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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Roger Kettle on February 01, 2009, 08:59:22 PM
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What kind of calendar do you have on your wall? I think this says a lot about you as a person. I have "Busty Babes Of Bonnie Dundee" and "Halibut of the World".
Only joking.
I always have a couple of calendars in my office---one on the wall and one in my desk to keep track of which scripts will be appearing on which day. The two I'm using this year are "Montana Magazine" and "New Yorker Cartoons". Who has the most bizarre/exotic/stupid?
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For the last four years I've bought myself a Robbie Williams calendar. I wait until the end of January, when they're reduced to about two pounds, then I buy one.
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I really don't know what to say about that, Vulch.
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Vulture, you are a woman after my own heart - I do that too.
In the meantime I have a free calendar from the co-op grocery store featuring Canadian wildlife - it is pretty nice, I make keep it - it has a coyote this month.
When the arty calendars go on sale I like to buy a couple - last year I had Inuit art in the kitchen. I love the feel of the paper and the colours in a good quality calendar.
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I've got two. One is stainless-steel and easy to clean, which I use to strain potatoes and other vegetables. I have another with a tight mesh which I use for rice. (The former one lets grains of rice though when I'm doing a pre-rinse, and I don't have to strain rice after cooking because I only use just the right amount of water.)
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I've got two. One is stainless-steel and easy to clean, which I use to strain potatoes and other vegetables. I have another with a tight mesh which I use for rice. (The former one lets grains of rice though when I'm doing a pre-rinse, and I don't have to strain rice after cooking because I only use just the right amount of water.)
You should have gone to specsaver
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I've got two. One is stainless-steel and easy to clean, which I use to strain potatoes and other vegetables. I have another with a tight mesh which I use for rice. (The former one lets grains of rice though when I'm doing a pre-rinse, and I don't have to strain rice after cooking because I only use just the right amount of water.)
You should have gone to specsaver
Er... Specsavers don't sell kitchen equipment. ..0
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I've got two. One is stainless-steel and easy to clean, which I use to strain potatoes and other vegetables. I have another with a tight mesh which I use for rice. (The former one lets grains of rice though when I'm doing a pre-rinse, and I don't have to strain rice after cooking because I only use just the right amount of water.)
You should NEVER strain rice after cooking. Invest in a rice cooker OR wash the rice well, put it in a pan with enough water above the rice to come to the first knuckle of your index finger, bring it to the boil, put lid on pan, lower gas to simmering and simmer for 20 minutes or so.
This has been a public service post!
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Vulch - that's exactly what I do. (Lucy taught me.)
Our only difference is that she likes long-grain, whilst I prefer basmati.
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I use Thai Fragrant rice.
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I really don't know what to say about that, Vulch.
It's a 'woman' thing, Roger. Diane knew what I meant. It would have been odd if you had understood it! :D :D
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Nowt wrong wi' Robbie! As I may have mentioned before, the best gig by far I've ever been to was to see Mr Williams at Hampden Park in Glasgow, supported by ABC and Toploader. In terms of showmanship, the event was breath-taking. Music wasn't too bad either.
Calendars? Don't think I've bought one since Olivia Neutron Bomb.
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I thought you were from that neck-of-the-woods...
(http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Img/1103/0006448.jpg)
Callendar.
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Lovely part of the world, Peepsie, and also the location for a lot of the outdoor 'Tannochbrae' scenes in the original Dr Finlay's Casebook series.
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Wow - I hadn't realised that. I'm too young to remember the original series, and I'm impressed that you recall it so well. Maybe you, or Roger, could "fill me in" some time.
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Wow - I hadn't realised that. I'm too young to remember the original series, and I'm impressed that you recall it so well. Maybe you, or Roger, could "fill me in" some time.
Next time I see you, I surely will, pal! >:
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Lovely part of the world, Peepsie, and also the location for a lot of the outdoor 'Tannochbrae' scenes in the original Dr Finlay's Casebook series.
It was also the destination for every 'Mystery Tour' leaving from my neck of the woods when I was a boy, so much so that when anyone was going there they'd declare that they were off on a mystery tour.
What wags...
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:)
I have "New Zealand's Wild Landscape". This month is the Forest of North Stuart Island. What does that say about me? something good I hope!
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I'm told New Zealand's a mighty fine place. I suspect you're a romantic.
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I'm told New Zealand's a mighty fine place. I suspect you're a romantic.
You think Petal might be a romantic and you've put him/her in charge of Mince! Are you mad?!
Hi, Petal. Keep taking the tablets and soon all this will seem a bad dream!
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I still have the calendar from 2001 my mum sent me up on the studio wall. It has two Scottie dogs, backed by sprigs of white heather, a horseshoe and a tartan bow. One dog wears a Tam-o-shanter, the other a Glengarrie.
The motto says "Twa wee mascots, white heather-old horshoe- together mean lots of luck for you!
Like just about every present my mother ever bought me specifically, it's dreadful.
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I don't have a calendar; nor do I understand why I shouldn't sieve rice after cooking.
These are crazy times indeed.
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No - you mustn't sieve rice after cooking, even if it's with dates!
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I still have the calendar from 2001 my mum sent me up on the studio wall. It has two Scottie dogs, backed by sprigs of white heather, a horseshoe and a tartan bow. One dog wears a Tam-o-shanter, the other a Glengarrie.
The motto says "Twa wee mascots, white heather-old horshoe- together mean lots of luck for you!
Like just about every present my mother ever bought me specifically, it's dreadful.
It sounds lovely you ungrateful git.
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I still have the calendar from 2001 my mum sent me up on the studio wall. It has two Scottie dogs, backed by sprigs of white heather, a horseshoe and a tartan bow. One dog wears a Tam-o-shanter, the other a Glengarrie.
The motto says "Twa wee mascots, white heather-old horshoe- together mean lots of luck for you!
Like just about every present my mother ever bought me specifically, it's dreadful.
It sounds lovely you ungrateful git.
You tell 'im, Diane.
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Sorry, but I'm with the ungrateful git on this one.
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Tarks - old women love that kind of thing!
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No - you mustn't sieve rice after cooking, even if it's with dates!
What does it matter who I'm with? Why can't I sieve the damn rice?
I usually bung it in a sieve and run hot water through it, washing away all the sticky starchy water. And now I'm not supposed to?!
This is worse than the time I found out that the mincemeat in mince pies wasn't actually meat at all!
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Tarks - old women love that kind of thing!
No. We don't!
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It sounds lovely you ungrateful git.
Well it isn't, though the thought behind it is. The calendar was obviously printed in China, as it has that washed-out Woman's Friend colour styling, with all the appeal of the Sunday Post - sexless Presbyterian smelly socks and cabbage water.
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I still have the calendar from 2001 my mum sent me up on the studio wall. It has two Scottie dogs, backed by sprigs of white heather, a horseshoe and a tartan bow. One dog wears a Tam-o-shanter, the other a Glengarrie.
The motto says "Twa wee mascots, white heather-old horshoe- together mean lots of luck for you!
Like just about every present my mother ever bought me specifically, it's dreadful.
It sounds lovely you ungrateful git.
You tell 'im, Diane.
Malc, you're a grown man (if that's not an oxymoronic statement): SPEAK to your mother. Tell her you hate things like that (whatever it is that she buys you that you think is dreadful). Say you'd rather she didn't buy you anything; to send the money she would have spent on you to a charity!
Although, the fact that you still have something dreadful from 2001 still hanging up on the wall does make me think that the calendar can't be as bad as you make out.
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Tell her you hate things like that...... Say you'd rather she didn't buy you anything; to send the money she would have spent on you to a charity!
Vulch, are you really a woman?
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My mother used to buy me things I hated, but that was OK as I used to buy her things she hated. No malice either side - our tastes were just 10 miles apart. Mind you, I wouldn't actually put the things she gave me on the wall, and she used to stuff my presents in the back of a cupboard (generally unopened).
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Tell her you hate things like that...... Say you'd rather she didn't buy you anything; to send the money she would have spent on you to a charity!
Vulch, are you really a woman?
This is a very personal question but, Yes, I am.
AND I'm a mother of two sons and a daughter.
AND I have told my children that something they've bought me is 'not me' and they've changed it.
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Well! I've certainly picked the right time to rejoin the club....calendars, a photo of Callander (a mere 20 miles south of me), boiled rice, a brief look at the huge amount of baking going on....it's good to be back amongst sensible folk again.
Just to answer the original question...I have a Montana calendar on one wall (guess where that came from...the answer is NOT Montana) and on another, Neil Diamond shimmering his way through the months
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I'm glad you're back amongst sensible people too - lord knows how few of us there are left.