Tell Us Something Really Trivial About Your Life (Vol XII)

[captainzep]

Life Saab Itch said:

I may have to buy half a pig.

If you have the freezer space its a great thing to do. We've bought two half-pigs recently, one of which was ridiculously cheap at £60 because I butchered it myself, (thank you Youtube and freezer bags). Haven't made bacon yet but it was fantastic to BBQ a massive stack of ribs which cost pennies but tasted fabulous, with smoke provided by applewood twigs.

[captainzep]

Life Saab Itch said:

Sorry, that didn't help you, did it?

It's fine, I'm the architect of my own suffering, plus I shouldn't have binged on Chinese food and Stella last night.

[slopes]

captainzep said:

Feel for you LSI.

I'm Saturday morning childcare today, I'm barely functioning and all I have to do is sit on a sofa and ignore the noise emanating from CBeebies.

Probably ought to grit my teeth and put some cereal in bowls for the spawns' breakfast...

You...let ..cbeeb in your house???

[captainzep]

slopes said:

You...let ..cbeeb in your house???

Morning slopes.

Different cbeeb, that particular tornado has yet to strike my homestead.

[slopes]

captainzep said:

Morning slopes.

Different cbeeb, that particular tornado has yet to strike my homestead.

Morning cap'n, be thankfull that it hasn't made it as far as Castle Zep

[Aizle]

[Waugh-terfall]

Life Saab Itch said:

Coffee stop.


Expensive coffee, but you get a free sausage and egg McMuffin with it.


Man-maths win.

I'm about to experience Spanish Hotel breakfast. Shower is a mighty powerful one, nice, apart from when it gets you in certain areas...

[JayTee94]

Morning.

I need a new hoodie and as stated yesterday a much needed hair-cut.

Today will be mostly shopping centres..

[simer553]

Cock Womble 7 said:

44 (45 in August). Why do you ask?

Sorry mate - was catching up and got to your post about the Scotch and replied before reading on...

Impulsive fool that I am.

Anyway - am happy now I know I'm not the oldest 'old bugger' on here (not far behind you though)

[Life Saab Itch]

Waugh-terfall said:

I'm about to experience Spanish Hotel breakfast. Shower is a mighty powerful one, nice, apart from when it gets you in certain areas...

Mmm. Morning colonic. Do you own a Monaro?

[Life Saab Itch]

After coffee I can actually have fairly coherrent conversations...

I'm now busy planning a unique ally fabrication project that has advantages over the existing solution, will be larger, more efficient and has a very advantageous secondary function.



Today, I like engineering. In about november time, I predict I'll be cursing engineering .

[Life Saab Itch]

captainzep said:

If you have the freezer space its a great thing to do. We've bought two half-pigs recently, one of which was ridiculously cheap at £60 because I butchered it myself, (thank you Youtube and freezer bags). Haven't made bacon yet but it was fantastic to BBQ a massive stack of ribs which cost pennies but tasted fabulous, with smoke provided by applewood twigs.

Did you see the Heston programme the other day where he smoked cheeses in a BBQ?


I thought it might be quite a nice future experiment...especially with the apple trees in the garden...

[captainzep]

Life Saab Itch said:

Did you see the Heston programme the other day where he smoked cheeses in a BBQ?


I thought it might be quite a nice future experiment...especially with the apple trees in the garden...

Didn't see that, but I'm starting to understand a bit about smoking food after my old man showed me how he smokes trout and sausages all sorts of other stuff.

These are good for cold smoking in BBQs apparently: http://www.gardenxl.com/proq-cold-smoke-generator

[Life Saab Itch]

captainzep said:

Didn't see that, but I'm starting to understand a bit about smoking food after my old man showed me how he smokes trout and sausages all sorts of other stuff.

These are good for cold smoking in BBQs apparently: http://www.gardenxl.com/proq-cold-smoke-generator

I only caught the end of it , but I think the gist was to have layers. The twigs or herbs for smoking were in the bottom, then there was a layer of tin foil on the underside of the grills to protect the cheese from the heat, possibly a bowl of water somewhere to act as a heat sync and the cheese on a grill. All vents closed on the BBQ and apparently it only takes 20 minutes.



It was the new "cook like Heston" programme. He went on to use dry ice to make icecream in 5 minutes...


If you can find it on iPlayer or 4OD (or whatever channel is pimping him these days) it was worth a watch.

[captainzep]

Life Saab Itch said:

was worth a watch.

Will take a shufti. Thanks LSI.

[Life Saab Itch]

captainzep said:

Will take a shufti. Thanks LSI.

No worries.


It's actually fairly cheap to buy a whole truckle of cheese. If you're willing to experiment with flavours and put up with some "odd experiments", it's probably quite a nice little hobby (if a little fattening).

[Cock Womble 7]

I woke up at ten o'clock.

I haven't woken up at ten o'clock for about five years.

[Life Saab Itch]

Cock Womble 7 said:

I woke up at ten o'clock.

I haven't woken up at ten o'clock for about five years.

We seem to have swapped universes.

May I have mine back please?

[Cock Womble 7]

Life Saab Itch said:

We seem to have swapped universes.

May I have mine back please?

Gladly.

A text message disturbed me from my slumber. I thought "Who the fk is texting me at six o'clock in the morning?!"

Then I slowly focussed on my watch. Ten o'clock.

Granted, I'd had a few beers and a leeetle bit of whisky last night, but ten o'clock is still a record.

I must have been a very tired little soldier.

[Life Saab Itch]

Lucky you.

I went up at 11 last night with the alarm set for 4.

"Someone" then decided to want to talk for an hour...and was quite happy to talk to me through my ear plugs. :/