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Post by tod2 on May 28, 2023 14:13:58 GMT
I was watching a YouTube gent advising the best way to sow peas. He had some really good tips which I will follow this week when I sow peas where my green beans have come to an end. Tip number one was dropping two seeds into 1 inch deep holes, so that when two come up you can transfer one of them to a blank space or simply take a scissors and nip the smaller out. Also the nitrogen feed was important as to when one should apply it. I'll give it a go and see what happens as I love peas!
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Post by tod2 on May 28, 2023 14:05:56 GMT
When I declared that men make the greatest chefs I was definitely referring to the Chefs in restaurants and hotels who's genius has made them noticed. I definitely change my opinion when it comes to home cooks - not chefs - as the custom in ages past put the woman in charge of the home cauldron.... Things are changing quite rapidly with Home Husbands so let's see how they take to critism from the little woman when she comes home hungry.
I have always cooked our meals. I come from a family where my mother cooked BUT so did my father at times. Not full blown meals delivered to the table but dishes like chicken and corn bread made with fresh picked snow white corn minced into a dough. My husband never went near a cooking pot until I went to Australia for 6 weeks. Now he can put a roast in the oven. BBq all our outdoor meals .....yes, that's it.
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Post by tod2 on May 28, 2023 13:53:27 GMT
Fabulous glorious photos of might I say the unusual garden! Maybe I should seek our more grass varieties to put in my garden.
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Post by tod2 on May 28, 2023 13:44:37 GMT
Its Grand Prix Sunday so we stay home so Mr.Tod can see his favourites in action. And of course Monte Carlo for me is a really boring track so I prepared a really nice lunch. I did a variety of vegetables and we got a BBq'd chicken straight off the rotisserie for R85 (about 4euros). Our dinner is also a late lunch so there will be a small snack around 8pm.
Kerouac - that looks awesome!
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Post by tod2 on May 26, 2023 16:15:28 GMT
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Post by tod2 on May 26, 2023 16:14:29 GMT
Gonubie is a town in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
Seaside town at the mouth of the Gqunube (Gonubie) River, 21 km north-east of East London. The name is said to be derived from Khoekhoen and to mean 'bramble river', after Royena growing there.
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Post by tod2 on May 26, 2023 16:09:41 GMT
Forgive me Bixa but I do believe that the great chefs of this world are not only men, but French to boot! Have you watched Jean-Pierre on You Tube? He is my second choice for a husband. MAN! Can that guy cook. He has taught me the "Mise en Place" method which I was coming into as a housewife/cook some years ago.
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Post by tod2 on May 26, 2023 14:44:57 GMT
Phlegm
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Post by tod2 on May 26, 2023 14:40:41 GMT
My husband got his list of requirements for his British Passport application. It is as complicated as mine so we have called in the cavalry. This means handing over everything to an Agency who specialise. It will cost more money but will give my nerves a rest. It does not ask him for family photos, but it does ask for certified colour copy of each page of his South African passport, even the blank pages.
A lot of what is required duplicates for me - like his parents details. They also want me to forward them with my application.
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Post by tod2 on May 26, 2023 14:32:44 GMT
Ingwavuma Is a town in the Umkhanyakude District Municipality of KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. It is unclear where the name of the town came from; one theory is that it was named after the Ngwavuma River while another is that there was a leader called Vuma, the name then meaning "Vuma's place" in Zulu.
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Post by tod2 on May 26, 2023 14:29:20 GMT
Whatagain - It is so nice to hear your 'Happy Voice"! Keep sending us anecdotes of your life and I can tell you find cooking a way to relax. Men do make the best cooks.
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Post by tod2 on May 26, 2023 14:26:25 GMT
I am going to ask my son if they were introduced to foul last week when in Dubai. They did splash out on a Desert Banquet ....the touristy thing to do. The rest of the time photos of the food looked really nice and to make me drool even more they sent me a photo of Wagamama's. Only ever been to the two branches in London but Im sure there are dozens more now. They may have had Foul at the Mina Souk where they were going to eat traditional food at an Arabian Tea House.
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Post by tod2 on May 26, 2023 14:13:32 GMT
Fish Friday! We not Roman Catholic but went to a Catholic boarding school where the nuns were all foreigners....German, Irish, French etc., and no Friday saw a speck of meat. In our house it just so happens I'm having a freezer clear out and found a nice deboned trout for me and two deboned kippers for Mr.
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Post by tod2 on May 25, 2023 16:03:41 GMT
Well it must be a global warming as we reached 29C today after bitterly cold snow capped mountains..
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Post by tod2 on May 25, 2023 16:02:21 GMT
Whatagain - Why are so many translations made in pathetically bad English. Surely Google is here to help?
Please Kerouac - translate for us correctly...
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Post by tod2 on May 25, 2023 15:53:56 GMT
The steaks were lovely and not at all too sweet in their added Dim Sum dipping sauce. I was going to sir fry them in cut pieces but that was unnecessary as thay fell apart anyway.
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Post by tod2 on May 25, 2023 15:51:03 GMT
Totally daft. Do you ever question some of these requests? No way Jose'! I am keeping my head down and complying (under very total duress) with all that is asked of me. It looks as if they will go ahead with my application and put my request for new Unabridged documents from S.A. to materialize in about a month... When and if I ever get to enjoy my British Passport I will do so like a mad woman...
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Post by tod2 on May 25, 2023 8:54:39 GMT
Mich I snapped these bought recently and see they have marked them as Pork Ribeye steaks. To me they look nothing similar to beef ribeye. You will notice they look different from one another - I suppose as the muscle changes on the piece of meat.
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Post by tod2 on May 25, 2023 8:41:38 GMT
And the plot thickens..... My latest email has asked me to obtain copies(UnAbridged) of the ORIGINAL (Abridged)Marriage and birth documents I have submitted. How can a copy of an original be more acceptable? I am hoping they decide because we are so old and it does not matter if our parents names are not on the certificates all will be in order. This is what happened in 2013 in The Department of Home Affairs. And changed more than once since. www.sabase.co.za/unabridged-and-abridged-birth-certificate/
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Post by tod2 on May 24, 2023 11:39:13 GMT
I have a pork loin marinating Mich I was wondering if you ever buy pork neck steaks? I get these when wanting to grill a steak or do s stirfry. The meat has a lot of connective threadlike fat running through it and this makes it so tender.
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Post by tod2 on May 24, 2023 11:33:34 GMT
Sebokeng, which literally means "gathering place" in Sesotho, was established by the then apartheid government in 1965 when 18,772 houses were erected. In September 1984 there were violent clashes between the South African security forces and the residents of Sebokeng, who were boycotting rent and service tariffs. The cessation of fighting in 1994 allowed citizens to begin forming a stable community.
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Post by tod2 on May 24, 2023 11:28:02 GMT
Yes Mark. I am dealing with an International Agency that is assisting my application, but they are receiving these questionnaires from His Majesty's Passport Office. I had to write a short letter to the Passport Office explaining why I did not have passports for my parents at the time of my conception - and as they put it "To confirm that your parents were in the same place at the right time" (Their words not mine). What was strange as well - to me anyway - was they asked for was the ORIGINAL UK Birth certificate of my husband's father, and the ORIGINAL marriage certificate of my husbands parents. Do you know I actually had both!! Lastly I was asked to send photo copies of any old passports I have held showing the identity pages and if British passport I also needed to send copies of the first 5 pages. I sent them every passport I have ever held so added up to 6 South African passports in all. It amused me to see how I have changed over the years of travel!
One of the questions at the beginning of my application was "Have you ever renounced your British Citizenship?" This makes me think that in actual fact I have had British Nationality all along. Hey Ho , keep those fingers crossed for me all of you!
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Post by tod2 on May 23, 2023 16:33:27 GMT
I spent an exhausted weekend hunting down the required documents to present to His Majesty's Passport Office. Requested were the usual Birth/Marriage/Passport copies. Taken by surprise, requested were copies of my parents wedding photos.....which I'm sad to say there are none as my parents got married by Special License during November 1943. Luckily I did manage to track down the Marriage entry in the church marriage register. Same goes with my mothers birth record but my father is a different story. His birth was never noted and all I could send them was an Affidavit requesting a Late birth registration. Then the Coup de Gras - Please send copies of your parents passports at the time of your conception. Wha? Also please send photos of you at the time of your birth up to today. I sent the one and only photo of me as a baby. It was photographed in a studio in Kenya somewhere when I was 2 months old - I presume for my grandparents to oooH and AAH over. The next photo they got was of my sister and I being held aloft by an uncle when we were around 5 yrs old. And that was the sum total of photos as a child. The next lot were teenage (1 photo) and then family travel photos.
Sorting through hundreds of photos took me the best part of Sunday and I had no idea what I was looking for in a photo to please them.
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Post by tod2 on May 23, 2023 16:11:21 GMT
Atteridgeville was established by the government in 1939 as a settlement for black people, after much lobbying by Mrs Myrtle Patricia Atteridge, the chairwoman of the Committee for Non-European Affairs on the City Council at that time Atteridgeville was established nine years prior to the election of the apartheid government in 1948.
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Post by tod2 on May 23, 2023 16:05:45 GMT
May I lighten the mood...? (Sorry Mick, look away now). I was laughing at the post from Patricklondon with my two recently returned from Dubai, Grandsons. When they learned what it was about My eldest Grandson strolled out of the room with a sly smirk saying "I know what's that like because I sprayed my B...S with deodorant to make them smell nice and it stung like heck!" Needless to say a grandmother does not ask why must "they" smell nice?? For heavens sake he is only 14!
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Post by tod2 on May 23, 2023 15:56:32 GMT
I can see a mouthwatering election of fresh veg coming up Mick!
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Post by tod2 on May 23, 2023 15:54:14 GMT
It was a simple re-heated bolognese sauce but served with a spicy rice (Moroccan style) and fresh steamed green beans and a half gem squash each. I'm happy after finishing with some mature cheese and crackers.
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Post by tod2 on May 22, 2023 15:08:46 GMT
Definitely Mick! Every night he receives an award winning dinner..... if I say so myself. LOL
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Post by tod2 on May 22, 2023 15:07:11 GMT
Balmoral Is a town in the Emalahleni Local Municipality in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The village was established as a railway station of the Oosterlijn from Pretoria to Maputo in 1894.
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Post by tod2 on May 22, 2023 15:01:22 GMT
All so lovely everyone! I have sage in pots but never kept it until it bloomed. Something worth waiting for.
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