Doctors Addicts Anonymous Continued - you are feeling very sleepy

[MsNobodyAgain]

This is a thread for all fans of the daytime soap 'Doctors', BBC1, 1.45pm.

Welcome to regulars, lurkers and newbies. Please join in, more the merrier

Look into my eyes, not around the eyes, don't look around the eyes, look into the eyes , you're under.

Welcome to the Mill. Here you are able to do impossible things.

• want a home visit? No problem. A doctor will be at your home/place of work/random field/hospital bed in seconds.

• have a mystery that needs solving? No problem. Heston and Mrs T will unrrrrrrrrravel it within 26 minutes.

• bothered by continuity? A click of my fingers will stop you worrying about the minor issues such as where has Jimmi's OCD gone and what happened to Kevin's tattoo.

...3, 2, 1, you're back in the room. Please sign in at Reception.

Btw, thanks Anne for the Austen info. I will try 10 minutes of the first episode.

Hoping to catch up on last 2 episodes asap but have to visit another Academy tonight. DD will not be impressed if we are not back in time for GBBO.

Gosh you are a hard nut to crack, MsN! But I'll take 10 minutes if that's the best I can get!

I bought DH Season 1 of Breaking Bad when it first came out (we are both chemists so it caught my eye). We have watched about 3 episodes so far. We are rubbish at keeping up with long running series. I'm sure we'd like it. I only ever seem to have time for soaps, Strictly, GBBO etc and Downton.

We record GBBO because DS is at Cubs tonight, usually watch it on Friday as we have a quieter night activities-wise and not so worried about bedtime for the DCs.

Who- stick with Breaking Bad- it really is worth it. The first few episodes I was determined to hate it , but once I got hooked, that was it.

And it was the last 'IT Crowd' too which was very, very funny.

Oh I have the last IT Crowd recorded. Looking forward to seeing it but sad that it is all finished.

My Christmas cake is in the oven, so I am hoping it turns out ok, as the cost of the ingredients is . Hopefully I'll have some lovely cake smells wafting around during GBBO.

I cannot bake- I used to bake when I was a kid (though I am wondering if my gran just ate it to be polite). I can't seem to bake anything now- I blame the oven. It's fan assisted and rubbish and needs a really good clean.

I feel I am letting my dcs down by only ever making 'just ad eggs' fairy cakes

Raahh - my mum spent 25 years thinking she couldn't bake because of her fan oven, then one day decided to try the non-fan top oven, lo and behold baking that works. I love baking, do it several times a week, but nothing fancy, scones, pizza base, fairy cakes etc. The DCs won't eat anything fancy.

I will be sobbing from now until Christmas if this doesn't work. I have over-invested emotionally in it!

It has been in three hours now. It is meant to be in for 5, but that is a recipe for an old-fashioned oven. I have lowered the temperature massively, put loads of newspaper round it, and will be checking it regularly from about 3 and half hours onwards. It does smell nice. Which probably has a lot to do with the enormous amount of brandy in it.

Good luck Anne!

my gran always makes the Christmas cakes-I am not keen, but my MIL used to love it. None of us eat them now.

But my mum makes gorgeous mince pies- they have a viennese whirl biscuit topping instead of pastry and just melt in the mouth. They are great.

but not as good as the year i made the mince pies with my dad, andwe put icing and glace cherries on them

Who- I think the old gas cooker we had was definitely the key to may baking success.

I can't even get the timing for a flipping roast dinner right in my crappy fan assisted health hazard oven

I've never tried baking in my stupid oven. It managed biscuits OK but that's about as much as I would trust it with. Timings on anything else are a bit hit and miss. Often more miss than hit.

I wish I had time to bake now. in 16 weeks I have made brownies twice and flapjacks once.

Well, the cake is out of the oven! It looks and smells wonderful. I'm 95% certain it is ok. It springs back when I press it and the skewer is coming out clean. I wish my Granny was still around to ask for her opinion!

It was in for 4 hours, 2 hours at 140 C and 2 hours at 130 C, but as it is a huge cake (11" square) I am a little wobbly that it won't be cooked properly. Everything is telling me it is cooked, but I can't help but panic that it isn't. But if I leave it any longer it will no longer be beautifully brown, but burnt.

It will stay hot for ages anyway, so I suppose it will keep cooking inside for a little while (despite my million skewer holes checking to see if it is done!).

My old fan oven was a nightmare, but this one seems ok, despite being a fan oven too.

I'm having a glass of wine to calm my nerves and to celebrate actually cooking it.

My oven is gas, I have to use a shelf thermometer rather than the dial for cakes, but years of experience mean I can set it Ok for biscuits, scones etc now, it was a long learning process. However you can't get two trays or two cakes on different shelves done the same, there is a big temperature gradient as you go down the shelves. I struggle with Christmas cakes for this reason, the top gets much hotter than the bottom. I didn't do one last year but fancy giving it a go again now. I made mincemeat for the first time last year and it was fabulous. .

Can you imagine the Great Doctors Bake-Off?

Gobby would make a cake out of a packet mix.
Heston would make a grand Christmas cake out of the finest ingredients.
TBFE would make a table full of cakes then eat them and vomit

Oh go on, Who, give it a go! I made mincemeat for the first time last year. Still have a couple of jars left, so I am looking forward to using them this year now they are nicely matured.

Doctors actually did a Letherbridge version of Masterchef. Gobbyplod & Gobby v Heston and Mrs T. It did not end well.

I can't believe we are nearly at 400 messages on this thread in less than a week!

Just caught up. What the frifferty jibbers have the scriptwriters done to Howard? One minute they had him as a virtual clown of a character, now he's morphed into Aggie MacKenzie with bulimia.

Some good acting in Mondays episode though. Quite enjoyed that.

I'd forgotten Letherbridge masterchef- Gobbyplod turned out to be a gourmet chef, and Mrs T looked fantastic in national dress.

The Howard thing makes no sense. But never fear- he will be cured in a week, and they will never speak of it again

Raahh at TBFE comment!

Cake sounds good AnneEyhtMeyer, Ben if its not quite cooked its nice to has a bit of stodge in the middle imo :)

I will join you all today but staying away from people in rl, I've unintentionally upset 3 people in a week and I'm feeling really :( about it and wish I could hide. Sometimes too many balls lead to me not thinking I think and I really hate upsetting people. One was me being insensitive but also trusting someone I shouldn't have and the other two were genuine misunderstandings but perhaps I'm not so good with people after all :(

Ok I missed yesterday's ( do I need to catch up?) but watching today's regardless

I have a load of crap TV stacked up and dh isn't working evenings for ages.

Right- dd2 hid the remote

6tl is back in her dressing gown

Cinnamon . Wallow for a bit then forgive yourself. You're probably too hard on yourself, like me.

I thought she'd died in real life

Missed first 5 mins. This woman was married to mike in coronation street wasn't she?