Sara Morrison v BFF thread 4

[MarieDeGournay]

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It is a brilliant article. And I love it that more of us are finding it and enjoying it. ♥️

I'd lose weight fast and turn into a stick if that was my work environment.

Have they sat outside in Northern Ireland after dark? How many warm, rain-free evenings do we get?

I'm going for a low number

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At 33.33k per night (not including the erection and fuel and running costs obv) BARGAIN

Been out all day and just caught up. Many thanks to @ProfessorMyrtleLion for the NW tweets.

Since I didn't claim a Professorship, can I please have Culture Secretary and Fisheries Minister?

You're forgetting how very, very busy MD is. And she had to go into the back end of the system every time.

You need a butter curler.

Though the last time I suggested that to someone on MN I got a load of invective. Butter curlers are apparently very infra dig, non-U, whatever.

Infuriatingly I have about 3 butter curlers and can never find the bastards when I need them.

There are pictures of the beanbags too. They’re rather horrid, but I don’t like beanbags anyway.

I bet they are rank.

Butter curlers went out just after WW2, didn't they? The problem is nutters who insist on keeping butter in the fridge, instead of leaving out in a butter dish like any sane person.

My kitchen is currently not much warmer than the inside of my fridge ☹️.

Luckily my butter curler lives in a Safe Place in the cutlery drawer.

I am a bit bemused by the butter curlers chat. Wouldn't recognise one if I saw one.

nutters

😍

Thank you for seeing the real me. It means so much.

<does happy dance>

If the butter is so cold it has to be treated like cheese and ends up in slices of >5mm I think we can stretch a point...

A marvellous invention. Good at hiding in cutlery drawers never to be seen again.

Some fridges in New Zealand used to have (maybe still do) a "butter conditioner". A small compartment in the door that kept the butter at a spreadable temperature. This never made any sense to me when I lived there.

There are lots of different sorts but currently mine is like this. It’s not the best, but it’s OK.

Would be amazing fun with play dough to make curly hair!

<searches play doh on amazon>

<adds to basket>

I’ve only visited NZ in the winter, and my brother’s butter problems there at that season are identical to mine.

What?! My beanbag is the best fifty quid I've ever spent.

ETA it is a weirdly waterproof outdoor-suitable beanbag and actually I concede that if I didn't know who else had been sitting on it, it might seem a bit insalubrious. (Unsalubrious? Someone correct me if necessary.)

@ProfessorBoiledbeetle did you ever watch MacDonald and Dodds, with Jason Watkins as Seargent Dodds who eats chip shop chips dipped in a pat of butter? You should try this for us!

I miss the days of paving over a slice of white bread with slabs cut from a block in the fridge - the only way to begin constructing a proper peanut butter sandwich.