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MyLittleStudPony wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2024 10:35 pm That looks a bit bowel cancery. Is there a vegetarian option?
A mug of chips.
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KungFooBob wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2024 10:37 pm
MyLittleStudPony wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2024 10:35 pm That looks a bit bowel cancery. Is there a vegetarian option?
A mug of chips.
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I was hopeful for a leek gratin.
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MyLittleStudPony wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2024 10:35 pm That looks a bit bowel cancery. Is there a vegetarian option?
Cornbread, pickles and coleslaw have got your name on 'em.

Oddly they do offer veggie & vegan options, but I can't imagine a vegan is going to sit in a bbq joint surrounding by meat and smoke without having a breakdown :obscene-birdiedoublered:
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I haven't been eligible for a COVID jab for about three years, you old gits. I'd take one if it was offered in a heartbeat though.

Had my flu jab on Monday - I got the flu six years ago, it lasted eight days, I lost half a stone, and missed my Christmas dinner. I'll be avoiding that again if possible 👍

This weekend I'm not planning on doing much tbh.
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MrLongbeard wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2024 11:11 pm
MyLittleStudPony wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2024 10:35 pm That looks a bit bowel cancery. Is there a vegetarian option?
Cornbread, pickles and coleslaw have got your name on 'em.

Oddly they do offer veggie & vegan options, but I can't imagine a vegan is going to sit in a bbq joint surrounding by meat and smoke without having a breakdown :obscene-birdiedoublered:
I'm just breaking your balls, I'd have the BBQ, that meat looks spot on. :thumbup:
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Sunny wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2024 11:28 pm I haven't been eligible for a COVID jab for about three years, you old gits. I'd take one if it was offered in a heartbeat though.

Had my flu jab on Monday - I got the flu six years ago, it lasted eight days, I lost half a stone, and missed my Christmas dinner. I'll be avoiding that again if possible 👍

This weekend I'm not planning on doing much tbh.
How do you get flu and no booster??? I get the flu jab as my immune system is a bit buggered so that gives me a covid invite with the old duffers. Bloody waiting room smells of wee and werthers originals.


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Sunny wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2024 11:28 pm I haven't been eligible for a COVID jab for about three years, you old gits.

Jog on, I'm only bloody 50 :obscene-birdiedoublered:
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MrLongbeard wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2024 11:49 pm
Sunny wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2024 11:28 pm I haven't been eligible for a COVID jab for about three years, you old gits.

Jog on, I'm only bloody 50 :obscene-birdiedoublered:
Only? There's less in front of you than there is behind... ;) :D
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Biggest example of gluttony I've ever seen was in a place called Dallas BBQ in NYC. Even the chairs were big but looking around it wasn't hard to see why they were. I've never seen such ridiculous piles of food and pile was a more apt description than portion. Even the fries came in a washing up sized bowl. It was just a load of greasy slow cooked shit slathered in sickly BBQ sauce. They even ruined the slaw with too much sauce over it. We both felt a bit overwhelemed by all the scoffing going on with people processing huge piles of food in a washing machine styled mouth. We left amid questions of what the problem was and went for a normal dinner later. :thumbdown: Only good thing to come out of going in there was I looked slim in there! :D
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Count Steer wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2024 9:00 am Going to an exhibition of the works of Raymond Briggs and visiting some Sussex food centre for a bit of a jolly as it's sunny today. :thumbup:

Rest of the week will be made up as it goes along.
Raymond Briggs?

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Was he the co-inventer of the mechanised ditchpump?
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Felix wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2024 11:47 pm How do you get flu and no booster???
Pay Boots £15 to do it.

I'm young enough and healthy enough to not qualify for anything like that on the NHS.

Having now had the decidedly not joyful experience of proper flu twice in my life, I'll sign up to any attempt to avoid it. Same would go for COVID jabs if paying private was an option.

Meanwhile I've now formulated some further weekend plans, and will be sorting out some old tools, and preparing the mower for its visit to the mower doctor (my FiL attempted to mow some raised ironwork with it. It did not go well 😬).
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Doing stuff but down south.There's things on Ebay that might bear some looking at while I'm down here.
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cheb wrote: Sat Oct 12, 2024 9:36 am Doing stuff but down south.There's things on Ebay that might bear some looking at while I'm down here.
Don't be cryptic now, let's see
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Oh no, not at the price/state of bidding they are now. Excepting the left hand bowl stainless sinks with two tap holes.

Just because I'm on the big island doesn't mean I look at more exciting things.
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demographic wrote: Sat Oct 12, 2024 9:25 am
Count Steer wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2024 9:00 am Going to an exhibition of the works of Raymond Briggs and visiting some Sussex food centre for a bit of a jolly as it's sunny today. :thumbup:

Rest of the week will be made up as it goes along.
Raymond Briggs?

Don't tell me, I think I know this one...

Was he the co-inventer of the mechanised ditchpump?
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I think he was the cartoon man. Possibly the Snowman was his.
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MrLongbeard wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2024 9:52 pm
MrLongbeard wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2024 8:25 am
Only thing planned is going out to a local BBQ place https://hickorys.co.uk/ for dinner tonight
Sharing platter for 2!!!!!!!!!, we brought half of it home, who sets these portion sizes

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Next time you're out Matlock way, Buddy's is worth a visit, if you haven't been. A bit Americany and works well. Some great choices of meat platters. We tried a small plate mid afternoon and was superb. Would love to go again for an evening feast.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/2uGGxwuNEHhNC6Y98
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Felix wrote: Sat Oct 12, 2024 9:44 am
demographic wrote: Sat Oct 12, 2024 9:25 am
Count Steer wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2024 9:00 am Going to an exhibition of the works of Raymond Briggs and visiting some Sussex food centre for a bit of a jolly as it's sunny today. :thumbup:

Rest of the week will be made up as it goes along.
Raymond Briggs?

Don't tell me, I think I know this one...

Was he the co-inventer of the mechanised ditchpump?
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I think he was the cartoon man. Possibly the Snowman was his.
+ a whole lot more. 'When the Wind Blows', 'Ethel and Ernest' and 'The Tin Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman' to name but 3.

Lovely chap and really interesting to see what went into the making of, what I think of as, his works of art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Briggs
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Dodgy69 wrote: Sat Oct 12, 2024 10:05 am
MrLongbeard wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2024 9:52 pm
MrLongbeard wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2024 8:25 am
Only thing planned is going out to a local BBQ place https://hickorys.co.uk/ for dinner tonight
Sharing platter for 2!!!!!!!!!, we brought half of it home, who sets these portion sizes

Image

Next time you're out Matlock way, Buddy's is worth a visit, if you haven't been. A bit Americany and works well. Some great choices of meat platters. We tried a small plate mid afternoon and was superb. Would love to go again for an evening feast.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/2uGGxwuNEHhNC6Y98
Mmmm they have one in Wrexham I may visit in a couple of weeks
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Count Steer wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2024 9:02 am
KungFooBob wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2024 8:56 am Dave the cat is going for his 2nd set of jabs Saturday, then a curry with some friend, hopefully try to find time time when it's not raining to get some more running in miles on the BSA.
That's very social cat, made friends already. Curry? I thought they preferred Greek food like mouseaka. :D
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KungFooBob wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2024 8:56 am Dave the cat is going for his 2nd set of jabs Saturday, then a curry with some friends
Your cat likes curry?
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Yesterday - bit of drama at school (one guy didn’t come back after the afternoon break having heard he’d failed his test for the second time 😞)

Then drove home a bit late after unsuccessfully looking for him with some of the others

Stopped to pick up a parcel (can now do my hair properly this weekend) then drove home via the only place open to stop and have pizza with two really good friends

So a bit of a late night for me (sober tho, had to drive home!)


Today, had coffee at a mate’s then rode to the valley to have coffee and a veggie pasty at my mates shop!
Heading home soon to ‘do me roots’ and a LOT of homework!! And a bit later do some re-pinking of hair!!!

Tomorrow - hopefully (weather dépendant) heading to the valley for a cinnamon roll and to catch up with a couple of mates. Then home for more homework
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