Jam Telly AI

From Facebook Archives

18 July 2010 at 21:12

We’ve made the first jam of 2010. From our own garden: rhubarb; the first ever blackcurrants we've grown; some very early cultivated blackberries; a few tiny alpine strawberries.   

Bought in strawberries (bogoff). 

5 and a bit pounds of fruit, 2 and a bit pounds of sugar, 5 jars of jam. 

By the look of the brambles and apple trees there's going to be big jamming this autumn.

18 July 2013 at 22:48

The colour's gone haywire on the big tv we brought up from Sheffield.  

The question is: 

Do we shell out for a new one? 

Or   

Do we go old school, turn the colour off and watch in black and white?

Mrs KA  Black and White...most of the programmes are old enough that it would not make a difference!

Paganess  Watch in black and white and see how long it takes the men in your life to notice!

Tylebach  Go black and white xx

KingsCameraman If it was Steve's TV, set the colour dial to black and white, and fiddle around with the H.set and H.hold dials until the picture consists of alternating horizontal black and white stripes.

Bentonbag  It is.  Many thanks for the diagnosis - I shall go and try that.

Later

Bentonbag Well I've thoroughly examined the set (back front and sides) and can find no H.set or H.hold knobs and none of the menus accessible through the remote take me to an H anything.  It isn't however a Wharfedale labelled remote (it has no identification at all), I've a nasty feeling we sent that to Acorn recycling as we believed it was defunct.

KingsCameraman  Ah, must be a high tech one with no old fashioned CRT controls!

Bentonbag  CRT?

KingsCameraman  Cathode ray tube.  The technology behind all TVs until plasma and LCD screens came in.

Bentonbag  Oh it's cathode ray tube - huge great thing like a tea chest - just no knobs on the back to twiddle with.

19 July 2013 at 20:27 - Mr Gobiron  Check your cables are properly in.

18 July 2023 at 20.22

"OK I'm going downstairs now and I'll either watch the news channel or some crap."

"The news is as boring as f*ck so you're watching crap.  It's continuous AI AI AI and it all goes over my head, I'm totally disinterested and I couldn't give a shit.  We've enough AI in this house as it is."

Thus sprach Zarathustra...

 

Keeping Abreast (or viceversa)

From Facebook Archives

 

17 July 2024 at 17.18

Couldn't find my phone.   

Searched high and low.   

Rang it.  

It's in my cleavage.

Drummerman  Could have been worse…

Mrs Lasagne  Haha  Good job you weren’t getting into the bath. !

Bentonbag  I don't know about you Mrs L, but I don't usually have my bra on when I get in the bath.

Mrs Lasagne  Well anything goes these days !

Woolerwoman  Some of us have never had that option!

Paganess  A woman after my own heart.  However, noting the cleavage, one boob makes a pretty poor cleavage

Bentonbag  Maybe you could make a boob sized bag to pop in the other side of your bra and use it to carry all kinds of treasures: phone, purse, hankies, folding scissors, sewing kit, first aid kit, hip-flask ...

Miss Doozer  Hidden Bra Flask For Women 25Oz Leak Proof Sports Bra - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266357354683 -  Just even it up with 75cl of rosé

Paganess  I’ve not worn a bra since the day I retired, 17 years ago.  Nothing’s going to make me put that instrument of torture back on

Mrs Poet  I do this all the time.  Male friend watching me grope my bra said, I bet you felt a right tit there!

Miss Doozer  Since this thread seems to be a confessional... 

My mate used to teach me and Charlie-horse.  Jodhpurs until recently didn't have pockets, so - of course - everything goes in the sports bra.  One particularly sweaty summer day, I apologise for handing over 'boob-money'.  

Said friend says, “It's fine, I paid for my chippy tea the other night with boob-money”.  

She did go on to say she was classy enough to take the boob-money out in the car and give it a wipe before handing it over.   

Shortly after this conversation, I purchased riding leggings with pockets.   

The money kept falling out of the pockets when I took my phone out.

I went back to boob-money.

Bentonbag  You do realise this will end up in a blog one day…

Miss Doozer  I'll let her know.

 

See Also

https://bentonbag.blogspot.com/2025/07/bosom-pals.html

https://bentonbag.blogspot.com/2021/07/my-cup-runneth-over.html

https://bentonbag.blogspot.com/2021/07/wild-roving-bosom.html

https://bentonbag.blogspot.com/2021/07/beware-of-bounce.html

This edition of Sliced Bread about sports bras might also be worth a listen

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001sdv9 

 

Planning

From Facebook Archives

16 July 2019 at 18:49

It's been a day for travel planning. 

Llandovery cottage booked for half term and 2 nights in Premier Inn, Richmond, for a Mummy's Midweek Adventure.

The latter is going to be a bit sad. I'm meeting up with my late friend Paula's brother to collect some keepsakes and crafty stuff she assigned to me (and DrD).   

So we shall be in her flat without her there, which will be hard.

Paula was insistent that I should have regular Mummy's Weekends Away (marked MWA in letters and diaries) so I think she'd be quite pleased at a midweek adventure.

Especially as I'm being really bold and driving down!

Bess Cavalier  Are you taking DrD or meeting her there?  

I've still got those ribbons I promised you.  Will bring them to Oxford in September.

Bentonbag  I've emailed DrD to ask if she'd like to come with.  If she can't I'll bring her stuff back with me and take it over to Consett (or meet her in town).   

Could you use a pair of elasticated waist viscose trousers (black with white pattern)? They're short in the leg for me and too flared for my liking - flap about just under my calves as I walk, in a sort of Star Trek fashion.

Bess Cavalier  I'll give them a go but the flappiness sounds as if it might be a design fault that irritates everyone. 

Later

Bentonbag  Sadly DrD family commitments mean she can't come with 

- Fester is angling for me to take Thunderthighs, but that's off my agenda.

 

Clothing Planning Jamming Laughing

Happy St Swithen’s Day

From Facebook Archives

15 July 2009 at 10:02

Looking for as huge a t-shirt as possible for Thunderthighs to use as a nightshirt.   

A long generous XXL would do at a pinch. 

Do they do XXXL?

MrMull  Well cotton traders (http://www.cottontraders.com) do up to 5XL in some ranges. They used to sell a microfleece nightshirt 

(I have 2) but don't seems to anymore. But do have a look.

Bentonbag  Thanks Mr Mull, they have an outlet at Royal Quays so I shall go and have a look there.

Mr Mull‎  Glad I could help.  Being of more generous proportions myself I know how difficult it is to find stuff.  Over 25 years ago (in Newcastle) when I was looking for clothes an 'assistant' took Anna to one side and suggested I should look at their 'short and portly range' in another store.  Plus ca change...

(We have been regular Cotton Traders catalogue and online shoppers since)

15 July 2019 at 21:12

Have spent most of this evening trying to find a holiday cottage in/near Llandeilo for October half term - may have got one in Llandovery and awaiting reply from Llandeilo one.

15 July 2020 at 14.55

We've made the first jam of the year.

5.75lb blackcurrant & windfall apple (jelly) 

FifiD  Yum x

Henlady  My class used to enjoy your jams so much at break.

Dulcima  Lots of apples ripening on my tree, but not ripe yet.  Must check the blackcurrants, though!

Bentonbag  We've had a helluva June drop what with the high winds and it seemed a pity to waste them. So Fester cut them up and we boiled them in about a gallon of water then put the hand held liquidiser through and put the resulting mush inside a pillowcase. 

We boiled the blackcurrants in the juice that came out and then added sugar to make jam the usual way. I think we may have overboiled it a bit because the result is very sticky - and quite tart.

Dulcima  Have just collected 2 punnets of blackcurrants today, but apples nowhere near ready, the windfalls are tiny. But I will be making blackcurrant jam soon!

 

15 July 2024 at 21.57

Just been to see the first night of Waiting For God at the People's Theatre with 

Mrs Bursar and Mrs Lasagne and had a really good laugh; both at the play and with them.

Mrs Lasagne  It’s always lovely to go out together xxx loved seeing you

Cousin Daisy  Great to hear you had a good night together. Nothing beats a good laugh. Xxx