BristolUK

Now that's more like it. I knew there must be more to it.

I had a quick look at recipes before going to watch football and the first ones I looked at were a bit plain.

I shall have a go at this soon.

MillieF

I brought an Eglu Cube ( google it - it's fun and mine is purple) a long way here and now realize that I can't bear the thought of putting a chicken in it for six solid frozen months. I'm thinking of rare breed quail perhaps?

BristolUK

There was an article in the local paper last winter about a woman here keeping chickens. Winter didn't seem to be an issue to be concerned about. Not even for her

dbd33

You have to heat their water and a powered Eglu seems unlikely.

BristolUK

I don't think she had one. Not that I'd heard of one back then.

caretaker

A lot of people don't know how to regulate the heat lamps and go out in the morning to a coop full of dead chickens. Too high and they freeze, too low and they crowd in and suffocate. It may be easy to keep a few but it's also easy to lose 50 or 100.

Oink

Stinky, they now have a whole shop dedicated to your middle class tat.

Stinkypup

And look what colour is the most prominently displayed tat..

BristolUK

I just looked at that on streetview. Real live shops on the street. It's a long time since I saw that.

Stinkypup

And "flame" was out there in front...was it not?

Stinkypup

I dunno, this lot want to cook with Walmart pans and slag me off for using pans that will last forever and look good.. Having said that, I'm drooling over the stainless steel Le Creuset (at least it won't rust )

Oink

HID was banging on about how good these are and we should get a set but she wants them in all different colors. I did remind her that she doesn't cook and in fact can barely make a sandwich.

BristolUK

Yes, I saw the orange pots. I used 'ours' again today

But I was nostalgically looking at shop fronts though.

Stinkypup

That's like looking at at a beautiful woman but saying " Oh, what a lovely blouse she is wearing!

BristolUK

We really don't have much in the way of shops on actual streets.

They are almost all in the Mall, strip malls, retail parks.

The Downtown, Main St consists largely of restaurants, bars, coffee bars, banks, theatres, hotels, offices etc

A couple of streets have antique shops, independent pharmacy, computer shop, gift shop, Optician, cheese shop.

You want book shops, clothing shops, record store, toy store, whatever, you need a mall or retail park.

I saw Le Creuset in that pic and my mother in law who was passing asked me where it was. I guessed Vancouver, googled to make sure, looked at Streetview and it was just lovely to see a normal street with normal/traditional shops. Like in Bristol and Montreal.

There are some clothing places here that operate from what appear to be houses.