Home maintainance

[robbiegal]

Mrs trout insisted on a special shower set up so I have used the room addition for my awning for her :good:


I also fired up the "Bakery" today.


Mmmm Garlic and cheese bread

how do you power up the bread maker Trout?
ps love the path
i can see all the woman's touches to the camping experience
your queen fish is one style queen for sure
love it!

[trout]

I have a 3kva inverter that I can use connected to the batteries that does the job easily .
Or when I run the genset I just plug into the 240v power board :good:
I am making my first ever raisin loaf today, I hope I don't stuff it up as I love toasted  raisin bread smothered in butter :drooling:

[robbiegal]

i add about 1-2 extra teaspoons water for raisin bread
don't add sugar as it will rise too high

you can pop some butter in to give it more colour and taste
depending on how much you add - reduce your liquids (into the bread mix not you ha ha)

i also pop in cinnamon and mixed spice
have a loaf on right now as a matte of fact!

[trout]

Thanks for the advice RG I will give that a go :good:
I normally put a teaspoon of crushed garlic and a couple of tablespoons of parmesan cheese in my normal loaf

[ausjack]

Mrs trout insisted on a special shower set up so I have used the room addition for my awning for her :good:


I also fired up the "Bakery" today.


Mmmm Garlic and cheese bread

how do you power up the bread maker Trout?
ps love the path
i can see all the woman's touches to the camping experience
your queen fish is one style queen for sure
love it!

:dodgy: next minute the poor bloke will have to take the bloody mower so it's all nice and flat

[trout]

next minute the poor bloke will have to take the bloody mower so it's all nice and flat Smile

Bugger, I forgot to bring the lawnmower :laugh2:
When we are away on an extended stay living off the grid it's the little luxuries that make ALL the difference.
Just being able to grab an icy pole out of the freezer when you are in the middle of nowhere still gives me a "Buzz" :yahoo:

[ausjack]

How times change, camping for us was a tent a roll of dunny paper and a bit of food in an esky that the ice melted within a few hours..ah the good old days

[JeffH]

You definition of "roughing it" seems to differ from mine.

But why do it tough if you don't have to?

[ausjack]

Because if your gonna take everything including the kitchen sink you may as well just move to another room in the house :angel:

[trout]

Camping is all about making yourself as comfortable as possible using the resources that you have available.
It's just that I have brought every conceivable knick nack that I could think of
With the amount of different camping accessories available these days and that they are becoming much more affordable all the time, There is no reason why not to have them in the camping "Arsenal" :good:

[Goldseeker]

Yes but half the fun in camping is the roughing it bit.

Why go camping with all the luxuries of life when they/you have them at home anyway.

I used to go camping for two things.   1.   My hobby of gold prospecting, and 2.   To rough it some.

[trout]

I followed you instructions RG :yahoo:

Yes but half the fun in camping is the roughing it bit.

Why go camping with all the luxuries of life when they/you have them at home anyway.

I used to go camping for two things.   1.   My hobby of gold prospecting, and 2.   To rough it some.

It's not all Beer and Skittles Bruce.
Fishing a tidal system is not for the feint hearted with all the mud,  sharks , maybe the odd croc (I haven't seen any here yet) and those imbeciles that insist on smashing their stubbies at the launching areas need a bullet.
I copped a 2 inch gash under the ball of my left foot that required a couple of suture strips after a good flushing with antiseptic from the glass from a busted stubby yesterday :dash1:

I am rather glad we didn't come out with just a tent and a dunny roll, Otherwise I wouldn't have had access to a comprehensively filled  first aid kit and would have had to wrap my foot up in dunny paper and wait for the resulting infection to kill me :angel:

I did quite enough "Roughing It" for 6 years in the Infantry and on my earlier extended fishing expeditions when I was young and stupid.

Nowadays I can keep my beer at a perfect -2C using only the power provided by the Sun.
I also use the Sun to heat up my shower water in a simple Black plastic bladder that gives me about 30 litres of nice hot water that I pump up to a showerhead that I have also charged up using solar power :good:

When I go camping these days I like to do it smarter instead of toughing it out unnecessarily :whistle2:

[robbiegal]

you need a pair of camping crocs thongs thingees

bummer about the foot trout
hope that you heal up OK
terrific loaf of bread there mate

when you are way out in the sticks there's nothing better than being self sufficient
good on the both of you

well i haven't had this happen for about ... oh say ... 15 years  
but this is what I came home to after our little trip to the RBA today!!
yours is a much better job!!  

[Unicorn]

It's not all Beer and Skittles Bruce.

Skittles, skittles ..... is it Unicorn cr@p day and no one told me?

Nice loaf Troutski, top shelf stuff!

Love the croc pic RG! :laugh2:

[trout]

It looks like an Alien exploded out of your loaf RG.