Be a post whore!

[Sundae]

Spooked and creeped out.
An alien is about to devour your laundry.
And you have a lascivious cartoon monkey picture on your wall.

[Clodfobble]

Looks like it's time to play Jenga!

[Lola Bunny]

Glatt: My laundry basket looks the same! Ha....gotta wash tomorrow. :P

Sundae: I don't see the cartoon monkey picture. Where is it?

[glatt]

That was five loads, by the way, and we didn't even touch the kids' laundry.

If ever a topic belonged in a particular thread, my laundry belongs in this one.

[ZenGum]

I have enough smalls to go 15 days between washes.

And I do.

[Sundae]

Lola, I tried to zoom in on the picture, but following Cellar rules the original is too small.
It's on the right hand side of the picture and if you squint it right it looks like a grinning monkey (not a Monkey) with its tongue out.

[glatt]

I'm not even sure what that picture is. It was a gift and looked decent in a nice frame, so I hung it up. I think it's a painting of sunflowers.

[busterb]

Off to renew my D.L. Since I can't have my pig for the 4th & BD, think I'll stop by bottle shop and browse.

[BigV]

could be plastic clamshell packaging...

[Clodfobble]

I never thought I'd say this, but I have been paying actual money for additional levels of a phone game. Oh, the shame.


(The game is called 7 Little Words. If I get you all addicted to it too, does that make me less of a sucker?)

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

If I get you all addicted to it too, does that make me less of a sucker?

It makes you a pusher

[BigV]

that was fun, but I had to wait until the end to brute-force the hockey player

[Sundae]

Deli Handcarving training today.
Good news, I took home a sandwich bag FULL of very good Wiltshire ham and roast turkey.
Not so good news, I did not discover a latent skill.
I'm 41. I know I can't cut or carve worth a shit.

But hey, I'll be doing it five days a week, if it's possible to learn I will learn it.
Just so long as they don't bring in a Spreading Cold Butter On Thin Bread section of the Deli.

Tomorrow is branch stock management. May be yawn, but is necessary.
Then baguettes. Hmmm. I like baguettes. Can I take some home please? I will not get any money now until 29 August. I do have some supplies laid by, but I don't want to use them until I have to. Can you imagine the shame if I reach the end of the month and am sacked for scavenging in company bins?!

Okay, things aren't rosy but that is an exaggeration.
I still live with the 'rents and after all still have two stone left to lose.
And there's always that flour at the back of the cupboard...

[glatt]

Hand carving? In a grocery store? Here in the US, every grocery store I've seen uses a motorized deli slicer. You get nice thin uniform cuts. I've seen butchers use a knife, but never in the deli.

[Sundae]

We do use a slicer, but you can't slice meat off the bone with it.
So roast turkey and ham hocks have to be carved by hand.
Oh and I wouldn't call our slicer motorised either. But I may be mistaking the term.

Trust me, the slicer itself is going to require practice - just to recognise what thickness to set it to. For example thin salami needs to be set at a far higher level than thin ham, because it's a firmer meat. And some people will ask for meat by weight (metric AND Imperial) and some by slice and some by cost...

Learning curve. Steep.
That and rotisserie and cheese, cheese, cheese, cheese, cheese.
(Sorry, that comes from a phonics mat I used to use in school)
And hand cutting shortcrust pastry pies. You ever tried getting a neat slice of a Gala pie?

But yes, we have about five meats which need to be hand-carved, and are apparently the only supermarket in the UK to offer this service. Let's just hope hand-carved afficiandos are very understanding