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Notes & Queries: Waikato Railstop Dawn, in reply to Lilith __,
This huge journey across the island is necessary because the West Coast has rough seas and no safe ports. The coal trucks, once emptied, are hauled all the way back to Greymouth to begin the journey again.
I purely love trains, steam trains (travelled on a lot of those in my childhood) and railcars both.
Got to the Coast for the first time by railcar (I was 23): travelled south on the East Coast by steamtrain since before I can remember (my Mother reckons 2 weeks old. 3rd trip, the 1st 2 by car…)Please please bring back a good train service o powers that be!
Without Spanish idiot drivers-
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Hard News: Tooled Up for Food, in reply to Gareth,
Gareth - I am really interested in black truffles - but not yet quite rich...if you email a price, I will do a bit towards new bbq thingies...
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Hard News: Tooled Up for Food, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Nah there’s just the 3 or 4 inset pieces, triangular, rounded or square – let us know Rich – I am a *serious* recycler! Cheers – n/n Okaritoan-
Oh! And dimensions of the microwave! -
Hard News: Tooled Up for Food, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Nah, they’re around: if you want, send me a diagram/photo -and because these things cost basically nothing & I’ll cheerfully send it to you for the postage-
I need the underside configeration-
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Hard News: Tooled Up for Food, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Rich - all good recycle centres have both turntables and glass tops - if you want to keep the thing going?
I've bought 2 of each for dying microwaves... -
I know exactly where mine comes from – at least six generations of mother to daughter, back to the 1850s. It’s got a sheen like silk on it.
I dont know how many generations family has owned it - 7-8? maybe more?– but it is so smooth, so efficient…arnt we lucky?
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Hard News: Tooled Up for Food, in reply to Manakura,
lost a large chunk of me left index finger nail
They are brillant blades!
I have 2 - but I cherish more the damascened blades my late next-door-neighbour's
son-in-law made (my family also pay him to sharpen his knives...)
They *slip* through flesh- -
Hard News: Tooled Up for Food, in reply to Manakura,
We’ve got something similar but not that kind – aluminium yep, but wider mouth.
My Uncle Bill used it for mincing busher ram/venison/wild pork flesh which his Mum (my Nanna) then made into sausages or rissoles…it was also used for making mince from a wether or downed cow from my Nanna’s brother’s farm-have a sudden need for iron (basically barley) bread – off to prepare it!
Should I mention that, between my Mother's brothers' hunting & fishing skills (which all her kids were brought up with) and her mother's cooking skills - we ate extremely well as kids?
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Hard News: Tooled Up for Food, in reply to Hilary Stace,
PS Are you allowed to love cookware and kitchen stuff yet hate cooking?
Why not?
Aesthethically pleasing useful things are collectibles in their own right.Wanna see my collection of edged weapons???(from mere to rapiers!)
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Hard News: Tooled Up for Food, in reply to Russell Brown,
Which one of these does it look like?
Left one.
You can still get ’em-and thanks Russell! We cherish the thing absurdly – there’s been intense family discussions as to who is it’s next cook-guardian…I’m tempted to have a bake-off between the nevvies & nieces*** to see who is the fittest before I get too much older-
***it’s kept in family & goes to eldest child when holder wants to pass it on…so it goes to one of my many sibs ' many kids..