Tea? (Part 1)

[Mr Phoebus]

I used to drink tea from a pint glass when working on boats.

I've got a 'Desperate Dan' character pint mug that I've used for 20 odd years.
(I do at least 10 cups a day)
Only trouble is... When I visit someone and they give me a mug of tea, it seems like a miniature cup o' tea.

 

[Aperitif]

Right, one more cuppa then I'm off to take my Muvva out for her Birthday lunch!

Happy Birthday to 'Mum' (keep your boy under control please - naughty monkey!)

 

[wafflycat]

Happy Birthday to Mummy tdr1nka!

 

[wafflycat]

How to have felines and husband drooling all at the same time...

Have giant gammon in..

Cook giant gammon by first boiling it in lots of veggie stock (will make soup with that later).

Then once the gammon is *just* cooked, remove it from the oven, remove skin, then smother in a mixture of dijon mustard, honey, garlic, pepper & brown sugar. Then roast this in the oven..

Having this later with a salad & roast potatoes.

Keeps the husband happy! And the cats as they will be given slivers of warm ham.

 

[Arch]

I just read Waffles' gammon recipe to TheDoctor, and he asked me to look up trains to Norfolk....

We've had a strenuous day, pottered to the cafe for tea and bacon and sausage butties, then up to Tesco for odds and ends and a paper, then out for a nice ride, taking in both Ashwell and Radwell village halls, both of which were serving tea and cake for the last time this summer. Ashwell had a particularly fine looking cat brain cake, which was so moist and crumbly, it had lost a fair bit of structural integrity, and was being served not so much in slices, as in heaps... (especially by the two Brownies (the baby girl guide sort, not the cake sort) who were helping out, and who carried a tray of tea and cake outside between them, leading us to expect off-stage comic crashing crockery noises). Tea and a heap of cake anyone?

So now, we've chilled out with the paper, and while I mooch about online, TheDoctor is doing something creative with chicken and curry spices, and we're both wondering were the hell his doorkey is, it having vanished since him using it to get in last night, and us going out this morning. I seem to remember Tdr1nka has a knack for finding such stuff - any suggestions? We've already been reduced to looking in the fridge. Luckily, there is a spare... Key, not fridge.

 

[wafflycat]

I have to say, even though I cooked it measell... the gammon was *delicious* Plenty left for at least another couple of days' meals too!

 

[tdr1nka]

Is the key on a fob? And are there any raised surfaces near the door he might have put it?

At a guess you will have been carrying luggage, might it be near where you set your cases down?

Hurrah! 2nd day of instructor training tomorrow. Booo! It's all theory and we'll be indoors all day.

BTW I bought a pair of Endura 3/4 length shorts to keep my kees warm so that should in theory give us another week of good weather, but don't quote me on that.

 

[Arch]

Not on a fob no, he took it off as he didn't need all the rest of the keys on it. We've looked on every raised surface in the flat, let alone near the door. We've looked on the floor. We've looked in the bags we took, and every pocket we were wearing. We've looked in the bathroom, and the kitchen (first action when in was to put the kettle on!). We've even started to look in bags and pockets we didn't have with us! It's a blinkinb mystery, and we know it'll only appear once he's got another one cut, and then it'll turn up somewhere we've already looked a dozen times. We bought a paper to day, all wrapped up in a poly wrapper, and I swear, I wouldn't have been surprised if it had fallen out of the colour supplement when we opened it...

Waffles, your ham sounds delicious, but our chicken curry is also smelling pretty damn good, and TheDoc has just appeared with a plate of nibbles and a glass or two of fermented grape juice. Damn that yeast....

 

[wafflycat]

Waffles, your ham sounds delicious, but our chicken curry is also smelling pretty damn good, and TheDoc has just appeared with a plate of nibbles and a glass or two of fermented grape juice. Damn that yeast....

Haven't has a chicken curry for an age... Must do one this week. Got plenty of chicken in the freezer

 

[tdr1nka]

He didn't leave the key in the door by any chance?

 

[wafflycat]

Speaking of chicken..

Just put The Laydeez to bed. They had already made their way into the henhouse and were snuggled up in straw. They look very cute as they drift off to sleep. Henhouse blacked out and locked up, so they're all snug until the morning

 

[Speicher]

Where does TheDoctor keep his passport? He might have had that in his pocket, and then got the key out before you got to the station. I have cognisance of the fact that men find their door keys well before arriving home, where, in the contrariness, females wait til they get to the door, except I.

Or it could be by the kettle, tho' I am expecting you have looked there, or in the cupboard with the sugar? He was so desperate for a proper cuppa that he proceeded to prepare aforementioned Tea, without putting anything down, except perhaps his suitcase.

 

[tdr1nka]

5,500 posts!

Thirsty work, where's the tea?

 

[TheDoctor]

He didn't leave the key in the door by any chance?

I had checked that. Of course, someone may have seen the key in the door, and taken it so they could come in another time and steal my stuff, but I'm trying not to think about that.

It's a mystery. Oh well, it'll turn up at some point.

Anyone want any curiously-metallic tasting Tea?

 

[tdr1nka]

You drink earl grey, it always tastes like that.