Early Risers.

[Coombe Barton]

2 minutes ago, 45156 said:

So you managed to get tickets for the concert - I watch it every year, I wonder whether I saw you overlooking the orchestra - lucky you!!

 

After listening to that concert I'm convinced my pulse was in 3/4 time.

[Claude_Dreyfus]

8 minutes ago, 45156 said:

 

So you managed to get tickets for the concert - I watch it every year, I wonder whether I saw you overlooking the orchestra - lucky you!!

 

It is one of my bucket list items, but I really don't think it will happen.

Sorry, my post may have been a bit misleading (not intentionally I should add!). My photo was taken from the television. Sadly my name has never come up in the ballot...

 

Like yourself, this is definitely on the bucket list!

Edited January 1, 2023 by Claude_Dreyfus

[The White Rabbit]

1 hour ago, Natalie said:

Regarding Yorkshire Pud, when staying in Wakefield last year for a discerning shiny parallel pieces of metal show, Kelly and myself had breakfast at a local pub-based emporium named after a jug. We were amazed (me hailing from Coventry/Nuneaton and Kelly from SE London/ Kent) to find amongst the usual fare of bacon, saussies,  baked beans (love these- have them with roast dinners including over the so-called festive period as I don't like veg, sorry but I can't keep quiet about it anymore), fried eggs etc that there was a huge - size of a dinner plate - Yorkie on offer along with a gravy boat of thick gravy. Having never seen this for breakfast before I was assured by the chef that it was normal in that part of the world. You live and learn....

 

It maybe normal for 'Wakey' folk - less so for people 'higher up' the valleys. In the Dales it was traditionally a dinner/lunchtime and tea/evening meal dish - but having said that, if I'd been offered it as part of breakfast for a 'set-me-up' for an exhibition morning, I would have been surprised and then probably have gone for it. 

 

21 minutes ago, TheQ said:

... I would like to see White Rabbits version of a Yorkie pud, the description of a heavy filling dish. Sounds more like my mother's (family Staffordshire/ Isle of Wight) almost sponge like Yorkie, rather than SWMBO's puff ball version, and SWMBO is from Yorkshire and says hers is correct...

Travelling the UK giant Yorkies filled with meat veg and normally a load of gravy are common. A sort of return to trenchers....

 

Request noted - it may take a while but I'll get round tuit. I'll have to snap our version rather than the traditional farmers' version as we just aren't active enough to justify eating a square foot of YP but it should be close enough to give you an idea. 

 

Re 'correct' - I carefully avoided typing words like 'right' and 'correct' in my post. Just 'cos I favour the traditional approach doesn't mean it suits everyone. As has been commented a few times before, cooking is a very personal thing and we all have our preferences as to how things 'should' be done. Having said that - I do think she's wrong! 😛 

 

Yes, a local establishment which used to serve giant YP (traditional style) with assorted fillings was the Turkey Inn at Goose Eye (near Keighley) - just had a look at their M&U and it seems to have changed (and the pics deleted (****!) - we had a few lunches/dinners there. Maybe I'm just biased but I find YP more interesting as a 'bowl' than bread. Even if it does deprive the peasants/poor! 

[jamie92208]

The inability to make Yorkshire Puddings is allegedly classed as unreasonable behaiviour and good grounds for a divorce in Yorkshire or so it has been said, it has certainly been grounds for calling off an engagement.

 

Jamie

[polybear]

1 hour ago, Natalie said:

............. baked beans (love these- have them with roast dinners including over the so-called festive period...............

 

Finally - a true Connoissuer.......👏

[BoD]

Baked beans … the new Brussels Sprouts.

 

[polybear]

Fancy a fight?  Then buy yourself a leccy car.....

 

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/electric-car-owners-fighting-each-other-at-power-points-as-charge-rage-hits-uk/ar-AA15QOOT?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=5d45308842d641b7b725a081e10bc987

 

[iL Dottore]

1 hour ago, polybear said:

 

Finally - a true Connoissuer.......👏

I shall not comment, Bear, beyond saying there are baked beans:

 

INGREDIENTS: Haricot Beans (49%), Water, Tomato Purée (20%), Sugar, Modified Maize Starch, Salt, Onion Powder, Paprika, Maltodextrin, Colour (Paprika Extract), Paprika Extract, Clove Extract, Capsicum Extract, Flavouring. (https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/254876305)

 

and there are Baked Beans: https://tomkerridge.com/recipes/proper-baked-beans-on-soda-bread-toast/

I’d happily have some of Tom Kerridge’s baked beans with my Full English anyday.

 

[PhilJ W]

58 minutes ago, BoD said:

Baked beans … the new Brussels Sprouts.

 

Same effect.

[Ozexpatriate]

10 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

There is a rumour that that was what the US Army were goi g to play to Noriega, if what they plsyed hadn't worked.

Since good ol' Manuel was an Opera fan I have the impression that PSYOPS played songs they actually liked. The playlist is pretty much what you could hear on 1980s "Classic Rock" stations with a bit of a 'theme'.

 

Including, but not limited to:

 

Give it up - KC and the Sunshine Band

Paranoid - Black Sabbath

Welcome to the jungle - Guns 'N Roses

Wanted dead or alive - Bon Jovi

The End - The Doors

Panama - Van Halen

Danger Zone - Kenny Loggins

Refugee - Tom Petty

No more Mr. Nice Guy - Alice Cooper

I fought the law - The Clash

Never gonna give you up - Rick Astley

 

Yeah, he got Rick-Rolled, before it was a thing.

 

Edited January 1, 2023 by Ozexpatriate

[Ozexpatriate]

9 hours ago, Erichill16 said:

Duran Duran came up a couple of times

They played live at around 11:30pm in Times Square, NY. I never considered myself a fan but they were not good even by their old standards. They were on one of the late night television talk shows right before the Christmas hiatus with the same result.

[New Haven Neil]

I did manage a little tottle out today to try to free up the back, to the Point of Ayre - our John O'Groats - with a our traditional photographic skills.....

 

 

 

[Ozexpatriate]

8 hours ago, Gwiwer said:

"sprinkle over some orange zest then serve with couscous"

 

Couscous?????  What is this abomination????? Never EVER with a chop, surely?????

Locally there is a Moroccan place - pronounced as quite authentic by a Moroccan ex-pat, colleague. Their tagines with lamb and couscous are delightful.

 

I had to look up a "Barnsley chop". Lamb chops (of the non-puppet variety) are well known to me. My nan subsisted on virtually nothing else. I was not familiar with an ovine, wooly ruminant mammal named a "Barnsley".

[polybear]

1 hour ago, iL Dottore said:

I shall not comment, Bear, beyond saying there are baked beans:

 

INGREDIENTS: Haricot Beans (49%), Water, Tomato Purée (20%), Sugar, Modified Maize Starch, Salt, Onion Powder, Paprika, Maltodextrin, Colour (Paprika Extract), Paprika Extract, Clove Extract, Capsicum Extract, Flavouring. (https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/254876305)

 

and there are Baked Beans: https://tomkerridge.com/recipes/proper-baked-beans-on-soda-bread-toast/

I’d happily have some of Tom Kerridge’s baked beans with my Full English anyday.

 

 

I wonder what TK charges for his Beans?  A scan of his Restaurant menus shows he wants a quid for brown sauce 🤣 and his chippie in Harrods wants seven fifty for a bowl of Peas and six quid for a bread roll.  And when's the last time you found a chippie that doesn't even sell snagger n' chips?  Criminal.

 

 

 

 

[Gwiwer]

13 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Locally there is a Moroccan place - pronounced as quite authentic by a Moroccan ex-pat, colleague. Their tagines with lamb and couscous are delightful.

 

I had to look up a "Barnsley chop". Lamb chops (of the non-puppet variety) are well known to me. My nan subsisted on virtually nothing else. I was not familiar with an ovine, wooly ruminant mammal named a "Barnsley".

Moroccan-style tagines are enjoyable. It was the use of couscous on a chop that I felt was uncalled for. 
 

I also have not encountered the Ovine Known as Barnsley but I am familiar with one called Romney. Romney Marsh. 

[polybear]

Bear here.....

 

Wood filler sanded; yet more applied, sanded, a diddy bit more applied and that's been sanded.  And that's it - Big Tick.

The next job - probably - will be to have a practice with the Router on a piece of scrap wood before attacking the (square) Newel Post; the edges have had a hundred years of being knocked n' bashed and creating a routed edge to all four edges will not only make the post look a lot nicer (hopefully) it'll also get rid of the knocks.  That's the plan, anyway.

Apart from doing the washing that concludes Bear's fun for the day.  Whoopee.

 

New Year Resolutions?  Dunno 'bout that, but I do want to:

• Get the H/S/L finished
• Get the 750 out of the shed, prepped & then sold
• Sort the shed out
• Give the outside of the Conservatory woodwork a coat of paint

- and then (in amongst the more mundane dross like tidying the garden etc.) FINALLY getting to start "The Great Project".

Now I wonder how long it'll be before that great plan goes to ratsh1t?  Answers on a postcard......

[Dave Hunt]

4 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

So I enter the new year with an unserviceable spinal chord.  Lower back pain came from nowhere as I don't recall doing anything to annoy it, and is certainly ruining my day. Seriously painful, not sure if it is a muscular or nerve thing.  Pah.  As if the foot and hip aren't enough to be broken. grumble mumble. 

 

Sounds like we are brothers in pain, Neil. My sciatica/back pain has decided that new year is the time to kick in more than ever and has, along with a dose of the snuffling lurgy, ruined the last few days. As you say, Pah!

 

Anyway, happy new year to everyone.

 

Dave

[Ozexpatriate]

6 minutes ago, polybear said:

The next job - probably - will be to have a practice with the Router on a piece of scrap wood before attacking the (square) Newel Post; the edges have had a hundred years of being knocked n' bashed and creating a routed edge to all four edges will not only make the post look a lot nicer (hopefully) it'll also get rid of the knocks.

There's always the Clark W. Griswold approach. (Christmas Vacation)

 

[PupCam]

Happy New Year All!

 

Puppers did see the New Year in, in bed although this did mean getting to sleep rather later than seems good for me these days.  

I thought the London midnight Somme display was pretty good as these things go.

 

I was up unnecessarily early this morning in preparation for a trip over to friends and on to Stony Stratford for the New Year's Day Classic Vehicle gathering.     My neighbour went on his Velo and enquired as to whether I would be joining him on the AJ but no, Mrs Puppers was coming too and her pillion days are way since over so the trip was made in the Mondog.   Come to think of it, the Mondog is almost a classic vehicle now, at least in my eyes.  BTW WRT an earlier discussion Mrs Puppers does a mean Yorkshire Pudding, particularly individual stylee.

 

Some interesting vehicles on display at Stony including (for readers of Real Classics)  PUB's  1897 weird tricycle thing.   

 

 

There was what appeared to be a 1930s "Blower Bentley" (a Puppers favourite) which actually started out out life as some form of 70s/80s pickup truck!     Puppers pointed out the supercharger on the front to his mate only to realise shortly afterward that it was fake and made from laminations of plywood.      Of course, it was not a fabled Bentley Blower at all but the subterfuge  was most convincing!

 

Henry Cole's mate "Skid", who viewers of Shed & Buried will know, was seen lurking but unfortunately neither the very skilled Alan Milliyard or any of his fine creations were spotted.    There was also a  chap "demonstrating" his rather lovely Bugatti 35's engine.    It did sound lovely if extremely loud although I thought the extended period of "revving its nuts off" was probably not good for its long-term well-being.    Never mind, they are cheap and ten-a-penny after all ......

 

https://www.classic-trader.com/uk/cars/search/bugatti/typ-35

 

All in all a good, eclectic mix of vehicles too numerous to mention.

 

Night All!

 

[Dave Hunt]

55 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

 

 

 

I didn't realise that you wear hearing aids Neil but did you know that there are miniature ones available now?

 

Dave

[Ian Hargrave]

4 hours ago, 45156 said:

 

So you managed to get tickets for the concert - I watch it every year, I wonder whether I saw you overlooking the orchestra - lucky you!!

 

It is one of my bucket list items, but I really don't think it will happen.

Apply now…before the Oriental cultural ( ? )  tourists  buy their socks off for years in advance. The Goldenersaal  is a rather magical place to be but you can visit and enjoy its delights on other occasions too. Be very sure to book online in advance..for music you are certain you will enjoy….much of it you mightn’t. The Vienna Philharmonic operates a strictly controlled distribution of booking. Other events do occur there apart from the VPO. I’ve been lucky to enjoy music there on a couple of occasions.It’s nowhere as stuffy and formal as it appears.Thus I’ve had access to the stage in an interval to chat to members of the choir during an interval ..even to a peek at the score. 
     
If you want to do it….do it….but Vienna has so much more to offer in both musical and artistic ways too. The Volksoper is also so much fun for instance .It specialises in Viennese operetta . Just go for it. With determination you’ll do stuff you may have deemed out of reach .

 

 

[Erichill16]

9 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

Thanks for the link.

 

Definitely an interesting recipe to try (I’ve eaten a number of times at Tom Kerridge‘s restaurant in London and have met the man [and a very nice bloke he is as well] so I always try his recipes)

 

I know, that’s why I posted it!

[monkeysarefun]

14 hours ago, 45156 said:

We seem to have moved to an area which is firework free, as we had none on bonfire night, or last night - oh bliss.

 

Fireworks in  NSW Australia.... No problem.

 

You CAN  legally buy fireworks in Australia but..... You have to go to the Northern Territory  to buy them.  And they are only available to instore shoppers. And you can only buy them on July 1st.

 

So you've completed the 8000km round trip to get them and you want to set them off one evening. No worries . You just need to get a licence.

 

IF you aren't a professional pyrotechnics technician you need a "Fireworks Single Usage Licence" . 

 

Only an individual can apply for a FSUL using this 8 page   application form (plus pay a $62.00  fee). The FSUL  will only be valid for the event or display for which it is issued. A maximum of four licences may be issued in any 12 month period.

 

To be eligible for a FSUL licence, you must:

 

be at least 18 years of age or over;

have successfully completed training/instruction given by a person with a current pyrotechnician’s licence or pyrotechnician’s permit in the safe use of the fireworks to be used for the event or display

only use the fireworks for an organised public event and have a supporting letter from the local Council stating they have no objections.

have provided details of the fireworks to be used

can demonstrate you have notified the police, fire brigades, local council and any other relevant agencies.

 

 

 

Of course all  this doesn't stop people from selling them illegally from the car boot, but any subsequent buyers usually only get half a dozen, and they let them off either far far from homes or very quickly before someone calls the cops - punishment is a fine  of up to $27,000 and/or 12 months in prison and a criminal record.

 

All in all ensures that pets and ER staff have a more stressfree New Years Eve than many other places.

 

Edited January 2, 2023 by monkeysarefun

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. Not done much today except watch the TV. Arthur Itis has been strangely quiet of late and I hope he stays that way.

[Tony_S]

We make and eat a lot of bean based recipes. I still like Heinz baked beans, especially on toast. We have the reduced salt and sugar version. If anyone doesn’t like Heinz beans don’t eat them. All the restaurant and cheffy versions are too sweet and salty for me.