You've a lot more snow than we have, LilyP. Very pretty!
Obelixx, it's not actually the top of anything - it's an outcrop of millstone grit called Whirlaw Stones, at the point on the valley side where it becomes less steep. (The valley from us to Burnley is a glacial overflow channel, so it looks like a normal valley with a deep gorge cut into it.)
Must read more John le Carre.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Just popped in before I head into Ice Station Zebra.
After 3 days trying , and failing, to get my very temperamental chain saw to work I thought, "I'll give it a bash" . The damn thing started first pull of the cord. I'd not even bother to stick on a pair of gloves.
I've now cut the last of the trees which were removed last autumn so we'll be warm for a while to come.
I remember someone saying eating oysters was " like licking phlegm from a tortoise shell" I've tried them once but never again, ditto caviar. Can't see what the fuss is about.
I'm happy to concede to being a culinary philistine if the epithet fits.
Well done on replenishing the wood pile, Hosta. Ours is sadly depleted now . It was white over here this morning - for the first time this winter - but it's pretty much gone now.
I can't eat any shellfish at all, or anything that's been in any contact with shellfish. It makes eating out in restaurants a bit of a lottery. I've been very sick having had no shellfish myself but having been sat at a table with people who had prawn cocktails - presumably whoever put the side salads on the plates managed to touch the prawns before putting food on my plate. I did eat an oyster once, years ago, before I developed this allergy. It tasted like river mud to me (and yes, I have eaten river mud - no, not on purpose). So sign me up for the culinary philistine club.
Just made caraway shortbread with the last of the 'real butter' - no more cakes 'til Easter
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Do like most other shell fish but always very wary of the high potential for food poisoning so not worth it for me (another pleasure spoilt by seeing very ill patients - with that and being risk averse, I have a long list! Having said that, many of my doctor and nurse colleagues smoke too much, drink too much, do extreme sports and generally don't worry about health and safety!)
AuntyR - it's for quite similar reasons that I will never voluntarily get in a public swimming pool and if anyone tried to make me get in a jacuzzi thingy I might be forced to do ABH - prison being preferable to some of things you can catch in one of those
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Shellfish , do like most of them , only ever had smoked oyster and do like Cavier
When in Tenby there a shop on the Harbour , husband & wife team , she runs shop and he has 2 fishing boats so crabs / lobster / shellfish and other local caught fish absolutely fab
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Thanks Dove. Already showered and in bed with a good book.
You've a lot more snow than we have, LilyP. Very pretty!
Obelixx, it's not actually the top of anything - it's an outcrop of millstone grit called Whirlaw Stones, at the point on the valley side where it becomes less steep. (The valley from us to Burnley is a glacial overflow channel, so it looks like a normal valley with a deep gorge cut into it.)
Must read more John le Carre.
Just popped in before I head into Ice Station Zebra.
After 3 days trying , and failing, to get my very temperamental chain saw to work I thought, "I'll give it a bash" . The damn thing started first pull of the cord. I'd not even bother to stick on a pair of gloves.
I've now cut the last of the trees which were removed last autumn so we'll be warm for a while to come.
I remember someone saying eating oysters was " like licking phlegm from a tortoise shell" I've tried them once but never again, ditto caviar. Can't see what the fuss is about.
I'm happy to concede to being a culinary philistine if the epithet fits.
Well done on replenishing the wood pile, Hosta. Ours is sadly depleted now
. It was white over here this morning - for the first time this winter - but it's pretty much gone now.
I can't eat any shellfish at all, or anything that's been in any contact with shellfish. It makes eating out in restaurants a bit of a lottery. I've been very sick having had no shellfish myself but having been sat at a table with people who had prawn cocktails - presumably whoever put the side salads on the plates managed to touch the prawns before putting food on my plate. I did eat an oyster once, years ago, before I developed this allergy. It tasted like river mud to me (and yes, I have eaten river mud - no, not on purpose). So sign me up for the culinary philistine club.
Just made caraway shortbread with the last of the 'real butter' - no more cakes 'til Easter
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I've never eaten oysters. Had caviar once, in Norway in my teens (before sturgeon were put on the endangered list). It made me sick...
Journey home last night was hell.
We knew it would take a while to get out of Edinburgh, but did not expect that the rest of the journey to Sheffield would take another 8 hours.
The weather was terrible, snowing really heavily in places, at one point I thought we might have to park up and try again today.
Thanks for the info. Dove.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Glad you made it eventually Pdoc
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Oysters ?
Do like most other shell fish but always very wary of the high potential for food poisoning so not worth it for me (another pleasure spoilt by seeing very ill patients - with that and being risk averse, I have a long list! Having said that, many of my doctor and nurse colleagues smoke too much, drink too much, do extreme sports and generally don't worry about health and safety!)
AuntyR - it's for quite similar reasons that I will never voluntarily get in a public swimming pool and if anyone tried to make me get in a jacuzzi thingy I might be forced to do ABH - prison being preferable to some of things you can catch in one of those
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Shellfish , do like most of them , only ever had smoked oyster and do like Cavier
When in Tenby there a shop on the Harbour , husband & wife team , she runs shop and he has 2 fishing boats so crabs / lobster / shellfish and other local caught fish absolutely fab