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Post by patty on Apr 2, 2020 14:02:07 GMT
Following on from trying to improve my cooking skills whilst being in lockdown for 11 days now, I decided to try my hand at biscuit making.๐ I knew I had a Blackpool Tower cookie cutter at the back of my cutlery drawer that one of my daughters bought me a few years ago whilst on a school trip, so set about making a tray full of โBlackpool biscuitsโ. Turned out ok doncha think? ๐ Did u say Blackpool Tower cutters? U sure? No Comment.....
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2020 14:04:37 GMT
They look willy tasty.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2020 15:15:08 GMT
Shouldn't they be cockies rather than cookies ?
Hesitate to ask how they tasted.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2020 15:16:32 GMT
They look a bit like ginger nuts.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2020 15:19:22 GMT
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ the winner Rog
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Post by Jim on Apr 2, 2020 16:16:31 GMT
Shouldn't they be cockies rather than cookies ? Hesitate to ask how they tasted. Rog Salty?
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Post by perkwunos on Apr 2, 2020 16:28:12 GMT
No-that's cockles.
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Post by Jim on Apr 3, 2020 6:17:11 GMT
The good news, we aren't travelling round the star feeding this medium sized Black Hole.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2020 7:35:10 GMT
Beautiful photo. When I go to the opticians, they fire a jet of air into my eye and insrantly take a photograph. I find the photos beautiful ... looking like photos taken of stars and planets ... contrast of light and dark ... range of colours ... anyway, just saying, it reminded of those photos Rog
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Post by Clinton Cool on Apr 3, 2020 7:43:44 GMT
It's fun watching the Canada geese at the moment. There are 2 pairs of them here 'operating' in a 300 yard stretch of canal. They spend all day and night making a horrendous din. The males get together about once a day for spectacular fights that go on for about 10 minutes. Meanwhile elsewhere on the canal, other pairs have made their nests and are quietly getting on with things. Strange things are Canada geese.
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Post by quaysider on Apr 3, 2020 7:56:42 GMT
It's fun watching the Canada geese at the moment. There are 2 pairs of them here 'operating' in a 300 yard stretch of canal. They spend all day and night making a horrendous din. The males get together about once a day for spectacular fights that go on for about 10 minutes. Meanwhile elsewhere on the canal, other pairs have made their nests and are quietly getting on with things. Strange things are Canada geese. IF you can catch one... I have a good recipe for them... Pluck, gut and baste with oil - bung in the over with a clay brick either side of it and cook for about 3 hours at 180 degrees c. Remove from oven... . discard goose and eat the bricks!
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Post by Jim on Apr 3, 2020 8:27:19 GMT
Beautiful photo. When I go to the opticians, they fire a jet of air into my eye and insrantly take a photograph. I find the photos beautiful ... looking like photos taken of stars and planets ... contrast of light and dark ... range of colours ... anyway, just saying, it reminded of those photos Rog I find pics like that truly awesome, a word much overused these days. The scale of it all fries my brane. Re the opticians and scanning, I was priveliged to have a retinal scan on a new machine a couple of years ago. The optician hadn't done many scan with it, he took me through how it worked, moving backwards and forwards through the cellular layers in my eyeball, retina etc. amazing.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2020 10:12:49 GMT
What a spectacularly beautiful day ... glorious sunshine ... the bird song is stunning ... taken on diesel and waiting our turn at the services. Bit of necessary laundry and then a cruise to turn back to our mooring. Hard to think ANYTHING's wrong on such a day ... and so far, no escalation in family symptons. That's got to be good Rog
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Post by naughtyfox on Apr 7, 2020 10:46:31 GMT
Abuse from the 'Towpath Community':
"Please stop and think.... I am a boater/cyclist & nhs nurse. The need to use the towpath is fairly evident. Over the last two weeks when trying to get to/from work I have had beer cans thrown at me/sworn at/measuring tapes waved at me & even a group of boaters blocking the entire towpath at 7am with a sofa telling me I couldnโt pass and go to work. Iโm feeling fairly ashamed of the boating community atm. Is this how we as a community want to be remembered?"
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2020 11:16:12 GMT
Chatting with my mate earlier he reckons nobody in CRT is clever enough to have thought of this little divide tactic and that the "don't come on towpaths" notices were just badly thought out.
I'm convinced he is wrong about that. It's a plan.
I wonder when we will hear about an idiot boater being decked by someone who feels they have a right, which they do, to walk on their local towpath.
Cycling is a different topic. There are idiot cyclists about anyway with no respect but now we are bringing walkers into the topic. People out getting some air in a normally pleasant environment.
Anyone noticed the increasing amounts of pikey-type rubbish on towpaths?
Surely no boater wants to turn the public against them. Why would anyone do that ??
If there is anyone out there that thinks they can annexe a section of public towpath for their own use then I'm sure they will be disabused of this notion in short order.
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