On a TV Quiz, I have just watched a woman who claims to teach remedial classes to young adults and teenagers answer the following question:
“A man pays 500 pounds for a car. Its price has been reduced by 60%, what was the original price?”
Year: 2010
I’ve wittered about this to two people on the phone today, and sent one of them a long email because the poor soul sounded vaguely interested in my demented enthusiasm. So I thought I might as well post about it.
As some of you have gathered, I have been having fun with BBQ. In fact, I have been grilling regularly for about 2 years now, but have only recently tried to do some proper advanced BBQ, like smoking and slow-cooked joints of meat, which I have covered here.
While at Halsway, a few of us discussed exchanging song fragments, to see if we could either finish off each other’s songs or get some kind of inspiration to go in another direction.
Anyway, I have sorted through my “unfinished” folder, and posted up half a dozen sets of lyrics in various stages of completion.
As I know that both boardgamers and filkers read this, I should point out that ManorCon was the layback filk con held at Halsway Manor, Somerset, and not the board game con in Leicester. A brief account of the weekend follows.
My last post contained a large picture which was not hidden behind a cut, and so it inflicted itself across my LJ friend’s friends list.
Apologies for this, but it was not intentional – as a result I have just unearthed a bug in my bespoke Wordpress code. I haven’t fixed it, but knowing it is there should prevent this happening again.
Read about this on one of the BBQ forums I am reading and had to share.
Make a hamburger, and top with cheddar cheese. Wrap with bacon. Then cut some frankfurters (or similar) in half, shape as appropriate, and insert into bacon wrapped burger to form head, tail and legs. Then cook.
I’ve been running around a bit lately, and so haven’t posted much about the work going on here.
Tim and Nev finished their bit over a week ago, although the kitchen isn’t quite finished yet. All the units are fitted, the tops are in and the walls between the units are tiled; the new coving (boxing in some pipes, and the tops of the wall cupboards, which are a pain to clean) is done. The only thing not done is painting the remaining walls, and fitting a floor covering.
I am playing with friends reunited at the moment. I have been a non-active participant for a couple of years, but recently decided to get my profile up to date.
I have 6 tickets to “Into The Woods” at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, but only 5 people in my party, which means I have a spare ticket.
The performance is the matinee (2:30pm) show on Saturday 28 August. The ticket price is £40 (we are in the front row, seats A1 – A6). We will be meeting an hour or so before the performance, and there is food and drink available on site.
No, I haven’t been cooking again, am going to a BBQ on Sunday, and that will be plenty enough for me this weekend.
But I did pop in to my local butcher’s today, which is run by the local pork farm, and asked about the specific cut of meat that the pulled pork recipe I have asks for. In the States, it seems to be called a “Boston Butt”, but I described it to my butcher as a “bone-in blade shoulder of pork, 4-5lb approx.”
Oh dear, this is not looking so good. Earlier I posted how my sunglasses didn’t quite look right to me, with regard to the two lenses not sharing the same plane of polarization. However, I wasn’t too concerned, as the supplier agreed to look at them, and sent me a return slip.
I hadn’t gotten around to it until today, and I was sealing them up in an envelope when, with impeccable timing, a big chunk of varnish fell off the arms of my “good” pair of glasses – the varifocals.