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Re: Covid - 19: How is it affecting you?

#1221 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Sun May 24, 2020 8:58 am

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Had a new bbq delivered during the week, one trial run so far, probably going to have to use more charcoal next time, everything was cooked through, just took ages.

Ps- it’s a Weber, which should keep the MAGA members happy.
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You haven't braaied until you have tried the Boere Krag 2000 braai with extra holding space for Mevrou Balls's famous blatjang, the sosaties and free accessory Potjie Pot for the wives and homosexuals.

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#1222 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Sun May 24, 2020 9:45 am

'n Mens moet lekker braai, fok vir die Covid blues...

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#1223 Post by Boac » Sun May 24, 2020 9:51 am

snot en trane
Had to look that up as I wondered if it was something to do with travelling by rail with a cold.

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#1224 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Sun May 24, 2020 10:30 am

Boac wrote:
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snot en trane
Had to look that up as I wondered if it was something to do with travelling by rail with a cold.
A pretty apt metaphor coined by you there Boac... ;)))
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Covid turning the best laid plans of men and dogs to mush.

#1225 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Mon May 25, 2020 5:00 am

Thomas Waerner won this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in March, but he is still waiting to return to his home in Norway.

Waerner and his 16 dogs have been stranded in Alaska by travel restrictions and flight cancellations caused by the coronavirus pandemic, The Anchorage Daily News reported Saturday.

“I like Alaska a lot,” Waerner said. “It’s kind of my dream place. But I have a family.”

Waerner, whose official bio states he was born in England but lives in Norway, has five children and 35 other sled dogs in rural Torpa. He missed the 10th birthday of one of his children and misses morning coffee with his wife, Guro, who left Alaska in March shortly before health restrictions stopped travel.

The 47-year-old plans to fly home in early June on a DC-6 aircraft bound for the Air History Museum in Sola, Norway.

Everts Air Cargo of Fairbanks is selling the historic plane, and Waerner said the museum is expected to finalize the deal this week.

“We are hitchhiking,” Waerner said. “The plane is going to Norway, and we are going with them. We are so lucky.”

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/ ... itarod-win

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#1226 Post by Undried Plum » Mon May 25, 2020 6:33 am

Nouriel Roubini speaks well and knows of what he speaks.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52752172

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#1227 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Mon May 25, 2020 3:31 pm

This Covid thing irritates people in different ways. Just come off the phone with a friend who lives in Kalk Bay Cape Town and who is deeply aggrieved that he can't surf due to the lock down (although the howling gale, freezing rain and gloom today should put him off).

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#1228 Post by Pontius Navigator » Mon May 25, 2020 4:15 pm

Just been to a birthday tea party, about 15 of us, all observing SD though it was like dancing a quadrille at times.

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#1229 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Mon May 25, 2020 6:06 pm

TheGreenGoblin wrote:
Sun May 24, 2020 9:45 am
'n Mens moet lekker braai, fok vir die Covid blues...

For those New Zealanders who couldn't "gooi die taal"... there was a huge compliment from an Afrikaans Saffer therein for you people!

Lekker eet, lekker vreet mense.

Your lamb is superb and properly cooked can be cut with a butter knife..
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#1230 Post by ribrash » Mon May 25, 2020 6:59 pm

TheGreenGoblin wrote:
Mon May 25, 2020 6:06 pm
TheGreenGoblin wrote:
Sun May 24, 2020 9:45 am
'n Mens moet lekker braai, fok vir die Covid blues...

For those New Zealanders who couldn't "gooi die taal"... there was a huge compliment from an Afrikaans Saffer therein for you people!

Lekker eet, lekker vreet mense.

Your lamb is superb and properly cooked can be cut with a butter knife..
I would need to see that to believe it.

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#1231 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Mon May 25, 2020 7:04 pm

ribrash wrote:
Mon May 25, 2020 6:59 pm
TheGreenGoblin wrote:
Mon May 25, 2020 6:06 pm
TheGreenGoblin wrote:
Sun May 24, 2020 9:45 am
'n Mens moet lekker braai, fok vir die Covid blues...

For those New Zealanders who couldn't "gooi die taal"... there was a huge compliment from an Afrikaans Saffer therein for you people!

Lekker eet, lekker vreet mense.

Your lamb is superb and properly cooked can be cut with a butter knife..
I would need to see that to believe it.
The compliment, the truth of it etc. :)

I can't speak about lamb but the best cut of beef I have ever eaten was Scottish. :)

And I am a Saffer.
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#1232 Post by Karearea » Tue May 26, 2020 6:27 am

I supermarketed today for the first time in 10 weeks.
Joined a strategically-spaced queue of five, entered after a few minutes, customers mostly creeping around cautiously like cats in a strange house.
Butter limited to 2 x 500g pp: shortage for some reason.
It was good to see cheerful familiar faces on the checkouts and to do something that felt like real life.
And with the morn, those angel faces smile...

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#1233 Post by OFSO » Tue May 26, 2020 4:55 pm

We came back tonight from Teddington on the Southwest train at rush hour. I took the photo below to illustrate the crowded state of the train after stopping at Hampton.
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#1234 Post by ian16th » Tue May 26, 2020 8:20 pm

Nobody wearing a mask.

Disgusting.
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#1235 Post by OFSO » Tue May 26, 2020 9:24 pm

I was and the wife was. A stupid gesture of compliance.

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#1236 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Wed May 27, 2020 10:24 am

Roll on the 4th of July when barbers can once again ply their razors and clippers... Let the beard go for a week and then shaved, driven mad by the irritating itch and totally disreputable look.

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#1237 Post by Capetonian » Wed May 27, 2020 10:41 am

I can't speak about lamb but the best cut of beef I have ever eaten was Scottish. :)
And I am a Saffer.
Rhodesian. Anyone remember Guidos in Salisbury?
There used to be a couple of Rhodesian steakhouses in Joburg, I remember the Rhodesian Rawhide Steakhouse in Corlett Drive in Birnam. I am sure long since gone, and I doubt if 'Zimbabwe' exports any edible meat these days. If they do it probably tastes as if it swam the Limpopo and walked the rest of the way.
Argentinian steak is about the best you can get now, although I had some decent beef in Orstraylia.

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#1238 Post by Woody » Wed May 27, 2020 11:05 am

Probably the best steak I’ve ever had, absolutely nothing to do with the young female staff in tight fitting uniform :-o

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#1239 Post by ian16th » Wed May 27, 2020 11:25 am

Woody wrote:
Wed May 27, 2020 11:05 am
Probably the best steak I’ve ever had, absolutely nothing to do with the young female staff in tight fitting uniform :-o

http://butcherboysgrill.co.za/umhlanga/
When in the area we tend to eat seafood, This place is a favourite.
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#1240 Post by G-CPTN » Wed May 27, 2020 11:42 am

What constitutes a baby lobster?
Are there not restrictions on the size of lobsters that can be caught?

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