Early Risers.

[jamie92208]

Good moaning to a duplicate page.   Sun here so the wetness has cleared for a day.  Hens to muck out then no doubt some other tasks as we are having visitors this aft for a game of belotte.  

 

Jamie

[Grizz]

1 hour ago, polybear said:

 

They'll not think it so clever when they get 2 years in The Big House as well.

 

Unfortunately there is no more room in any of the big houses, nor some of the smaller big houses either.

 

As witnessed this week when a stream of lags, with their belongings hastily rammed into government issue clear plastic sacks, were seen leaving Lewes ‘ Category A’ Prison. Laughing and waving (although some not using all of their fingers) at Sussex Police officers as they did so.

 

So Lewes Cat A Prison holds some of the more dangerous individuals…..what a good job that the privatised prison support service, Securi OP4, or whatever they are calling themselves this week, hasn’t made any mistakes releasing the wrong people or forgotten to tag people. 
 

Far better to lock up people for getting lashed up and posting photos of rioting, on Dr Evils electronic riot incitement service. 
 

If these self important protesters continue to decide to delay traffic by supergluing themselves to the road surface then I can suggest a good super glue removal product that will help to focus people’s minds, particularly those glued to the road, in an ironic way.

 

Petrol. 
 

Petrol removes superglue extremely well. In addition it has an added benefit of ensuring that the Wnaker glued to the road is likely to be highly motivated into assisting getting their hands freed up. 
 

Particularly if the are a bunch of bystanders smoking on the hard shoulder 30 feet away…..

 

 

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[iL Dottore]

5 minutes ago, Barry O said:

Ey up!

 

Must have been cold last night.. heating came on this morning...

 

@polybear I trust you have never had the pleasure of sitting in a market place in Italy, drinking the local wine, eating local bread, cheese and olives while chomping through some pizza (a slice from a square based one cooked on a large flat plate which you receive in a paper wrapper? No knives or forks.. if its good enough for the locals.. good enough for me!

 

today involves preparations for our trip north. In some ways I am excited by it, in others I am not  ( hopefully people who were a bit "headstrong" when I lived there have moved on...

 

Time for my mugatea so TTFN!

 

Baz

That’s some seriously good stuff. I know it as pizza al metro (it goes by other names) and it’s a lot closer to the original pizza (leftover bread dough, baked with a few scant toppings) than what we now think of as “pizza”  And with pizza al metro, the sky’s the limit when it comes to toppings (although I have yet to see any kind of potato topping).

 

Italy, especially Southern Italy, has some decent street food (arancini, pizza al metro, piadina…..).

 

It does seem that good street food is associated with the poorer parts of the world. And I think that it makes sense: with no money to buy but just what one needs to eat, eating from a street stall saves money - you only buy what you immediately eat and you don’t have storage and cooking costs. And if most everyone eats from street stalls, then prices are kept down and quality is kept up (apparently, some new apartments in Thailand are built without kitchens such is the ubiquitousness of eating out at street stalls) 

[Grizz]

1 hour ago, iL Dottore said:

Isn’t that a bit too posh for Polybear? Where are the E-Numbers, emulsifiers, stabilisers and anti-oxidantss?

Ah you raise a very important concern there Doc….

 

Wanting bespoke, artisan posh pizza to appeal and be available to everyone (mostly for fear of being prosecuted by the current UK Gov for discrimination against non posh people, non posh pizza eating people [posh or otherwise] …….…….…..and most importantly incitement to misappropriate Southern European heritage and cultural cuisine, using malicious electronic communications)…..I have searched high and low…for a least 5 minutes and found all of these…….

 

 

So if anyone were to order all of these E numbers and preservatives in bulk then they would be free to make a bespoke pizza from scratch, using fresh and natural ingredients…..but chuck in as many emulsified, concentrated junk cr@p as they liked. 
 

There….see. 
 

Follow me for more world shattering solutions…@lookslikeGrizzhasbeenonthesaucesince04:00again.com 😎

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[DaveF]

9 hours ago, Chris Snowdon said:

David - those are very good photographs indeed.

Sorry to everyone who knows me but to those who don't, I thought that the chaffinch was a nuthatch (I am hopeless with birds).

Love the shot of Seaton Sluice - was that taken from the footpath on the road-bridge?  Good shot of the turbine at Blyth - my guess is that it's almost three miles - the much wider view of the whole array, from the drive past SD Hall, takes me back to the 1980s, when it was classed as "experimental offshore", despite being in tidal waters...

regards

cs

 

Looking at it again it could well be a nuthatch, I used to know birds......

 

I must get out my books again.

 

David

[TheQ]

Mooring Awl,

3 hours sleep, woke with pain to forepaws, right ankle and back... Pink pills long awake while they took effect..

3.5 hours sleep..

 

Running late as I had to stay clear of SWMBO, as she bustled about, she has now been picked up and is away to the Trosh.

 

Feeling absolutely knackered, 400 miles driving followed by a day at the museum has taken it out of me..

Shortly I've got some clearing up to do, then fetch some wood off cuts from the shed to start the first fire of the season.

What happens after that depends on how I feel.

 

First

Time for a muggacoffee.

 

[DaveF]

A sunny cold morning, 4°C when I got up.  

 

Breakfast has been eaten, small jobs done, now it is what to do next.  I may go out later on.

 

I thought I didn't have a good night's sleep, but when I woke I remembered a dream in which I was working in the garden so I must have been asleep.

 

David