The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread I

[Mrs Ex-Ascot]

RnWay in Sight just hope that things get sorted out for the best for you all in Hellas; any chance of no election before next year?

[lasernigel]

Good morning all. Yesterday was hot hopefully cooler today. Just in work now. Lots to do and someone will have a size 13 up his arse if he doesn't get going today.

[ian16th]

Ah turnips!

The strangest things makes one homesick, even after 33 years.

Turnips are unobtainable in this southern colony, parsnips are available, but extremely rare. I suppose its the climate, so we win some and lose some.

Here in southern Natal banana's are so cheap its a joke.

As a sub-thread, what do the ex-pats among us miss/value in their current domain?

[Mrs Ex-Ascot]

Enjoy fruit and veg that taste of what they are!

In Northern Europe everything tastes of cardboard

[limeygal]

what do the ex-pats among us miss/value in their current domain

I miss rhubarb and goosegogs. Sometimes you can get shriveled looking rhubarb here, not worth buying. Too hot to grow down Sarf. Also lamb is very expensive. I also miss the flowers sellers on the street. I don't miss dog poo on the pavement, although last time I was home, it was a bit better. I also miss not being to walk everywhere. Everything is so spread out, you have to drive. I contemplated getting a bicycle, but not having a death wish, I decided against it!

[Octopussy2]

Afternoon all. Just been reading in - had a few days in Londonium last week. Took rather longer to get home than I planned - missed my flight because I went to the wrong airport. Oops.

What I miss:
fish and chips
Pret a Manger/Itsu
cheap takeaways
M&S

[om15]

When stationed at Akrotiri I missed having proper milk in my tea, spent a couple of years in Saudi where I missed everything.
My home favourites are parsnips, asparagus, and russet apples.

[Blacksheep]

I missed Fish and Chips. Definitely.
Battenburg cake.
Rhubarb
Jersey milk

On the other hand, back here in UK I miss...
Durian (£25 in Wing Yip last time I was there)
Decent Papayas like I grew in the garden
"Cats eyes"
Proper Laksa (deep frozen Bunga Kantan is available at a price but no fresh Daun Kesum)
Fresh Jackfruit

[om15]

Foreigners can't make sausages as good as we can.

http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/34002/ho ... sages.aspx

[Magnus]

Not sure where Fluffy has gone, but the area around LB5 is looking a bit barren and devoid of life.

[Rwy in Sight]

om15,

I thought when ones is in the Kindgom or around there, HM Government provides some homegrown pleasure.

Mrs Ex-Ascot,
I really hope so. However it is also vital to have a functioning government to create some effective economic ability. Although people think that such a government needed to be in place to impose the measures required.

[Ibbie]

A propper pork pie from a pork pie shop, not a mass produced blob.
Rind on back bacon. Not mass produced water infiltrated stuff.
Ox tongue.
I would have said thst I miss fish and chips but those I had in Westgate on Sea in July were disgusting.

[Wodrick]

Decent pork pies, scotch eggs and Sausages.

I am a person again, Medical Card fixed

[Mrs Ex-Ascot]

Any chance Fluffy is hiding somewhere on this ship? Maybe another life boat or the ships stores?

[Ibbie]

Had gerfotten about a propper butchers scotch egg . A slight variation being a breakfast egg, with black pudding and bacon mixed into the sausage meat.

[om15]

Rwy, sadly I was not working for HM Government on either occasion, just did without, thought of the tax free cash and enjoyed excesses when home on leave.

[Magnus]

Wasn't it someone like Hester Bloomingnuisance that did a scotch egg using venison mince and a quail's egg? Fiddly, but sounds nice.

[Wodrick]

I got a recipe from watching "Masterchef" which is light years above my league but it was for a quail's egg done like a scotch egg only in a smoked salmon mousse. The quails eggs were hardboiled for 2min 15 sec if I recall so that they were just runny. So I did the mousse, perfect, boiled the eggs and dunked them in iced water to stop them cooking, perfect. Could I shell them, could I hell, out of twelve I managed one. It was just right too. Gave them Smoked Salmon Mousse. with some salad.

Never heard of that Breakfast Egg *Ibbie*

[Ibbie]

Never heard of that Breakfast Egg

They is produced by Ingham's butchers in Foulridge that Nigel introduced me to, Wodrick. That's a source for rind on waterless bacon, sausages, gammon steaks and pork pies.

He he! That should make Nigel homesick!

[4mastacker]

Just picked up the car after a service and it's first MOT - it's good to go for another year. Seeing as the technology in cars has advanced so much, I think the MOT threshold should be extended to when the car is 5 years old.