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[Dowser]

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We ran out of space 999 messages, whilst I was composing a post, our bad.

Well as I was saying re: jelly. Mum used to add a little water to dissolve jelly, then whisk up carnation milk and make an amazing mousse type thing which we loved in rabbit form or any other.

Totally fucked up the heading didn’t I?

@justasking111
I used to make those milk jellies
Awesome
I’d forgotten all about that
So easy to do

Have asked mnhq to rectify the heading
Argh

Tent is up ready for our safari camp tonight. DH has posted a pic on Facebook saying we've found an amazing campsite where the dogs can run free and I can go horseriding. People want to know so they can go and he won't tell them where the big meanie 😆

Actually just made a jelly for tea tonight! Thanks to JustAsking for the inspiration. It's slightly past the best before date, but what the heck, eating a marginally out-of-date jelly is as about as exciting as life can get these days!

If we end up with jelly-poisoning & drain the NHS at this difficult & unprecented time, you won't judge me.

Waiting for the queues to die down before I head out to get the required ice cream.

Accidentally headed onto the BBC website & then to AIBU where the Schools vs Pubs debates have begun. If they shut the pubs to save the schools the unions won't like that. (Nowhere to go for a drink after a meeting for a start).

Still, if they shut the pubs it would provide the necessary extra space to keep classes socially-distanced.
"Year 9 can't do Swimming this term but period 4 every Wednesday will now be a special chemistry lesson down The Dog & Feathers with Sir."

@justasking111

Well as I was saying re: jelly. Mum used to add a little water to dissolve jelly, then whisk up carnation milk and make an amazing mousse type thing which we loved in rabbit form or any other.

My mum used to do that - I'd completely forgotten it! I now have cravings....

Not losing ya!

Come to think of it, I seem to have described some of the more illicit features of my state 1980s secondary education, especially school trips where we were instructed to go off for some "free time" & knock on the pub door to summon a grown up, "if it's an emergency."

Oh bugger you lot I have to go and make jelly now for grandkids.

Anyone who watched the Waltons will know how kids of all ages were in classrooms. They were even in a social room in a factory during the war. And if you have netflix and watched When Calls the Heart will know how the teacher moved all the kids into the saloon for lessons in the day pub at night. So maybe set up school in pubs in daytime. Where theres a will theres a way.

Urgh thought I'd lost you. Until I realised I was searching in the Cars topic not the Chat topic...

We used to have that jelly carnation mousse thing! It must’ve been in some 70s cookbook. 😁

@justasking111 that’s EXACTLY what a 19 year old SHOULD be doing... without the booking of course.

The “men” of this village said they would convert the church and community hall into classrooms if needed. They want the kids educated!

That jelly carnation milk foamy thing was the first thing I ever made in a cookery class at school. Think I must have been 11.

Hi all. Thanks, Dowser.

Re the brain mould - a friend’s child had to make a body part out of cake for school year 7. That would have been really useful.

Yes, thanks Dowser.

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Oh gawd so embarrassed. Having problems with drop out on internet intermittent problem for a few weeks, DS had given up on X Box so having done tests online with sky for days finally bit the bullet to ring them and prepare to hang on for hours. Dialled number put phone on speaker and decided to go for a wee. As I was sat on loo a voice says, good afternoon Nigel here, how can I help you today. So there I was waterfall sound effects, loo roll in hand scrabbling for phone.

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We used to have that jelly carnation mousse thing! It must’ve been in some 70s cookbook. 😁

@justasking111 that’s EXACTLY what a 19 year old SHOULD be doing... without the booking of course.

Booking necessary only outdoor eating allowed until Monday in Wales plus we have gazillions of tourists now so we always need to book in summer.

Hello all!

Found you! We had a rabbit jelly mould when I was a child, unfortunately my DM was (still is) a shockingly bad cook, so the jelly never stayed rabbit shaped.

S'pose it's only fair to put schools in pubs. They've been putting Polling Stations into schools on election day for years.

When we moved here there was an indoor bowls centre up the road. It used to get turned into an extra exam hall for the A level & GCSE students because there wasn't enough space at the local school / college. It had big glass windows & was next to a soft play centre & required determination to march a couple of toddlers past without them banging on the windows.

DS2 would be well up for school in a pub. He'll have a half of Rattler

4 family free hours... 3 clean toilets/ bathrooms and the conservatory (which can best be described as an overflow playroom/ semi outdoor space). DS2 comes in, straight to the toilet for the next 5 minutes.

I wonder why I hate tidying due to lack of job satisfaction?

I made a red rabbit jelly for eldest DD’s 5th birthday ( a long time ago). When I turned it out of the mould it collapsed and my friend peered at it and said it looked like a rabbit that had been run over by a car. Didn’t feel the same about it after that.