to expect my DP to cart me off somewhere safe for me

[HawkEyeTheNoo]

So...... I'm making steak pie for tea, as I was bashing my oxo cubes I suddenly found myself talking to the camera person from "come dine with me" as to,

1. Why I bashed the oxo cubes before putting them in the pot
2. Why I use six oxo cubes
3. Why I have left it so late to start cooking this tea which will take hours to tenderise.

So, this is all fair and well if I was actually on the programme but I was talking OUTLOUD to someone who isn't there!

I'm off sick from work just now so am alone a lot and I'm aware I sometimes have conversations in my head with people () but I think this is the first time I've turned my head to look at the person who clearly isn't there and answer the questions I have imagined them asking me! Jeezo even the cat looked perplexed! I need to get out more!! I did have a chuckle to myself at the thought of telling DP and him calling my mum saying "that's it Hawk's mum, she's finally lost it, bring the shotgun!" So decided to tell you lot instead

Elspeth if you bash the oxo while it's in its wrapper you can then tear off the corner of the flattened packet and pour it in rather than crumbling it with your fingers.

None of this explains why the op uses 6.

did they all have regional accents? I must have been too excited to notice

This is such a Walter Mitty thread, I love it!

I tried this oxo cube flattening after the last thread. I can't do it

Yes fudge they were all Scottish.

No, the kids on Why Don't You definitely weren't all Scottish. They did have regional accents, I agree, and maybe some were Scottish but I think it used to move around the country every few episodes. I could never quite get my head round a TV show that had a theme song urging you to switch off the TV.

I could never quite get my head round a TV show that had a theme song urging you to switch off the TV.

Yes. My sister used to giggle

I wonder why the Scottish children are all I remember?

I don't remember any Scottish kids!! I would have been demanding my diva moment if I thought any were Scottish!

"did they all have regional accents? "

Who? The oxo cubes?

I have just checked Wikipwdia. There were "gangs" from Cardiff, Bristol, N Ireland and Scotland. My DH only remembers the N Irish ones so think they might have had disproportionate exposure- are you possibly mixing up the accents Strawberryleaf?

Six oxo cubes?:)

I pretend giliian Michaels is in my kitchen and following me about nagging me to do her DVDs, eat healthily, go to the gym.

Sometimes I pretend patsy from Ab Fab has come round and they start arguing:)

Pah, that's nothing, I sing all the things I feel like saying to my dog. One day she will join me in a duet I just know it. Feeling a bit sorry for the decorator working in the hall this week though. Also I gave the GBBO crew a right earful when they got the camera too close when I was trying to get all my sponge fingers to stand up nicely for the Charlotte Russe

I have just checked Wikipwdia. There were "gangs" from Cardiff, Bristol, N Ireland and Scotland. My DH only remembers the N Irish ones so think they might have had disproportionate exposure- are you possibly mixing up the accents Strawberryleaf?

I was quite small. Maybe I was just particularly dazzled by the gang from Scotland?

Strawberry most people are indeed awed by those of us from Scotland

I do it all the time, have always done it. Luckily, when I'm wandering down the road/going round a shop/waiting for a bus I generally sin g instead so then people don't think I'm the mad old lady with the weird stick who always talks to herself out loud. They just think I'm the mad old lady with the weird stick who sings out loud.

DH and dd are used to coming into a room where I am alone and looking about to see who I'm talking to. I use gestures as well.

Talking to camera is very Shirley Valentine... and I do it ALL the time... especially sitting in my office when staff and customers are being plonkers. And when I'm at home cooking all by myself - which admittedly is a rare occasion these days. The cat must think I'm completely bonkers.

I think my cat knows I'm bonkers, I do sing to her too. And hey! Crazy lady with the stick! I would speak to you endlessly!!

Hawk

However, from 1980, the show also featured gangs from other parts of the United Kingdom, and these shows were made by the respective BBC regional centre, although all were broadcast nationwide.[2] The first "alternative" gangs came from a barn in Scotland and a church hall in Belfast, followed by a seaside café in Cardiff.

I think that explains it. 1980 was probably about the time I was watching and 'barn' fits with my memory.

Now can someone please post a oxo flattening tutorial?

I also have been interviewed by piers Morgan for life stories. Quite a lot, often if I'm stuck in traffic. It's in ten years time though and I look back on how amazing the last ten years have been yadda yadda. Probably need therapy or something

Strawberry I now demand! To know why I was not in that programme?!?!?! Eski. I also demand to know your life story for Piers?!!!!
(I've had wine (giggles) it's only Wednesday!!)

Your mum went around town after dark vandalising the audition posters Hawk

Honestly strawb she's such a cow!!

Nah she was just saving you for better things

I've really enjoyed all the interviews I've done since being on maternity leave. I'm usually on some type of daytime chat show too much daytime tv, need to get back to work!, and I give the viewers a real insight into different areas of my life.

So glad I'm not the only crazy one! Always thought I was!

had a proper LOL at the Oxo cubes with regional accents BertrandRussell!

I'm glad we sorted that out with Why Don't You? I went on one of those 80s sites to check too... DD1 was watching over my shoulder and was aghast at how dull it was (it actually was, maybe that Cardiff one was a bad episode though? In the absence of iPods and Xboxes we just used to travel round on buses all day in hideous clothes...)

But the announcers' voices - how incredibly posh were they? They make Sophie Rayworth sound a bit common!

Hawk we should make a new youtube WhyDon'tYou. You can do the Oxo cube bashing tutorial. I'll make that thing with lots of ginger nuts and loads of cream. That was made a lot as I remember. We have all the relevant presenting experience already (i.e. lots of practise, and regional accents).

Who's with me? We'll be an internet sensation!

practice. FFS. I'm going to bed.