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Curmudgeons' Corner 6 - Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we diet 🍵

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    @Shrinking Violet it must be catching.  The same thing happened to my former neighbours in Belgium this weekend.  They have a riding school with the only shop left in the area selling saddlery, riding clothes and kit for caring for horses.  broken into, goods and money stolen, including 2 charity boxes, and a mess made of what they didn't take.    Horrid
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    steveTu said:
    No - but there was a referendum on whether we should stay in - https://www.parliament.uk/get-involved/elections/referendums-held-in-the-uk/


    I know Steve, I was there.
     Thing is, the people have had the equivalent of three referendums over this lot over the past 4 years, was it the game of ‘best of three’ because they’ve won each one. 
    No good of any of us moaning. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    @Shrinking Violet, now that does make me fume. Even if they catch the wastes of space responsible, it's a fairly safe bet that all they will get is a slap on the wrist.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    edited February 2020
    Having been at the wrong end of many Pharmacies being burgled, believe me, the amount they get  is about 1 hundredth of the damage caused. Woodhall Spa (we never have anything like this in Woodhall Spa, was repeated over and over) had no glass in the entire shop front, the floorboards in the flat above were lifted, carpet lifted, door broken open, ceiling damaged,  Police car and police man smashed up, and they legged it with a sum total of sod all. One of the culprits left a bag with a bail notice from Penzance magistrates court, with his address on, and they still never caught them.  Last time, Mansfield, they broke in through the roof, bought down a false ceiling and all the attached lights, got away with nothing, although the safe had the paint chipped.  SOCO wouldn't even enter the premises until an electrician had been and agreed it was safe to do so.  How I longed for the days when they just rammed the back door off its hinges and took the diazepam and dihydrocodeine.  A shop in Sheffield had the glass taken out in a drive by shooting, we had to scrap most of the stock due to glass splinters everywhere. Even that pales in comparison to the Pharmacy in Halifax that was recently fire bombed.  I am so glad to be retired .


  • @Dovefromabove, would you mind me asking whose recipe that soda bread is? Is it on-line? It looks delicious 😋
  • @bullfinch it was this one 
    https://www.mygorgeousrecipes.com/traditional-irish-soda-bread-no-yeast/

    Can’t stand the man, but his recipes are reliable. 

    Enjoy 😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    If you haven't got buttermilk, you can sour fresh milk with lemon juice or vinegar. This activates the soda.

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Thank you both very much, I've never had soda bread before but I'm keen to try it, and I have a daughter recently finished at uni who loves baking 😊
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    Lyn said:
    steveTu said:
    No - but there was a referendum on whether we should stay in - https://www.parliament.uk/get-involved/elections/referendums-held-in-the-uk/


    I know Steve, I was there.
     Thing is, the people have had the equivalent of three referendums over this lot over the past 4 years, was it the game of ‘best of three’ because they’ve won each one. 
    No good of any of us moaning. 
    I'm not moaning about the result of the referendum at all Lyn - I thought the Liberal (and other) idea of re-running the referendum was a complete nonsense. Same as I totally agree Trump is actually president - he won the election - but I don't have to agree with what he then says. Do you see the difference?
    AND I really want/need Brexit to be a success - as my pension pot will suffer if it isn't (and my projected pension is miniscule as it is!) - but I won't just 'accept' nonsense that people like Gove continue to spout without questioning what is being said.

    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Basically , as far as I can see it, to paraphrase Boris et al " we want our cake and eat it too" 
    Devon.
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