I haven¡¯t had a problem with All-Purpose Flour. We stocked up a bit early on when Em went to Whole Foods, I¡¯ve gotten some delivered from our local grocery store and found some 10 lb bags on offer from Amazon that were from Amazon directly and were priced appropriately. It seems like a lot, but we¡¯re moving through it at a steady clip much to Martin¡¯s amazement (he also ridiculed my need to have several dozen eggs on hand, but he went and got more yesterday because we had used so many over the last week). Whole Wheat flour has been more problematic and I¡¯m just so happy to have a stash.
I believe it about wildflower books. It doesn¡¯t help that so many of them are likely printed in China because of the heavy reliance on color printing. People are always amazed at Christmas time that there are several books we can never get back in stock because the re-prints are stuck somewhere on the ocean. Printing is fast, bulk shipping in containers is not.
And no, my flour stash will never be as large or as long lasting as my yarn stash.
Anmiryam
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On May 4, 2020, at 11:00 AM, Jenny Swanson via groups.io <jenny@...> wrote:
Lucky you, I haven't seen flour in a shop in 8 weeks! And the big sacks you can order online are only orderable for about 15 minutes each day before the production is sold out for that day. Eventually, I hope demand will settle. It seems as though one of the coronavirus effects is that, while bread was unobtainable because some people had stashed dozens of loaves in their specially bought extra freezers, the rest of the country found that a variety of breads are relatively easy to bake. This is a great result IF we can all get flour. Eventually the availability system will catch up with us.
Another odd side effect is that DD1 asked me yesterday to choose and order her a wild flower book so she could start to identify what she sees on her solitary early morning walks (her husband is shielding because he has a particular health condition, and she has chosen to join him rather than live separately in half the house). Anyway, almost every decent British wildflower book was out of stock for at least 6 weeks. In the end I found her a book of "Scottish Wild Flowers". There's no mountain or moorland in Hertfordshire, but otherwise it's much the same for common wild flowers.....
Anyway, I deduce that since so many people have taken up daily walks in the absence of any other excuse to leave the house, interest in flowers (and indeed birds) is booming. I think that is good too.
Jenny
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Anmiryam Budner
Sent: 04 May 2020 15:41
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Subject: [yarnmongers] Flour - Castle Valley Mill
Who was handing out the link to this mill in Doylestown? Was it Lise? Melisande?
All I can say is thank you! I ordered both 10 lbs of whole wheat and 10 lbs of bolted whole wheat on Friday and it was on my doorstep on Saturday! Of course Doylestown isn¡¯t far, but still that¡¯s amazing turnaround. It was especially great to support a local business, and get something that was hard to find generally at a really fair price.
Now to bake it all up.
Anmiryam
