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[DoctorStrangelove]

Shoulder of lamb it is aroasting.

Would have been better if I'd spotted the bit of plastic before putting it in the oven.

House halfheartedly vacced.

Today's joy: two pretty manky swedes required to get enough.

Very curate's egg.

One looked horrid & was horrid until enough had been cut off to reveal something halfway edible, the other looked good but proved to be bad until halfway up.

The compost heap is grateful for their extensive contribution.

Oh, and the rice pud has just been removed from the oven, it being what approximates to being done.

Time will tell the validity of that judgement.

[vetran]

I am generally inept in the kitchen too. That's why I found myself a chap who can cook

You sure you are a girl?

[vetran]

It’s worth watching, but don’t expect it to cheer you up at all unless you stop it about three minutes in when they’re still enjoying the seaside in Italy before being sent East

Tonight’s viewing, after an abortive attempt to watch Batman Forever which was terminated when I realised I wasn’t in the mood for it at all, started with Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), based on David Mamet’s play (he also wrote the screenplay) concerning the desperate existence of American real estate salesmen, trying to dupe people into buying tracts of land in Florida by lying over the phone. Not as bleak as being a German soldier in Stalingrad, but still thoroughly bleak. Remember, coffee is for closers

And to follow, Green Zone (2010), in which Matt Damon plays a soldier who discovers the hard way that there never were any WMD in Iraq. I’ve watched this before, but it’s a good, intelligent thriller/action story and worth seeing.

And finally, as I haven’t watched it in a while and it’s funny, S1E1 of I’m Alan Partridge, A Room with an Alan (TV Episode 1997). I wonder if the people at Monkey World have ever thought of trying to get any of their many groups of primates to play Monkey Tennis; it could turn out to be a ratings winner

Goodnight all

ABC !

When I'm taking the mick out of salesmen

[vetran]

off for a picnic shortly.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Partly cloudy out, but warm enough at 17°C

[ladymuck]

Still cloudy. The rain hasn't yet appeared.

[NickFitz]

More and better gaps between the clouds here, and up to 18°C

Buttered wholemeal toast for lunch

[ladymuck]

Oh dear, what's BR14 done today?

[ladymuck]

It now be raining.

HWMBO has made brunch rolls with black pudding centred Lorne sausage, bacon and a fried egg (runny yolk of course)

Yum and then some

[NickFitz]

Oh dear, what's BR14 done today?

Not again!