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[NickFitz]

Tea tonight has been chicken madras with the usual rice and naan, and very nice it was

This one was made with the Patak’s sauce rather than the Sainsbury’s own brand. No idea if this one was better than that one; “Both very nice if you fancy a homemade madras” is about the limit of my capabilities when it comes to food criticism

where is everybody?

Sorry, been working on some stuff

[BR14]

Tea tonight has been chicken madras with the usual rice and naan, and very nice it was

This one was made with the Patak’s sauce rather than the Sainsbury’s own brand. No idea if this one was better than that one; “Both very nice if you fancy a homemade madras” is about the limit of my capabilities when it comes to food criticism



Sorry, been working on some stuff

i use pataks pastes, not the cook-in sauces.
much more flavour control :-)

IMHO

[ladymuck]

It's like everyone got a life!

Well I also watched an episode of who do you think you are and some more of marvel's agents of shield (CBA to do all the proper capitalisations this evening).

I cooked some dinner, duck, but then couldn't be bothered to eat it. So that'll do nicely tomorrow. Undecided what to accompany it with. I may make it into a ragu for pasta.

[BR14]

I cooked some dinner, duck,

so now you're a yorkie??

[ladymuck]

so now you're a yorkie??

I figured it would be that or someone asking when they can stand up again

[NickFitz]

I figured it would be that or someone asking when they can stand up again

“He says ‘Look out, duck!’ I says ‘I’m not afraid of no duck.’”

[DoctorStrangelove]

Tea: M&S battered chunky haddock, nice enough, followed by orange segments and custard, nice enough, rounded off with 1.05 pints of good Glengettie tea, could have been hotter.

The evening's entertainment began with "The 39 steps (1978)" with that Robert "Jesus Christ" Powell.

It was amusing enough, possibly nowhere near as good as the Hitchcock version.

Followed by "The Quick & the Dead (1995)" with Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russel Crowe, and Leonardo Di Caprio.

A strange parody of a spaghetti western, which, as it turned out was amusing enough.

I don't like Hackman but he does play a mean villain, DiCaprio looked exceedingly young.

Also it was the last film of Woody Strode.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s first major motion rewatch was Contagion (2011), which I understand has seen a recent upsurge in viewing figures because of its storyline about a deadly and virulent respiratory disease, originating in bats, and spreading across the world from China. Entertaining enough, but it sounds a bit far-fetched to me

Anyway, the main reason I watched it wasn’t because of the news but because somebody tweeted about Contact the other day, and I thought “Ooh, I haven’t seen that in a while” and went to have a look at it, and Contagion is right next to it on the Apple TV because of the alphabet, and I thought that I hadn’t watched that for a while either; and then I found that Contact is two-and-a-half hours long, and I wasn’t in the mood for that, so entirely fictional and unrealistic Chinese-bat-lung-plague it was

And after that, what could be better than a rewatch of Edge of Tomorrow (2014) in which the human race is repeatedly exterminated, not by a mild cold but by vicious aliens that behave like something out of the waste recycling plant from hell

At about half two an ambulance stopped outside next door with its blues on. I went to the window to have a look, being nosy, and once the paramedics had disembarked with their kit they started making their way down our front path. Then, when they were close enough to spot the house number (no mean feat; it’s in small, faded, crudely painted digits on the wall by the porch, and I never noticed it was there myself until I’d lived here for several years) they turned back, and went up to next-door-but-one instead. And after fifteen minutes the blues came on again, and they did a three-point-turn at the side road and headed off, presumably carting whichever poor sod it is off to the Royal Infirmary. Hope it’s nothing too drastic

Goodnight all

[BrilloPad]

Sorry, been working on some stuff

I do hope that work was Monday Links....

[BrilloPad]

It's like everyone got a life!

Oh yes! Last night I spent my time dipping yo-yos into thermos flasks! Its total fun fun fun here....