Mundane News

[MikeG]

You guys drink whiskey voluntarily?

 

[raleighnut]

They replaced your lip with iodine!

That's cruel.

You've never met my Nan.

 

[raleighnut]

You guys drink whiskey voluntarily?

No but we drink Whisky.

 

[MikeG]

No but we drink Whisky.

Anti-Irish bias, hey?

 

[raleighnut]

Anti-Irish bias, hey?

Too sweet for me.

As for the American whiskeys.

 

[classic33]

Too sweet for me.

As for the American whiskeys.

Try some mountain dew/holy water.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Alexa put your casserole in the oven?

Damn! These new-dangled gizmos are cleverer than I thought.

Ahh she's a good lass

 

[Reynard]

No milk. No nutmeg. No stove. Stones in the (long-grain & salty) rice. Praying mantis chopping the wings off moths and dropping them into the pudding........

You want more? The water to make the milk was hauled out of a well in a goatskin (by a Maasai boy wearing only a blanket and carrying a spear), filtered through a tee shirt, and treated with iodine, then mixed with milk powder (it never mixes properly, so you make a roux, then push it through your only strainer, a small tea strainer). Have you ever tasted iodine?

Oh man... I suppose if you've got the horrors for rice pudding then it might be acceptable...

 

[MikeG]

It took 2 days to cook the rice soft enough to eat. It needed boiling in water first, then washing to remove the salt. Then it needed simmering in the powdered milk all evening..............but it was still inedibly hard, so we stored it away until we camped the following night, then simmered it again for another few hours.

When you finally get to eat it, you have to remember not to close your teeth fully, because the stones can break them.

It was a very long way from the worst thing I ate on the trip.

 

[classic33]

It took 2 days to cook the rice soft enough to eat. It needed boiling in water first, then washing to remove the salt. Then it needed simmering in the powdered milk all evening..............but it was still inedibly hard, so we stored it away until we camped the following night, then simmered it again for another few hours.

When you finally get to eat it, you have to remember not to close your teeth fully, because the stones can break them.

It was a very long way from the worst thing I ate on the trip.

Which was?

 

[Reynard]

Which was?

Quite frankly, if the rice pudding is anything to go by, I *really* don't want to know...

 

[Reynard]

Having a late night while listening to the storm rattling through outside.

Heading off up to bed in a bit as I feel rather

 

[Illaveago]

There's been some kind of incident on the main road through the village so all the rush hour traffic/trucks et c the traffic had been diverted/is generally trying to find a way through our street. Our street is fairly wide, but of course a large chunk of that width is taken up by about sixteen people storing their property so that's reduced the width to the point that two cars can't quite pass.

Naturally all the drivers think their journey is by definition the most important, so they're trying to push through, and once someone is forced to give way then all the cars coming in the other direction are pushing past and they get stuck.

And then a truck comes along and he's a bit slower, so of course the stuck car tries to move a bit further...

As usual, pavements have become a part of the road, and as usual our local police are turning a blind eye...

Still, we're getting a grandstand view of the chaos. I just hope the blockage doesn't mean someone has been seriously hurt.

A bit like Stow on the Wold yesterday!

 

[Illaveago]

Thanks! My family have something arranged and I have to be somewhere at 18:00, but I should actually be in town at around 16:30 and could manage a quick half hour - where will you be? (I'll send you a PM with my phone number)

Happy Birthday for yesterday.

 

[Illaveago]

Morning I'm getting a bit fed up with this not sleeping lark. I'm not sure if it is to do the injections or what?
Not much on TV.
Ooh! That was interesting! They just showed a picture of the two Korean leaders holding hands in front of their flags. It looked like one of them had big red pointed ears!