmite is so salt that it would be an astonishing organism that could grow in that environment.

Recipe? Please

In our house marmite has no time to go out of date, but it can, DH helped himself to,some at his parents house once. Layered it on good and thick (not envy) and it tasted disgusting. Was a few years out of date . Luckily it didn't put him off marmite for ever. I mean, a world without it would be a very sad and empty place.

My DD makes a cracking cheese and marmite bread. Shall I ask her to rustle some up for us? She's 'one of us' too (very well brought up)

Marmite doesn't go out of date?

Can't you unchuck it?
I can't imagine having marmite past its date, but I don't look at the dates

Fabulous the AIBU thread about ERC and MW getting so much sunlight on the issue. Interesting how the moderating is so very different in here, isn't it!

Sorry about what I posted last night, pulled as was a bit...identifying.

All quiet tonight. H has apologised. Seems contrite.

Cheese and marmite straws and sloe vodka, anyone?

Oh, yes. Quite safe. But just... what toddler type behaviour! Just grow up, fgs.

Oh, Spring. Do you feel safe now? If not, call the police. Also, do you have a nearby RL friend? Call her. Wish I could help more. You don't need this. Dunno about ALL men, but there's a pattern of behaviour. Keep safe.
Strength, and camel.

If you freeze them, then put them in the kilner jar you intend to use to make sloe gin, just pour over the gin and the skins will split nicely (other preserving jars are available)

[quote Waitwhat23]@GrumpyMiddleAgedWoman there's a thread on another board discussing the same issue as a thread on here and it's quite eye opening the difference in moderation tolerance. One or two comments have made me think 'eeek! You'll get a deletion for that for sure!' and then I've realised it's not this board.[/quote]
The monitors, I assume, cannot be everywhere. Two of my three deletions addressed them directly, so it seems they don't like that. I used to wonder if they really existed, but I don't any longer.

For anyone wanting sloe gin, just get yourself to a patch of countryside with blackthorn growing at some stage in the late autumn. Sloes are supposed to have been frosted before picking, but you can either pop them in your freezer for a few hours or prick them with a pin to get the same effect (slightly split skins). You only need a pint by volume to make a small batch of slow gin.

Sorry about your DH* spring

DH=dick head.