The influence of Gransnet Daily

My mother used to do differently coloured boiled eggs for Easter Sunday breakfast.

ixion

Do you not have soldiers for your nursery tea EP?
That is why you had to have runny eggs...

I seem to remember boiled egg and soldiers as a breakfast meal, particularly on a Sunday, but I may have misremembered.

Sunday afternoon tea was always chucky eggs and soldiers but DH did the chucky eggs just right and I did all the rest.

Do you not have soldiers for your nursery tea EP?
That is why you had to have runny eggs...

JaneJudge

Keep your medium eggs at room temperature not in the fridge
Put eggs in a pan of water
Bring to boil
Boil for 3 minutes and 30 seconds using the stop watch on your phone
take straight off the boil and drain and fill with cold water
Eggs straight into egg cups and tops taken off straight away
= Dippy eggs

It helps if you get the egg cups and soldiers ready in the 3 half minutes

Thank you!

Are you Delia?

Soft boiled eggs and toastie soldiers, yummy.

Why? They might be waiting for their breakfast

Anyone who does not know the meaning of 'soldiers' in this context would be utterly baffled by your post.

Keep your medium eggs at room temperature not in the fridge
Put eggs in a pan of water
Bring to boil
Boil for 3 minutes and 30 seconds using the stop watch on your phone
take straight off the boil and drain and fill with cold water
Eggs straight into egg cups and tops taken off straight away
= Dippy eggs

It helps if you get the egg cups and soldiers ready in the 3 half minutes

Mollygo

Callistemon

I'm off to play truant now!

Always first on the swings, that's me!
Even the DGC get annoyed

Callistemon I’m impressed that you can move fast enough to beat them to the swings!??

That's why I have to play truant
I have half an hour start (and it's only 200 yards)

BlueBelle

Elderlyperson I think you are a genuine chap who wants to join in and have interesting discussions and maybe don’t get the wit that is often displayed on here and maybe have very distinct interests
Maybe you have Aspergers because you do come across as incredibly precise and seem to take every thing not only at face value but very very seriously
We do take some things seriously on here but there is also a lot of leg pulling and a lot of wit in the things written but not intended as nastiness I have a strong feeling you take everything as said and that’s hard for us to understand you and hard too for you to understand us
I hope you continue to post but maybe try and join in a little bit more lightheartedly

Maybe I have.

www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/what-is-autism/asperger-syndrome

ElderlyPerson

I am pleased for you to lead. I think you wanted to do so.

I am simply pointing out that when you thought I had lost interest that that is not correct and I that I am simply waiting for the discussion to start on the day chosen by the person leading the discussion.

I later realised that that might have sounded wrong because for some reason when I wrote it I was thinking it was Sunday and the discussion was not due to start until tomorrow.

As it was already the day that the discussion was due to start, what I posted might have sounded like "get on with it" but it was not intended like that.

Fag round the back of the bike sheds for me! ?

Callistemon

I'm off to play truant now!

Always first on the swings, that's me!
Even the DGC get annoyed

Callistemon I’m impressed that you can move fast enough to beat them to the swings!??

I'm off to play truant now!

Always first on the swings, that's me!
Even the DGC get annoyed

Callistemon

^This is ridiculously solipsistic^
Yer what, luv?

Well, you learn something new every day on GN.

?Every day’s a school day on Gransnet ?

This is ridiculously solipsistic
Yer what, luv?

Well, you learn something new every day on GN.

JaneJudge

I liked it when she drank all that red wine and shouted at the Norwich fans

Yes, that was funny!

She also went back to basics and taught viewers how to boil eggs - wasn't that part of the The Delia Effect? She used white eggs and they all disappeared off the supermarket shelves in a Jiffy (remember Jiffy?).

I still can't boil eggs properly.

What’s concerning me is that you almost always use the threads you start (and have even started some specifically) to promote links to a certain socal media platform owned by a US tech company. Is this why you keep drawing attention to yourself? Maybe your jackpot is a nice line in sponsorship? It’s tantamount to spamming.


I should RTWT before posting
Slapped wrist.

I wondered if the thread had hit the Gransnet Daily jackpot, and upon looking at my emails, I found it had.

Today I happened to look at my emails before looking at Gransnet and I noticed that a thread that I had started had hit the jackpot. When I looked at the thread in Gransnet there were lots of extra posts in the thread, all from today.

Now this sounds more exciting - a jackpot!

How much is the jackpot, is it like the Lottery, do you get a cash prize? How many threads can I start and will anyone be interested?

Same here BlueBelle lost count of the number of threads where my post has been the death knell.

I agree too I think EP is getting a hard time and doesn’t understand what he’s done to deserve it
EP you are you, and have every right to post as you see fit sometimes threads go on for pages sometimes they die a death (most of mine fizzle out so I m obviously not that interesting) ?
Just keep on keeping on and don’t worry too much

Chewbacca

There's some unkindness on this thread.

I agree Chewbacca no need for posters to get involved with threads they find exasperating.
Concerns over Covid have made some people anxious and look for support in different ways.

Do you post on any other forums, ElderlyPerson?

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