Latest Moan From You and Me 2025

Just learnt that Holboellia have been moved into Stauntonia; flipping taxonomists. My sausage vines were quite happy as Holboellia.

 

Believe it or not I had heard this about oils for cooking, I remember once hearing you should add a small amount of cooking oil if frying in butter, apparently to stop the butter burning.

Also remember clarified butter from those old Canadian cooking programmes by Graham Kerr, the galloping gourmet.

 

Don't do any deep frying usually, maybe once or twice a year, and then use rape or grapeseed oil. Otherwise I use butter or extra virgin oil. I can get ghee here but don't like the flavour. Just greasy.

Hardly ever see light oilve oil here but when I do I mix it with lemon juice and feed my oak furniture with it.

 

Thanks for that! At least it's logical given their similarity

 

Thank you @shiney for the lesson in oils. That's solved a problem for me, I don't like the taste of olive oil except when it's soaked into a nice fresh French stick with balsamic vinegar. I've been trying to steer clear of seed oils. Of late I've been cooking with butter and grape seed oil to raise the temperature, though it does sometimes go nutty. But now I know about the refined non-virgin olive oils, I'm going to try it.

My gripe today, I'm so fed up with USB cables for charging. Just why can't they all have the same connectors? It drives me nuts! I try to avoid the bathroom scales, but this morning I built up the courage to weigh myself only to find the damn thing had no juice in the battery, and I couldn't find it's cable to charge it up. Upstairs I've got different cables for toothbrushes, bedside table lamp, epilady, kindle, bathroom scales, then there's my husband's shaver and trimmer. Downstairs the situation is even worse! Anyway... I've discovered the bedside lamp cable fits the scales perfectly. My only problem now is remembering (in prob a years time) when I jump on the scales again and finding the battery is flat; that I can charge it up with the bedside table lamp's lead!

 

I got from Graham Kerr to always have a glass of wine near when cooking. Yes, saw in USA. probably the first cooking show I ever saw. I believe you can find his shows on You Tube.

 

I thought Graham Kerr was dead, but just looked him up. He's alive and kicking at the grand old age of 91. Wine is obviously good for you, although in his case he's probably already pickled and preserved from the amount he used to put away.

 

What is it with the fact that barber shops for men are everywhere but an unfussy female can't get a quick dry cut without an appointment, forced chat and recommendations of products?

We visited a shopping centre today and I counted five hairdressers for men only, zero for women.

On a positive note, all offered piercings apparently without gender restrictions so I could have had one of those instead of my badly needed "an inch off all around please" I didn't get.

 

I used to watch the Galloping Gourmet after school and with my Aunt. She'd had a stroke and was bed ridden so as soon as I got home from school, I'd make a cuppa and bring it to her with some digestives as a side. Lovely times and laughs together.

 

@Selleri, this has long puzzled me. How is it that female hair is so different to male hair that it needs to cost 3x as much to give it a trim, eh?

I think "barber shop" is now code for "money launderers R Us" in some areas. Same with shops apparently selling overpriced American sweets but mysteriously not having any actual customers.

 

There are barbers shops on every corner around here, even got Ail barber a mobile van that parks here and there.
They are the male equivalent of nail bars, all run by dodgy individuals into international crime rings and immigration.
The place I go is where I've gone for about 50yrs, one day he's going to retire and I don't have a clue where else you can go to just get a hair cut these days.

 

I try to cut my own hair and i do Miss Jiff's as well we used to have a yound lady come out but covid stop that

 

When OH and I were young and penniless I made the offer to cut his hair. Did not a bad job of it, though I say so myself. Only trouble is, he refused to go and pay for a professional to do it after that. Fifty years later…

I have never gone to a hairdresser and these days my crowning glory is so thin they would wonder what they were supposed to cut.