KidKruger

I'm pushed for time at moment so can't really help, otherwise would help with advice on spices/ingredients/method. One thing that springs to mind though - do you really want to be doing this first time when guests are coming ?!? Here's a recipe I made on Monday, but you do have to make your own garamm masala, it's described in Telegu (from Andhra Pradesh) with English subtitles:

any chance of sticking it in a sturdy bin liner / builders bag (you can try and do it the way people use doggy bags so you touch the animal as little as possible), so you can store it perhaps in one of your bins until council can collect.

Hysterical and Frenzied Mob.

I recently saw Sue's partner at the bus stop by the Co-Op. Athough I realise he was just standing there to be seen doing the cool bus thing and everything I did stop to say hi, but if I'm totally honest I was sort of hoping some of the cool would rub-off on me, by association. I think it worked, because my neighbour when I scrounged a couple of onions yesterday (to be cool, in kind of "hey, I cook, y'know" way) said she'd seen me at the bus stop and thought it was really cool of me. I felt a bit embarrassed, because I thought the guy I stopped to talk to would get the full coolness brownie points quota, not me - but then I realised my neighbour probably doesn't know him, therefore I got the cool association by default. I feel really great now, like I'm recognised as a somebody in the community and stuff.

Personally, I'm glad I won't be having to trek over to Nunhead for my daily flan.

No I was too busy with the 60lb dog trying to sit on my face, the big scaredy dog.

"...on the same site (I think), Maria from Spain and her Turkish husband ran a little grocery shop". No, it was a few doors along to the right / West, it's now flats.

You could also poll surrounding houses (next door/alongside and house which back on to the offenders) and see if there's a collective frustration to reinforce your concern/response. You could even (all) have it out collectively with the offenders across the back gardens - that would be embarrasing for them surely and perhaps have a moderating effect !

Look I'm not interested in intimacy with anyone who insults me publicly. If you don't like someone's approach and they're not being rude then you don't need to attack them - but I'm just repeating myself. Am I really saying this to what I presume is an adult ? Any PMs I get which are rude or confrontational will appear here pronto.

Titch are you saying you don't feel anything that you post - that everything you post you don't actually feel, thereby qualifying it to be posted on a public forum ?! And that what you feel is only based on what others think ?! And that if you feel strongly about something, you won't post it on a public forum where the thread is pertinent to your concern. I don't think so !

JoeLeg at what point do you stop and have a word with yourself? I've not insulted you, called you any names, suggested you have a some ulterior motive, etc, etc. But you have at me, for no sensible reason that I can see. I said what I feel and refused to be painted into a corner to justify it, because I feel what I feel and don't have to justify it to anyone, now matter how abusive they get on the internet. Wow, big crime. That seems to make you feel entitled to attack me and make accusations of superiority or whatever it was. And you call that 'robust' ! Well good for you for being a steadfast internet poster, I genuinely wish you all the best mate. Please read this message again, note the absence of insults, it is possible you know ! Maybe I'm naive, but if someone starts attacking someone when they haven't been attacked themself doesn't that mean they are angry, frustrated, a bully or something ? Perhaps it's just the internet 'way' when a poster can't get what they want. I'm speculating here, I concede that. Look I don't know but I sure never meet bullies like this face to face.

Like I said, I'm not laying down the law, I'm saying how I feel. That may change, but right now I feel that if you wilfully commit a crime like that, then you get switched-off. You either want to be in society or you don't. I'm not a death penalty fan per se, but this crime/thread has me switching those guys off tout suite.

Well, clearly you can be arsed Innit tho. GO TO 06:31PM END

No need to be rude old chap. You think you're due an answer for a question you haven't actually asked. Prams, rattles, etc. This ain't a fecking trial so if you don't like the reply that's just tough shite, you're not holding court sport. What's with people being determined to prove "they're right" that's just BS !

I don't need to answer feck all mate. I'm not here to justify anything ! You can await all you want, that's not on me.

I think if you intentionally burn someone's face off with acid, a stranger who had no chance of anticipating or defending themself, then you've just resigned from society. Not for a year, 10 years, but forever. That's my view, based on how abhorrent these crimes are. It's not self-defence, it's not a fight where someone picks up a weapon, it's innocent members of the public doing their normal thing and being mutilated. I don't care what 'century' that makes it, I care about the person on the street and their safety from this kind of crime. I've always been upset by violent crimes on innocents and that won't change. If these attacks were paid back with death for those proven guilty I believe they'd die-out. I don't care what background someone's had, I don't care if they'd had tough parents, I don't care how bad their day's been. If you obtain acid to maim someone then know you're risking your remaining days to do so and don't squeal when you're caught. I don't care about the morality or who says what. That's what I'd like to see, I am pissed-off about this and don't necessarily think my solution is perfect, but that's what I'd like to see. And I'll pull the trigger happily (or pour the acid back in the face of the offender, I don't feckin care). Feck the bullshit pussy-ass high-fallutin 'logical' arguments about knives and everything else. This crime deserved death. Other crimes, debatable, but this thread's about aceeeeeeeeeeeeeed innit.

Time for capital punishment to step back in a while.

Jesus titchy, that story is truly worrying.

I use 37% hydrocloric acid for the bog, bought from licensed premises.

Sue perhaps he had some refrigeration in the vehicle ? Sometimes such a facility may be just a part of the rear area, not all (although any modern insulated cooling chamber should be able to handle a couple of hours of no power).

Before this goes too far I must concede that on those occasion I was just joshing with Sue !

Wild flower seeds mainly.

Daffs would be stretching it a bit, I have to leave the council SOMEthing to do.

Ive been a bit wheezy this week, but wasn't sure if it was cos I'd been hand-sanding the stairs.

Don't mention it Sue, I thought they'd look nice there.