On Your Marks For A Gluten Free Christmas
In my bread bin, in addition to some gluten-free bread, there’s also the remains of a packet of ginger snaps and some mince pies. All are gluten-free from Marks and Spencer. Some of the breads are the sort that sell well in Islington, Sandbanks, Morningside and Alderley Edge.
Today, I went to their store in the back of St.Pancras station and saw this display.
On Your Marks For A Gluten Free Christmas
All of these packets of sausage and bacon based nibbles have the gluten-free sign.
VolkerFitzpatrick Are Having A Christmas Party At South Tottenham
The bridge at South Tottenham station, that carries the Gospel Oak to Barking Line over Tottenham High Road.
The road will be closed over Christmas and it looks it’ll be quite a party.
Note the large blue bridge in the pictures. If there is going to be a decent webcam, then this could be better Christmas television than most.
I’d Like A Muse
As Christmas arrives and it will be my seventh since the death of my wife; C.
It’s obviously impossible to want her back in the same way that some divorcees want a sanitised version of their previous partner, without perhaps the violence, gambling, drinking or leaving the toilet seat up.
But I got to thinking about what I actually want and in some ways I think I’d like a muse in the way that many artists, writers and thinkers did in the past and probably do now.
C and I both had our own areas of work, but there was also a grey area, where I suggested things she might do to make perhaps a difficult case less stressful and she would criticise some of my wilder ideas, designs or flights of fantasy.
It was fun and we enjoyed life to the full. I look at the things I used to do with her that I rarely do now, as I don’t like doing them alone.A list includes going horse racing, to the theatre and I don’t go to the films as often as I used to. As to trying out good restaurants, I don’t really bother unless I’m travelling. A good meal always needs good company to make it worthwhile.
I also love going shopping with a woman, where we choose clothes for each other. I haven’t done that for some years.
What I don’t need is a cook or skivvy!
If C was my muse, then I like to think I was her consort!
Custom House Station – 18th December 2014
I took these pictures today.
Note that the bridge that will link the station to the Excel Exhibition Centre has now been positioned.
Peer-To-Peer Energy
This report from the UK Solar Power Portal makes some good points.
I can envisage a time, when the solar panels on my roof, feed into a system, that gets me the best price and this is delivered at a best price to those that need it.
As a control engineer, I know it’ll probably be totally automatic and the price will be a balance that is the best for micro-generators and consumers. Just as with peer-to-peer lending, the only losers will be the big companies. Except for banks, you will read energy companies.
Pakistan’s Response To The Terrorism
According to this report on the BBC, the Pakistan government is ending its suspension of the death penalty.
He also announced an end to the moratorium on the death penalty for terrorism cases, which correspondents say is a move aimed at countering a view held by many Pakistanis that many terror suspects end up evading justice.
No wonder the Taliban just gets worse and worse.
I have got so fed up with all the problems in the Middle East and Pakistan, I now rarely use any shop or business that is owned by people from the area, who are obviously Muslims.
As the Qataris seem to be one of the funders of Islamic State, I also steer clear of anything they own if I can.
I’m beginning to feel very sorry for the average hard-working Muslims, who will feel the backlash of the nihilists in the Middle East.
I must say, I’m glad to see the old price going South, as it’s hurting some of the most odious people in the World. But sadly they’ll just have to not buy the sixth Bentley or Lamborghini.
An Alternative Baked Salmon With Parmesan And Parsley Crust
When I cook Mary Berry’s Baked Salmon With Parmesan And Parsley Crust, I inevitably end up with a big tub of cream cheese.
So I tried to cook the dish using a small pack of Saint Agur and a boned and skinned salmon fillet from Marks and Spencer.
The blue cheese gave it a different flavour which some wouldn’t like. But I did and feel that I’ll try the method again.
It certainly produced a nice lunch with some fried potatoes.
The salmon cost £2.90 and the cheese £0.47.
A Pocket Dog
I saw this little puppy on a 56 bus.
A Pocket Dog
Her name was Bella and I think she was a Cavalier cross poodle.
She didn’t seem to mind being on a bus.
But then one of my bassets didn’t mind flying in my aircraft. She just wedged herself between the seats and went to sleep.
Brondesbury Station
Broundesbury station is one of the twenty-six to be given upgraded access.
It’s a pretty clean and tidy station, but the staircases are not the best.
However it is certainly better than Silver Street.
White Vans On The Overground
When I was on the platform at West Hampstead station on the North London Line, a train load of cars and vans came through.
With DB Schenker’s new car import-export depot at Barking, I think we’ll see a lot more trains like this.
The Anonymous Widower 