Not cheerful today. It is grey, dreary, blowing a hooley and raining again. I am sitting sulking, want to get out in the garden to start clearing up. Will have to find something constructive to do indoors. Spoilt for choice, cleaning, cleaning or decorating.
@fidgetbones ... watch that space indeed 😲 ... did you know that Tyson Fury was born nearly 3 months early and weighed in at a little over 1lb ... now at 6’9” and 20 stone he’s heavyweight champion of the world ... again ... his is a remarkable story ............ and I loathe boxing.
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Don’t mind the boxing itself, not sure about fakery, and the showmanship is fine by me if that’s what folk want to do ... it all stems from its background of travelling prizefighters in fairgrounds ... and that is Tyson Fury’s heritage ... what I loathe and what turns my stomach is the baying for blood in the audience ... and that’s why I’ve not watched boxing since the 80s. It was the same awful baying for blood that I saw from a crowd on a news report from N Ireland when two soldiers had strayed into a Republican funeral and were beaten to a pulp then killed with a police helicopter overhead, filming but unable to help them.
A few days later there was a boxing match on tv and the expressions on the faces of the audience were the same as on that NI crowd.
I’ve not watched a boxing match since.
Sorry ... not really on theme of this thread ... my apologies.
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It's been hyped all over Beeb news - who ought to know better - and there was clear fakery in their earlier meets for the press.
Not so much cheerful but amused this morning. Message from Possum - "Have you or daddy ever had pease pudding?" I grew up with it having Geordie and NE parentage but I doubt OH - Worcester - ever has. She's presumably looking for recipes with pulses to increase her iron levels. Told her to stick to Indian dahls which will be more to her taste.
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)."
I adore pease pudding, my maternal grandmother was from Sunderland and made it regularly but I have never found a good recipe so if anyone has such a recipe I would be very grateful
Of course there was you call ‘fakery’ at the press meets ... that’s all part of the show. Just as racehorses are primped and polished and have patterns brushed onto their quarters ... to hype up the crowd, encourage the crowd to bet and improve the purse. Even in athletics there’s posing and preening to get the crowd on your side so they cheer you on and also so they come to the next meet. All part of the show. It’s entertainment.
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There's a huge difference between 2 men beating the daylights out of each other and horses and humans in prime condition racing to see who is fastest.
@debs64 our family recipe always started with the water from boiling the ham for the weekend. Then there'd be a couple of sticks of celery, carrots and onions to cook the yellow split peas. The peas would be cooked down to a very reduced mush that was then moulded in a pudding bowl and served, sliced, with the ham for tea.
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)."
Of course there’s a huge difference ... one of them is that the men have chosen to box. That’s not my point ... what we were talking about is the ‘showmanship’ ... the psychology of the event.
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It is grey, dreary, blowing a hooley and raining again. I am sitting sulking, want to get out in the garden to start clearing up. Will have to find something constructive to do indoors. Spoilt for choice, cleaning, cleaning or decorating.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Not so much cheerful but amused this morning. Message from Possum - "Have you or daddy ever had pease pudding?" I grew up with it having Geordie and NE parentage but I doubt OH - Worcester - ever has. She's presumably looking for recipes with pulses to increase her iron levels. Told her to stick to Indian dahls which will be more to her taste.
and also so they come to the next meet. All part of the show. It’s entertainment.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@debs64 our family recipe always started with the water from boiling the ham for the weekend. Then there'd be a couple of sticks of celery, carrots and onions to cook the yellow split peas. The peas would be cooked down to a very reduced mush that was then moulded in a pudding bowl and served, sliced, with the ham for tea.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.