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I thought it might be a good idea if I bit the bullet and just started a Thread dedicated to (what I hope is) general ‘Interesting Stuff’ that doesn’t fit under other existing Threads, rather than keep hijacking the existing ones (as I am want to do at an appalling rate. Sorry).
Fulfilling an earlier promise, here is a quick bit of poetry first:
They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains
the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.(‘Whales Weep Not’ by D. H. Lawrence)
https://neal.fun/deep-sea/?fbclid=IwAR1RK4skwk7tIXw9XocFTkOWblwAYftXvy2YbXVfngsgF8H-qPqiGzRXOwM
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Some heavy duty ‘cool’ there. And it makes a change from roosters.
Ever noticed the beautiful ‘gilded ship’ weather vane on the roves of Banks? Farnham has a lovely one on top of the Nationwide Bank building at the foot of Castle Street.
Cant’t says I’ve spotted the gilded ship ones. However, people in our village can get quite creative with weather vanes. There are a couple of falcons (kestrels, I think). The best, though, was custom-made for a new house: deckchairs and a beach-hut. Mad. Love it. Will try to get snap. Hopefully I’m too old and crumbly to be thought a stalker.
Had to find out about and install the Zoom thingey so someone can see as well as hear me. Dead worried. Previous attempts to get stuff like this to work led to much use of anglo-saxon and threats to computer with pair of Stilsons. Needn’t have worried. All went well. Even managed to make ear-buds work with it. Damn silly, I know, but I feel pleased at making this thing work.
Well done that man. everyday is a school day Tharg
Joss
Current car: BMW X2 sDrive 20i M Sport 5dr Step Auto In metallic Portimão Blue. 04:10:2025
Previous car:Peugeot 308 GT Premium 1.2 Pure tech Petrol.Thanks, joss. The whole “project” had me worried because I only had two hours to get it done. Must say, the Zoom site is not as bad as most like it. Still too many optional ways of doing things. Only thing they don’t tell you is that, when using ear buds, you have to dig around and find the settings bit in the program and tell it to play though the ear things!
?? not really interesting but I’m bored waiting for a parcel..https://youtu.be/TOlm_aK9o6M
Not everybody’s cup of Earl Grey, I know, but the much-awaited new series of the Kiwi cop series The Brokenwood Mysteries is to air on the Drama Channel on Monday at 9pm. Not too much publicity about Drama’s screening and you might have missed it. Brokenwood is lightweight, fun and nonsense but hugely enjoyable if you like lightweight.. etc. Midsomer Murders with more humour. Try it.
I always loved the near miss swerve when speeding through the country lanes on Midsomer Murders ?????
My favourite Scottish ‘celebrity chef’, Big Clive. brings us – Panko Orange Cake:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia935tO1EPY
Take 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtqE4L0-uts
His electric Hog-Dog cooker is also entertaining:
Loved the hot dogger, commentary excellent, but those tinned hot dog things I’ve never tried them, they stink ?
@ajn made from mechanical recovered “chicken bits, cow and pork bits”.
When they chow down on a hot dog, consumers also get much more than they bargained for—including glass, plastic, metal, bone, rodents, and other miscellaneous objects. It’s no surprise that the World Health Organization now classifies hot dogs and other processed meats as carcinogenic—in the same category as cigarettes and asbestos.
It takes a liquid smoke bath, a salt-water treatment, and many other flavourings to make consumers forget that they’re eating runny flesh trimmings that—let’s be honest—resemble an alarming case of diarrhoea.
Joss
Current car: BMW X2 sDrive 20i M Sport 5dr Step Auto In metallic Portimão Blue. 04:10:2025
Previous car:Peugeot 308 GT Premium 1.2 Pure tech Petrol.Oh aye, Hot Dogs/Frankfurters can certainly be the ultimate ‘mystery meat’ meal – but ‘good quality’ ones are sooo tasty! I stick with Herta for Franks, but H-D’s made with chipolatas are also excellent.
What goes into McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets doesn’t bear much lose scrutiny either (57% fat, and the US version contains Dimethylpolysiloxane, which is silicone-based). I liked them when they first came out, but within about six weeks the flavour (contents) changed and now they’re pretty horrible.
Oh that video Joss, I’m glad I hate the smell of them, and never tasted them now..
“H-D’s made with chipolatas are also excellent”
Yup. They’re also very good made with proper German Bratwurst (many types thereof, inc. chipolata size) or any other wurst taking your fancy. The Käsekrainer variety is particularly good with tasty cheese lumps inside. Good chipolata size ones available in Waitrose! Almost all claim to have high pork or beef content, like 80 or 90%.
Alas, not at the Waitrose that delivers to me. The only Bratwurst is ‘Unearthed Bratwurst’ and the reviews are mixed, to say the least – either 5* or 1*. Marmite sausages!
Guess I’ll just have to try them for myself.
If your Waitrose does the “unearthed” ones then those are the ones I mean. However, if you draw a blank there there’s an outfit called, appropriately, The Sausage Man. Based in Sarf London, they ain’t cheap but super quality. Everything comes frozen (with dry ice). I reckon they could deliver to you. As you know, we’re in Worthing and there’s no trouble delivering here. The do a wide range of wurst as well as the super frikadellen burgeresque things and some decent wiener schnitzels.
Oh can’t sleep, I was hoping to watch a vid of some sort, I’ve been spoilt so far ?..
Sorry ajn, but it’s been a bit of a busy week here. 🙂
Here’s something I’m sure will be of interest to any imbibers of gatter, pongelo and inky-pinkie but resent paying the Duty:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLF7yife8YE
Fill with mingled cream and amber,
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions clamber
Through the chamber of my brain —
Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies
Come to life and fade away;
What care I how time advances?
I am drinking ale today.
(Edgar Allan Poe)
Sweet dreams!
Brilliant post, Georgie. The marvellous video makes me want to: a) Be able to imbibe a little again (combining alcohol with medicaments would send me away with Faeries without a return ticket!), and b) drive, fly or pilot a mini hovercraft. Done this a couple of times and, as Clarkson put it, they are the most fun you can have with your clothes on. A mixture or push-bike, aircraft, sailboat and fast launch. Laugh out loud all the time you’re underway.
I just remembered this one. It ‘went viral’ a few years ago so you might have seen it, but well worth a watch if you haven’t. 🙂
In the early 2010’s the Australian railway company Metro Trains Melbourne became concerned by the number of children being killed or seriously injured by ‘playing’ on trains in train yards or along railway lines, and commissioned this Public Service broadcast, which became so popular that almost all schools in Australia showed it to their pupils without urging. It reduced railway-related ‘incidents’ involving children by 21%.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJNR2EpS0jw
This one is for any gardeners out there wanting some inspiration for Spring planting!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGo9gYypQc8
Interesting stuff, yes. But also a little concerning, Noticed a queue at local small gas station this a.m. Later, Asda delivery driver tells me that any petrol station, anywhere has massive queues. He cannot get back into his Asda site (which has petrol station) because they’re tailed back for abut a half mile or more. Anyone else observed this?
Yup, idiots queuing out of the Sainsbury’s petrol station onto the dual carriageway and tailing back to the roundabout at Ferndown, causing tailbacks…
I filled the tank before going up to Oxford on Monday and still have c. 3/4 tank full so at the moment I’m okay, but DH says ‘No unnecessary driving (i.e. to the seaside) until things settle down’ because, worst case scenario, I’ve got a couple of Hossie trips coming up in early November and will obviously need fuel to get to those. Let us hope the Government can find a few more lorry drivers stuffed down the back of their Parliamentary seats.
Do Waitrose have their own petrol stations? I can’t recall ever noticing any. I thought/assumed they had stores at garages, rather than the other way around.
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