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Jim Webster, (In On a Chance! )
Dammit Jim, he's dragging me out now and you've been no help.
Sorry but at 9am or thereabouts I left the house to drive to Junction 36 to a meeting about bovine TB. The main speaker got stuck in serious traffic on the M6 so she didn't arrive until the meeting was supposed to end but interestingly virtually everybody stayed and she was worth listening to. Didn't get away to about 3pm because I had a chat with someone else who I managed to get caught up with.As I had to be at Penrith for 7.30 pm for a meeting it wasn't worth driving home, the extra fuel used would more than pay for something to eat so I went to Sedburgh (book town) and picked up a couple of interesting looking books, had a cornish pasty and a cake and then went towards Penrith, calling in to see a friend. Spend two hours with him, as he tried to mow a steep field with a lot of rock in. Then his wife turned up with fish and chips so sat in the shade of a tractor back wheel looking out over the fells until I realised I was in danger of being late for my meeting so scurried north like a good boy :-)
I recommend the Shap area to you if it's any help. But unfortunately I wasn't anywhere near a computer from 9am to 10:30pm which has to be a good day :-)
Will this experience go towards the cow ID/TB thriller?
Just looked at the post count on my thread - 1111! Don't know why I'm telling you, although I suppose if you squint hard enough, you could imagine each 1 is the leg off a corner of a cow as drawn by a three year old. I suppose someone will be along momentarily to bugger it up. Ah well. Wish I'd been nowhere near a computer all day today!
Oh! I've been to Sedburgh! Was a few years back, now. I'll post the photos I took yesterday at some point today. Lots of rocks.
Was it a 'book town' then or did it just have a private school?
Tim wrote: "Just looked at the post count on my thread - 1111! Don't know why I'm telling you, although I suppose if you squint hard enough, you could imagine each 1 is the leg off a corner of a cow as drawn b..."Well today the sky is grey and it's windy, you can tell we're in Cumbria, doubtless I'll keep busy. Haven't written anything useful this month I don't think, been caught up in other stuff
David wrote: "Will this experience go towards the cow ID/TB thriller?"It would have to come with a four page acronym dictionary at the front of the book!
Jim wrote: "Was it a 'book town' then or did it just have a private school?"Dave and I discussed it this morning. He thinks that's where he took me to see Hadrian's Wall.
If so, that's the first place I'd ever encountered chips and curry sauce and it was MAGNIFICENT!
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Dave and I discussed it this morning. He thinks that's where he took me to see Hadrian's Wall.If so, that's the first place I'd ever encountered chips and curry sauce and it was MAGNIFICENT!..."
It does have a really good second hand bookshop as well http://www.westwoodbooks.co.uk/
Chips and curry sauce you can probably buy pretty well anywhere in the North of England (perhaps not Yorkshire) but good second hand bookshops are to be cherished :-)
Chips and curry sauce in Yorkshire too.
In Dublin as well, unfortunately.
And our local chippie in Barry but not nearly as yummy as Up North.
Whats different about northern curry?Is it made with Northern Soul?
Have you tried a Yorkshire fishcake, Patti?
First I've heard of northern fish cake"
Only in Yorkshire, as far as I'm aware, maybe even South Yorkshire. Two large slices of potato with a layer of fish sandwiched in between and then fried in batter. Great as a buttie on a breadcake with lashings of salt and vinegar.
Few chip shops do them well though as many only put in a small amount of fish.
Is there an echo in here Patti, Patti? Sorry couldn't resist. I love chips and curry sauce - I went to uni in Nottingham - but I haven't tried a Yorkshire Fish Cake. Sounds ace!
Cheers
MTM
Ooooooo!Calls for a sausage n chips, I reckon.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Ooooooo!Calls for a sausage n chips, I reckon."
Yak sausage of course.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Ooooooo!Calls for a sausage n chips, I reckon."
an mushy peas for them as wants them, that's what I think!
I want a roast gastropod burger.
I'll have a northern fish cake please, with curry sauce and chips.
Gingerlily - Elephant Philosopher wrote: "I want a roast gastropod burger."You've probably already had one. Normally passed off as 'chicken' but sometimes in those labelled 'produce of more than one species'
M.T. wrote: "I'll have a northern fish cake please, with curry sauce and chips."to go or eat in?
Jim wrote: "Gingerlily - Elephant Philosopher wrote: "I want a roast gastropod burger."You've probably already had one. Normally passed off as 'chicken' but sometimes in those labelled 'produce of more than ..."
Kentucky Fried Gastropod?
I think you might have to use the 'special' barbecue sauce
With the special 'herbs'?
I'll eat in. Hold the 'special' sauce for me please.
Jim wrote: "more lichens than herbs"I thought that was for the yak burgers...
Actually it's more that the yak eat the lichens.Some have tried letting snails into chilli plantations to pre-season the meat but it never ends well
That 'Yorkshire fish cake' is known as a fish pattie. Unless you live in Hull where a pattie is mashed potato with seasoning and sage. It's dipped in batter and fried and is inexplicably yummy.
Thank you. Now I'll know what to ask for next time I'm in a Yorkshire chippy.
Don't ask for a Pattie in South Yorkshire. You might get strange looks, or a deep fried Canadian lady.I know your name doesn't have an 'E', but it's silent when spoken.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Me crispy!"Fried?
Too much time in tne sun?
Someone on one of the threads posted a link to a blog saying that we should get rid of libraries and just let people download ebooks.I cannot for the life of me remember which thread.
But I came across this article which points out something that e-libraries couldn't do
http://news.msn.com/in-depth/us-libra...
Not just homeless, either. We get a lot of elderly people, and some young, that live alone and come to the library for company. There are quite a few that take only one book out so that they have an excuse to visit daily.
It got me thinking. I don't visit our library much (My collection of ancient history books is embarrassingly larger than theirs)but I have also noticed the social function.It strikes me that this ought to be stressed more.
I know the Barry library is always full of old guys reading the papers.
It's a respectable place to hang out.I remember talking to one old chap when I was walking through town.
His flat cost him £x a day to heat. So if he was out, he didn't have to heat it.
So what he did was go down to the library and read, then in Barrow the various churches all have some sort of coffee-morning/lunch so he'd go to one of them and get his dinner, and then in the evening he'd go home and probably cook his evening meal.
But he could have his dinner at various church events for less than the cost of a day heating the flat and between them the churches in town had got pretty well every day covered
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Dave wants to go when it's cooler later but I just can't get excited about looking at yet another pile of rocks.