Early Risers.

[Jol Wilkinson]

Isn't one of the modern problems food processing? There were some very fat people around 50 years ago, but far less than today. The increase has gone hand in hand with processed food where we have no idea how much sugar/salt/palm oil and so on has been put into the food. And sugar is addictive.

Mal

Add to that continual eating and grazing, rather than regular meals, and you can see why peoples' intake has risen at the same time that energy expenditure has dropped. Any shopping complex has a myriad of "fast food" providers so it is too easy to buy food on the go. Invariably it will be high fat/sugar/etc. as that is more "tasty". Even relatively "sensible" foods such as sandwiches from Subway and their likes are designed to be loaded with high fat/calorie cheese, dressing, etc.

 

I have to admit that the "sausage" wagon in Ipswich town centre is difficult to ignore (although quite a few of the shoppers seem to be on good terms with it and the doughnut wagon judging by the waistlines). 

[emt_911]

I've just decided that I'm going to get away to East Devon next weekend. It will mean the obligatory stop at Seaton for fish and chips on the way as well.

[The Stationmaster]

Morning all,

 

A further interrainum but it won't last if the colour of the sky is any guide (and even the Exeter seaweed forecasts its return this evening)  So no doubt Tesco for the 'papers and whatever oddments the management might need for this evening cassing chickerole (ooh, more dumplings but best avoid my weekly glass of wine as it's Sister Drac day tomorrow and I hope the INR has stabilised so best not to confuse it with alcohol intake).

 

Have a good day one & all.

[grandadbob]

Good morning all,

Should be a fairly nice day but with the chance of some showers.

I've not started off with my change of diet today as I had my usual cooked Sunday breakfast. It will take a lot for me to forego that. I did however have a beer free day yesterday so I suppose that's a start. I had to do that as The Boss was having a night out with her friends and I was duty driver. (She better not make a habit of it.  )

In other news after contemplating the layout yet again I'm thinking of asking my mate if I can borrow my sledgehammer from him! The more I look at it and think about it I keep finding things wrong. Things that I previously thought were OK but I now know aren't.    That's the problem with being on a forum like this I suppose.

Have a good one,

Bob, in Sutton, fed up, frustrated, p#ssed off etc

[DDolfelin]

My list today consists of one item (but there are many lists).

TRELLIS!

This means erect some trellis that SWMBO found in a garden centre.

It's taking some time to find my box of suitable holes for the screws.

[NGT6 1315]

A'noon all. Not really sure what to write, given that we learned of Jo's condition having deteriorated massively and everything now appearing to be a matter of mere days at best. Just so you know, folks.

[Rugd1022]

You’ll be able to see (if you don’t know already) how the beautiful, somewhat radical design of the original Countach descended into bulky add ons over the years of manufacture - of course it was even worse over here with the useless but mandated large bumpers... I did quite like the “delta wing” though.

 

The original:

Countach_LP500.jpg

 

Best, Pete.

 

I do indeed have that wonderful LP500 Countach press shot Pete, along with about a dozen others taken the same day from different angles. There are currently two of the (believed) seventeen RHD early production LP400s for sale, both look stunning in their simplicity of line, without the later bulky add on gubbins beloved of those '80s bedroom wall posters. They're both nudging £1m too...! Madness in the grand scheme of things, but that's Italian exotica for you. For that early photoshoot of the one and only LP500 they used three different glamour modles, one of whom also draped herself seductively over the car when it made its first public appearance at the Geneva Salon in late '71. Sadly that same car met its untimely demise at MIRA, just up the A5 from where I live when it was crashed into a concrete block at 30mph, it's striking bright yellow paint job obliterated by a coat of matt red emulsion, including those lovely Campagnolo alloy wheels.

Edited August 21, 2016 by Rugd1022

[grandadbob]

And there's me moaning about bits of model railway track. So sorry to hear that Dom.

[28XX]

My list today consists of one item (but there are many lists).

TRELLIS!

This means erect some trellis that SWMBO found in a garden centre.

It's taking some time to find my box of suitable holes for the screws.

I think you'll find them in the tin with the round tuits and latrons.

[shortliner]

My list today consists of one item (but there are many lists).

TRELLIS!

This means erect some trellis that SWMBO found in a garden centre.

It's taking some time to find my box of suitable holes for the screws.

For a moment I thought you had taken in Mrs Trellis from North Wales(her wot keeps writing to the BBC) as a lodger

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. A bit annoyed at the BBC this morning, switched the box on at 9 am to watch the news and particularily the weather only to find they have switched the Olympic highlights from BBC2 to BBC1 and all there was was a few headlines and no weather report. On BBC2 in the meantime was 'Selected highlights from Saturday Kitchen'. The original listings are still showing so I've got no idea about when the next news is on. I'm going out shortly, I'll have to take a chance on the weather. Bye for now, be back later.

[edcayton]

Isn't one of the modern problems food processing? There were some very fat people around 50 years ago, but far less than today. The increase has gone hand in hand with processed food where we have no idea how much sugar/salt/palm oil and so on has been put into the food. And sugar is addictive.

Mal

 

You are right about the processed food and sugar Mal, but 50 years ago I was not only the Sassenach in Dumfries Academy, but the only fat kid, and well bullied. I don't recall fat adults either. The only place you could get fried food was the fish and chip shop (and I don't think you could get fried Mars bars).

 

Now you can't move for chicken, burger, kebab shops and other take-aways as well as the huge number of cheap fast-food restaurants. I have to go to the hospital frequently and the number of hugely obese people is unbelievable. They have recently doubled the number of Diabetes Specialist nurses. Whatever the government is doing on sugar tax (apparently not much at all) is too little and too late.

 

Ed

[skipepsi]

Morning all, late waking up late 9.45! we considered for a short time having an emergency BBQ but the wind changed direction and the rain came for a short while, the window of opportunity passed by 10.30.  Yesterdays excursion went well although she was tired straight after and needed a rest rather than a sleep.

 

I found Andrew C's turn of phrase very apt again,' the sat nav will be joining the vcr, cassette deck, and other dinosaurs that roam free in the loft', it is a great image that may be linked to me watching Toy Story too many times....

 

Best wishes to all. 

[Gwiwer]

I've just decided that I'm going to get away to East Devon next weekend. It will mean the obligatory stop at Seaton for fish and chips on the way as well.

 

Feel free to drop in to my old haunt next door.  Lived in Beer for a couple of years opposite the Beer Heights Light Railway / Peco establishment.  Still very fond of the village and its little trains.

 

A'noon all. Not really sure what to write, given that we learned of Jo's condition having deteriorated massively and everything now appearing to be a matter of mere days at best. Just so you know, folks.

 

 

So sorry to read this Dom.  You know there's support and friendship here at any time.  Or privately if you prefer.

[petethemole]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. A bit annoyed at the BBC this morning, switched the box on at 9 am to watch the news and particularily the weather only to find they have switched the Olympic highlights from BBC2 to BBC1 and all there was was a few headlines and no weather report. On BBC2 in the meantime was 'Selected highlights from Saturday Kitchen'. The original listings are still showing so I've got no idea about when the next news is on. I'm going out shortly, I'll have to take a chance on the weather. Bye for now, be back later.

 

Possibly too late for today but you can still get Teletext on BBC, including weather (assuming you have a Text button on the remote. ITV have killed off Ceefax though.

 

Here in the Hundred of Mansbridge it's bright and breezy (for now). Activity may occur after lunch. I've been attempting to 'organise' the loft. I chucked out nearly all my military modelling notes, 4 ring binders and a box file, painstakingly copied from various reference sources in the 70s-80s. If I ever need it it's pretty much all on the 'net now.

 

GCSE results are due this week; even if he's done well, I'm concerned about college places as Martyn doesn't interview well, he clams up due to nerves and terminal shyness.

 

Mrs mole is very worried as she has to claim for PIP instead of DLA. She had a lifetime award of DLA but PIP seems to assume that if you can move at all you're not disabled. If she loses it she loses her car. As she has no broadband, so uses this computer, she's round here a lot going through help websites and worrying. Some of the claiming criteria seem to be deliberately designed to be incomprehensible.

 

Hope your day goes well.

 

Pete

[Smiffy2]

So I got up late, after not being able to sleep and drinking several glasses of wine and I fancied breakfast.

 

As it happened I had seen a 'foolproof' method for poaching eggs from the Hairy Bikers.

 

You put the egg or eggs into boiling water for 20 seconds, take them out and then reduce the water to a simmer, crack the eggs in and let them cook for three minutes or until they float to the surface.

 

What a load of cock.

 

First of all, one of the eggs cracked when put into the boiling water. This let hot water into the egg, so that a thick layer of cooked white cleaved to the inside of the shell. Second, ever tried to crack an egg that's been in boiling water? Good job I've got asbestos fingers. Then simmer until they float to the surface.

 

If I'd done that I'd still be waiting...

 

So I ended up with hard-boiled yolks. Not very satisfying.

 

Up ya pipe, Hairy Bikers - another one of your recipes falls abjectly to its knees pleading for forgiveness...

 

Apart from that, been shopping, going to cook a crackly roast for dinner. Much brownie points.

 

Now watching Sunderland v Middlesbrough and then some Monty. Oh, and the washing up, clearing up and cooking. And then watching German Touring Cars and Indycar. It's going to be a busy day.

 

Hope all goes swimmingly in your neck of the woods. If you see a Hairy Biker please give them a slap from me.

[Ohmisterporter]

.....or do as said on Sky News yesterday lunchtime, £981 per calendar month per each homeless person from Social services - 2 bedroom houses are being converted to 6 (YES 6!) individual rooms, and  you have room for about 15 lodgers! Coining it in!

....but since the couldn't find the landlord, one wonders if he is declaring all the income?

 

If you ever watch Can't pay? We'll take it away the bailiffs often remove from houses tenants who have paid rent to the agent/middle man and are evicted because the rat hasn't passed the rent to the actual landlord. A regular trick is to rent out a house then fill spare rooms with extra bodies off the books and pocket the extra. Some of them then fail to pass on the true rent to the landlord and so the bailiffs are sent in to clear the place. If the greedy idiots only paid the proper rent to the landlord they could keep the scam going permanently, and I have no doubt that happens in many cases. I don't know what the answer is to the housing shortage because building more homes seems to be beyond the whit of man. Sorry to get wound up but I hate to see desperate people being ripped off.

Stay safe all. 

[laurenceb]

Thought are with you Dom

[emt_911]

Dom, my thoughts are with you and your family

[lightengine]

Overcast and battleship grey here in sunny Teignmouth today. The wind has vanished mostly and at present we have no precipitation.

 

Pleased to see that our medal haul has continued past the 2012 collection.

[chrisf]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. A bit annoyed at the BBC this morning, switched the box on at 9 am to watch the news and particularily the weather only to find they have switched the Olympic highlights from BBC2 to BBC1 and all there was was a few headlines and no weather report. On BBC2 in the meantime was 'Selected highlights from Saturday Kitchen'. The original listings are still showing so I've got no idea about when the next news is on. I'm going out shortly, I'll have to take a chance on the weather. Bye for now, be back later.

 

It's worth trying the News Channel [130 on Freeview] when they mess about like that, as was the case the other night when the hockey over-ran.  Someone at the Beeb needs to make up their mind about these things.  I thought that the few minutes' overlap of channels was foolproof.  It seems that the BBC is infested with a distinctive kind of fool.

 

Chris

[Tony_S]

Dick. Had the eggs been in the fridge or at room temperature before cooking?

[Smiffy2]

Dick. Had the eggs been in the fridge or at room temperature before cooking?

 

Room temperature. And fresh this week.

[Oldddudders]

Dick. Had the eggs been in the fridge or at room temperature before cooking?

Good question. Alison insists eggs should not be refrigerated.

[emt_911]

Good question. Alison insists eggs should not be refrigerated.

I've always kept mine in the fridge and never had a problem