Gutters :)

[RogerW Williams]

Never mind English few Scottish dishes that are pure ambrosia, Haggis, Stornoway Black Pudding, Scotch Pie and Ecclefechan Tart :)

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[Sander Rossel]

The Brits colonized half the planet for spices just so they can not use it. They eat as if the Germans were still flying overhead. I recently had a leakage in my living room (right where a flat-roofed annex begins) and the first thing we checked were the gutters. Turned out the gutters were fine, but the roofing came loose. Very weird, it had been raining for months (very wet year for us Dutch), but that one day, first of the month actually, it decided enough is enough. Luckily it stopped raining and a contractor was able to fix it a week later.

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[theoldfool]

Thank you. Please bake and send some. :)

>64 It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.

[theoldfool]

We attempted to improve Europe's cuisine by sending our fast food franchises over there. You can thank us later.

>64 It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.

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charlieg wrote:

In England it rains.

- It looks likr rain sir? - Yes, and it darned well tastes like it too. Rain-tasting soup[^]

[Rich Leyshon]

But fortunately we are blessed with many US food outlets where we can purchase such culinary masterpieces as fried burgers, deep fried chicken and pizza. By keeping some of our food fairly bland, your average Brit can still fit through a door without requiring the Fire Brigade to come and rescue them. :-D

[Lost User]

Would that I had decent baking skills. :sigh:

[Rage]

:omg: I ... was on a different kind of trip, actually, so I'll pass on this time eventually. Hard times (without pun), I wish you well !

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[charlieg]

I had to read this 3 times before I finally got it. lmao. :) well played sir.

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[charlieg]

yes sir, it surely does.

Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.

[charlieg]

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Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.

[charlieg]

I guess maybe I should have directed this to the NW USA... Since I live in the SE USA, we have cyclical rain when we can get it. In Atlanta, our rainy season is from Octoberish to February with an occasional panic attack of solid precipitation. In late summer/autumn toss in a hurricane here and there - we actually have one coming in now (in the vicinity). From late February to May, we have to pay attention for tornadic weather systems. as I said, my perception from watching TV (never been to GB, definitely on my bucket list), it just seemed to rain there all the time. Hence my question. From the picture posted, it looks like no one cares about gutters :) There seems to be a growing movement that if your property allows it - chunk the gutters and use these: Since I live in the SE USA, we have cyclical rain when we can get it. In Atlanta, our rainy season is from Octoberish to February with an occasional panic attack of solid precipitation. In late summer/autumn toss in a hurricane here and there - we actually have one coming in now (in the vicinity). From late February to May, we have to pay attention for tornadic weather systems. There seems to be a growing movement that if your property allows it - chunk the gutters and use these: Gutter Alternative: Rainhandler[^] There is also the idea of covering your gutters, but those "patented systems" are so hideously expensive I'd die before I got my money back.

Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.

[Daniel Pfeffer]

American cuisine: over sized, oversugared, and over here. With apologies to the anonymous WWII pundit who coined the original.

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[Choroid]

Well lets deal with the Brits or Europeans and food. When I lived at the Grand Canyon I was friends with the chef at the El Tovar Hotel. A Mexican chap who had a passion for cooking exotic food. Had special egg serving for breakfast when I felt like splurging for breakfast at the El Tovar. Because of our relationship I was invited to the Chen Dinner where he cooked as he belonged to the Chaîne des Rôtisseurs was created under the 1901 French law regarding Associations with an International Headquarters based in Paris. You can learn more here Chaine des Rotisseurs – Food & Wine Gastronomy Society[^] The menu was printed on a dinner plate and presented as a gift. Still have mine some where. If the Brits have a chapter it would be nice to know. I doubt it. I live in the White Mountains of Arizona and my home has gutters and I have 20 Ponderous Pine trees on my 3/4 acres of land with 3 apple trees that produce a lot of apples the elk steal the apples along with the deer. I am sure no manner of contraption can evade pine needles from piling up in said gutters. Monsoon Season is from June to late September 2 years ago the rain was so violent and turned to hail it stripped my apple trees of 50% of its leaves. DAM Solution is a leaf blower & step ladder around mid June or the gutters look like Niagara Falls.

[theoldfool]

You forgot to mention the salt!

>64 It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.

[RedDk]

Choroid wrote:

some where

somewhere :suss:

[Alister Morton]

Eavestroughs is a new one on me, but then I've only been living in Britain for 63 years.

[Greg Utas]

Interesting. I should have checked Cambridge Dictionary! Since it was/is the usual term in Canada, I figured it was also the most usual one in the UK. https://www.angi.com/articles/eavestrough-vs-gutters.htm[^]

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[Alister Morton]

We refer to "the gutters" or "guttering" - usually the channels are semicircular or box section, and in the past they have been made in cast iron and I'm sure I've even seen them made of pressed concrete board! You don't want one of those dislodging.

[Alister Morton]

Nice to see the evergreen topic of food making the leap from the Facebook playground of the "DMC" to here. Not sure what the problem is with Yorkshire pudding, though. Light, airy, crispy, well risen, they're great. The usual UK DMC riposte of course is biscuits and gravy; every picture I've seen of biscuits and gravy looks like something I once trod in in the dark when I had a cat ;-) Anyway, gutters. We usually have semicircular (sometimes box section) channels collecting to downpipes which discharge into a drain - often a separate storm drain rather than a foul drain these days. In my garden the rain downpipe is teed into a water butt so that rainwater can be collected to water the plants. There are various methods used to alleviate clogging, the most popular being the "hedgehog" which looks like a very long bottle brush; this fills the channel so that leaves etc run off over it, but water runs through it. Fairly effective, but not perfect. See above re needles.