Originally Posted by Richard Brown

Thanks for the tip, Kevin.

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Originally Posted by Richard Brown

I've never seen that type of orange peeler before, Stranding.
I score orange peel with a small kitchen knife.
So, another kitchen gadget to look out for. The trouble is, the gadgets I want are excluded from Debenhams current ongoing sale. [

I have spotted that Lakeland do them for 99p each:
http://www.lakeland.co.uk/6792/Orange-Peelers
The one shown is in green, which is definitely the wrong colour...
But if you order just that, the postage will be horrendous, so you'd better order a whole load more to make it "cheap" :-)

You might check if you have a non-virtual branch nearby -- we have a recent one appear which is a magical place to trawl round, & of course spend a lot in!

We had a different peeler for ages that my husband loved & always used rather than a knife. Similar orange moulded plastic but had a longer handle and was two-ended. Haven't seen it again after it broke (he's a-sobbin' & ' crying' again at the memory :-)). The main working end was shaped differently & was very effective. I will try and draw it rather than describe it long-windedly.

Rather than use those, I have always used a knife, but it has to be the Right One. And they don't grow on trees (but I expect you knew that!). It has to be serrated but not "sharply" serrated....dead fussy, I am :-). We (OK, I) lost my lovely treasured favourite--probably carelessly swept into the bin with the peelings. We couldn't unearth another that had the right qualities :-(.

Drawing coming up as soon as I can do it (have other, critical eyes peering over my shoulder so may take longer than it might otherwise have:-)

In the meantime, google came up with an amazing range of other types, one a swish stainless steel thing for £12.

Thanks Stranding.

You are talking about one of my favourite shops, a branch of which is in Bromley.

I'm looking forward to the art work..

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Your door hinge challenge "rang bells" as it were.



About 4 months before my retirement, thare was a disastrous fire, with the loss of life, in a block of flats owned by my employer.

My job was to survey, design and specify fire precautions installations. It was intense, hard work with the London Fire Brigade hard on our heels. My work wasn't done to my satisfaction when I retired. I worked on for 6 months 2 days per week. So, the job was my swan song.

I came across loads of door hinges along the way!

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Originally Posted by Richard Brown

Your door hinge challenge "rang bells" as it were.

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About 4 months before my retirement, thare was a disastrous fire, with the loss of life, in a block of flats owned by my employer.

My job was to survey, design and specify fire precautions installations. It was intense, hard work with the London Fire Brigade hard on our heels. My work wasn't done to my satisfaction when I retired. I worked on for 6 months 2 days per week. So, the job was my swan song.

I came across loads of door hinges along the way!

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With that sort of job, no wonder you know lots of the "what is it" thingies. The types that I don't!

Oh dreary me! Those poor old Morris getting so much stick from those who ought to love & cherish them :-)
Why do they keep going in the face of such crushing woe?

One wonders!

Being a Bamptonian, I couldn't possibly comment further. We have no fewer than THREE teams, who don't talk to each other & haunt different pubs. Sigh.

But we have annual visits from Martin Carthy (trad folk singer) & many other well known folk instrumentalists who play informally around the place. You can listen all day to great music. Oh and watch some very fit blokes prancing around...with hankies waving. What more could any girl need?

Originally Posted by stranding

Oh dreary me! Those poor old Morris getting so much stick from those who ought to love & cherish them :-)
Why do they keep going in the face of such crushing woe?

One wonders!

Being a Bamptonian, I couldn't possibly comment further. We have no fewer than THREE teams, who don't talk to each other & haunt different pubs. Sigh.

But we have annual visits from Martin Carthy (trad folk singer) & many other well known folk instrumentalists who play informally around the place. You can listen all day to great music. Oh and watch some very fit blokes prancing around...with hankies waving. What more could any girl need?

Even those sneery about Morris dancing would surely acknowledge three things:

First, their enormous courage (in keeping going a centuries-old tradition in the face of almost total derision by their fellow countrymen :-))

Their research, collecting & playing of old Morris music.

And for their sheer stamina. They dance all day, starting at 8am, on many weekends during the summer. It's knackering.

Originally Posted by stranding

Even those sneery about Morris dancing would surely acknowledge three things:

First, their enormous courage (in keeping going a centuries-old tradition in the face of almost total derision by their fellow countrymen :-))

Their research, collecting & playing of old Morris music.

And for their sheer stamina. They dance all day, starting at 8am, on many weekends during the summer. It's knackering.

Its a small world, I learnt from this particular "what is it" that you are just up the road from me, I live nr Newbury in Berkshire. :-)

Originally Posted by axis

Its a small world, I learnt from this particular "what is it" that you are just up the road from me, I live nr Newbury in Berkshire. :-)

Hi from me back!

We know Newbury well; it's a nice town, together with the charming best tiny theatre in the whole world, the Watermill. Been going there for decades.

Newbury used to be a place that everyone took hours to drive through, both fuming & churning out the fumes, which must have been nightmarish for you inhabitants. But since the new A34 re-routing & the Chievely interchange, we zip through without even noticing...

Doing my caring-councillor turn, how do you feel about that?? :-)

Originally Posted by stranding

Hi from me back!

We know Newbury well, it's a nice town, together with the charming best tiny theatre in the whole world, the Watermill. Been going there for decades!

Newbury used to be a place that everyone took hours to drive through, both fuming & churning out the fumes, which must have been nightmarish for you inhabitants. But since the new A34 re-routing & the Chievely interchange, we zip through without even noticing...

Doing my caring-councillor turn, how do you feel about that?? :-)

Yup love the bypass, dependant on the time of day it's still quicker to use the bypass even to get from one side of town to the other. I'm a Dorset boy by birth and grew up in the midlands but my wife is a local. I actually moved here just towards the end of the construction of the bypass so I didn't experience too many problems myself although my wife's family recall it very well.