Peckhamgatecrasher

You're probably right Jah, too many injuries at Rangers to make the Man U game much fun tonight.

*swoon*

Happy birthday, Georgia. And belated one to LB.

Jah said: "I wouldn't want a club like West Ham to go down." I would! Tee hee. Not that I'm a K.Brady fan. Perhaps a mutual enemy could unite us?

Heinz tomato soup and scotch. Or is it 42?

Don't say that Ed - they'll put a test card up and then where will we insomniacs be?

'Peckham town square' is a bit fancy! What happened to Canal Head?

Thanks James and Southwark Council.

Louisiana, Heinz tomato soup and a bottle of scotch will get you through most winter cooking crises.

On the whole it's been very good, but we've hit a snag with non-recycling bin (ie, the green one) - due to a week where I've been decluttering, it is now full and not due to be collected until next Wednesday. Is there a process where one can circumvent the usual collection?

So did Euclid.

Put a metal skewer through the long middle of the potato - it will help to cook the centre. Turn spud over halfway through. If you like crispy skin - don't wrap in foil. (Depending on size, gas mark 6 for one hour)

method one - works everytime. must dash - have soldiers to butter.

The only way to beat a steak and kidney pie is to transform it into a steak and kidney pudding.

Thanks for sorting the glitch out Mark. All ranged left now.

Can't help thinking David Shepherd must be hopping in Heaven: 333

Hush little baby, don't you cry - The Seekers

I'm agog!

Pint to point has to be the best typo ever!

I tend to ask for things and offer things, by PM - so I'm not sure you can judge people by their public posts.

Take a horse and ride with it under your thigh for about four hours. Should be tasty, cooked and tender. 'It' being the bacon.

Re my comments on the seductive lure of yew berries recently, I am rereading "Moonfleet" written in 1898 at the mo and came across this: [The protagonist is sitting on a tomb surround by yew trees] "... and many times in autumn I have seen the stone slab crimson with the fallen waxy berries, and taken some home to my aunt, who liked to taste them with a glass of sloe-gin after her Sunday dinner." My interested piqued, a little googling came up with The Wild Food School which states: YEW [Taxus baccata] Regarded as one of THE most poisonous and deadly plant materials around the scarlet berries of yew contain a slightly sugary gloop surrounding the seed and which can be extracted by VERY GENTLY squeezing the berry. The inner brown-black seed is deadly poisonous and must not be eaten. If you wish to try the yew berry sap it is ESSENTIAL to check your personal tolerance before trying. In any event only try the sap of one or two berries as a larger quantity might well contain a sufficient build up of toxins which could cause harm. One best left to foraging professionals. Anyone prepared to try it? Edited for grievous spelling mistakes

So the leg-spinner, Anil, is one man short of an eleven and says to the assistant management accountant, "Play, Mistry, for me" Sorry - it's a slow afternoon.

Bah humbug!

Bit of a disaster - ended up with only two and a half pots. Anyhoo, add 500g of sugar to every 500ml of liquid and a tablespoon of lemon juice*. Bring slowly to boil, making sure sugar has dissolved first. Let it do a rolling boil for about 15 mins Check it's ready by drizzling a little onto a chilled plate, put back in fridge for 2 mins and if it wrinkles when you gently push it, it's done. Stir in a teaspoon+ of dried chilli. Pour/ladle into sterilised jars, put lids on. *the lemon juice was an addition this year, not sure it worked - caused everything to super-scum. Perhaps it is better added to original apple mix. David - thank you for your kind comments. x I used apples from P.Rye Park - they are more minature than crab. The tree is in the Japanese Garden. I did notice, however, that there are loads of crab apples in Highshore Road there for the picking.