Yesvember

In lieu of quality items have a Weak of bad puns:

Min-day: do as little as possible on a Monday the bare minimum
Chews-day: adjust your diet on a Tuesday to include exclusive bad chews such as Mojos, chewits, fruitella, strarburst and the like
Weddings-day: attend at least one wedding on a Wednesday
Thirds-day: to go the whole hog and go beyond seconds when eating on a Thursday
Fry-day: to eat fried food on Friday
Saturn-day: to study the planet Saturn on a Saturday
Sundae: have your favourite ice cream delight on a Sunday, it could be knickerbocker glory or a banana split

That was a tough 5 minutes, there´s my t´puns worth.  Now you can groan all you want, these are trully bad.

Picture saws a 1000 words Part II

Not sure how this Scottish staple would compare with raw mutton, eggs or white bread? Maybe a Deep Fried Dairy Milk would please Gillian McKeith?

Picture says a 1000 words part I

In lieu of lack of words, a picture, in a series.

Interesting graph comparing the nutritional values of Cadbury´s coca, raw beef, mutton, eggs and white bread.  Surprisingly Cadbury´s cocoa is the best for you!  I should cocoa!

A delay akin to those created by icelandic volcanic ash

No real excuse, just been too busy to blog.  Must be tricky for those who do this kind of thing for a living, or do they create lots in advance and get the computer to post them on the desired days?  Keeping a decent blog requires: time, inspiration and quality items.  I seem to have been lacking on multiple of these recently.

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Always time for a crumble related tip though.
Avoid the use of dripping when making crumble unless a more agricultural taste is required and the look you are going for is "cobbler" or "dumplings". (Are dumplings just small dumps?).

Airport

(some mood music for this article http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liH-uW2iymk)

Spending all night in the airport is not much fun, but in order to make it through the night you either need to find a way to sleep or carry out some random activities to while away the wee small hours.  Guess which of these the author has a prediliction to.

Activity 1.  Jump on inter-terminal buses.  This is an option only in larger airports.  The terminals are very terminal through the night but some exploration of the options available in the different terminals could yield some rewards.  Whereas terminals 1, 2 and 3 may only have vending machines available terminal 4 could boast an all night McDonald´s (this is true for Madrid Barajas airport).

Activity 2.  Bulking up your bag.  If you find yourself, as I did, with a near empty bag with potentially fragile items inside you need to do something about it.  I had a near empty bag which was too large to take on as hand luggage but necessary for the return journey.  It had a few things in it but they could be easily damaged as they had no padding which a full bag would provide. The solution: newspapers.  Get your hands on a few free newspapers or magazines and then scrunch them up to provide bulk to cushion your bag.  I do not know how this went down with people in close proximity trying to sleep.  It is possible to scrunch slowly which is slightly more quiet than doing it with gusto.  Finding an empty place to do this is advisable for the noise factor and also it may look a bit unusual filling your bag with scrunched up newspaper int he middle of the night.

Activity 3.  Wander around.  I advise this one with caution as you need to be prepared for disappointment, as anything you may discover on your wandering may be closed or out of service.  For example most shops are closed and if you spotted a Chapel or Prayer Room you would find that place for solace or reflection closed in the middle of the night too, probably to stop people sleeping there.  The advantage of the wander is you can spot the best places to be for an future nights spent in the same airport and therefore reducing the need to wander in the future.

Activity 4.  Read.  For this activity to be successful you need to be prepared with some decent reading matter, plan ahead is the key.  There are only so many times you can read your airline tickets, clothing care labels, food labels or free leaflets without being utterly bored.  If you have some work or studies to do this could be your ultimate place or little distraction to get that reading you need to do done.

Top ten cakes

1. Battenberg
2. Christmas Cake
3. Jam doughnut
4. Belgian bun
5. Mince pie
6. Almond slice
7.
8.
9.
10.

tbc

Noone ever said it was going to be daily.

Lost bag. If seen report here.
Description: small green Berghaus rucksack.

hmm....

I like how in Spanish Descaler is Descrusticante, much more descriptive.

e-tiquete (not to be confused with an e-ticket)

If in online and cyber circles UPPER CASE is considered to be SHOUTING is lower case considered to be whispering?  Whilst we have all schools of typers those who touch type (with both hands and use all 9 fingers correctly, leave 2 spaces at the end of sentences and generally are grammatically inteligable) , speed dual digitists (those who use 2 fingers but are quite fast and accurate - often Technocrats), Single digit letter hunters (often still surprised that the keyboard is arranged QWERTY and not abcde) and all manner of typers in-between. 

These are merely the means of inputting the text but what text are we inputting?  I am bewildered why many shun the pun in favour of text language abreviations which would be mocked in verbal usage, if your mate said "that story made me LOL!" would you be laughing? Maybe at the tragedy to your ears.  Why also are we given a barrage of oh so clever use of punctation? Do I want the comment finished with ;-)?  I think not, for this read a wink is not as good as a nod.  Instead of this inanity ad infinitum why not pun it up with :ic or ,ndo?  Far more creative but ultimately would be as dull as the aforementioned.

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Culinary advice of the day: could we encourage more Scots (me included) to eat more veg by the widespread use of Tempura style cooking?  The batter had me eating some green stuff I probably would have given the knife slide to have otherwise.

Crumble related annecdote

A mate of mine said every Sunday he would visit his mother-in-law and without fail every week they would be served a roast dinner and crumble.  All good so far. The twist comes when the crumble filling would be varied on a weekly basis and it would appear mostly from what tins were lurking at the back of his mother-in-law´s pantry* i.e. peach crumble, pear crumble, mandarin crumble, fruit cocktail crumble and only occasionally having recognised favourites such as apple or rhubarb.

*in this instance the food storing cupboard is referred to as a pantry in this annecdote denoting its absence of desirable food.  Had the fillings been epicurean delights the cupboard may well have been referred to as a larder.  Should you have any opinions on this matter of naming please add your comments.

Hiatus

Was unable to add more delights to the esteemed blog due to self enforced solitary confinement and hard labour.  My thoughts on the previous days are thus:

• painting is for drips
• wet grass clogs lawnmowers
• DIY is even less of an attractive proposition at 4am
• 5 minute jobs often take 3 hours
• caulking can be baulking
• always allow lots of time to get to an airport
• satin paint didn´t look as good as gloss

I shall bore no more on that topic.

Fruit cocktail and crumble don´t mix.

QWERTY

The swift fox jumped over the lazy dog.

Inspiration may be on the wane today.

Crumble mix makes great shortbread.

What a pants survey

I added a poll, but it is pants as the question is not displayed. I will take that down shortly, as it looks bobbins.

That sounds like

Whilst supervising my son´s watching of children´s TV I noticed the theme tune to the Koala Brothers <this link here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX8HqXspWqo > sounds a lot like a song I heard on the radio a bit, I did research and found it was the tune "Dance to Joy Division" by The Wombats <click here to listen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCf84ov2MZ4 >.  Does anyone agree?  The version of the Koala Bros theme on Youtube isn´t that good.  I am not sure which came first.  Surely there is scope for a remix Koala Bros vs The Wombats, note the link between the two which is antipodean animals.  I remember when I was young I was mega impressed when the drummer from Iron Maiden appeared on the Sooty Show <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnE_8oeDj88> (I like the fact that the Youtube poster of this clip got it on a video tape in a charity shop in Kilburn for 49p - the only thing I ever bought on a blank video tape from a charity shop was some well pony WWF wrestling!).  Anyway any other sound alikes out there?

Crumble should always out ratio any fruit in a pudding.

Primero

Just creating the first of possibly many musings.  Not sure if this will be a replacement for my millitant stance of non-use of popular social networking sites.  As I check out what I need to do or can do to make this more interesting, I will do so.  For now here is a start.  I plan to put in anecdotal evidence or witty, unusual or notable occurrances.

Crumble is good but can be ruined by being too healthy.