Sara Morrison v BFF thread 4

[MarieDeGournay]

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It’s public beanbags I don’t like, really. Though with my knees in their current state, it’s quite hard for me to get up from even the nicest beanbag.

I just googled it and it seems they don't make them anymore, there's an article in the NZ Herald from 2004 about people being upset that new fridges don't have butter conditioners anymore.
It depends a bit where you are in NZ. I lived in the Waikato and we had very few properly cold winter days.

What's wrong with using the potato peeler for cutting thin slices of butter from a hard block?

Alas I have not.

I'll consider it next time I've got chips in the oven.

You rebel.

Notions are opinions that the person calling them ‘notions’ considers to be untrue. In NI definitely negative connotations on ‘notions’. I haven’t really explained that well PP has probably done better.

Jobs for the boys we call it here. Although that’s maybe wrong term in this particular circumstance.

I've got this one and I didn't know what it was. My DM loved a gadget. I have another one, which is also ancient - I don't use that either.

Prostrates at the bigly screen.

I think my daughter’s ££ school hired something similar about a decade ago for a family barbecue/Kids film night. It was sort of inflatable and needed a fair few parents to help tether it down. It was cold and we all needed to wee far to often after quaffing vino or squash.

I have a butter curler, which looks like a claw. Probably bought for me by my MIL, who valued these little touches. I'm not classy at all, which is why I haven't used it in years.

I remembered I have a paperweight which I was awarded by my bank for being the 5000th person to take out a car loan, so I'll be a shoo-in for the next Chief of the Bank of England, obviously.

This tribunal is becoming increasingly grubby, or is it just me?

Is...is it showing the Wicker Man? An innocent man manipulated so that he can be publicly sacrificed.

Butter curler

It's all v unedifying. As these things generally are.

Must be weird to be NC et al. A hit squad roaming the UK and getting these unique and intense insights into the underside of the stones that get lifted.

What I want understand is why lying seems the right way out of the mess you've got yourself in.

Both MD and MTM came across as unreliable, evasive, combative and did themselves and their organisation no favours at all.

I have that one too, except mine is at least 40 years old

Surely BFF weren't planning to erect the Big Screen for the Beanbag cinema. It seems to hold fewer than 20 people.

Excellent spot!

My butter curler is that design too, and is inherited and old - what passes for 'family silver' in my family.

Butter curlers are a perfectly fit household utensil. However, they must never, under any circumstances, appear outside the kitchen lest they cause more refined guests discomfort and mortification. I would think that in frank discussion about food preparation there should be no need to resort to euphemistic language, even in mixed company, to discuss their use.

Do you have a hair drier? They're quite handy for butter emergencies.

I used to have it down to a fine art. Cut a bit off, stick it in the microwave for 10 seconds and it's just hitting spreadable. Then I got a new microwave the other month, and the butter is liquid after 5 seconds!

Maybe I'll try the hairdryer!

Yeah, tis all about timing with the microwave.

I'm going to ask Father Christmas for a butter curler 🙂

You can have mine, Professor.

In what area of sub-tropical Britain are you lot who have needed to worry about having butter out of the fridge for the past few months?

If your kitchen is so warm, cut the butter pat into chunks, arrange them between greaseproof paper to freeze them and just defrost small amounts? OR invest in a butter keeper.

When my knees were unwell I made the discovery that getting up from near the ground was much easier if I turned round & pushed myself up (backwards) with my hands.

the soft south