to still feel a tiny bit hacked off that I was found lacking by a certain "rival" website?

[notgoodenough]

I have my suspicions what the reasons were for my rejection but won't go into them because I don't want to disclose who I am.

And yes I do know for a fact that I was vetoed, not "accidentally left out".

I know I am a bit late to this thread, but being relatively new, there is a lot of catching up to in certain ways (have wasted good floor cleaning time on it). Its a bit like joining a sixth form and hearing all the gossip about the gals who moved en masse to the local private girls. personal view is before my time!

Except there are a few posters who do seem to swoop in from planet smug to put everyone right...and I suspect some of them are old girls.( and get a good deal more leeway than others even so) So its a bit like, we can still come and inspect your tuck box. if you get my drift.

Just an observation.

lol at my digression into PTA cake sales developing into swapping recipes (looks lovely, btw).

I thought it was a bit cheeky that our PTA top dog collared one of the nannies into baking for a cake sale (found out as nanny then rang me to borrow caster sugar).

Still, at least it shows I must be giving off great 'I DO not bake for cake sales' vibe since PTA woman didn't ask me!

It's very possibly an accurate onservation Salome (as an Oldie but not a Moldy); but it can only happen if we allow it as a site! Welcome everyone old or new, but we all get equal status.

lol, peachy, i thought you'd got the recipe out of an aged auntie's cook book. if it's on the internet it must be modern...

Ah its an old recipe site actually

I do have a collection of aged recipes, old books from the rpe war years I picked up at fetes etc(pigs head in brawn seems a favourite in them ) but the key thing I have learned about them....

They all taste rank.

Really, truly nasty.

So I keep them as an interest and use internet archives for the rest.

Hardly surprising wartime recipes are not v. nice, though, poor sods didn't have much actual food to go round. Powdered egg and all that.

ah no prewartime; farmers recipes and that (from somerset fetes etc where I grew up; legacy ofa mum who still thinks rosehips are a basic ingedient LOL)

TBH I think even war in the countryside wasn't too bad in ways- they (as in my lot) all kept hens and the like.

Thedifference is more taste based- lots of lard littlesalt etc, shoes howprocessed crap is changing ourtastes I think (not that I advocatelard either)

Plusthey all say things like 'heat in your bestskillet over asharp fire whilst the men come in from the fields'- my kitchen is basic no microwave etc but heck even I have an oven LOL

God a few of the new posters are a lot ruder than cod ever was and without the tongue in cheek or humour!

Verytrue NH

I know she upset some people but I was never ever targetted and often Codwouldappearwith useful stuff suc has places to visit where I as going on hols

I never witnessed some of thestuffshe isaccused of so cannot comment but for myself I liked her well enough

I loved the comedy of it all

I don't think it's all that over there, given that I've seen Cod here under at least two aliases, and I'm not always about, so there are probably more I've missed.

And yes, I think the war wasn't always bad - my mother spent it on a farm in Lowlands Scotland, and they had plenty to eat, cream, eggs, rabbit and so on.

But there was plenty of horrid food before that - I have a 1930s book of 'economical food' which includes six recipes for meat you've already used for soup and.... Stuffed Cods Head.

There, all parts of thread united. My work here is done.

vonsudenfed...how do you know Cod was here?

Cod is still 'here'. You can tell her posts a mile off.

I have spotted cod about too - at least I thought so. I often wondered though if (1) she meant to be funny and it was just her typing that made it funny or (2) she meant to be funnier but her typing made it not so funny!

To OP - at least you were invited! Some of us weren't. Agree with the poster who said that whoever told you that you were nominated and then vetoed is not a good friend. Presumably to know all that they are part of it.

how...because they have her jumbled spelling? If that is why, than, tbh, not to sure about it...as far as I am aware, that was just her trademark and in reality she was able to write coherently...
not that I really care, tbh....was just being nosy...

No, not spelling- content of speech etc. Cod had a very significant way of asking questions, starting threads etc.

off topic firlady- I have just posted on your dissertation thread

It's prob best not to speculate/point out how Cod's posts were significant as she left for some really nasty reasons. She was threatened in RL by someone who recognised her on here.

I wasnt going to link to specific posts! Dont worry.

oh right...well...I I never notice those finer things...

Quantitative will look at the thread...

I didn't think so QM but just in case anyone decided to point things out!

Yeah but she did hate fat people, hence the cake thing and now the moldies weight limit. That wasn't v nice was it?

Where did the moldies weight limit thing come from?? (Mind you - may explain why I wasn't invited! Can't be any other reason as my scintilating posts would surely be welcome anywhere!)

lol hully and buda