"Mary Fisher" wrote in message
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I mash roughly with a fork then finish with a small electric hand held
beater. Smooth fluffy mash with no lumps, and no need for a dedicated bit
of equipment

But you can't use either in my Circulon pans :-(

What's a Circulon pan?

Alan


Mary

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On 3/10/06 20:00, in article ,
"Janet
Baraclough" wrote:

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from "Mary Fisher" contains these words:

mashing potatoes isn't rocket science ...

I have seen ready-made mashed potato, porridge, omelette, and baked
potato in Marks and Spencer. All you have to do is drive to M and S,
park the car, trail round the aisles, stand in a queue, buy your
ready-made omelette etc, return to the car, load car, drive home, put
the omelette in the microwave and warm it up. What could be more
convenient? :-)

Oh, I think the baked potato beats everything. Really, I do. How hard is
it to wash a potato, prick its skin and stick it in the oven?

Or the microwave!

But you have to be a bit careful with this, I went to a class for 'cooking
for one' some years ago and a fellow there tried to cook a potato in the
micro it started smoking and when he took it out, all there was left was the
skin!

Alan

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Mary Fisher wrote:
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Mary Fisher wrote:
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Thud.
sorry, can you repeat that? Mt hearing has deteriorated with age.
Damn, didn't want to reveal that!
I'm being fitted with a pair of digital hearing aids :-)

smugly

Mary
~Ah Mary, I have them, a bit improvement, but nothing is as good as good
hearing! :-(

No, but I'm fed up of asking, "what did s/he say?" at the theatre or
watching a son's telly when everyone else laughs ... I'm also fed up of
asking people not to turn away or cover their mouths with their hands
when they speak. I don't lip read but need to have a shape to the sounds.

Shakespeare was right:

"Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second
childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans
everything."

In fact my taste and smell are still very good and not *everything* else
has gone. But he didn't mention the pain of arthritis nor the breakdown
of other bodily systems which beset us :-(

It's being so cheerful as keeps me going!

(not Shakespeare!)

Mary


Sadly Mary I find mine are of little help in the theatre, (the loop system
is poor, to me) films or TV, subtitles are a blessing. One really, really
big plus is bird song, wonderful, let no one tell you there are not as
many birds about, I can never remember hearing so many! :-))

When I got my digital aids, I couldn't believe the sounds I could hear!

Alan

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No apology needed. At a future date someone will advise on how to rid
digital hearing aids of Greenfly and soil:-)

:-)

Dont put your head on the ground!

Alan

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No apology needed. At a future date someone will advise on how to rid
digital hearing aids of Greenfly and soil:-)

:-)

John cleans them out with the little pokey cleaner that comes with
the digital hearing aid.

I didn't get a pokey thing with my digital aids, but then mine are NHS!

Alan


Janet

"BoyPete" wrote in message
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Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:
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That's OK Mary :~)
A lot of us are getting older and it's good to be prepared :~)
Jenny

Ummm... How many of us *aren't* getting older?

Do they have a Time Machine I could borrow?

I'm not

You're not what, a time machine?

Alan

--
ßôyþëtë

"Helen Deborah Vecht" wrote in message
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"JennyC" typed

That's OK Mary :~)
A lot of us are getting older and it's good to be prepared :~)
Jenny

Ummm... How many of us *aren't* getting older?

I'm getting older every day, at least I think so, can't be sure of anything
these days!

Alan


Do they have a Time Machine I could borrow?

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Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.

"Alan Holmes" wrote in message
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"Mary Fisher" wrote in message
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I mash roughly with a fork then finish with a small electric hand held
beater. Smooth fluffy mash with no lumps, and no need for a dedicated
bit of equipment

But you can't use either in my Circulon pans :-(

What's a Circulon pan?

As the man said, if you don't know you can't afford one!

Mary

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"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
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from "Rupert \(W.Yorkshire\)" contains these
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No apology needed. At a future date someone will advise on how to rid
digital hearing aids of Greenfly and soil:-)

:-)

John cleans them out with the little pokey cleaner that comes with
the digital hearing aid.

I didn't get a pokey thing with my digital aids, but then mine are NHS!

So is his. You've been shortchanged if the NHS didn't supply you with
a free pokey thing :-)

I'll remember to ask tomorrow, if they don't give me one!

Mary

Janet

"Martin" wrote in message
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On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 19:39:07 +0200, "JennyC"
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I use a 'frozen food delivered to your doorstep' service and they had a
new
product last month : potatoes !!!

In the shape of chips?
Martin

NO - boiled !!!
Jenny

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I mash roughly with a fork then finish with a small electric hand held
beater. Smooth fluffy mash with no lumps, and no need for a dedicated
bit of equipment

But you can't use either in my Circulon pans :-(

What's a Circulon pan?

As the man said, if you don't know you can't afford one!

I thought that was what the RR seller said when he was asked how much is it!

I know, late again!

Alan


Mary