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ceemes wrote:Today sucked and just reinforced my complete and total dislike and hatred of both January and February.

Read your blog and I'm sorry to hear of your loss.

January was a bad month for me, way back in '84. Lost my mom, my grandmother, and a great aunt, all within a two week period. To top '84 off, I lost my dad that November.

I know your Grandfather will live on in your memories and in your heart.

dr_bar wrote:

sv-wolf wrote:
Full English with corn? Definitely not corn - at least, if you mean what we call 'sweetcorn'.

The corn I've had was creamed when it came with breakfast. Sweetcorn, stripped from the cob and cooked in a milk based cream sauce, actually quite good but I normally eat it with dinner.

And biscuits? What are biscuits?

Now biscuits are actually easier to comprehend. What he's referring to is a baking powder biscuit. It's about 2" round, made with basically baking powder, flour, butter, a bit of salt and some milk. Has a consistancy some what like a scone but way drier. If you want a recipe, just ask...

Gravy is definitely a foreign kind of 'English', too - for breakfast at any rate.

Okay, this one is just plain scarey...

Any gravy I've had served at breakfast in the States is usually known as "Country Gravy" or "Homestyle Gravy". If you can imagine a pot full of white glue, you're close to imagining the gravy served.

It consists of about;

50% flour
10% chicken stock
13% fat (Chicken)
2% Coarse ground Pepper
25% Salt

Combined over heat and stirred until thick and lumpy... Mmmmm....

Enjoy your next breakfast thinking of that....

This makes me think of biscuits and sausage gravy. Yumm... So, so bad for you though. No wonder it's so yummy.

I had a huge breakfast, 3 slices of bacon, 2 eggs (fresh from my chickens), corned beef hash and a cup of coffee, and another cup for good luck!

Then I went out to my shop and burned all the scrap wood and cardboard boxes that were out there. Now I have to go get my son from school.

jstark47 wrote:

sv-wolf wrote:And biscuits?  What are biscuits?  Over here 'biscuits' are what you call cookies.  So I'm sure you can't mean those (or can you?  ). 

More like a scone to you, but not sweet at all.

Scones! That's the bloody Scots again. Unsweetened scones with gravy and full English. I'll have to think about that one. Maybe I'm not as opened minded as I once believed.

Ninja Geoff wrote:

dr_bar wrote:

sv-wolf wrote:
Full English with corn? Definitely not corn - at least, if you mean what we call 'sweetcorn'.

The corn I've had was creamed when it came with breakfast. Sweetcorn, stripped from the cob and cooked in a milk based cream sauce, actually quite good but I normally eat it with dinner.

Oh ho! This is getting worse all the time. I suspected you must mean sweetcorn ('corn' here is wheat, oats or barley.) I could manage that for dinner maybe - just. But breakfast?

(You mean whole grains of sweetcorn I take it, not mashed - lumpy bits in a cream sause. My wife used to do something like that. Maybe it was her Canadian ancestry that was responsible.

jstark47 wrote:[And biscuits? What are biscuits?

Now biscuits are actually easier to comprehend. What he's referring to is a baking powder biscuit. It's about 2" round, made with basically baking powder, flour, butter, a bit of salt and some milk. Has a consistancy some what like a scone but way drier. If you want a recipe, just ask...

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Now that sounds slightly more possible. OK, I'll go for the recipe. But if I stop posting I hope you will feel at least a touch of remorse.

jstark47 wrote:[Gravy is definitely a foreign kind of 'English', too - for breakfast at any rate.

Okay, this one is just plain scarey...

Any gravy I've had served at breakfast in the States is usually known as "Country Gravy" or "Homestyle Gravy". If you can imagine a pot full of white glue, you're close to imagining the gravy served.

It consists of about;

50% flour
10% chicken stock
13% fat (Chicken)
2% Coarse ground Pepper
25% Salt

Combined over heat and stirred until thick and lumpy... Mmmmm....

Enjoy your next breakfast thinking of that....

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This makes me think of biscuits and sausage gravy. Yumm... So, so bad for you though. No wonder it's so yummy.[/quote]

Not even going to go there.

sv-wolf wrote:[Oh sod the quotes! You all know who you are!

I still cannot believe I bought an Apple MacBook... after all my years using a Windows based PC. I've used Macs before but never really owned one outright.

I was gonna post this 2 weeks ago since I bought it then but I'm still in disbelief. I was gonna buy a Lenovo ThinkPad with a discrete GPU but the MacBook was discounted thanks to my moms employee discount. At least I have Windows Vista Home Premium on it so I have the best of both worlds.

Today, I'm sitting in my local IHOP, enjoying a coffee and playing on my new phone/data device.

It truly is amazing that I'm using one of those hand held computers that people said would never be possible.

Still not quite the functionality of the voice recognition contraption from my scifi books, but still pretty impressive.

(And no, it's not a "Crack-Berry")

dr_bar wrote:Today, I'm sitting in my local IHOP, enjoying a coffee and playing on my new phone/data device.

It truly is amazing that I'm using one of those hand held computers that people said would never be possible.

Still not quite the functionality of the voice recognition contraption from my scifi books, but still pretty impressive.

(And no, it's not a "Crack-Berry")

Actually, motorola has had voice recognition for dialing for a few years.

dr_bar wrote:Still not quite the functionality of the voice recognition contraption from my scifi books, but still pretty impressive.

I want the death-ray attachment for my bike so I can vaporize impudent cagers!!!!!

The "atomic ray gun" from the old Mars Attacks! trading card series would be dandy!!

Ninja Geoff wrote:Actually, motorola has had voice recognition for dialing for a few years.

I was talking about total voice communication with the handset. Talk to it and it talks back.

As to voice dialing, all but my first one had it, as does just about every higher end phone.

Today I bunked off work. Just rang in and said, I'm taking leave.

It was a glorious day. Just wandered round town in the hot sun. The town was full of people I knew so I just had one relaxed conversation after another. Everyone was in such a good mood. It was the dogs bollocks!

In the afternoon, I did a load of those little jobs I've been putting off for weeks. Now I feel good. Less to think about.

This evening it froze hard. Went to the local film club with a friend to see 'This is England', a film about a group of skinheads at the time of the Falklands War. What a brilliant bit of filmaking, genuinely complex and human, not the usual stereotypical crap I was expecting.