Early Risers.

[Tony_S]

Have just had Waitrose haddock fish cakes. MiL likes them and it stops Aditi worrying for a short while about lack of protein in her Mum’s diet.

[monkeysarefun]

13 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

I think when Jamie Oliver did a tv series on American cuisine he camped out and ate freshly obtained prairie oysters… Don’t know if the recipe made it to the book.

There are many restaurants here where you can try indigenous food. I assume there are patrons who go there for the "shock" value of trying kangaroo testicles or whatever but although the inland tribes of the arid  desert regions would have of necessity eaten all parts of any animal they caught, much of the menus lean more towards "bush tucker"  which is gathered, such as yam style roots and meals like local fish in sauces made from native herbs and fragrant leaves  that western cooking has no knowledge of. 

 

I did go to one at Fremantle a while back, they had Honey Ants on the menu which are meant to be incredibly sweet, they apparently taste of whatever flowers they've been eating. They have large distended backs filled with honey and you bite into them. I passed up on them but I did have fried Witchetty grubs, which tasted  peanutty, though maybe that was due to what they were fried in.

[monkeysarefun]

25 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

fish cakes

Explain "fish cake?"

 

[polybear]

Bear here.....

 

So what have I done today? Oh yes.....

• Sorted tools for fixin' the Hospice Van (all I need is the fixings to arrive from the 'bay)
• Started the Class 37 fix - it wasn't a window frame but a headcode box frame; of course this means that the glazing and code are separate from the frame so gettin' the whole lot to fit without foul language is proving "interesting".  Task ongoing.....
• Bike cover removed, cleaned of sticky residue from sticky tape (= piggofajob) then the end seam superglued back together.  Tick awarded.
• Upstairs Loo Tap fixed - the valve/cartridge was fubarred but amazingly I had a new spare in the plumbing bits tin, so that's another Tick.
• Rambo watched.
• Sadly the Jacobs Chuck I had intended to fit to the big Pillar Drill (in place of the original Chinese jobbie) turned out to have too large a Morse Taper, so that's a Poo.
• Donated a spare Builder's Bucket to Buddy over the road - and was rewarded with a can of Lemonade and a Fake Cornetto for my trouble, so that's definitely A Big Tick.

ION....

 

Bear appears to be stuck on 68Kg at the moment....Turdycurses.  So I'm back on countin' the cals again and being a bit more serious in the process - today will be a sub-1400 cals day.  Big Poo....

 

Bear gone.

[Tony_S]

3 minutes ago, polybear said:

Big Poo.

Weigh yourself after….

[Tony_S]

59 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

Explain "fish cake?"

Mil liked these.

https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/waitrose-frozen-2-smoked-haddock-fish-cakes/

 

Edited June 9 by Tony_S

[DaveF]

The day has indeed passed quietly.  I have read one book, finished one magazine and started another, cooked some mince I'd frozen and had some potatoes and veg with it and... not much else.

 

Oh - I did walk round the garden and  pull out one weed, a prickly sow thistle (Sonchus asper).  It was in with some delphiniums and was not welcome.  Today its small yellow flowers were opening so it was time for it to go.  Fortunately a gentle pull removed the plant and its roots intact.  I had to break it into 3 parts to get it in the garden bin, it was nearly 6 feet tall with roots on, the stem was about an inch thick.

 

It will soon be time to toast some breakfast (as they now seem to be called) muffins and smother them in strawberry jam for my tea.  They shouldn't upset my gut.

 

Tomorrow I must make sure I am up and about by 09.00 for my phone call from a GP.  I will write down the symptoms this evening. I may even get a chance to check about my only medication as well.

 

David

[Hroth]

1 hour ago, monkeysarefun said:

Explain "fish cake?"

 

 

Stick - End - Wrong....

 

But I'm sure you're just doing it for effect!  😜

 

Salmon fishcakes are nice too.

[polybear]

32 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

Weigh yourself after….

 

Been there, done that....

...it's quite surprising too.  Mind you, I have been accused of being full of sh*t on more than one occasion....

[iL Dottore]

2 hours ago, Tony_S said:

People who smoke don’t always realise how bad they smell to other people.

I get the message: you’re a non-smoker and you loathe smokers!

 

But non smokers can smell just as bad, if not worse (have you ever had to clean up an injured homeless who has been wearing the same clothes including underwear for a few months?)  And let’s not get started on the odour of too many of the attendees at model railway exhibitions, who - given current demographic and social trends - are likely to be non-smokers!
 

 

[TheQ]

REMINDER, IF THE BBC DIDN'T TELL PORKIES, 

THE 63RD 3 RIVERS RACE 2024 IS ON BBC COUNTRYFILE AT 18:00..

 

Afternoon Awl,

Why did I know I should have reefed?

 

 

Because on the sail back there was weed hanging from the end of the boom..

 

Not a good day sailing, spent all 3 races battling to keep the boat on course. Not always successfully

 

Knackered, slept for an hour and a half once I got back...

[Tony_S]

1 hour ago, iL Dottore said:

I get the message: you’re a non-smoker and you loathe smokers!

 

But non smokers can smell just as bad, if not worse (have you ever had to clean up an injured homeless who has been wearing the same clothes including underwear for a few months?)  And let’s not get started on the odour of too many of the attendees at model railway exhibitions, who - given current demographic and social trends - are likely to be non-smokers!
 

 

That is a good example of whataboutery. I don’t like the smell of burned tobacco so let’s talk about other unpleasant smells. Decomposing rat is pretty bad too. I dislike tobacco smell more than unwashed human. I am perfectly happy to accept others may like the smell of people,who smoke. I don’t. It was wonderful to escape at 18 from the atmosphere at home to,a largely smoke free life. Pubs and restaurants are much nicer for me now. 
I don’t think I have ever encountered a smelly person at an exhibition so perhaps I have a defective sense of smell. Though I did notice when my teenage students had rushed to my physics lesson after PE without showering. The concentration of body spray deodorant was enough to destroy the ozone layer locally.

I don’t loathe smokers, I don’t like,smoking. My Dad was completely addicted to nicotine. He used to come up with all kinds of denials of the harm of tobacco blaming all other kinds of reason. It was frustrating discussing it with him. Just before he died he said he did actually know about and believe the evidence about smoking. He said he didn’t want to die and have me thinking he was an idiot.  He admitted he just couldn’t give up, the craving was too strong. 

 

Edited June 9 by Tony_S

[polybear]

42 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

 

Given his railway modelling  preferences I'm getting more this kind of vibe.

 

 

 

I'm trying my hardest not to visualise DH @Dave Hunt dressed up as a Swiftie......

 

6 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

Pubs and restaurants are much nicer for me now. 

 

I once stayed in a Pub whilst working at Boscombe Down; it was the 1990's and the Pub's selling point was it was a non-smoking Pub (which was very unusual at the time) and for a non-smoker it was rather nice indeed.

[Barry O]

@polybear

 

Yep it's numbnuts and family.

 

No it isn't finished but it must be close and now he only needs 2 bedrooms not the 7 he has managed to squeeze in he will try and rip some daft banana off.

 

 

House is shiowing signs of rising damp on outer new walls..

 

He sold his last creation for cash.. through his church he attends...

 

Baz

 

[polybear]

Bear's Sunday Funnies.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer are on a plane.

Sunak looked at Starmer, chuckled and said, "You know, I could throw £1,000 out of the window right now and make somebody happy."

Starmer shrugged his shoulders and replied, "I could throw twenty £50 notes out of the window and make twenty people happy"

Hearing their exchange, the pilot said to his co-pilot, I could throw both of them out of the window and make 64 million people very, very happy!"

 

A teacher explained biology to her 3rd-grade students. She said, "Human beings are the only animals that stutter." A little girl raised her
hand saying, "I had a kitty-cat that stuttered."
The teacher, knowing how precious some of these stories could become, asked the girl to describe the incident.
"Well,'' she began, "I was in the backyard with my kitty when the Rottweiler that lives next door got a running start and before we knew it,
he jumped over the fence into our yard!"
The teacher exclaimed, "That must've been scary."
The little girl said, "It sure was. My kitty raised her back, went Sssss, Sssss, Sssss and before she could say 'sh1t,' the Rottweiler ate her!"

 

 

Edited June 9 by polybear

[Coombe Barton]

Met, by arrangement, with the flinger of awls at Scalefour Crewe today. We both replenished modelling material stocks and set the world to rights.

[Ozexpatriate]

3 hours ago, Tony_S said:

I think when Jamie Oliver did a tv series on American cuisine he camped out and ate freshly obtained prairie oysters… Don’t know if the recipe made it to the book.

More regularly known as "Rocky Mountain oysters".

[TheQ]

The Bear definitely wasn't staying at the Antrobus Arms in Amesbury... That had the definite yellow white smoked walls.

 

As the Bear would say, poo...

The BBC did tell porkies, no 3 Rivers Race.

[Ozexpatriate]

3 hours ago, Tony_S said:

Have just had Waitrose haddock fish cakes. 

1 hour ago, Hroth said:

Salmon fishcakes are nice too.

Yes they are. When I was quite young they were a staple - but of course being Australia we called them fish rissoles. Mum stopped making them when the family grew larger. They are comforting to me and I make them occasionally - though not exactly the same way. I use oyster sauce (where Mum used Worcestershire and tomato sauce) and panko rather than breadcrumbs - and serve them with rice and stir-fried vegetables.

 

[New Haven Neil]

A'noon, from a rock that is suddenly the greater part of 38 thousand people lighter. Just a well as it is a miserably windy, showery day. 

 

Mickey Dunlop is indeed a grumpy moody b......., but is also a very talented rider, of that there is no doubt.  There are others just about as good, but haven't had the opportunity or materials to take the scrap to him, but in the 'Supersport' (basically 600cc) class he is supreme.  In his early days he was wild and dangerous as a rider, but has matured more now but still lacks some racecraft - as in when he doesn't win it is usually because he is so hard on his machinery, even when miles in the lead.  He can't back off and take it home, he has to try for a new lap record.  It is noticeable the outright lap record here isn't his, but Pete Hickman.  Tonight's show should be worth watching....it might have been his.

 

So we went for a round of debauchery archery, as we hadn't shot for a month.  Big scrap at the end between Debs and Geoff the No.1 archer, with Debs winning by 4 points (360 to 356) on the last target.  Muchly pleased wifely unit.  I even did some mudelling this afternoon, returning to a loco build that has been n the doldrums for months - good progress was made but I ain't no Dave Hunt.

 

 

[Ozexpatriate]

4 hours ago, Tony_S said:

People who smoke don’t always realise how bad they smell to other people.

Taste bad too - like kissing an ashtray. (A long ago former girlfriend was a smoker.)

[Dave Hunt]

I think that the Bear has done it again. The first part of his post an hour ago should, I think, have been on TNM.

 

Dave 

[Hroth]

There were the "Ashtray Hair" adverts designed to discourage smoking on the grounds that it reduces attractiveness.

 

Edited June 9 by Hroth

[Ozexpatriate]

7 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

In both the NRL (Rugby League) and AFL (Australian Rules) comps here, the team at the top of the ladder at the end of the season become the Minor Premiers.

US Major League Soccer awards the Supporters' Shield to the team at the top of the table at the end of the season. The MLS Cup is awarded to the team winning the playoff.

 

If my count is correct only 8 Supporters' Shield winners have won the MLS Cup over 28 seasons.

 

It's challenging to win a playoff series. Good teams can be depleted by injury and not perform well in a playoff. On the flip-side, a team that starts slow in the early season and grows as a unit though the season might not be at the top of the table but be a deserving championship team in a playoff.

 

Playoffs are good business for the league - which in the end is what professional sports are all about.

 

Most fans watch their home team during the regular season. A much larger fan base will watch the playoffs - even if their home team didn't make it. More viewers, more $$$.

 

Edited June 9 by Ozexpatriate

[polybear]

26 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

I think that the Bear has done it again. The first part of his post an hour ago should, I think, have been on TNM.

 

Dave 

 

Tell it to the Hippo.........😠