Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Dustyevsky

Farway said:

Dustyevsky said:

The house would have been interesting enough to spend a wet afternoon in. However, having been warned by two guides I must not take photos, (the lens cap was on!) and then told off by another for finding one exhibit amusing, we didn't hang around very long. The amusing thing concerned a certain princess, sitting in a bath, naked, except for her tiara. The blurb said how her husband had been mortified when their children sold the tiara to pay death duties, although by then he'd long divorced her. I felt the sentiments expressed were a little strange, giggled, and that was obviously very offensive. I forgot people with considerable means are never weird, but 'eccentric.'

Would that tiara be the Poltimore? 

The sitting in bath bit was on TV, The Crown, not that I watched it, just searched on the tiara. A bit of Sherlocking on a dull morning.

Could be. It seems the aristocrats get very hung up on their 'stuff,' and I can understand that when the artefacts have been in the family for hundreds of years. Personally, I'd be delighted to have something small and of no use to me available right now to fill the tax hole I'm trying to fill. Don't forget, if a government removes an income someone's relied upon, to use it elsewhere, that's a form of tax.

I reckon you'll get there with the corn. They don't harvest here until November.

pink_poppy said:

The princess in the bath story reminded me of this picture I saw in a local tat tourist shop - I'm thinking of buying it for my DD for Christmas


Pesto with added protein, twopenny, I hope it tastes nice.

The beach looks quite rugged in your pic, Dusty.

I have had various thoughts, but couldn't possibly comment on a cow in a bath, except to say it's a very nice coo, with a great view.

Added insect protein comes in many forms. Studies have shown, we eat around 140000 bits of insect every year though thy're very small and disguised within the processed products like flour.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/02/26/time-embrace-edible-insects/

The beaches on that part of the coast are rugged and not very accessible. We could probably have climbed down there, but time was short, and we had the return walk to think about too. Not as short as the lady in the kiosk told us, and we knew by then!

YoungBlueEyes

Now I'm not a very techy one but that sounds like a laptop setting issue rather than a site issue to me wm. There is a tech problems board on here somewhere, maybe they could help...?

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/categories/techie-stuff 

As for eating insects - where did I read it (or was it on QI?) that you should never buy crunchy peanut butter because they're allowed to leave however many bugs body parts in it per million litres because technology is too expensive isn't sophisticated enough to discern cockroach bums from peanut nibs.... So always buy the smooth stuff!

....Actually that might only apply in America because the FDA was awake the day they got round to peanut butter.

Edit yep it's the yanquis. Anybody looking for more info I just put "bugs in peanut butter" into D'Duck. I'm not giving details here because some of the results it gave were disgusting 

Silvertabby

YoungBlueEyes said:

Now I'm not a very techy one but that sounds like a laptop setting issue rather than a site issue to me wm. There is a tech problems board on here somewhere, maybe they could help...?

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/categories/techie-stuff 

As for eating insects - where did I read it (or was it on QI?) that you should never buy crunchy peanut butter because they're allowed to leave however many bugs body parts in it per million litres because technology is too expensive isn't sophisticated enough to discern cockroach bums from peanut nibs.... So always buy the smooth stuff!

....Actually that might only apply in America because the FDA was awake the day they got round to peanut butter.

Edit yep it's the yanquis. Anybody looking for more info I just put "bugs in peanut butter" into D'Duck. I'm not giving details here because some of the results it gave were disgusting 

But doesn't smooth peanut butter still contain cockroach bums, just whisked smooth?  Good job I don't like the stuff!  

pink_poppy

Mmm, I love crunchy peanut butter, even if it has got cockroach bums in, maybe that's what makes your teeth squeak when you eat it   

YoungBlueEyes

I don't know about that tbh St, and I couldn't stomach clicking and reading a link to find out cos I'm eating my lunch now.

If I had to bet I'd say it probably is the same weight/%age of bums and carcasses, but whisked smooth rather than whole and crunchy

Farway

YoungBlueEyes said:

Edit yep it's the yanquis. Anybody looking for more info I just put "bugs in peanut butter" into D'Duck. I'm not giving details here because some of the results it gave were disgusting 

I searched YBE, yep, disgusting, and chocolate can have rat poo in it , top tip, avoid chocolate coated peanuts or spread

I wonder how vegans square the circle? Or just a case of they don't ask?

Rain not arrived yet, but it's much colder now, so very glad I got the tomatoes in

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

I had to read your post twice Dusty, the bit saying you only got the shot from the rear and the colour of it, made it sound like you were talking about your walking friend rather than the house "I forgot to take a photo of the front. This is the rear, with a substantial cover of Virginia Creeper, just turning autumnal red." I would have been giggling at that tiara story too!

The Moon Garden - you can book a time slot when the moon will be full or nearly full and they're dear. The nights when it should be shining through the Moon Wall are laughing-at-you expensive. You take your chance on the weather by the time your slot comes round for those, but if it came good it'd be amazing!

I'm always telling my walking pal, she has one of the most photographed rear views on the Internet, but possibly not in a Taylor Swiftish way. She's no idea where I post, but trusts it's nowhere nefarious. Such faith!

Weddings have come on a lot since the days when people tried to time them with the Church's Spring Flower Festival.

Slashing down here with gusty winds. I'm wondering if the stream is going yet, but it's too horrible to go down and look!

twopenny

I've been reading along and laughing. Thanks for the jests. In a bath with a tiara? I've got to get one now. I think the cow in a bath is a personal step too far but the picture made me laugh. It ought to go with a photo of a Heighland Coo with a hair cut like we get on the moors here

Oddly I've been trying to give away a new bottle of expensive Meridans Crunchy peanut butter because I keep thinking it's the rest of my teeth falling apart. They do say it's nothing but peanuts in the jar - but how do you know?

Aparantly Sweet Corn has done very well down here Farway. Good year for it.

Yes the photo was Greencombe. A dull wet day when I had it all to myself and the light was interesting.

WM, that's annoying. I can't access MSE on my tablet. Everything else is fine but I just get the coloured line at the top. They've updated something.

So, had to leave the town today and get distraction. Massive digger reaching over the fence and tons of soil dumped on the pea shingle and plants out front. I noticed her friend leave the vicinity looking dire too.

But when I got back they'd done an amazing job of restoring the front. I'm impressed when it's a couple of builder blokes.

So nothing but planning gardenwise. I'm going to have to get a man it and move the compost heap to the sitoorie so the rats can't climb my apple tree, shift the Brussels to where the useless tomatoes are and make the sitoorie in the veg patch. It's going to be a heck of a job. There's a lot of annoying jobs with one neighbour and the rats. There is a connedtion. But that's for dry days and some spirit if it materialises.

Cissie sounds great Bluey, I'd love to meet her. I had a Great Aunt like her (minus the booze) but woodbine hanging from the lip. Always had dogs, a garden, chickens and as a child had me measuring the cucumbers to see if they'd grown

I watched Countryfile, most was nearer Dustys area with cut ins of closer to mine. They always do that but I'm not complaining because it keeps the hoi poloie away from us

It's wet here and dull. The town was bright and dry so that's something. Came back with thermals ready for winter and a book. The library there has a cafe, quiet where you can read magazines and enjoy coffee and cake. I think there will be a return visit.

LessImpecunious

Farway said:

I wonder how vegans square the circle? Or just a case of they don't ask?

Speaking as a bad (i.e., not very strict) and relatively recent vegan, but vegetarian for 30+ years, I wonder whether bug bits are any less appealing than the constituents of meat - a quick search threw up (pun not originally intended ) "meat is primarily the muscle tissue of the animal, but may include fat, gristle and other tissues" and "meat is composed of protein, fat, connective tissue, and exudate"...

Apologies if that puts anyone off their breakfast... I'm still looking forward to peanut butter on toast ...and lots of garden veg for tea, if it survives the threatened overnight cold...

Dustyevsky

twopenny said:

I've been reading along and laughing. Thanks for the jests. In a bath with a tiara?

Cissie sounds great Bluey, I'd love to meet her. I had a Great Aunt like her (minus the booze) but woodbine hanging from the lip. Always had dogs, a garden, chickens and as a child had me measuring the cucumbers to see if they'd grown

I watched Countryfile, most was nearer Dustys area with cut ins of closer to mine. They always do that but I'm not complaining because it keeps the hoi poloie away from us

No, don't laugh. Sitting in a bath with a tiara on, and nowt else, is perfectly normal; not calculated to raise one's profile in the meja, or anything like that. Laughing at someone, even if they're dead, is implied dislike speech in these enlightened times.

Similarly, speaking of measuring cucumbers is hurtful ;  we've none growing here to measure   However frustrated by yesterday's weather, I did some other measuring: a 5-minute investigation into the sudden lowering in price of Andrex luxury toilet rolls at both Sainsburys and Morries. I took rolls from the 'old' style 16 pack and compared them with rolls from the new one. The 'new' rolls were consistently 8g lighter than the old ones, which means the consumer is getting 128g less toilet paper in the new style, cheaper packs. So, less money but less product too. Shrinkflation. You heard it here first!

I must dig out that Countryfile. We still have a licence. Mrs Dusty enjoys her noisy, violent programmes, and if they distract her from noticing how much time I spend online, I remain a disapproving, but happy, subscriber. Apparently, the majority of Exmoor is in Somerset, but Devon has the most coastline, or is it the other way around? Cream before jam, or jam before cream? etc ...I'm proof the public are easily confused!

Here are some sloes we spotted on last weeks estuary walk; just right for Bluey to make sloe gin for Cissie!