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Today, I shall mostly be...
yeah, 'jelly in mah keech'died.
elvis syndrome.
suzysunshine7 wrote: "https://www.theguardian.com/media/200..."In an article about a woman who likes getting up close and personal with poop was any pun intended in the line;
"The Soil Association gave her a prize"?
Tech XXIII wrote: "yeah, 'jelly in mah keech'died.
elvis syndrome."
Rasta no feed on no babylon turtal heeds
Nursing a hangover. The sis-in-law and her fella came over for the Led Into Zeppelin gig and we hit the beers a little too enthusiastically for men of our maturity (he's a bit younger but he insisted on finishing off with a couple of glasses of the malt whisky I no longer drink for fear of inevitably waking around 4-5am with bad guts; a wise decision - I made it to 7am). Because of the nature of the band there was far less shrieking and shouting from the assembled throng which I can only attribute to the much reduced presence of the 'fairer sex'! The PA was a little better but then they were only mixing guitar, bass, drums and vocals. The band were incredibly good at churning out the riffs and solos (including, unfortunately, the Moby Dick drum solo, yaaaaaawn) and the singer, while somewhat rotund, had the shoulder length curly locks and, above all, the pipes to do Planty's vox justice. There was no working men's club-style mid-set break and they did about 100 minutes but of all the tracks to omit there was no Kashmir and no Stairway. I'd go and see them again for sure.
Next up; 10 Oct - Glory Days (Springsteen tribute) at t'club and the next day in Newark the Hiding Magpies who me & Blind Col were bowled over by at last year's Colne Blues fest despite the fact they really aren't a blues band, more Americana/rootsy singer-songwriter fare;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2rYO...
SussexWelsh wrote: "Whereabouts in Newark, Brass?"https://www.facebook.com/flyingcircus...
Should be able to reserve tickets by FB message.
SussexWelsh wrote: "Whereabouts in Newark, Brass?"Hmm, might not be an actual gig at the venue - need to ring 'em.
https://www.facebook.com/events/75373...
Having a Prosecco afternoon tea for two with Mum, then tonight a horror film or two and a glass or 3 of Perry.
Collette wrote: "Having a Prosecco afternoon tea for two with Mum, then tonight a horror film or two and a glass or 3 of Perry."Has the Firestick cooled down then?
My missus went for an afternoon 'tea' with her sisses yesterday. Where in the word 'tea' is a lasses' piss-up implied which is the reality? At least when blokes go for a booze-up no fancy, dainty sarnies on multi-layered stands with doilies or calhorrific lashings of cream cakes are required to disguise its purpose (mebbes a bag of pork scratchings with occasional protruding pig bristles?). And no, a solitary strawberry in your prosaicco is not sufficient to count as one of your 5 a day!
I unplugged the darn thing and forgot to put it in again. D picked up our new chipped stick from his niece yesterday, so hopefully this one will be fine and up to date with the latest movies etc. Just hope Murder She Wrote is there as well. Ha ha ha. The cake stands always look so pretty though. If Mum and I still get to Ayr at the end of November we'll definitely be booking an afternoon tea at our hotel.
I don't like yukky sweet things. I think they should do a 'midday dinner' with different sorts of meat and roasties and stuffing and gravy.
Brass Neck wrote: "SussexWelsh wrote: "Whereabouts in Newark, Brass?"Hmm, might not be an actual gig at the venue - need to ring 'em.
https://www.facebook.com/events/75373......"
Ah!
Lez wrote: "I don't like yukky sweet things. I think they should do a 'midday dinner' with different sorts of meat and roasties and stuffing and gravy."On the subject of "yucky sweet things", I'm not keen either except for a bit of a change. Unfortunately, the chocoholics reign supreme and any number of cakes, biscuits etc are "enhanced" with chocolate, ruining a perfectly good confection. In my (prejudiced) opinion, chocolate belongs with chocolate éclairs, pains au chocolat etc, not dribbled over meringues and Bakewell tarts.
Lez wrote: "I don't like yukky sweet things. I think they should do a 'midday dinner' with different sorts of meat and roasties and stuffing and gravy."I think it exists and is called a ......carvery?
A few Indian Restaurants around Manchester branched out a couple of years ago into offering Afternoon Tiffins. They don't tend to specialise in Cakes and Desserts and so they are mainly made up of exquisite little Savoury Treats instead ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "A few Indian Restaurants around Manchester branched out a couple of years ago into offering Afternoon Tiffins. They don't tend to specialise in Cakes and Desserts and so they are mainly made up of ..."I used to like going to Indian Restaurants that did lunch when I lived in the UK.
I remember managing to have a whole Indian meal lunch while my son stayed asleep in his pushchair. A while ago that was, he just turned 21 :0
I've never had a Meal in an Indian Restaurant. I've often thought of doing so but never fancied going all on my own and never known of anyone that I could ask if they'd like to go with me.I've also never ordered an Indian Takeaway either as I've never known anyone else who has ever been interested in sharing in one with me.
I was never too shy that I couldn't manage to go into a Café all by myself when I was still able to - but I've never had the nerve to go into a Restaurant and order a Meal for one.
suzysunshine7 wrote: "I've never had a Meal in an Indian Restaurant. I've often thought of doing so but never fancied going all on my own and never known of anyone that I could ask if they'd like to go with me.I've al..."
Some Indian restaurants are quite intimidating, they are so polite and take service very seriously. An awful lot of 'sir' or 'madam'.
One I went into they had little hand held hoovers that they hoovered crumbs up with after the poppadoms :0 ha ha.
One served all the dishes on little metal shelves with lit nightlights underneath to keep the food piping hot.
Serial wrote: "Some Indian restaurants are quite intimidating, they are so polite and take service very seriously. An awful lot of 'sir' or 'madam'...."That's certainly true of my local "Indian" (actually Bangladeshi, as most are). However, I've been to plenty in big cities where the waiters seem to take pride in their rudeness. The last time I had to stay overnight in That London I went to an Indian restaurant where the waiter continued a phone conversation all the time he was serving me. Food was damn fine, though. Gulab Tandoori on Pentonville Road (King's Cross end), if you're interested. Tech knows I never stray far from railway stations.
Serial wrote: "Some Indian restaurants are quite intimidating, they are so polite and take service very seriously. An awful lot of 'sir' or 'madam'."I've always had it in my Head that all, rather than just Indian, Restaurants are like that to some extent. Especially towards lone Diners, and even more especially towards Women who are lone Diners, which is the main reason why I've never wanted to try it out.
Cafes though, in my experience, tend to have Staff creating an atmosphere that is far more warm and friendly, inclusive and inviting when it comes to single Diners wanting to buy themselves a reasonably priced Meal out as a bit of a special treat ;o>
I've had to go in to restaurants alone when the DH has been at a conference and not free. Never had a problem with attitude or service, here or abroad. Indian and Italian restaurants are the best, it's easy to find veggie stuff on the menu. That said, one of the best places we've ever eaten was a vegan restaurant in Fort Lauderdale - we didn't realise it was vegan at first but even the DH, who still eats meat, thought it was amazing.
Back in the days when exam boards would spring for actual meetings to ensure examiners were fully cognisant of the ins & outs of what they need to apply to the infinite variations of candidates' responses compared to that expected by the question-setters (nowadays you get a copy of the mark scheme which is often rather bare-boned, and 10 practice scripts, allegedly marked to an absolute definitive mark (a ridiculous notion given they are done by different subsets of team leaders on the last day of the team leaders' meeting, in a rush for those catching a particular train and not reviewed by all those present - I know this cos I are a team leader), sometimes (but not always) with comments as to why a response was awarded a mark much higher or vastly lower than you gave it before you have to do 10 standardisation scripts depending on which you may continue or be stopped from marking, I happened to be staying in a central London hotel and went to an Indian for a meal. The service and the food were fine and then the actress (I use the word loosely) who played Miss Brahms in Are You Being Served and a long-running character in East Enders was seated, alone, next to my table. I studiously ignored her as did the other diners. Not sure this was worth reading through the rest of my gubbins for?!!
Brass Neck wrote: "Back in the days when exam boards would spring for actual meetings to ensure examiners were fully cognisant of the ins & outs of what they need to apply to the infinite variations of candidates' re..."I love the way you avoid paragraphs so you're sucked in to read it all, instead of skipping to the salient point,
10/10
Her name's Wendy Richard, by the way.
Tim wrote: "Her name's Wendy Richard, by the way."
Yeah, I got to Wendy Craig but she was an actress of entirely different character. I CBA to look her up. I'n't she brown bread?
Serial wrote: "Brass Neck wrote: "Back in the days when exam boards would spring for actual meetings to ensure examiners were fully cognisant of the ins & outs of what they need to apply to the infinite variation..."Not sure the 'point' was all that salient. Still it's wet, cool and miserable out there so wasting time like that (mine & yours) seemed worthwhile in the moment. Hindsight is a different matter.
Brass Neck wrote: "The service and the food were fine and then the actress (I use the word loosely) who played Miss Brahms in Are You Being Served and a long-running character in East Enders was seated, alone, next to my table..."But were you a bridesmaid at Molly Sugden's wedding?
Brass Neck wrote: "I'n't she brown bread?"Yes. Eleven years ago. How about you?
Two of the best and most memorable meals I've ever had were paid for by exam boards and, since they get all their dosh from schools, the taxpayer. One was a south Indian restaurant in central Brum on a backstreet just near the Cathedral. A relatively short menu unlike most Indians, loads of fish dishes and lots of coconut in the sauces it was heavenly. Looked for it the following year and it had vanished - location, location, location?All OCR exam meetings then moved to Cambridge which is a nightmare to get accommodation and parking within the rates they pay. A couple of the other team leaders who marked other papers had been in town a couple of nights already and they absolutely raved about a Chinese restaurant with possibly THE most prosaic name ever; Tasty Restaurant. They talked about how they were met at the door and the staff had tried to put them off - "This not normal Chinese restaurant" - which had the opposite effect and they dined. When we all went the next night all they had said was true - majority Chinese clientele, the two menu books in loose leaf binders, a thinner one with images and just the name and price of the dish in English and a much thicker one with images and Chinese text of loads more dishes but most of the Chinese diners eschewed the menus and had a large rectangular stainless tureen on a burner in the centre of their table with two different broths - one hot and one not - and a tray of various uncooked meats (most of which looked to me like sandwich meat and not that appetising).
I went with the menu book and our pioneer diner's recommendations and had a chicken dish with peppercorns but these weren't the hard dry black one but they were like small green flowers and the taste when you bit into one was gorgeous. The baby aubergine dish in sauce was equally heavenly.
The more intrepid members of the party went for the cook your own option and, as more and more bottled beers were sunk, I noticed them all putting meat in at different times including a baby squid/octopus and no thought given to timing to ensure proper cooking. Sure enough, the next day's meeting was the last but the examiner with the longest journey (in his car) to Cornwall looked rough at the start and progressively went downhill until he was sent away early.
I think it's still there on the main road north of Hills Rd but they don't have a FB or webpage. Wonderful place once you get past the door staff trying to repel boarders.
Apparently it's a small chain, here's a pic of their Brum branch;
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...
We were once entertained to a banquet dinner in a Chinese university and one of the dishes came with a garnish of parsley which I began to eat, only to have several people rush over to prevent me with cries of "Not eat! Garnish!" We tried, not very successfully, to explain that parsley was a perfectly acceptable foodstuff in the west... Maybe it hadn't been washed? but I always wash everything, either before cooking or uncooked, that goes on the plate. :o)
Gordon wrote: "Brass Neck wrote: "I'n't she brown bread?"Yes. Eleven years ago. How about you?"
Bit peaky but can't complain at my age. Now where's me Shackleton's high chair, Sanatogen and Horlicks? I fought in the war so cheeky buggers like you don't have to sprachen Deutsch you know.
! ! ! I'VE JUST MANAGED TO BUY MY IKEA WARDROBE ! ! ! ;o>YAYYY!!! ... I was starting to think that it would turn out to be discontinued before it might be made available again and had been looking elsewhere and found something very similar'ish on Wayfair - but the Doors aren't as nicely panelled, the 'Oak Effect' finish looks quite cheap and plasticky when zoomed in close on, it is also £32 more plus currently out of Stock, and it wasn't as well rated and reviewed as the Ikea one is, and it has Drawers ... and I really don't want or need Drawers.
I don't like a few minor things about the Ikea Wardrobe but they are easily fixable - I am going to change the thick solid wooden Handles for some much nicer Brass ones that I've found on Amazon - and I could decide to use some Stickyback Plastic to make the white Back Panel also look like it is Oak Effect as well.
I am such a very happy bunny though right now as I can finally get the spare Bedroom finished! I just hope now that it will arrive here in as near to perfect condition as possible ;o>
"much nicer Brass" - you called?
give thanks and praise to the most high!that's what persistence will get you.
she said 'handles' not 'knobs'!
One pack of lovely looking Brass Handles bought - I just need for my Brimnes 3 Door Oak Effect Wardrobe to arrive on the 3rd of October now ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "One pack of lovely looking Brass Handles bought - I just need for my Brimnes 3 Door Oak Effect Wardrobe to arrive on the 3rd of October now ;o>"These look good, Suzy. Plenty to grip onto.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Phallus-huge...
Serial wrote: "suzysunshine7 wrote: "One pack of lovely looking Brass Handles bought - I just need for my Brimnes 3 Door Oak Effect Wardrobe to arrive on the 3rd of October now ;o>"These look good, Suzy. Plenty..."
Surely you can see the big drawback with those?
... thanks for pointing that out, Mr B! - LOL!!! ;o>Sorry to disappoint you but I've already bought these, Serial ...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...
What am I like. Our house extension isn't in any way finished or near finished, and I'm already perusing second hand furniture.I hate new furniture.
So I've been looking at things like this
https://www.donedeal.ie/bedroom-for-s...
and this
https://www.donedeal.ie/bedroom-for-s...
:0
Well there's not much point in building an Extension if you have no ideas as to what is going to go in it when it is finished, is there? ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Well there's not much point in building an Extension if you have no ideas as to what is going to go in it when it is finished, is there? ;o>"Good point, Suzy.
I value your support for window shopping :)
Serial wrote: "What am I like. Our house extension isn't in any way finished or near finished, and I'm already perusing second hand furniture.I hate new furniture.
So I've been looking at things like this
http..."
It's very ..... brown!
"window shopping" - is it a good idea to put windows in your new S&M dungeon?
Brass Neck wrote: "a Chinese restaurant with possibly THE most prosaic name ever; Tasty Restaurant..."Shrewsbury boasts Chinese takeaways called Eatwise, Tasty Food and, most bizarrely, New Tim Tim.
Apart from dusting my bedroom (the actual bed can wait til the morning to get changed), I'v been combing my lovely new bear Bertie and sorting his bow. He's even more handsome than his picture.
First catch your Bear! ... I have got visions of Bertie Bear running all over the House shouting ... "NO MUM!!! - OWWW!!! - GERROFF!!!" ... ;o>
Collette wrote: "Apart from dusting my bedroom (the actual bed can wait til the morning to get changed), I'v been combing my lovely new bear Bertie and sorting his bow. He's even more handsome than his picture.""combing my bear"
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Ah yes, twiggy women with a horse face. Obsessed with poo and fake doctorates.
where is she now?