The Only Four Fishcake Recipes You’ll Ever Need
I’m pointing to these recipes on the Times web site, so that I don’t have to keep the paper.
You’ll have to be a subscriber like me to read them. Three of the four recipes are gluten free and one would be if you had gluten-free breadcrumbs.
The Times On Jimmy Wales
The Times drops its serious front today with a third leader about the marriage of Wikipedia’s founder; Jimmy Wales, in the style of the on-line encyclopaedia.
Buying Single Pens That Work
I always seem to forget something when I go out. Normally it’s just a clean tissue, but a couple of times lately, I’ve forgotten to take a pen with me to do the Sudoku.
Surprisingly, the only place you seem to be able to get a simple Bic pen that works is in Rymans. Other shops want to sell you at least a dozen, or some elaborate pen at a couple of quid.
Bassets Hunting In Primrose Hill
I took this picture on Primrose Hill this morning, as three bassets met up to do what bassets do best – hunt.
Bassets Hunting In Primrose Hill
Obviously, there aren’t any hares on Primrose Hill in the middle of London, but a share of a substantial picnic would do just nicely.
Getting The Blues
The tiles in my house are pretty tired. Mainly due to ten years hard wear with innumerable tenants, but also I suspect because knowing Gerry, they weren’t the best tiles to start with.
Getting The Blues
So I’ve decided to get rid of the hideous tiled skirting board and replace it with an oak one and put down a proper carpet.
This afternoon, I went to John Lewis to see what they’d got. I chose a Brinton’s carpet in a shade called Coast. Mainly because the book had been left open at that shade.
It was only after I left the shop, I realised that it might have been the same carpet, we used to have around the Chinese carpet in our house at Debach, nearly forty years ago. In that case though, we bought the blue carpet first from a shop in Woodbridge and then bought the Chinese carpet in Hong Kong.
My only problem, is was it C or the Chinese, that made someone leave the carpet book open at the page? A Chinese friend at the time, said that the carpet was a lucky design.
A Too Polite Society
There were about six of us at the bus stop this morning waiting for a bus, in a rather loose queue.
I wanted a 38 or 56 and one duly turned up.
However, we were all being so polite about who should go first and not pushing in, that the driver shut the doors and pushed off. It didn’t matter as after a laugh about what happened, another 38 arrived and two of us got on.
Now Lloyds And The Co-op Drop Us In It
Captain Mainwaring would not have been amused, as yesterday Lloyds and the Co-op seem to have had system errors, or as I prefer to call them programming bugs, in their computers. It’s here on the BBC.
It may have been unrelated but one of my credit cards wouldn’t work on-line yesterday and they asked me to phone them. They said they were just rebooting the computers, and it should be OK in a couple of hours. Do we reboot computers, as we generally give them a good kicking first?
World Porridge Making Championships
I don’t think I’ll mind missing this, as porridge isn’t my favourite food.
But I suppose it brings the tourists to the Highlands. Especially, as it says this about Carrbridge in Wikipedia.
In 2009 the village took on the BBC claiming that the Corporation constantly got the weather wrong which was putting off tourists. Local businesses claimed that BBC weather reports on television and on their website constantly reported rain despite there being no rain whatsoever. Locals stated that the BBC generalised the weather to “rain in Scotland”. Carrbridge became a minor celebrity with the story appearing on national news networks and the quiz show Have I Got News For You.
It does have a station though. However, it would appear that direct trains from London don’t run, although on Sunday there is a direct service to come home. You have to travel via Glasgow or Edinburgh. Perhaps, it’s a plot to keep the Sassenachs out?
The Anonymous Widower 