How many Grandads do we have?

Why are we giving the granddads cakes anyway? Are they all helpless old codgers who can't fend for themselves, or are we slipping into stereotype mode?

Love ! Bread Pudding ! those two words are interchangeable - missed my afternoon coffee and cake today, spent too long looking for a pair of shoes for Mrs. P. by the time we had finished (minus any shoes) they were shut.

Woodturning club tonight, so tea with a biscuit will have to suffice.

absent never mind the bread pudding for the grandpa's I Love It please leave me a slice.

Anagram, don't be mean to us, you know you make far better cakes than most of us. I can manage rock cakes and quite enjoy making bread, but usually I'm too lazy.

I make all our bread using a bread maker!
I have my own recipe for seedy bread .. Sometimes I cheat and buy pkt. of Chiabatta.
I save all the"bits" in the freezer until there is a pound , then- - Bread puddin'!
We take it to our Dance Club , where it is devouref voraciously!

Anyone want to swap recipes?

See you in the shed lads!!

There you are! They're self-sufficient!

I like the bread pudding idea for bread scraps, gramps! I needed an idea like that as we no longer have the chickens who used to eat all our scraps. They ate the bread but they were especially friendly if I went out with meat scraps or fat, and as for grated cheese, well, they'd sell their souls for that .

I don"t use my breadmaker anymore because I used to love the bread so much we would eat, and eat and put on weight

Many years ago I seriously overcooked a bread pudding....it was rock solid. OG drilled a hole through it, attached a line and weight and used it as a slab of floating groundbait when we went fishing.

pompa

mu DH goes to woodturning - his meeting is tonight! AGM I think

Re. Shed.
I've not got in it yet. I understand though, that like the Tardis, it expands expotentially!
I was sent a key, but it vapourised after falling into my porage - gave my porage a funny taste too!

Anybody got a spare? []

pompa - just to let you know that I've been investigating the U3A in my area. I should receive the paperwork for it within the next couple of days. (Can't remember the thread on which you told me about it)!

Gramps, you won't need a key, just the password, but you must keep it secret. "I come bearing cake" upon which you will be admitted.

pompa - Are you feeling brighter? I do hope so.

Yes thanks.
Seeing my friend in hospital has helped me come to terms with his problems. I suppose it was my inability to help him that pulled me down, I hadn't realised just how much he means to me, probably my only true friend. The sort of friend you could rely on totally.
I was also being stressed by a couple of family matters, one has now been sorted and I have accepted that the other is beyond my control and it will sort itself for the better regardless.
Having had depression for many years I now know that whilst I can fall into a dark place very quickly, I will always crawl back out, usually takes a week or two.

Pompa,
Thanx for the info! Will a sponge work too?

As long as it has jam & cream and not one you have pinched from the bathroom.

pompa...Gransnetters have rescued me from the dark place on so many occasions. Bless them all x

Soop, I'm with you there, knowing that people care is an enormous help.

Hi pompa and welcome back.

Hi GA, good to be back, feeling a bit saner now. Will keep away from contentious issues for a while (maybe !)

They're only contentious if you let them be, pompa! Keep calm and carry on....(regardless!)

Are you saying it's ME that makes them contentious ????

oops --- Keep calm and carry on....

No, of course not! You're being deliberately provocative, pompa!
You know very well what I meant!

Only joking, I knew exactly what you meant, just my twisted SOH.