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On Sunday we're having some friends over for lunch, the menu is:
- Nicoise Onion Tart with Charentais Melon Salad
- Moroccan Lamb Tagine with Ras el Hanout and Couscous
- Honey and Walnut Tart with Creme Anglais
And yes there will be lashings of wines, all selected and ready to go.
Now. What is your weekend shaping up to be?
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Wet.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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It'll be all those leeks boyo!
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There are Holes in the Sky[^]
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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You obviously need to add more countries to your lunch! 
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Well the wines are Italian, Spanish and Hungarian.
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Ha well, I though it might be! 
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British Summer Time, in the rain at Hyde Park, smashed off my face watching the best band ever (The Libertines). As well as The Pogues, The View and The Enemy to name but a few.
P.S. Creme Anglais is Custard you ponce.
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Yes, but it's a poncey AND pretentious meal.
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No, this[^] is custard.
Crème Anglaise is "proper custard" and is made with real food...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Creme Anglaise is made slightly differently to Custard, but the ingredients are to all intent the same.
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Untrue: Custard contains...well...sugar, starch, and manufactured chemicals, mostly[^] with yellow colourant to make it look egg based.
"Proper custard" contains:
280ml (½ pint) milk
1 vanilla pod
1 whole egg
2 egg yolks
75g caster sugar
And a lot of hope that it doesn't overheat and split!
Not saying Custard isn't nice - it is, with Golden Syrup Sponge, or Treacle Tart, or Jam Roly-poly, or...
But it's not the same, and it's not as good!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I would say I never use custard powder but that is a blatant lie.  )
Real custard is made by stirring the milk infusion into the beaten egg yokes.
With Creme Anglais the yokes & sugar are whisked together and then the hot milk is whisked in. Then everything is whisked again in a bain marie to thicken.
See, I does know some stuff.
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I only ever make custard in a bain marie.
Well, a bowl over a pan full of boiling water, anyway.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Now. What is your weekend shaping up to be?
Sounds good, so I'll come and join you. Be sure to set one more plate, and stock a couple of bottles of wine more. 
What? That wasn't an open invitation? 
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Big Mac, fries, and a Coke.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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...it's a Master Socket Splitter[^], if that's relevant...Thanks to @DaveAuld for the idea that these even existed, and the Fleabay link.
But...FleaBay offered me a "new way to speed up PayPal payments and improve my FleaBay experience".
Basically, you can link PayPal and FleaBay, so FleaBay retain your PayPal info, and you press "Buy" and "PayPal" and it all happens in the background without an explicit PayPal login.
Um. Is it just me, or does that sound like something I don't want to get involved in to you as well? It isn't that I don't trust FleaBay to be honest and not just sell me anything they fancy; it isn't that I don't want to risk the cat playing with the computer and buying a car... though (FleaBay is permanently logged in, PayPal isn't)
It's that I don't really trust FleaBay security that much. They have never really needed to be "money secure" since they don't deal with money - PayPal does that. So how likely is it that the database code came from QA? 
Any thoughts?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: Any thoughts?
There's some tuna in the fridge, but of chilli pickle and it'll make a nice sandwich for my lunch.
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Tuna?
TUNA?
What happened to the BACON, man?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Today I am eating various leftovers. But tuna with a good hot chutney is surprisingly good.
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I've been doing this for a bout a year and it makes it easy to purchase items but if you don't buy a lot there's no point.
As I grow older I've found that pleasing everyone is impossible but pissing everyone off is a piece of cake.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Any thoughts?
Don't do it. That's pretty much the same option as Amazon's OneClick, and on several occasions Amazon added rubbish to the order of the article I wanted to one-click-order without me being given a chance to decide against the added stuff. The good thing is, you can cancel Amazon orders, but this is not so easy on FleaBay.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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OriginalGriff wrote: it isn't that I don't want to risk the cat playing with the computer and buying a car...
Replace 'cat' with 'the kids' and that's exactly why it's a stupid idea.
But I suppose if your single, or with a partner and no kids it's a good idea if you want to save yourself time and effort. As long as it's properly pointed out what your doing.
I think xbox and PS got in trouble recently because they saved your details on FIFA. What was happening was parents were agreeing to buy there kids a £2 player update, and the 1st time they had to enter their details, but after that it remembered them. So kids were running up bills of thousands of pounds, just by clicking a button.
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Yeah...[^]
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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That is why the kids (or the wife) do not get near my PC's / Laptops and they do not have my account passwords to get onto the computer.
They have their own laptops/tablets/chromebooks etc. sort their own problems out!
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