• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

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  1. Phil Pascoe

    Fish recipes

    Snorkeling for mussels off Hot Water Beach in NZ, burying them on the beach and digging them up cooked ten minutes later.
  2. Phil Pascoe

    Fish recipes

    My idea of hell in a meal - oysters, caviar and champagne.:LOL:
  3. Phil Pascoe

    Fish recipes

    We used catch mackerel on the boat, boil them in seawater and eat them with new potatoes and butter. Eaten within 15 minutes of being out of the water.
  4. Phil Pascoe

    Regular readers will recall me saying no more renovations. Well.........

    Decades ago in a busy commercial kitchen we had a washing machine and a tumble dryer next to the sinks and the dishwasher. As soon as tea towels, oven cloths, aprons or whatever got slightly soiled hey were thrown in the laundry basket and as soon as the washing machine was empty in it went, a...
  5. Phil Pascoe

    Fish recipes

    As do congers.
  6. Phil Pascoe

    Regular readers will recall me saying no more renovations. Well.........

    There is a valid? argument that you could buy a Domino, heavy duty runners etc. without its costing any more than a commercially fitted kitchen would cost.
  7. Phil Pascoe

    Yahtzee

    A few minutes breaks here and there, certainly. As the score needed to start rises you can end up holding thirty or forty cards at a time. Great fun, I miss it.
  8. Phil Pascoe

    Yahtzee

    At my inlaws at Xmas twelve of us used to have a game of eight pack canasta. Start on the dot of 12pm and finish on the dot of 12am.
  9. Phil Pascoe

    royal mail woes

    My wife works for a bank, they get transactions held up by a poor postal service. Often even first class post gets delivered only twice a week. Letters apparently are are low priority for the R.M. as they have a monopoly. I read of someone sending all his really important mail by 24hr small...
  10. Phil Pascoe

    Fish recipes

    Mash. My pies, like my soups and stews get made from anything that happens to be there on the day.
  11. Phil Pascoe

    Fish recipes

    I had a friend who used to give me the occasional conger. I used to cook it, take the easy meat off it, give a bit of the rest to the cat, a few good meals to the J. Russells (which loved it), and the bones etc to the hens. I had two 20 y. o. lodgers at the time, one who was fussy (his parents...
  12. Phil Pascoe

    Your favourite listenings......

  13. Phil Pascoe

    Your favourite listenings......

  14. Phil Pascoe

    Compost

    When I was a boy my grandmother's neighbour in a row of tiny cottages used to get up at 7am and go out into the back garden in his pyjamas, walking up and down the rows of flowers and vegetables peeing on them. No one thought it remotely odd.
  15. Phil Pascoe

    Fish recipes

    A 22' inshore boat went out over a tide in Mount's Bay in the late 1800s and landed 1200 ling. I remember being in St. Mary's I.o.S. in the '60s seeing scores of large ling thrown away regularly.
  16. Phil Pascoe

    Fish recipes

    On the subject of books, oddly this morning I picked up Mitchell Tonks' Fresh - Great simple seafood for a quid. Oddly, for a peninsula and being quite close to the largest fish landing port in England, fish other cod and haddock in chip shops is very rarely eaten in Cornwall. The last I ate...
  17. Phil Pascoe

    Fish recipes

    I don't like the taste or the texture of raw oysters, tabasco or not, and cooked as in a carpetbag they just spoil the steak.. I like mussels and cockles. I dislike Champagne, Cava and Prosecco. And yes, before anyone asks - I have drunk Dom Perignon, Krug, Cristal, Belle Epoque and numerous...
  18. Phil Pascoe

    Pharmacy2u

    been there. Done that.:)
  19. Phil Pascoe

    Fish recipes

    Much as I like fish I wouldn't give a thank you for raw fish. My mother's idea of a heaven was oysters and champagne - that to me is the meal from hell.
  20. Phil Pascoe

    The joys of viruses - especially Covid

    Mine too, possibly, but I suspect it's more to do with being top side of seventy.:LOL:
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