Icefever

Ye gods...sat here with a soupcon of angel's water listening to the Stones via Alexa,  when Ice Ice Lady  asked for Meatloaf.......and Alexa did what she asked.

You just can't trust these A I .......bloody computers. 

That's us booked.....

Don't have one at the moment was just looking.  I'm self employed but don't know if I'll qualify. 

2 hours ago, Wade said:

You may want to consider splitting it in half lengthways to make rashers that are not quite so wide. These are then easier to slice once the bacon is ready. Will you be slicing with a knife or do you have a slicer?

Point taken on board,  at the moment it'll be a knife,  funny last night Rosemary did say we may need a slicer.

2 hours ago, Wade said:

Also, is it skin on or skin off?

After last weekend listening to you as you prepared that side of pork  she told the butcher leave the skin on, but she did have him take the ribs out but had those as well.   ?

Scratching for us,  and we will be doing the ribs this weekend,  waste not want not as the old folks say.

Ice.

6 hours ago, Smokin Monkey said:

Go for the thick end.

Thanks thats what I thought,  but just wanted to make sure,  I'm only doing a small amount as it's our first time.   ?

7 hours ago, Justin said:

How much did those ribs cost ?

Not sure as Rosemary bought other meats as well,  all together  £40.  The last ribs cost £21 from him,  I've got to get a Bookers card as they are only 20 mins away.

Rosemary collected a spare ribs from our local butchers today, now this may seem like a daft question,  but which end would you use for bacon??

My mind says the think end over the thin end??

Now booked...we don't know what time we'll turn up,  we have to catch a flight from Faro at 10.00 on that Friday.

Ice.

7 minutes ago, Smokin Monkey said:

That's great, you know you will be welcomed and fully involved.

Looking forward to it. 

We're now booked for the weekend,  as we return from Portugal on Friday 14th,  we won't be able to camp.  They have no pods left so we've booked into a pub about 10 mins drive .

Ice.

2 hours ago, Wade said:

I can sympathise with you. Having worked in I.T. for the past 25 years I know they can be an absolute pain !!! I hope you get it sorted without too much aggro.

Cheers  Wade,

It's all ready to go back.....I'm not too bad with the old computers I played around with Linux a few years back, I'm thinking of having another try.

Ice.

I buy the odd thing off of Amazon,  as I knackered my laptop by being a COG (clumsy old git ) by knocking it over then lost my balance and trod on the screen.  I ordered a new laptop yesterday for delivery today,  it arrived today so I took it out of it's box,  plugged in, and switch it on.  It started to boot, stopped, started reboot, stopped, started reboot, after another 4 or 5 goes I gave up, it's now back in the box, and will be winging it's way back to them tomorrow.

Needless to say I'll never buy anything like a pc from them again.....so I'll have to make do with my phone and tablet until I  can go into Warwick this weekend. ....   ?

Ice.

The two parties that turned up through Facebook thought they had booked into the weekend.  It was very easy to see what had happened. 

I don't do FB but is there a way that any post put on FB could be a "sticky "???  So folks would know that they have to book via the forum?? Just my 2 cents 

?

Ice

https://youtu.be/p12z3_kzmPg

Just uploaded the Friday cloud burst we had, it's via this link only as I've locked it as private,  if admin thinks it's ok and no body else objects I can open it for public viewing. ..otherwise it'll stay for our eyes only.  ?

Ice.

We're now home,  car unpacked,  full tummy  and a drop of the hard stuff in hand....here goes, with what happened at Woodsmoke 18... (I thought that was right Steve ???) ?

First off a really big thank you to everyone there,  it was great making new freinds as being a newbie at any get together  can be a little daunting. 

We arrived about 15.30 on Friday,  we stopped at the reception and eventually go showed to where we had to setup. Within  minutes Steve & Jill turned up,  followed by Justin, very soon we had Steve & Paul staying in a pod.  Scott was not far behind,  then I lost track of time as we went mad erecting tents,  gazebos getting everything ready for the big day.....by now Mr & Mrs Wade along with everyone else had arrived.

No rain for Friday,  or so the weather app said.....don't TRUST them....it pi***d down,  (video to follow   ?)  just as we  we're all getting comfortable chatting and partaking of the falling down water.  Well not one drop of rain was going to spoil our weekend, we may have got a smidgen damp,  but hey as the old adage says " we where as happy as pigs in muck'   ?

Saturday dawned dry and hot,   after a great breakfast prepared by Justin & Ice Ice Lady we all set about prepping  meats/ingredients and starting smokers. . ...more to come.

Ice.

For those that didn't make it to Woodsmoke18 you missed an amazing experience.

We're now on our first cuppa of the day,  getting ready to break camp....full writeup with plenty of evidence  oopps,  mean photo's ?  later when we get back home.

Ice.

Great....just got home having a cuppa then got to load the car that's going to be fun...   ?   we are hoping to be on our way  by 13.30 as well.

10-ROG....

Ok..no Hickory which I thought I'd got ...but I do have Oak chips...one Jim Bean t'other one J D.. ?   will bring both if ant good??

We can bring jacket spuds but the chance of them being King E  is most unlikely,  in fact, it's probably not a snowball chance in hell.   

My workload tomorrow should see me finish around 1400.....then load the car, if it all goes in...  ? 

ETA to Billing  around 1500/15.30 so looking good.  I'll have a butchers if I have any Hickory, don't think there will be any Oak.

Another thought.....how many of us are with our partners????

Hello from me and the misses Mark,  bit short notice but there's a do on this weekend near Northampton. All about BBQ'ing & smoking, cook up a load of food and all have a great time..  

Ice.

Link to the camp site....

https://www.billingaquadrome.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/park_map.pdf

Hope it helps us all to find Steve & Wade on Fri.... 

Ice.

Good choice matey, from what we can see on the plan it looks like it'll serve us well. 

When I rang to book I thought about Teal meadow when I told her we were with Smoker18 she said I'll put you in the same place...Shelduck. Which looks nice on their plan of the site., near showers & toilets.

Ice