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On 17/10/2023 at 06:15, zxzoomy said:

Young footballers, who also play a range of other sports to increase their physical fitness, at Bredgrove Park Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, UK. I tried to run about with them and I will take their advice to go back to the gym as an elderly man, aged 71. They were wild and such fun to be with, though varied in their reactions when they knew I had always known I was gay since I was ten years old. They lined up against the fence here and I knew I was shooting into the sun but so be it.

 

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Interesting to see Bedgrove Park Aylesbury mentioned. I live not far away on the outskirts of Aylesbury. As a young boy I can remember playing in the fields before the Bedgrove Estate was built.

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Our George Foreman grill has, how can I put ... Gone to live on a farm in the country.

 

Went looking for a new one on the high street but what was a broad product range has been replaced with many many air fryers.  Eventual spent more money than I wanted to on the internet.

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I had a close call about my shower today. I was out to lunch and got a call from my super that the plumbers wanted to run my shower and check for a leak. What!!!!!! Well they found nothing. The space below me is vacant and only used occasionally. Someone had called the plumber about a leak but my super couldn't see where it was. He told them next time call him first so he can see it. Meanwhile, my plumbing checked out.

 

Paulette

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5 hours ago, Mr Standfast said:

Our George Foreman grill has, how can I put ... Gone to live on a farm in the country.

 

 

I use my GF all the time, mostly for grilling fish. I’d be sad if it went off to a farm in the country.
I don’t have an air fryer. I have no idea if I’d use it.

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12 hours ago, Cecile Marion said:

I use my GF all the time, mostly for grilling fish. I’d be sad if it went off to a farm in the country.
I don’t have an air fryer. I have no idea if I’d use it.

 

A microwave is good enough for me. Don't use a hob, and an oven only occasionally.

 

Oh! I have a toaster as well. Very high tech in my kitchen.

 

Allan

 

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On 18/10/2023 at 18:24, Ed Rooney said:

I spent some years as a travelin' man. I can still say hello and thank you in 48 languages. Wish me luck while I try to pat myself on the back wearing this puffy coat. 😉

Ed, probably not appropriate for a separate thread but have you seen this, I know you were there:

 

https://www.flakphoto.news/p/sam-stephenson-jazz-loft-project

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2 hours ago, Harry Harrison said:

Ed, probably not appropriate for a separate thread but have you seen this, I know you were there:

 

https://www.flakphoto.news/p/sam-stephenson-jazz-loft-project

Thank you!

Well spotted.

 

wim

 

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Here's a totally different photographer: Dan Winters. It's a one and half hour podcast, but it's written out as well.

He has lived on Mulberry and used to frequent A Photographers Place.

 

Maybe we should have/revive a thread about interesting finds at the bottom of the Photography Rabbit Hole.

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17 hours ago, NYCat said:

Maybe we saw each other too.

 

Paulette

 

That is good reason to talk to strangers when looking around in specialist shops. You never know who you are going to meet.

 

Allan

 

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25 minutes ago, Ed Rooney said:

 

This is my old friend Harvey Zucker sitting out in front of his building after A Photographers Place in SoHo NYC closed and was replaced by the below exotic lingerie shop. Never a fashionista, Harvey. 

 

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Shame!  all the most interesting shops seem to close and rubbish takes over.

 

Allan

 

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12 minutes ago, Allan Bell said:

 

 

Shame!  all the most interesting shops seem to close and rubbish takes over.

 

Allan

 

 

Yes. Soho used to be fascinating with all sorts of unexpected shops.

 

Paulette

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After a gap of 24 hrs our normally incredibly reliable broadband WIFI sprang back into action.  It appears that most of the town had no connectivity. I guess weather related.

 

More good news, following storm Babet, our local river has not burst its banks in these parts, although it is running very full.  TV images sadly show people not so lucky in the midlands and eastern Scotland with many homes flooded. 

 

Back to the important business of air fryers, our use would primarily be to roast potatoes and parsnips, as I do love a nice, home grown, roasted spud or three.  I wonder if it could be used to make Yorkshire puddings ?

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19 minutes ago, Bryan said:

Back to the important business of air fryers, our use would primarily be to roast potatoes and parsnips, as I do love a nice, home grown, roasted spud or three.  I wonder if it could be used to make Yorkshire puddings ?

 

I have not tired to make Yorkshire puddings but I found this recipe online.

 

https://recipethis.com/the-best-ever-yorkshire-pudding-recipe-in-the-airfryer/

 

I have made roasted potatoes (spud) in the air fryer and they turned out great.

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15 minutes ago, Michael Ventura said:

 

I have not tired to make Yorkshire puddings but I found this recipe online.

 

https://recipethis.com/the-best-ever-yorkshire-pudding-recipe-in-the-airfryer/

 

I have made roasted potatoes (spud) in the air fryer and they turned out great.

 

Thanks Michael, another good reason to buy an air fryer !  We won't be using any beef dripping in our recipe however, strictly olive, or maybe sunflower, oil !

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2 hours ago, Ed Rooney said:

 

Remember this soup kiosk on the corner above Harvey's bookstore? Good soup!

 

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No. I don't remember it but I've never eaten much street food. I do love good soups and keep thinking I should make one now and then. Too lazy to try.

 

Paulette

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On 19/10/2023 at 16:04, sb photos said:

 

Interesting to see Bedgrove Park Aylesbury mentioned. I live not far away on the outskirts of Aylesbury. As a young boy I can remember playing in the fields before the Bedgrove Estate was built.

Yesterday it took me 9 hours with a heavy suitcase to get by train from Aylesbury to Manchester via Chiltern Trains, London Circle Line, St Pancras, Euston, and Liverpool. I'm still looking for the lift at Baker St tube and the first class carriage on the Circle Line. HS2 has swathed through the middle of England so it is hard to get across to the East & West main lines. What a turkey it is! Even the tory voters in Bucking Ham Shire have stopped voting tory. They sound like me re HS2 but angrier.

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6 hours ago, zxzoomy said:

Yesterday it took me 9 hours with a heavy suitcase to get by train from Aylesbury to Manchester via Chiltern Trains, London Circle Line, St Pancras, Euston, and Liverpool. I'm still looking for the lift at Baker St tube and the first class carriage on the Circle Line. HS2 has swathed through the middle of England so it is hard to get across to the East & West main lines. What a turkey it is! Even the tory voters in Bucking Ham Shire have stopped voting tory. They sound like me re HS2 but angrier.

 

Yesterday I was in London photographing what I believe to be one of the biggest marches I can recollect, the National March for Palestine. You could never have done it even on the marches periphery with a big suitcase so a good job you didn't try. I was working out of a large shoulder bag and that was too bulky for the crowds. The weather varied between sunshine, overcast, drizzle, light rain, heavier rain to an extended torrential downpour before I finished. 

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While I deplore the appearance of Xmas related items in the shops as early as this, I must confess to having purchased the ingredients to make Christmas cakes, one for us and one to share between our two sons. I'll probably wait for a cold day so that the heat of the oven warms the house. The aroma of brandy, sugar and fruit cooking is a joy.  Then there is the need to start practising playing Xmas Carols for the annual fair that our village hosts.  Finally, I've just received a delivery of a bare rooted rose to plant, we spent quite a bit of time choosing this one, it should provide lovely strongly scented blooms next summer. (Pity about the plastic packaging, cardboard and paper would have been fine.)

 

It might be getting colder, and the days shorter, but all is not lost !

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7 hours ago, Bryan said:

Christmas cakes

Well the 1kg Stollen the size of a brick I got last month from Kaufland in Trier won't make it to Christmas. The twin grandsons had an unexpected visit and the family gobbed half of it while I was out- for some reason they overlooked the 200g one from Lidl. The rest will be in in severe danger later this morning.

Ah well. At least I still have the Riesling, and the Lemberger, and the Tokay, and the €6.49 gin...........

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