What did you buy today?

Tengu

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No idea; not worked out how to open the battery hatch yet. Seems to be in good condition though.

And its the 2010 copy, sadly.

What you got to trade for it? I really should not be accumulating stuff that is not useful.
 

Woody girl

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At last! Second hand, but only two years old, one of those pull over motor bike garages. I've no idea what they are realy called, but it was only £50, and they are several hundred new.
So, even tho the monster susuki is gone, I now have decent winter cover for the little 750 virago.
 

Nice65

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No idea; not worked out how to open the battery hatch yet. Seems to be in good condition though.

And its the 2010 copy, sadly.

What you got to trade for it? I really should not be accumulating stuff that is not useful.
Not for me, but thank you. I’m the same at car boot sales and have recently got rid of tons of accumulated stuff I’ll never get round to using.
 

Decacraft

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A firemaple x3 jetboil type stove. Ordered this morning and just delivered from amazon. New vehicle stove and it works fine so far with the larger c500 gas cannisters
 

Herman30

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This dagger by Tod Cutler.
When one can not carry a weapon one can at least carry a (almost) foot long dagger. (Joking of course). We are not allowed to carry a dagger around town.

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Herman30

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What I would like to buy today is clotted cream. Saw it in the movie Phantom Thread where Daniel Day-Lewis had it on scones for breakfast. Looked tasty.
 
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Pattree

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Be very careful @Herman30

To assemble scone, jam and clotted cream is to make a tribal declaration.
Do you put the jam on the cream or the cream on the jam!!!!

There is some nonsense about the county of origin but that wasn’t in evidence when I first experienced a cream tea.

In my opinion the clotted cream was originally used in the same way that we use butter in a sandwich and the jam goes on top but what do I know, I’m a flatlander from the Midlands.
The scone arrived with the railways and mass tourism as a new batch could be made much quicker than the original bread bun - Thus spake Ruth Goodman. :notworthy2:
 

grainweevil

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Its awesome.

Im sure you can make it at home; I dont know how.
My folks used to make it from the "top of the milk" - Gold top Channel Island milk, so super creamy - in a shallow casserole dish. Unfortunately I was too young to have grasped the details, my mum is gone, and my dad's memory is not what it was. But yes, it's a lot easier than you might imagine. Mainly a case of time to allow the milk to settle. Usually the stumbling block has been being able to obtain milk creamy enough, but that may be easier again these days perhaps. Dunno. I'm not that keen on it, to be honest.

As for scones, only the unenlightened would choose them given a choice. It's just convenience for the commercial market that scones have become a thing. In Cornwall, the "split", a small bread-like roll, used to be the solution. The beauty of them being that they're not nearly as rich as scones, so you can eat that much more cream. But best not ask for either for breakfast unless you desire to be viewed as a candidate for "daftest emmet I met today" amongst the catering and waiting staff.

(Regarding the jam/cream "controversy", it's easy to remember: The Devonians feel the need to hide their cream under the jam. I'm not saying it's inferior, but you may draw your own conclusions... ;) )

Meanwhile, today I bought a freshly caught local mackerel from our mobile fishmonger and had it for lunch. It was *chef's kiss*
 

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