What are you all up to
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We have changed to induction about a month ago luckily for us we do have induction pans already as bought a good set of Judge stainless steel ones about 10 years ago which do all hobs and have added a couple of Tefal frying pan and grilling pan both excellent have put some of the old ones into the caravan as we mainly do cooking on the gas hob although we do have a single induction plate we brought last year when in the UK from Argos so have made sure a mix of saucepans but not to many for the caravan and agree induction so easy to clean.
The weather today has been dry and warm 19C so have been sitting outside for coffees, same for the next two days and then looks like we will be getting rain for awhile and strong winds on Wednesday.
Take care folks on the roads.
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Went out westwards into Durham and south Northumberland and hit a snow storm around Edmundbyers with visibility down to a few feet but magically above Derwent reservoir brilliant sunshine. But sadly only for a few minutes. High winds as well
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A lovely drive, it’s often our chosen route Southwards from Northumberland. We have encountered snow round there as well. I seem to think Derwent area the first place I can recall hearing Curlews calling, we were on our honeymoon, touring all over in our little camper!
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Spring one minute, winter the next here. Had a fair few white out snow showers this afternoon, morning was lovely with great sunshine but flipping cold.
Not done anything today except give the OH a haircut and 1 load of washing. I've been sat hand knitting most of the afternoon while watching the rugby. Although the house is warm I'm felling chilly just sitting so must shift myself now and get dinner on.
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DK, re Freddy post above. Take a look at these, we were actually given a set of three Hahn brand with our new range, and I can highly recommend them, suitable for induction and other hobs, dishwasher safe, but not too heavy, which is a factor when using them and they are full. We have had ours around six years now, used daily, and they are still like new. On offer at the moment. Website has other types as well, you might have a Procook Shop in MK?
https://www.procook.co.uk/product/procook-professional-steel-saucepan-set-3-piece
Agree Stellar are good as well👍
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Good to hear your kitchen is up and running DK, our son and family did theirs not long ago and are now using an induction hob. Interesting to hear what others think. Ref. pans I like visiting the Pro-Cook discount shop at Clarks Village, have bought quite a few pots and pans there. I cook on a gas hob at the moment.
Have been in our kitchen doing quite a bit of cooking today, having a rest now after handing over visiting dog to daughter and partner. They had a dreadful journey down from Penrith late last night, be warned the M5/M6 junction gets closed overnight at the moment!
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Drove over from North Wales to Harrogate and a cottage we've rented for the next week. Came via Skipton. Lots of flood water around but we managed just fine and stopped for a bite to eat and a visit to the Art shop.
Had to divert around Otley due to the floods. The cottage is excellent. It's set on a hill so we're not directly affected.The weather looks changeable but we'll enjoy the break anyway. Nice change.
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I thought you were staying close to Otley! Can highly recommend Fodder for lunch, Great Yorkshire Showground👍👍👍https://fodder.co.uk/
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it is indeed, and a great big car park at Blanchland (big enough for MHs but signs say no overnight parking - an official one and one, for some reason, handwritten in red highlighter) the village is going through a 'regeneration' of sorts, gift shop, and the school converted into a lovely tea room which we made full use of
I'm always amazed to see the difference in Consett, when Mrs C first brought me there in about 1982 it was a steel town with huge furnace building either side of the main street with overhead gantries crisscrossing it, to me it looked horrible and menacing and the building all covered with a red colour. It was a total economic local disaster when the works shut down with many out of work. There was a local comedian Bobby Thompson who called it Giro City (even when playing there) and how he went into a pub there in June and was given a drink on the house, he asked why and he was told it was for first footing!
Now it is a lovely rural commuter town with lots of new expensive housing, the theatre and ballroom in the main street fully restored and used and a full range of supermarkets.
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OH is a great believer in always getting decent pans. Although we have a selection of newer pans, we still also have the very solid copper based stainless steel "Old Hall" ones we got about 50 years back, though just recently the copper base on one of them has gone a bit odd, need to take it to the garage and operate on it!
We have reasonably solid ones in the caravan too, having replaced our old camping nest of pots with some good Ikea ones. The lightweight pots allow food to burn too easily.
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We had Vredestein mud and snow type fitted on our XC 90, they did over 30000 miles easily, so we have gone for the new version of the same ones on the Touareg. Set of 4, bought on line but fitted locally, was around £680 in total I think. Hope they last as well as the previous ones.
The Volvo was hard on tyres, 3 sets in the 9 years we had it. The originals were Continentals and only did 18000 miles, then we had Nokian mud and snow which were much better, and finally the Vredesteins.
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Blanchland is a very unusual place, always reminds me of a shooting lodge! Not surprised car park is off limits for overnight parking. There is a lovely forestry car park along the road, some nice little walks down to reservoir. We sometimes have a stop for a cuppa and leg stretch.
Good to hear Consett is now thriving, it deserves to do well. OH found a great little CL for a stopover on his own when I used to commute, somewhere up there. A proper field with tap!😂
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Our old ones were Pirelli Scorpions and we'd done over 25,000 from new. I knew that the fronts were needing replacing soon, it just came a little sooner than expected!!
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We had a wander round Blanchland when we were up there late last year, but it was too wet to fully appreciate the area.
My father used to work at Consett Ironworks when I was born. We lived at Blackhill at the time, but I've no memory of the place, unfortunately, except I remember searching for a pet rabbit which had escaped from it's hutch. I think that I'd left the hutch door unlocked after feeding him.
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We have only really arrived at the Induction Hob choice by force of circumstances. Previously we had a perfectly good standard ceramic hob for the past 10 years and had intended to replace it with the same. Unfortunately we were faced with major electrical work, and even more mess, had we persisted! In our kitchen we have one 32 amp supply and whilst this is enough to meet the demands of both hob and an oven the latest regs require you to only use a certain percentage of that available 32 amps. I appreciate that most of the time you are likely not to be anywhere near, even the lower limit, but we didn't have a choice. So the original standard ceramic hob had to be returned to John Lewis and in its place we purchased an Induction hob which according to the JL website had a load of 16 amps which would have been fine. However the small print suggested that in full use it would draw 32 amps so we were back to the start. Off I went to Wickes and purchased a Zanussi Induction hob with a 13 amp plug on which the electricians were much happier with.
We had not so long ago purchased a set of Eaziglide saucepans which were non-stick but made of aluminium. We thought we might need to buy a new set but on closer examination they have a steel insert bonded to the bottom of the pans which makes them suitable for Induction Hobs. We have now used them a couple of times and they seem OK, and jury still out a bit. Be interesting when Margaret does a glazed ham which requires a fairly long cook. Today we went to The Range and purchased a couple frying pans although one is more like a Wok which will be handy for pasta and stir fry dishes.
Its encouraging to note that people are generally pleased with their Induction Hobs. Seems strange not to have a red glow from the hob!!!
David
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We did a walk up past the car park to the substantial ruined pumping tower of an old lead mine.
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Our preferred drive home from Hadrians Wall area is Hexham, Slaley, Blanchland, Stanhope, and over down into Barnard Castle. Can be very bleak, but the scenery is just wonderful. We did this route on our honeymoon, can remember driving through ford at Stanhope, then up Crawleyside (😱) in our little old camper, right up to Hexham Racecourse Site. We have to detour nowadays, as we can’t get MH over that narrow bridge just above Racecourse. We spent a lovely sunny two weeks touring all over Northumberland from Castle to Castle. We used to have a day out at Christmas on Hadrians Wall as well! Some vicious tealeaf broke into our MG parked up at Steel Rigg one time. We got back from a very long walk along Wall to find we had no shoes to change into, no picnic hamper, and they had even taken the poor dog’s dinner! Luckily no damage to vehicle, but driving back in bare feet was no fun, car had narrow foot wells, so big hiking boots were out for trying to drive. It sort of put us off going again in Winter for day.☹️
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Glad we went for our walk at Clumber yesterday, although very, very blustery, it was much better than today so far. Hopefully we can get out in the garden after lunch. There were real waves on Clumber lake and very few ducks / geese were venturing out. They would probably have suffered from sea sickness.😂 The old converted Land Rover (Beryl the Broom Wagon) was there for our coffee stop. Although unfortunately for the last time.👎 The National Trust have not renewed their franchise and are putting one of there own wagons in its place. A pity as the coffee and home made Guinness cake 😋 were very nice and good value.
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Oh that is a shame Steve, we like and use the Land Rover. As you say, good value. I feel a boycott coming on, we shall use our own MH facilities. Do you take your MH for a run out there? It’s one of our places to take ours for a run. The Park hasn’t half changed in the last few years or so, and not all for the good I feel. I learned to drive around Clumber, going to miss that through route over the bridge. Somewhat ironic about Trust closing it to vehicles, they were always happy enough for GB Car Rally to take it out every year back in 1990’s. I can recall walking the Horse Trials fence route as well, all through heathland and along lakeside.
Edit found this YouTube video of Rally, late great Colin Macrae in his Scooby, quite sedate tackling of bridge! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6l-1f_XsRs
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should have said that I find these places far more interesting than say a NT house (but they are too btw) as 'everyday' people would have come from the village and worked here in difficult and perhaps dangerous conditions before going home to their families at night.
In the old school room there were some old school year photographs down the years up to about 1976. I always love looking at school pics, not only trying to spot who was the 'tinkers' and changing fashions in clothes and especially hairstyles but also wondering what happened to all those children?
I wonder what happened to all the photos I've been in down the years in people's houses.
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