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Posted by Mike, Wivenhoe (U7622871) on Wednesday, 25th February 2009
I was concerned to hear that Gideon's Duffing feature may cease trading in the next few weeks.
A victim of the economic downturn or further proof that nostalgia just ain't what it used to be?
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I think the recession will heighten duffing. People will tighten their belts and take lead from the duffers.
Now this may be a Radio 1 weightloss tip, but by a stronger cheese and use less of it, top duffing for the sandwich-making teen...
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If it retires now it won't get a decent pension.
I'd just like to salute the no-nonsense username chosen by "Mike, Wivenhoe".
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In 2009, duffing will experience a renaissence. We'll all be making do, eeking out, and generally pottering about in our sheds with whatever is to hand.
Either that or gnawing on barely cooked long-pig in the blackened ruins of our cities.
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Posted by File-Under-Water (U13817253) on Thursday, 26th February 2009
It's true, the economy is retracing its steps to the 1950s, a time where I believe duffing peaked and everyone wore a hat.
The public at large will face rationing, musicians will have no access to expensive instruments and skiffle will rise again.
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What a lovely thought!
Topical tip for the desperate: hawthorn leaves are edible if picked when very, very young - just out of the bud.
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Fist - I sincerely hope that you're not trying to suggest canabalism is a branch of Duffing? I've never drawn a connection in the past. Have I been missing something?
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My recession busting plan is to start making homebrew, any tips?
I imagine it'll involve an amount of duffery activities.
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If you're talking about the beer made from a tin of mix:
First thing to do is atune your tastebuds in advance, by sipping bread mould dissolved in burnt vinegar for a month.
Start collecting crown-capped bitter bottles obsessively. The quickest way is to wait till recycling day and root through all the bins on your street. People will think you are a vagrant, but later on as you sip your vinegar, you can laugh in their stupid faces.
STERILISE EVERYTHING, including yourself. This doesn't reduce the chances of your beer going very, very wrong, but it does increase the chance that your final brew will taste of bleach - which is an improvement.
Prepare to be disappointed.
On the other hand, if you were thinking of making elderberry wine......Now there's a drink.
Welcome back, BTW Mr Green. Nice to see you.
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In our household we have been much saddended by the potential loss of duffing.
Btw Mike (wivenhoe) I was born an Essex lad, and always rather enjoy the Rambling Man on the Lemon Jelly album (cant recall which one) which rhymes Wivenhoe, Felixstowe and Fingeringhoe (no sniggering at the back). All good essex/suffolk places with plenty of mud.
The East Essex/South Suffolk seaside is good duffering location - no sand but plenty of old boats, mud and bleak looking views. Ahhhh glorious with a stiff breeze in your face and the threat of rain with the oncoming darkness.
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i travelled by train to glasgow at the weekend and stared out the window at lots of mud. rows and rows of freshly ploughed fields. it was very satisfying.
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Lee - canabalism isn't USUALLY associated with every-day common or garden duffing. But the post-apocaloyptic world will have its duffers too. And one of duffing's golden rules is: "shame to waste it".
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Thanks FoO, I knew you'd come up trumps.
I'll have a crack at beer, I have a romantic notion that I'll be able to do it from raw ingredients. Once I've reached my limit and can stomach no more disasters I'll be back for the eldeberry recipe.
You prefer a crown to a swing-top bottle? I was planning on consuming a few cases of grolsch.
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Good thinking. The benefit of the swing-top is that you don't have to buy the crown corks and the crown-corking machine.
I've known people who make their own from hops and barley etc. The results were pretty good. There used to be shops that would sell small quantities for the home-brewer - probably on line now. The general rule with all home brewing is that the bigger the batch, the less chance there is that it will go sour. I don't know why.
There is an old 70's back-to-the-land book called "The Complete Guide to Self Sufficiency" by John Seymour, which had a section on brewing. But I recommed the whole book to anyone seeking post-collapse duffing activities.
Elderberries in season late summer/early autumn, if you're despairing of beer by then. I've also made a sort of HP sauce type affair out of them - there's a recipe for one in Mabey's book "Food for Free". Again, highly recommended book for those fleeing the burning cities.
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Great stuff, think I'm going to need a new shed.
This isn't turning out to be all that recession-busting, I see it as a long term investment though
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Move over Richard Burton - bring on the dubbin poetry.
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You'll never go wrong making a long term investment in your liver.
If the booze doesn't come to fruition, an alternative is to heat a little dubbin in the tin, and then inhale it.
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Our old flatmate used to make homebrew and bottle it in 2 litre plastic lemonade bottles.
Extra sugar was added at every opportunity, I seem to recall he doubled the recipe quantity of sugar, then added a bit more to each bottle.
The end result was far better than I ever anticipated, but did not compare to a good real ale.
Elderflower champagne is rather nice, but maybe not so dufferly, and may deprive one of berries for other projects.
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Elderflower champagne is AMBROSIA. But it doesn't contain much actual booze, and you have a very short period to drink it before the bottles start exploding. I nearly hospitalised a nephew once.
So basically, there's only one month of the year you can drink it. Which makes it SPECIAL in a way that these youngsters have never experienced, with their 24 hour Tescos Epresses and year-round string beans from Kenya.
[harrumph etc].
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I used to make ginger beer in old pomagne bottles. That stuff could fire a plastic cork pretty forcibly once you removed the string keeping it on.
There's surely something pretty satisfyingly dufferly about feeding a ginger beer plant, then splitting the sludge to share with your friends.
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By god YES! The ginger beer plant! We used to do all this stuff before the kids came along and sucked all the spare time money and enthusiasm out of our lives.
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Posted by Mike, Wivenhoe (U7622871) on Thursday, 5th March 2009
So it seems the future is bright for duffing. Suddenly my pint jug (with a handle, obviously) is half full.
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Yup - in the post-collapse society, the Duffer with his valuable pottering skills, will be King. And a new race of humans - Homo Dufferus - will walk the earth.
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I imagine as a race duffers will be less affected by the collapse of the economy than most people given the key traits of thrift and propensity for properness is likely to involved old fashioned concepts such as not buying something until you have earned the moeny to pay for it.
All that allotment growing, re-using and happiness derived from simple things would suggest a recession would be a very happy time so long as they don't look at the interest rate on their inevitable nest egg.
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Funny, all of these Darwin programs* on radio and TV at the moment haven't mentioned Duffers once??
*Which are unbearably dull due to them repeating basic science lessons ad nauseum
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And yet david attenborough seems to me to be the quintessential duffer.
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Are duffers a seperate evolutionary strand though? Is there perhaps a duffing gene? Maybe indicated by having a specific hand shape suited to holding a pipe stem or a head that looks good in a hat.
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Posted by Mike, Wivenhoe (U7622871) on Saturday, 7th March 2009
Yeah, equal rights for Duffers.
I imagine that if I asked my boss if I could start using a typewriter, dictaphone, cumbersome metal filing cabinet and an adding machine and tried to send missives by telex I'd be sacked right sharpish. It's just not fair.
What do we want? Duffing Equal Rights.
When do we want them? Mondays to Saturdays 9am - 5pm with early closing on Wednesdays.
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"When do we want them? In due course!"
Duffers know you can't hurry a job. Like Gid's CD shelves.
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I find all this home growing and brewing extremely impressive. I myself once mixed my own Nesquik.
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Nesquik's a bit new-age isn't it? Whats wrong with those bottles of syrup you get in the old ice cream parlours? I remeber spending a deal of my youth in Morellis in Broadstairs quoffing pints of the stuff, in between downing nickerbocker glories by the trayfull. Happy days. Actually all we needed was The Fonz and the whole scene would have been complete.
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Crusha? Never could get my head round the idea of lime milkshake.
It comes in ghastly and unrecognisable plastic bottles now [shakes head]
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Milkshakes should really be strawberry or vanilla, maybe raspberry as a pinch. There should be laws. That thick virtual ice cream rubbish that you need a stirrup pump to get int your mouth should definately be banned!
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Creamola Foam anyone? Raspberry flavour was my favourite. Seldom got TEN BIG DRINKS as was the claim on the side of the tin, competition from my brother. I find mixing a well known brand of apple and raspberry fruit juice with a well known brand of spring water sort of gives the same experience. Not nearly as much foam though.
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Its only a matter of time before some fool mentions Sodastream.
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Question is, how long do you have to leave a SodaStream in a fondu?
Topsy
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Is that a joke with a punchline that skirts the outer reaches of the House Rules in a dangerous manner? Because if so, I want to entirely disassociate myself from it.
They're not getting me on a technicality. No Sir!!
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I really miss duffing.
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Have I missed something on the duffing front?
Was a Spring Break declared or something? Or is it that the cupboard is simply bare? Have recent entries for duffing failed to meet the strict quality control Gid insists upon? Are we all duffed out or are we simply taking a "Paintbox Jury" style breather until the deposits are sufficiently restored?
I thought that given the current world-wide economic situation, we'd be awash with tales of dufferly living. Am I wrong?
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The music will still be played and, when there is a story to go with it, I will read it.
I got a little tired of banging on about it, it should be a stop off part of the show rather than something that gets in the way of the rest of it. Please continue to send in duffing missives or post them here.
Gidx
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I think we've just got to give in to the tide of modernity, with a John Shuttleworth "ooof". Duffing a thing of the past? But then it always was.
BTW, I was asked to quote on the painting of some outside windows today. The potential client gave me a link to their house as featured on that google street scene thing, suggesting that I wouldn't need to actually visit in order to quote.
I can't keep up.
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My major quarrel with television these days is the weather forecasts. Gone are the days of surface pressure charts with HIGHs and LOWs indicated, how I long to see how deep a depression is by being told of its pressure in good old-fashioned millibars. Where are the fronts with their bunting-like symbols? Are they over my patch? Are they warm, cold or occluded?
We need isobars, a swirl of the neck clock-wise when I used to follow the isobars of an anticyclone or a swirl anti-clockwise if I was following a depression helped me to know the direction of the wind for my area. This is all gone now, the youngsters these days have to rely on some presenter reading out temperature values and vague generalisations, gone are the days of meteorologists pointing at the maps. The TV bosses often stand the weather presenter outside to show us what the weather is, they've come to the conclusion that if the people are too lazy to follow isobars, they're too lazy to look out their own windows.
You can't get a good forecast each morning, you have to wait until Sunday to watch Countryfile's 5 day projection - with isobars! How long before they take Countryfile from us? John Craven sitting in a steam-powered home-built barge with some old geezers wearing neck-ties, chugging up an algae-ridden, derelict canal. That is talismanic duffing. If it wasn't for Craven's pursuits, we'd have nothing.
The forecast is gloomy.
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Blimey O'Reilly Valour Gull (other celtic based exclamations of surprise are also available) that's got to be one for the next show hasn't it Gid? That's quality duffering if ever I heard it.
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Posted by PeteIsLegend (U10945656) on Wednesday, 25th March 2009
I'm with the weather duffing. The new Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ website weather is at least as frustrating. What's with colour charts for temperatures? What was wrong with putting a number on the chart? The colours only give us a clue within 3 degrees Centigrade, and that's if you can find the key and match the colour up.
I'm sticking to tephigrams.
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I have a bunch of old farmers nailed up by the front door. Tells me all I need to know.
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Posted by PeteIsLegend (U10945656) on Wednesday, 25th March 2009
Is that like the German weather brick? If it's wet, it's raining. If you can't see it, it's foggy. Etc...
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But Fist, did you quote from the street view image? we're dying to know.
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Course not - the real cost of any paint job is in the prep, and you don't know what that's going to be until you've had a close look for rot.
I really enjoy that bit of the visit - whipping a screwdriver from my pocket and plunging it through the deceptively intact paint and into the soggy morass of decaying wood beneath. If you're very lucky it will go right through the frame and out the other side.
At that moment, the client's will collapses completely and you can name your price.
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...or they change their minds and go and get some nasty plastic windows that will never need painting.
I presume the noisy sucking through the teeth is also part of the service.
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I can quote for UPVC replacements if necesary....
Though I wouldn't advise it. You'll have to replace them entirely every 20 years. And they are indeed, nasty. The overall cheapening effect can be increased by adding a satellite dish on the front wall.
The clincher line is "they really shouldn't see another winter in that condition". You can also throw in "there's no damage to the surrounding brickwork....[pause for dramtic effect]...YET"
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