What’s The Difference Between A Sardine And A Pilchard?
A sardine comes in a flat tin and a pilchard comes in a round one.
I found that answer here.
Baked Eggs And Sardines
This recipe came out of Saturday’s Times and explains the tins of sardines and bread earlier. When I saw the recipe, I thought I hadn’t had sardines for years, so this recipe seemed a good one to rectify that omission.
Baked Eggs And Sardines
All I did was put a crushed clove of garlic, a complete tin of sardines in tomato sauce and two eggs into a buttered ovenproof dish, which then went in the oven at 180°C, until the eggs looked cooked.
I did buy some parsley to chop on the top, but I forgot to do it.
I shall be cooking it again! Especially as sardines are suposedly nutritious and considered by some to be an aphrodisiac. The dish is also so easy to cook. The most difficult thing was opening the tin of sardines!
Even the washing up was fairly minimal!
The New Bus for London Was On Time
This morning, I consulted my timetable and walked round the corner, so I got to the stop at 10:34.
And what happened?
A New Bus for London sailed into view and several pleased passengers got on to go to the Angel and in some cases, like me, to pastures further on.
You can’t complain about that!
There Are Mormons Everywhere!
Everywhere there are adverts for Mormons.
There Are Mormons Everywhere!
I suppose religious adverts on the buses follow the same rules as films. The more adverts there are. the worse the religion.
It gives me a bit of a problem in that I don’t travel on a bus advertising something I don’t like or disapprove of. Oxford Circus is also wall-to-wall with the adverts, so that gives me another problem, as that is a difficult station to avoid.
Am I Reduced To This?
I went to Waitrose on the way home today and bought a Genius loaf and two tins of sardines.
So is this all I will be eating tonight? No!
Am I Reduced To This?
But some could imagine I was living on the breadline!
Three Of The Best
These stools are unique.
Three Of The Best
There is five or six of them, but today I can only find five, so either I can’t count, one has gone missing in the move, or there only ever was that number.
Every home should have some as they are so useful.
They are idea for sitting round the dinner table and easily fit in between chairs.
They are as sturdy as the man who stands at the base of an tower of acrobats and are ideal for standing on.
Two or more also make good stands for cutting long pieces of wood.
They are still pretty immaculate too, as they were hand made from oak, in Suffolk by a furniture maker called Julian Ellis around 1980, to match the table that I’m sitting at now.
But Julian didn’t design them! I did! And of all the things I’m proudest of designing it is these humble but oh so useful stools.
January 2015 Update – I’ve just counted properly and they are the Suffolk Six.
Something For Room 101
I know I have to have my decent clothes dry-cleaned, but why do they come back on a wire coat hanger wrapped in plastic?
Something For Room 101
If I was in charge of the world or even just the dry-cleaning bit of it, I’d find a better and more acceptable way for dry cleaning to be returned.
My Personal New Bus for London Timetable
My regular bus journey on a 38 is from the Balls Pond Road to the Angel Islington, so why shouldn’t I travel First Class as many times as I can, when I use the route.
New Buses for London are scheduled to leave Balls Pond Road at the following times after 0900.
0934
1004 1034
1104 1124 1154
1214 1244
1314 1344
1414 1434 1454
1516 1539
1602 1625 1650
1712 1735
1816
1900
And they return from the Angel.
0930 0954
1013 1033 1054
1116 1146
1216 1247
1307 1337 1357
1427 1457
1527 1557
1617 1637 1655
1718 1741
1804 1829 1851
1916 1955
2043
It will be interesting to see if this is up-to-date information, as I have to be by Piccadilly Circus this morning at 11:30, so that means catching the 10:34.
I got the information from here. Someone actually issued a Freedom of Information request to get it. It would surely have been less time consuming and expensive to stand on the corner and use the Mark One eye-balls and the back of a fag packet or what the equivalent is these days.
The Anonymous Widower 