I have just had a brilliant idea!

You could keep a ladle by the bed. Or just swoosh a cup in the mulch. Or buy a teasmaid. Or train up your DH better.

I'm wondering a bit how you would get it out of the slow cooker pot and into your cup. Don't think I could drink straight out of my slow cooker. (which I have never actually taken out of its box) (being more a microwave sort of a girl)

Would that really work when? I could so do with an early morning cuppa. And DH doesn't oblige.

I have two freezers full of ufos if anyone wants them.
At the moment I have no kitchen as EVERYTHING has been packed away so that the work surfaced can be replaced on Friday.
Gary and Kate literally did pack it all and I have nothing to prepare, cook, or even eat with!
Must remember in future to not be so general in instructions to people with literal minds!
They won't be replaced until next Monday either. And as I'm at work, heaven knows where they'll put anything. Kate's mind seems to work differently to mine!

Would it work with a coffee bean?

For a daily morning treat, keep a Slow Cooker in the bedroom, preferably next to the bed, and before retiring pop in a teabag and some water, switch on and in the morning you can enjoy a perfect cup of tea in bed.

As Stephen Fry has mentioned, you can keep a bee if you like a drop of honey

And in less time than it takes to paint the Forth Bridge defrost the fridge, you can make your own mustard so you don't need to trudge round a supermarket looking for it?

There's the old one too - pour leftover wine into ice cube trays ready to add to casseroles. Leftover wine??? Wotsat, then?

You go and eat 'em then. Blackfly and all.

The marigolds are blooming beautifully in my garden as are the nasturtiums. They make a splendid garnish for a blackberry. Aesthetically pleasing as well as nutritious.

Jess ! Stop joining in!

#evenasinglelittleblackberrydeservesrespect

You should n't extract the you-know-what when.

That's just not nice.

I'm a simple little believing soul. [sob]

I just picked a sloe. I'm not keen of sloe gin, and anyway gin is far too expensive these days, so I'll pop it into the freezer while I do some research on other recipes for the use of sloes. Such a wonderful harvest in the hedgerows at the moment.

That was to Jingle

In reverse on this occasion!

when! LOVE the blackberry post!

One upmanship on Gransnet?! Never!

Have I heck!!

This thread reminds me of that Richard E Grant and Arabella Weir 'Posh Nosh' spoof, where they patronisingly demonstrate bizarre recipes to show how 'one-up' they are

Don't go and lose it.

You haven't?!!!

I found a solitary blackberry in the garden this morning, so I've frozen it until next time I make an apple and blackberry pie [smug emoticon]

I stick address labels on. When I remember..... I think I have some UFOs too (I like that term!)

I do the freeze the extra all the time....cooking for one often means I have to buy portions for two!

You can also buy chinagraph pencils which do the same thing. They do need white spirit to clean the writing off again though!