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 04/11/2009, 1:24 PM
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thelibrarian
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Afraid not Wallis- just James May who instead of playing with motors or pretending not to know about wine with Oz , has been exploring the joys of pre computer game toys, such as Airfix, Lego and Plasticine, by supersizing them or the projects they are used in.
meccano next week I think. Mostly harmless as TV goes.
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05/11/2009, 5:31 PM
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wallis
 
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thelibrarian
I'm more interested in that new prog about some bloke using kitchen chemistry techniques etc to make his own versions of branded foods...
... whenever I can drag myself away, that is, from recorded episodes of Location, Location, Location
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06/11/2009, 9:31 AM
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thelibrarian
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Oh that Jimmy Doherty? He's a zoologist graduate I think. Yes very interesting-loved his way of homgenising milk It is one of the things that infuriates me about the milk sold by supermarkets- we are cheated unless we buy "Channel Island" milk. Up until Longs Dairy closed, which wasn't that long ago, our doorstop delivery of full milk came with the cream so in spring and summer when the cows went out on grass and the butter fat went up there was a perceptible top to the milk, nice on the cornflakes and the strawberries and enough to take the top off a few pints and show the kids how to make butter by shaking it in a jam jar. Now all the milk is "standardised" at a certain percent of butter fat all year round ( which means they sell the cream separately for more) and homogenised.And whatever they do with it they don't pay the cow owners enough, which is why there are hardly any dairy herds left in Norfolk. I think my doorstep delivery is bottled in Cambridgeshire.
All a long way from watching my grandad pour milk over the cooler and put it in churns for collection.
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06/11/2009, 9:41 AM
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nevermind
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When in the services in Chermany, as wallis calls it it, I was living in a small village with 600 souls in a famrers cottage. Nice bloke, when I moved in he said that if I wanted milk to go into the shed slide open his stainless steel tank and ladel out my fresh, sometimes still warm, milk. he also had a good line in eggs.
The village also had a very old bakery selling the most amazing loafs of black bread, absolutely great stuff, havent had anything better since, they were 2 kilo loafs and after a week and a bit they slowly got harder, but never mouldy, so much for sourdough. nevermind
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07/11/2009, 12:13 PM
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wallis
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thelibrarian
yep, that's the chappie
My experience of the dairy sector is confined to the extremes - working on a mixed farm in France [1970] when the twice-daily milk yield was stored in an on-farm cooled bulk container which was emptied weekly [I think] by a tanker and the price to the farmer paid on quantity X butterfat content X bacterial load... and in the depths of southern Sudan [the following year!] where the twice daily yield was brought to the boil over wood fires in whopping great casseroles, cooled overnight and decanted into ally churns for the morning's bumpy ride down a 30km bush track where it was sold in the only town [Wau, Bahr-elGhazal] a litre at a time on a first-come-first served basis to the locals [AFTER the local 'worthies' - police, army, functionaries...- had had their rations]. the oikery got bugger all, in other words
I once worked [1970] on the construction of Isola 2000 [ski station on the Franco-Italian border] where the only local dairy farmer who'd dug his heels in and refused to sell his land to the developers made a tidy few bob out of floggin' his fresh milk to us [400 thirtsy ne'er-do-wells stuck on a mountainside wiv nowhere to go]
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09/11/2009, 12:25 AM
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ChristopherE
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After a week in Norfolk it takes some time to catch up with the ether.
Seems" Nothing Much" now appears as a comment in other threads.
Never intended. It was always a light dig . Shrimper and Beardsley.
Although it's up to anyone to go as far as they want.
As it's "nothing Much" .Anyway. "Hasta La etc...."
I have been digging a spreading dog daisy patch for the last week..
You take your eye off for a year or so and it is a nightmare.
So what did I know about the dairy problems in Sudan. I regret.... zilch.
But I am much more educationalised now.
ce
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09/11/2009, 4:29 PM
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wallis
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ce
the dairy problems in the southern Sudan are as nothing compared to their other little local difficulties, ChristopherE, not the least of which will be that it now transpires that... just when they thought things could not conceivably get any worse... 'charmless Mark' has bizness intrests in the Sudan
dog daisy patch?
eh? which is it, ce? is your dog called Daisy, or Patch?
howz Doris?
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09/11/2009, 7:58 PM
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ChristopherE
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Dog daisies patch.?
That's an easy one for this time of a darkened evening.
Nothing poltical ,and certainly not a herbal remedy .No you can't smoke them
If you cut them for house flowers they stink. Like wet dogs.
So perhaps considering your comment regarding Mr Mann's pals
you have a good point.
ce
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09/11/2009, 8:13 PM
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SHRIMPER
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09/11/2009, 9:31 PM
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ChristopherE
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Wow ,over a few hours I have become Warren Beatty, as a young gangster.
I am impressed.
I will have to search for Bonnie.
ce
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11/11/2009, 2:14 PM
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ChristopherE
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Well what a surprise,
I spent a year working at the Globe, (Shaftesbury Ave.) on"Daisy pulls it off"...
It is being presented next year at the Watermill Theatre, Nr Newbury. Where I started my vagabond life..
I am planning to visit.And stay in the part of the old home that is a B&B.
My guests( boss at the time), don't yet know, so I may not pull it off.
Still it is a plan, and I have to look to the future.
ce
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12/11/2009, 7:16 PM
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SHRIMPER
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On another thread ce mentioned "Fragging the Lt" Is that the opposite to defragging a computor?
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12/11/2009, 11:09 PM
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ChristopherE
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Grenade up the arse. I believe.
I think it was usually undertaken when a mission was suicidal
Sometimes the computer would benefit with such a wallop.
ce
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