Brendan

We have wanted to try Franklins for some time now but whenever we read the menu there is just nothing that grabs us. My choice is severely handicapped though by the fact that I don?t really eat fish and they seem to do a lot of it (well that and the fact that despite my better half?s attempts to civilize me I am still a curry and kebab man). Eating there is on my to-do list for the New Year though. There is one thing that bothers me about the place. From the outside it looks like it should be a pub and not just any pub at that. It looks like it should be the type of boozer with comfortable leather chairs and 5 well kept ales on tap but when you get inside you are greeted with a little scrappy loincloth of pub covering up a restaurant. A very good restaurant, as I have been reliably informed but it is still a bit like getting into a Porsche and finding that there is only an 1100cc engine under the bonnet.

lozzyloz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > LTP, Bizare it may be, but you try paddling away > from a desert island with only Kylie as a > makeshift canoe! Nigella can easily slice through > the heavy surf and enable me catch the gulf stream > current and a 3 week drift to home. Nigela would probably keep you alive for a lot longer than Kylie would. (You can take that any way you please.)

Hey guys. I can?t make this one. I?m detoxing after what was probably the most over indulgent Christmas and New Years period I have ever had. I have decided not to go out at all until Feb. Pity as I have always wanted to try the Curry Cabin. I guess I will just have to find another excuse to go.

The Hulk has also been purple before.

Oh the toilet.

This afternoon

A smartie and a jelly baby want to go into a pub for a drink. The pub is a bit on the rough side and the jelly baby is concerned that he will get beat up. The smartie reassures him saying, ?Don?t worry. You may be all soft a squishy but I have a hard shell and I will protect you from any thugs.? So they go in and take up residence at the bar. While they are having a drink a couple of glacier mints walk in. They walk straight up to the jelly baby, knock his drink out of his hand and push their way to the bar. Emboldened by the smartie?s promises of protection the jelly baby reacts and shouts, ?Oi! What you think you doing?? Upon which the glacier mints precede knock 7 bells out of him while the smartie stands quietly by and does nothing. The, now considerably squashed and battered, jelly baby drags himself upright against the bar and says to the smartie, ?I thought you said you would protect me.? To which the smartie replies, ?Sorry mate but those guys are menthol.?

Computer geeks.

Don?t we traditionally use cats for rat hunting? Or perhaps Rat Terriers.

People who object to people who object to people who... erm Where was I? :-S

Snap haven't released an album for decades.

CAPSLOCK!

Brilliant Jah! I think it should be set to beat poetry.

PeckhamRose Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Keef Wrote: "Rock music, and biker chicks! :)-D " Probably the most sensible suggestion yet aired on this forum. Applicable as a solution to any given problem methinks.

People mistaking me for Australian! (6)

I used to love her - Guns and Roses

People who only ask ?How?? but never ?Why??

By the voices in my head.

There are countless annoying and obnoxious sayings and phrases out there. There is one that pertains specifically to the sayees that is particularly annoying; ?thou shalt not kill.?

It has certainly got lots of space for us.

You can always just shoot foxes if they are being a nuisance. Charging after them on horses and letting a pack of dogs rip them apart is a little unnecessary. Personally I think hunting them by skulking around the back alleys and along rooftops with a rifle would be more fun and more humane. Although watching a fox hunt gallop down LL on a Saturday morning would have great comedy value.

?Try and? when one should really say ?Try to? I know it has entered the language and is now considered grammatically correct but it still bugs me.

Hear is how I do it. It does involve yeast though. Sieve required amount of plain flour into mixing bowl. Add salt and pepper. Mix 1 packet of dried yeast with a little lukewarm water in a small jug and dissolve a big old dollop of honey into the water. Add olive oil to the floor and mix. Slowly add water mixture until you have a good pizza doughy consistency. Knead the dough on a floured surface until it is even and flexible. Leave it to stand for about 15 minutes. Knead a bit more and roll to required size. Sorry I can?t be more specific about quantities but I just play it by ear.

Perhaps if you could somehow incorporate punching things into it.

Road to Hell - Chris Rea