the *only* person IME who on seeing a trike for the first time has ever said straight away "So that's safer than a normal bike, then." was Isla St Clair. Sensible woman.
And she is a relative of mine - I kid you not ;-) Second cousin or something like that.
Well, that explains it, then, it's in the blood.
-- Mark, UK.
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
so all I have to do is boil the brussels & carve the meat!
Noooo! Steam them gently until they think about being a bit soft. That's long enough (unless you got the monster sized ones which never cook right.)
Boiling non-root vegetables should be banned..
Wise words. I suspect the reason so many people claim to hate sprouts is that they've always been given the boiled-to-death version. A properly cooked sprout is delicious.
-- Dave...
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. - H. G. Wells
Oh no. I was born & brought up in Geordieland. However, the ancestral roots are part-Irish, part-Scot & part-German. I was not allowed to ever forget the Scottish part ;-)
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| Response to Jon is Away!: | > Bizarre one this. I found that people gave me much more room when | > riding a trike. | | I think just about everyone finds this.
Perhaps it's because they think you might possibly be Prof Pat Pending and about to metamorphose into a flying boat or something.
so all I have to do is boil the brussels & carve the meat!
Noooo! Steam them gently until they think about being a bit soft. That's long enough (unless you got the monster sized ones which never cook right.)
Boiling non-root vegetables should be banned..
Sprouts can be lightly steamed in the back pocket during the ride, and instead of carving up a big bird, perch bite-size goslings atop Lumicycle 35W lamps to roast nicely.
so all I have to do is boil the brussels & carve the meat!
Noooo! Steam them gently until they think about being a bit soft. That's long enough (unless you got the monster sized ones which never cook right.)
Boiling non-root vegetables should be banned..
Sprouts can be lightly steamed in the back pocket during the ride, and instead of carving up a big bird, perch bite-size goslings atop Lumicycle 35W lamps to roast nicely.
~PB
:-D
And of course you've probably got spuds on the bike already...
Wise words. I suspect the reason so many people claim to hate sprouts is that they've always been given the boiled-to-death version. A properly cooked sprout is delicious.
Quite agree. I could never stand sprouts until I started cooking them myself - previously I'd only had ones which had been boiled until they screamed for mercy and then boiled a bit more to be on the safe side.
Having said that, I do boil mine, just not for very long.
-- Carol "Mmmmooooowooooff!" - the Moobark, "The Treacle People"
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 18:22:10 +0000, [email hidden] (Carol Hague)
wrote in message : said:
It is not possible to read too much Terry Pratchett :-)
In aggregate, maybe, but within a defined period of time it undoubtedly is. Though not to anything like the same extent as with Robert Rankin.
Guy -- "then came ye chavves, theyre cartes girded wyth candels blue, and theyre beastes wyth straynge horn-lyke thyngs onn theyre arses that theyre fartes be herde from myles around." Chaucer, the Sheppey Tales
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 18:22:10 +0000, [email hidden] (Carol Hague)
wrote in message : said:
It is not possible to read too much Terry Pratchett :-)
In aggregate, maybe, but within a defined period of time it undoubtedly is. Though not to anything like the same extent as with Robert Rankin.
Well Rankin's not nearly as funny IMO. I forced myself to read all of _Armageddon, The Musical_ and got the impression that he was way too impressed with his own cleverness. _The Antipope_ was rather better though. And, to inject a smidgeon of on-topicness, it features Marchant the Wonder Bike :-)
Jasper Fforde suffers a bit from "look how clever I am! " syndrome too, but not nearly as much as Rankin - plus he writes much more sympathetic characters which helps a lot. -- Carol "Mmmmooooowooooff!" - the Moobark, "The Treacle People"
Well Rankin's not nearly as funny IMO. I forced myself to read all of _Armageddon, The Musical_ and got the impression that he was way too impressed with his own cleverness. _The Antipope_ was rather better though. And, to inject a smidgeon of on-topicness, it features Marchant the Wonder Bike :-)
I'd go along with that. Pratchett went through a phase when he wasn't so funny (IMHO) but seems to have reverted to form with the more recent books. Rankin seemed to be trying too hard to be funny, rather than creating characters and an environment that is in itself funny.
