Yawn, Yawn, Wakey Wakey!! 2016

I wouldn't bother!

We're fortunate, we don't have to wait in for things. Our postman, and delivery men, know where to put the things in a safe place and out of the weather. The postman also takes our outgoing mail for us if we leave it sticking out of the letter box.

 

Good afternoon all my friends well no has one turned up yet,I shall only wait another 10 minutes

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Good afternoon @"M" you are like a breath of fresh air my dear friend never mind we shall put a rain check on it for now This is the one we are still using,Mrs Woo keeps asking for a new one,I don't know why

 

That's what Mrs Woo says about yours truly

Good morning all my friends I hope that you all feel good this morning and are looking forward to your Sunday,Its time for our local Chinese new year festival to day,its the year of the monkey so me and @shiney should be just fine this year

 

I tried to get to you @wiseowl but the customs officers at the QEII bridge wouldn't let me through. They said they have a rule about migrants from the North but I think it was because they were scared of my Lycra clad body!

 

You called!!



I was visiting some of our relatives the other day. I'm not sure they were too happy to see me.

 

Aloha everyone,

The quiz went very well. My co-quizmaster and myself were congratulated on the interesting, but not too difficult questions with the winners getting 87% correct, the lowest score being over 60% and the average about 75%.

Setting questions that are not going to bore everyone because they are too difficult is not easy. That's because when, as quizmaster, you know the answer, it seems easy.

My regular team won the quiz by a clear margin. They also came first in the table quiz but, according to the rules, aren't able to win more than one prize.

One of the rounds was a bit different to normal (a few of them were) and it was 'Who lives at these fictitious addresses'? An answer that almost every team got was for the question "Who lives at:- The bottom of the postbox, outside 221b Baker St, London?"

We have friends coming for lunch today. They had done part of the holiday we went on (at a different time) but couldn't complete it because she fell down a road drain and broke her ankle! They had been on a trip and were returning in the evening when they came across a traffic jam because of a party in the street celebrating a religious festival. The guide asked everyone whether they minded walking the last 20 minutes back to the hotel as the bus would take at least two hours. There was no proper street lighting and she got jostled by the crowd of partying people and couldn't/didn't see the drains and the guide hadn't warned the people about them.





They want to see the photos of the part of the holiday that they missed.

Keep well and have a great day

Aloha!

 

Good morning @shiney I am quietly sitting here watching the A to Z of gardening preparing the brussels and although its very therapeutic ,peeling and cutting these ridiculous little crosses in each tiny Brussels a question for all my friends at GC, is it really necessary and imperative that this is done ,I have always prepared Brussels this way since the 1950's,enjoy your day

 

@wiseowl the answer is 'yes' and 'no'.

The cut into the base of a Brussel sprout is to enable the hot water to penetrate it easier. The leafy part cooks much quicker than the stem does because of the different densities of the veg.

So cutting the cross in the base gets a more evenly cooked sprout. If you don't mind two different textures then don't bother.

It's a similar thing with broccoli. The stem of the florette is much denser than the 'flower'. so they cook at different rates. You can overcome this quite easily but it means a bit of work. You peel the outer coating of the stem (carefully) and it then cooks more easily.

 

Hello @moyra and @shiney my friends ,thank you for answering my question @moyra I am Rooster so I guess I shall have to carry on cutting the crosses in my Brussels,unless of course I can purchase them with crosses already in them and is it correct to spell Brussels with a capital B as they are only a vegetable

 

I never spell London without a capital - especially as it's a capital.