My wrist is better – more’s the pity!

It’s been an interesting week all in all. On Sunday I inadvertently did my back in whilst leaning over the dining table to pick something up (sadly not as exciting as it could have been)! So I have been staggering around rather!
The lovely – dishy physio discharged me on Wednesday. He said my wrist was [...]

Master Chef – cooking should get better than this

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So According to the new run of Master Chef -  (The Professionals) :
“Cooking doesn’t get any BETTER than this!”
Well!
Excuse me!
I beg to differ!
Servings of Raw chicken !
Undercooked potatoes!
Failed Profiteroles!
For goodness sake – the amateurs did a lot BETTER
I just hope “ Cooking CAN get better than this! “
If it can’t heaven help us all – [...]

Another ode to Master Chef!

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Hush hush whisper who dares
Master Chef has taken on airs!
Now professional cooks are pitting their skills
At poaching or steaming or occasional grills.
And as temperatures rise and contestants all sweat
We’re told “ Just wait – You’ve seen nothing yet!”
We’re promised the best in Great Plates of Food
But some are just raw and others just stewed!
So Gregg [...]

Olympics over – and it’s back to Masterchef!!

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Phew! Thank goodness that’s all over for another four years. We can all relax back to determined inactivity!
And it’s back to Master Chef – and now we have
Master Chef – THE PROFESSIONALS!
But where’s poor old John Terode – ousted by some Roux or other.
I see the Greengrocer has managed to hang on though [...]

My wrist

Sadly my wrist is responding far too well to the wonderful massage technique of the all-too-handsome physiotherapist. I will be seeing him again next week – I do hope he doesn’t discharge me……!
I blame that cortisone injection the surgeon gave me a couple of weeks ago!  That really started the healing process.  Though at [...]

We must stop using virtual water

So according to one Newspaper this week we’re each consuming over 4,600 litres of water a day. However the majority of this is apparently “Virtual Water”.
So that’s where we’re all going wrong!
No wonder the country is being deluged with  all these downpours. We obviously need to concentrate on getting through more of the real stuff [...]

BMX bike event

Good grief whatever next.
Now that Beijing has introduced “ET” style bike racing as an Olympic sport – which seems to require large people riding tiny bikes – perhaps we could bring in peddle car racing in 2012 – after all we appear to be good at winning medals whilst sitting down.

Roller Pigeon – saved

The rogue sparrowhawk attacked again this afternoon but, by dint of swift action by The Major and yours truly, we were able to rescue it from the clutches of the attacker.  We are still not sure if the victim will live but we have tucked it up in the pigeon loft, with a supply of [...]

Olympics coverage versus cookery

Broadcast – Wednesday 20 August when Terry returned from his ‘bed of pain’!
So what’s happened to all the cookery programmes?
Last week all there seemed to be was endless coverage of people splashing about in swimming pools. Now this week they’re all chasing each other round running tracks – presumably to get dry.
But not [...]

The Bird Fair

The Major and I visited the Bird Fair at Rutland Water this weekend. Always a jolly event. Major Dickie spotted a pair of young birds pushing their tea wagon very early on in the proceedings. A very pretty pair of specimens in shorts, long socks and Wellies and tight T-shirts. Their tea trolley was [...]