The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

[Rwy in Sight]

Amorgos was on the news few minutes ago.

I thought the local Μ&S store was closing at 8 but they do at 6. I missed a good offer for 50% off on the second item for some boxer shorts. I hope they re-run a similar promotion.


G-CPTN what are the implications for accepting the caution?

[ricardian]

Sunset and crescent moon looking over Linga Holm towards Eday. Photo from Dianne, owner of Craftship Enterprise

[G-CPTN]

G-CPTN what are the implications for accepting the caution?

In my case, I became 'guilty' of the malicious accusation in the mind of the local plod who then concocted another case against me with a 'reliable' (lying) witness so that case went to court and I was convicted on the testimony of the witness (who shared dinner parties with the police sergeant and his social mates) and the 'previous conviction' persuaded the magistrates that I was guilty.

When the village bobby retired he came to me and told me that it had been all a put-up-job and he knew that I was innocent and had been framed.

[Rwy in Sight]

So all those clips about not to talk to the police are right!

[G-CPTN]

When my second case was being heard, the police sergeant was seen out the back talking with the magistrates even though the prosecutor was the CPS.

The good thing was that all my contacts in the village expressed their belief that I had been shat upon.

[Undried Plum]

A very successful lunch/afternoon garden party Chez Plum, despite a couple of the traditional summer downplumps from errant Cbs with the squitters.

My bees all behaved in a ladylike manner, despite the fact that they normally get grumpy in thundercracker type wx.

This year's amuse bouche is a Strine gizmo in a Langstroth hive. Too complicated to explain here, but it enables one to draw off a few (quite a lot, actually) jars of honey directly from the back of the hive, in the manner of a publican drawing a pint of "the amber nectar".

Honey is waaay better than nectar!

All guests got their personal prezzie of a coupla dozen 1lb jars of fresh raw honey, drawn off the live comb, directly in front of their eyes.

No loadsa bees died in the process, almost none at at all, actually, and there was no mess at all: unlike the usual centrifuge evolution process at the end of summer.

With the Strine toy, its like I'm in a whole new world, and I'm luvvin' it!

[TheGreenGoblin]

Any other fans of Olive and Mabel here?

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/ ... rew-cotter

[ian16th]

Honey is waaay better than nectar!

Have you ever made any Mead?

I've never tasted it, but if you have a ample supply of honey, it might be worth a go.

[tango15]

Honey is waaay better than nectar!

Have you ever made any Mead?

I've never tasted it, but if you have a ample supply of honey, it might be worth a go.

In the late 60s/early 70s, when mediaeval banquets were all the rage, copious quantities of mead were offered with the food, which I used to thoroughly enjoy, until the following morning There probably aren't enough bees nowadays to produce the amount of mead required.

[TheGreenGoblin]

The Monkey Christ reprised, another case of Bodger the Smudger!

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesig ... n-in-spain

[Undried Plum]

Hey! I've got a j-j-j-job!

A hydrographic survey in SE Asia has turned to ***** 'cos their boss doesn't understand how tides work. I've had to talk him thru the Tides101 part of what he should have learned at skool.

Now I'm watching him and his crew, in realtime via satcomm broadband link from the ship, making utter arses of themselves as they try to get on with a job for which they are really not competent.

Septics are involved. Septics don't understand irony. Vietnamese do, but Septics don't. The latter are good at pushing buttons on shiny plastic things, but crap at understanding the science behind them.

The wording of my $4fig invoice will have to be very diplomatically phrased. Assisting ***** making arses of themselves? Nah, too cruel. Assisting arseholes making ***** of themselves? Similarly appropriate, but also too cruel. I'll think of a form of words which will skite right over the heads of the Septics but will make the Viets grin and will get me paid for some very easy 'work'.

[Undried Plum]

Honey is waaay better than nectar!

Have you ever made any Mead?

I've never tasted it, but if you have a ample supply of honey, it might be worth a go.

Yes, I've made mjød, but only accidentally.

Bees convert nectar into honey by adding enzymes and other magicingredients_™ to the nectar and then reducing the water content down to about 18%.

They then seal the cell with wax and it's good for hundreds of years. Yes, really. Honey in jars has been found in Gyppo tombs which is still lovely and edible after **** thousands of years.

Unfinished honey has too much water content and the tiny amount of yeast in it will convert the stuff into alcohol and CO2, just as in the wine and beer making process.

I've made the mistake, in my inexperienced days, of jarring uncapped honey from combs. It had too much water content and it fermented. An aged aunt got pissed on it and I got the blame. I learned me lesson!

[TheGreenGoblin]

The Monkey Christ reprised, another case of Bodger the Smudger!

I knew what the botched restoration reminded me of!

The famous crude water colour of Bishop Brennan...

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Musée des Beaux Arts (1940)
W.H. Auden


About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just
walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy
life and the torturer’s horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.

In Breughel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

[Undried Plum]

In the spirit of "edited to add", I will say this:

Don't ever buy supermarket 'honey'. It's just shite.

Much of it is just sugarwater from South America, with added pasteurised honey to mask its origins.

Instead, buy your honey from a local beekeeper.

Do a taste and comparison thing for yourself. You will notice the difference. Not quite 'chalk and cheese', but a really big difference when you learn what real honey is like.

You will also learn that different honeys are markedly different from other honeys. Even from a single hive, you can get honeys made from different flowers on different frames which are very noticeably different from an adjacent frame.

[Rwy in Sight]

Honey is waaay better than nectar!

Have you ever made any Mead?

I've never tasted it, but if you have a ample supply of honey, it might be worth a go.

In the late 60s/early 70s, when mediaeval banquets were all the rage, copious quantities of mead were offered with the food, which I used to thoroughly enjoy, until the following morning There probably aren't enough bees nowadays to produce the amount of mead required.

Regarding honey and fermentation: very early this century I tried fruit brandy with honey (raki with honey) . It is supposed to be great drink it protects the stomach. It did give me an indigestion. Some 10 years ago I went to wedding where a similar drink was served - I refused to have any. A couple of hours later I was driving back to the hotel the four friends who have consumed. Fortunately my hotel was not far away.

[OFSO]

Morning all from a sunny Whitton, but a damn cold wind. Big family party yesterday but after dusk I went and sat indoors. Was accused of being anti-social. No, just too chilly outdoors.

[handsfree]

Sunny and windy here too.

I agree with the get your honey from your local beekeeper UP.
In my case I get my honey from my daughter. My favourite
honey comes from bees that have harvested from lavender.
Heather honey comes a close second.

[Ibbie]

Its another sunny day here. 24c already.

Was walking about in the port by 08.00 this morning.

Freezer badly needs defrosting.

[Pontius Navigator]

You will also learn that different honeys are markedly different from other honeys. Even from a single hive, you can get honeys made from different flowers on different frames which are very noticeably different from an adjacent frame.

We have one such down the road. Choice of source, choice of flower. For pollen immunity we bought the local variety from the field near us.

What do you think of all this manuka honey? We think it's a con.

[Pontius Navigator]

Very long walk Friday, about hour and a half, she would have walked further. Yesterday, wet and miserable first thing and she was happy for a lie in, so was I, and no walk at all. Today sunny, dry,but breezy and cold. No doubt at all that she wanted walk.

Put up a small black rabbit. She didn't want to come home. Had to carry her a hundred yards out of the Warren area before dragging her down the road.