Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

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i would have taken you for a 'grow your own' type of a guy Red...

I would love to grow my own, but I think I would become obsessed. Anyway, I like walking around the market, chatting to the stallholders and squeezing their produce.

[kinboshi]

i would have taken you for a 'grow your own' type of a guy Red...

I would love to grow my own, but I think I would become obsessed. Anyway, I like walking around the market, chatting to the stallholders and squeezing their produce.

I bet you do.

[RED-DOG]

The first job on my to-do list "Fix dripping tap" has turned into an epic task.

Full story and pictures later.

[titaniumbean]

i would have taken you for a 'grow your own' type of a guy Red...

I would love to grow my own, but I think I would become obsessed. Anyway, I like walking around the market, chatting to the stallholders and squeezing their produce.

I bet you do.

oh god

[Karabiner]

The first job on my to-do list "Fix dripping tap" has turned into an epic task.

Full story and pictures later.

Send for Peggy Shitter

[typhoon13]

I'm home alone tomorrow. This is my to-do list.

Fix dripping tap.

Ring AOL to chase the new router they promised me as a cure for my slow download speed when I threatened to change to BT.

Take dustbins and other rubbish including old microwave, (I forgot to tell you about that breaking) to tip.

Go to shops on bike. (12 mile round trip means I can do chores and get exercise at same time)

Shopping list:

1 doz eggs (Lg)

2 loaves Warburtons wholemeal. (They're always runnning out, when I ask why they don't stock more, they say "There isn't much call for it")

1 loaf Hovis soft white (Medium sliced)

1 cooked chicken (Extra tasty)

I pack mange tout/sugar snap mix.

1 pack washed spinach.

5lb new potatoes.

1 semi skimmed milk. (4pt)

2 x 5 fat balls.

1lb sunflower seeds.

1lb wild bird seed mix.

(Five hungry mouths and lots of beaks to feed)

I'm surprised at that shopping list. I would have had you down as a 'vegetables in season' type. Lots of airmiles in those sugar snap peas and new potatoes in January...

The potatoes are from Lincolnshire (Well they're from Morrison's actually) but it says on the bag "Lincolnshire New Potatoes"

I noticed them on the shelf the other week and bought them on a whim. They're bloody delicious. I have no idea how they produce them, or store them until January though.

As for the sugar snaps, you've got me bang to rights, but I like to add them to strips of stir fried chicken along with a dollop of raita dip (39p a pot, or 3 for a £) It makes a lovely tasty low fat lunch.

Tom

The tates you purchased were not NEW tates.

They were charlotte salad tates.

Selling ploy by supermarkets etc.

[tikay]

Typhoon's Post reminds me. Why are "new" potatoes so called? All potatoes are new. There is not much call for second-hand potatoes, surely?

"Young" or "Old"would be better.

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Tom

The tates you purchased were not NEW tates.

They were charlotte salad tates.

Wow. You may be right. I promise to investigate.

This is what the Potato Council has to say...

http://www.lovepotatoes.co.uk/charlotte/

[kinboshi]

Typhoon's Post reminds me. Why are "new" potatoes so called? All potatoes are new. There is not much call for second-hand potatoes, surely?

"Young" or "Old"would be better.

Aren't they the earliest potatoes from a crop - hence the term 'new'?

[tikay]

Typhoon's Post reminds me. Why are "new" potatoes so called? All potatoes are new. There is not much call for second-hand potatoes, surely?

"Young" or "Old"would be better.

Aren't they the earliest potatoes from a crop - hence the term 'new'?

Then they should be called "young" potatoes.

I shall write to The Times, & The Potato Council. This is an outrage.

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If you're wondering why I'm not doing my to-do at the moment. I'm on my lunch break.

(Or my dinner break, as we commoners call it)

[typhoon13]

Typhoon's Post reminds me. Why are "new" potatoes so called? All potatoes are new. There is not much call for second-hand potatoes, surely?

"Young" or "Old"would be better.

Aren't they the earliest potatoes from a crop - hence the term 'new'?

Early. med, and late.

New tates are the first liftings of the earlys.

The first proper new tates we will see this year will be Egyptian or israeli imports.

[kinboshi]

Typhoon's Post reminds me. Why are "new" potatoes so called? All potatoes are new. There is not much call for second-hand potatoes, surely?

"Young" or "Old"would be better.

Aren't they the earliest potatoes from a crop - hence the term 'new'?

Then they should be called "young" potatoes.

I shall write to The Times, & The Potato Council. This is an outrage.

New and improved would be a better term imo.

[kinboshi]

Typhoon's Post reminds me. Why are "new" potatoes so called? All potatoes are new. There is not much call for second-hand potatoes, surely?

"Young" or "Old"would be better.

Actually, I was in DTD yesterday and 'Rastaman' ordered a burger and they brought it out with chips.  He didn't want the chips (and hadn't ordered them), so I took them off his hands.  Second-hand potatoes in that case...

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Typhoon's Post reminds me. Why are "new" potatoes so called? All potatoes are new. There is not much call for second-hand potatoes, surely?

"Young" or "Old"would be better.

Aren't they the earliest potatoes from a crop - hence the term 'new'?

Early. med, and late.

New tates are the first liftings of the earlys.

The first proper new tates we will see this year will be Egyptian or israeli imports.

Looks like we have to bow to superior knowledge guys.

When it comes to potatoes, typhoon knows his onions.