The Official Nonsense Thread

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(21-08-2014 01:17 PM)Caspin Wrote:  Um! I was just looking at the news at lunch and decided to read the article entitled "Barbecue warning: Cook food in oven first, says Food Standards Agency"

This is the image that greeted me. Now, am I going mad, or is that guy on the left conducting his barbecuing while naked?

Burnt sausages are a serious risk.



Maybe the Naked Rambler was camping there?

(23-08-2014 03:08 PM)Caspin Wrote:  Hoorah it is now the bank holiday weekend!

Most of the day so far has been spent making a cheesecake for someone's birthday. I have only made this particular recipe once before (several years ago) and I wish I'd annotated the recipe that time, as I'd forgotten that it requires a million things to be whisked, as well as needing more bowls than any normal domestic kitchen can yield. I thought I'd worked it all out and had ingredients ready in all manner of containers, only to read down further and suddenly notice that I was expected to whisk egg whites. Oh well. It's baked now and looks OK and I have just finished washing down the walls that got sprayed with cream cheese during a whisk malfunction!

I will be heading out shortly to watch 'Bring Up The Bodies'. Catch you later

Most of my bank holiday weekend has been "entertaining" my brother & his wife who dropped in during their road trip on Friday & again on Sunday. They didn't half pick a weekend for it, 4 seasons in one day commonplace. I noticed however the berries are out already on some of the holly trees up here, which doesn't bode well for the winter if the old tales are true.

(24-08-2014 02:58 PM)Caspin Wrote:  Hello my little brioche rolls! How are peops today? I am dozy, having got home very late then being woken at 5.00 by an alarm going off at the premises next door. Oh well.

I have come to the conclusion that I am going to have to take an extended simming break. There just are not enough hours in the week. The massive stack of unread new books, all the films I've missed in the last few months, too many great plays, a big list of TV shows that I need to catch up on, family commitments. Oh yeah.... and work. Mustn't forget that.

I can report that 'Bringing Up The Bodies' was great - some tense scenes of interrogation and people realising the imminence of their downfall. Really well done and a great mix of seriousness and humour. I managed not to kill the person whose phone rang during the interrogation, nor the woman who was rattling a box of maltesers, nor the one who had jangling bracelets and couldn't keep her arms still. My patience was sorely tested though. In the interval I had my programme signed by the author of the books, Hilary Mantel, who was in the audience. Might as well, really.

This morning I was following a bluebottle fly around the house to see if I could chase it out of a window. A spider took it down and started winding it up in web. The noise from the fly was incredible! Having stood there for a minute, frozen in awe, I took the opportunity to chuck both spider and his screaming snack out of the window. Bane strikes again!

Marine managed to win yesterday. Yes - WIN! As did Hearts I believe. Very good. Was very sad to hear about that Algeria player who was killed when struck by an object thrown by a bad-tempered crowd.

I'm feeling dopey after nightly vigils to deter the fox from digging holes in the garden (& digging up all my plants ). I was going to get Scoot fox repellent but the gentleman in the shop said it's too late, the foxes are going mental because the natural food supply is running out, but it will pick up in a week or so's time (there's a lot more prey running about once they start gathering stores to fatten themselves up for hibernation) when the rain also starts getting heavier making repellents a waste of money. He said repellents are for the summer months when it's dry & they can take up to 3 weeks before they scare the foxes completely away.

The noise from that fly, was it screaming "Help me! Help me! Don't let it get me!" like that old horror movie?

Yes, I hope FIFA throw the book at Algeria for this. It's bad enough having hooliganism between fans without it spilling onto the pitch & leading to murder. Up here there were a number of incidents reported at matches this week on various fan forums but you'd not know from the media blackout that everything's peaceful. It appears there's a new generation of young morons wanting to "big" themselves up at games & looking for trouble.