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[xoggoth]

Just got an email promising me a 45% share of $12,500,000 if I consent to being presented as next of kin to somebody who had died in Spain. Naturally I cannot pass up this great opportunity!

[NickFitz]

There's been a broken golf umbrella (Slazenger) lying around in the front garden next-door-but-one since the weekend. It's windy today, so it's been blown across the lawn to just beside their path. Wondering if this will inspire one of the residents to pick it up and take it to a bin, or if they'll all continue to treat it as Somebody Else's Problem

[DoctorStrangelove]

Wot's this 'ere ear?

In other ear related news, the Lidl(tm) Powerfix Ear Defenders with built in wirelss is defunct.

It cost £25.

The same thing from Screwfix is £57.

Tea this evening was the last of the roast beef with carrots and onions.

It was nice enough if a bit heavy on the smoked paprika and a tad light on the cornflour.

The experimental rice pudding made in the microwave is not going well.

All followed (eventually) by 1.05 pints of Good Glengettie Tea.

The evening's entertainment is pencilled in as S2 E11 and E12 of "Jeremiah".

It might be followed by S1 E5 of "Joan of Arcadia" which is much more amusing.

[original PM]

Actually sat in the garden enjoying the late afternoon sun.

Only wearing jeans and a hoodie so must be global warming I guess.

Soon be dark though.

Enjoy your evening's.

[DoctorStrangelove]

The experimental rice pudding made in the microwave is not going well.

It turned out ok after I'd cooked it on Defrost for 15 minutes.

Very nice.

In an overly sweet sort of way.

[NickFitz]

It turned out ok after I'd cooked it on Defrost for 15 minutes.

Very nice.

In an overly sweet sort of way.

*adds to recipe book*

Does it still form a nicely charred skin in the microwave, like it does in the oven? I would guess not. I haven't had rice pudding in many years, but when I was a kid my Mum made it a lot and we used to like the burnt skin

I tried making normal rice in the microwave once, but as far as I recall it turned into a right faff and I wasn't happy with the results. As I'd managed to work out how to make it just fine (for my tastes, anyway) in a saucepan by then, I've stuck to that since

[NickFitz]

Tea tonight has been chicken jalfrezi out of the freezer, with the usual rice and naan, and was very nice indeed

[BR14]

fish finger sarnie, after a fraught afternoon with my partner and the addled mother.

i'm an engineer, i fix things/build things/sort things.

if it's unfixable i'm fecked.

anybody got a magic wand i can rent for a wee while?

for a magic wand today, i will gladly pay you friday.

[DoctorStrangelove]

*adds to recipe book*

Does it still form a nicely charred skin in the microwave, like it does in the oven? I would guess not. I haven't had rice pudding in many years, but when I was a kid my Mum made it a lot and we used to like the burnt skin

I tried making normal rice in the microwave once, but as far as I recall it turned into a right faff and I wasn't happy with the results. As I'd managed to work out how to make it just fine (for my tastes, anyway) in a saucepan by then, I've stuck to that since

Nope, skinless but very sweet, mostly due to the amount of sugar I put in it, though it was much less than ever got put in the ground version, though that was rather more generous in the proportion of rice.

Never liked the skin much since Strangelove Mater liked it that wasn't a problem.

For other kinds of rice I used the microwave packet stuff.

For added excitement I sometimes don't make a hole in the packet.

fish finger sarnie, after a fraught afternoon with my partner and the addled mother.

i'm an engineer, i fix things/build things/sort things.

if it's unfixable i'm fecked.

anybody got a magic wand i can rent for a wee while?

for a magic wand today, i will gladly pay you friday.

It's as far away from fun as you can get.

I feel your pain. <- Manly, No s

I still can't understand how I managed with the two of them back then.

[NickFitz]

Onwards ever onwards with Breaking Bad tonight: S4E3 Open House (TV Episode 2011), S4E4 Bullet Points (TV Episode 2011), and S4E5 Shotgun (TV Episode 2011)

Goodnight all