Heyies Peeps,
Meh - Kind need help with something and you might find it funny 
How do you cook a darn "egg" thoughties i know bit of a stupid question butties i keep screwing uppies
Is there like a way or putting it in a microwave or something I can never get it right sad face 😞
Thinking to myself how do i mess something simple up and go thru 26 eggs
I am kinda a bad cook but an awesome takeaway orderer
Thought I would like you take on this and what is the right and propa way
EmoLMarrio
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Here's a question, @Fellwalker: Is the Ormo bakery named after the Ormeau road in Belfast?
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Thought so, @Fellwalker - thanks! Their batch loaves are very tasty, especially the ultra-thick heels 😋
Irwins seem to have cornered the batch loaf market, though.
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Brown lemonade or poteen with an aniseed ball dissolved in it? 
Prefer a Crunchie to a slab of yellow man, tbh.
Not many fells to walk here, there are a few glens though 😁
Prefer a Crunchie to a slab of yellow man, tbh.
Not many fells to walk here, there are a few glens though 😁
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For my sins I worked at Warburton's Bakery for just over a year after I'd had enough of tinkering with cars in an awful winter. I could tell you some tales....
The smell of fresh bread was nice at first but but you get used to it and on 12 hour shift days and nights it's no longer a welcome smell when loaves are coming down a conveyor belt at you while you are feeding them through a wrapping and slicing machine.
That was in 1978 when unions could hold the country to ransom by bringing it to a standstill. I'd been there 3 months, when... you guessed it.... the workers, goaded by the Union area reps, voted for a strike.... for more dough... no don't laugh 😂 for more money actually!
Now those days a strike wasn't for 2 days or 3, it was until management caved in. Nearly a month we were on strike and that was all bakeries across the country so no bread on supermarket shelves for people to bulk buy and no freezers to put loaves in even if they could get them from the local bakery shops.
We had to live on strike pay which was a few quid a week whilst Union leaders sat back on full pay with not a care in the world. It was a breadline {😉) existence for those of us who had mortgages or rent to pay.
We had a union meeting every week to vote on the latest offer from management but in those days meetings were held outside at a time convenient to Union reps but not to night time workers who worked until 7am and then had to drag themselves out of bed to vote.
No ballot boxes then, it was by a show of hands where you could turn round and look who voted yay or nay. Obviously if you didn't want to be labelled a scab, you voted with the more militant or more importantly with your mates. But as the strike began to bite {no I did not mention bread!} on both the public and us workers, the majority of the yays over the nays narrowed week on week as management stuck with the original and final offer.
At the end of the 4th week the worker overwhelmingly voted to return to work immediately. What we gained out of the strike was peanuts in terms of money in your pocket and compared to what we lost on strike pay was a joke. Ok we had slightly more money and gained parity with the rest of the country whereby we got 3 weeks holiday a year rather than 2 weeks, as well as a slight improvement in working conditions. It took people a good while to recover and coming some five years after the 3 day week this country was in a mess. I was ok because I was working cash in hand for my previous employer in the garage where I served my apprenticeship.
Thankfully a certain Maggie came along and sorted out the big Unions...
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I remember that strike well @jonsie.
This is when I needed my Mum to teach me how to make bread. (I had never tried to do this before.. being far too busy nursing people :smileytongue:)
Luckily she was the type of person who had made her own bread for years. Also (fortunately for me) stockpiled goods when they were on offer.
So she taught me how to make bread. It was never as good as hers, she knew that would be the case so baked me two loaves a week herself.
This was also the time when loads of recipes appeared, showing us how to make bread quickly, without yeast.
Those loaves were usually inedible. (it was 1978 and breadmaking machines weren't available then).
Blimey, those were the days....
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Interesting account there, @jonsie, loved the way you threaded the bread references in there - a case of kneading the dough, I guess 
- employers had the dough, the workers kneaded it... 
Not living in the UK back then, I did not experience all the hardship caused by the baker's strike, thankfully.
@Poppysmum wrote:
@Cleoriff wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:Gonna show this thread to my recovery/support worker Tuesday
Great to hear
Maybe they will join the O2 forum as well @Anonymous. Not only will they get advice on all things egg related. ....they will be able to learn a lot about mobile phones as well.
Glad i not drinking my coffee or it would be all over my laptop after reading this @Cleoriff i am sat hyear laughing
Hope support worker likes a good laugh
My support / recovery worker gonna think i cant cook haha and reading it all back hmm 
