Author: Richard

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WHAT A STRANGE WORLD

we live in. Front page of Guardian today – Sunak announced a £1billion bail out package for hospitality firms across the country. AND Sheikh Mohammed has to pay £500 million in divorce package. Economics has gone mad.

OH MY – I am just reading more on the divorce. Children now aged 14 and 9 had an allowance of £10 million each! and access to a fleet of planes including a Boeing 747 and a $400 million boat and helicopters. The parents even spent £2 million on strawberries in one summer – how is that possible? Best Cheddar strawberries (which are totally scrumptious) are about £10 kg. 200000 strawberries is a lot!

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BOOKS

I have just got sorted with books for xmas. Beside the romcom on apple books, I have James O’Brien, Wildlife Gardening by Chris Baines (NHS), Neil Oliver, a plethora of cookbooks, my grandsons xmas present which I have not wrapped so I can read it – football almanac, and a few others.

52+1 times Britain was a bellend. Rose Elliot – New Complete Vegetarian.

I welcome suggestions.

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COVID

The government showed how it was decisive, or is that divisive? No new restrictions is what we want you to hear because “Boris saves Christmas” is our theme tune this year – but do not mix with anyone please! Unless it is a worked party or involves meeting loads of people inside. And if you get cold and die it is therefore your fault. Those against advising further restrictions include Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak, Nadhim Zahawi, Sleaze-Dogg and the hounds from hell. Is this a case of humanityLife) versus capital (money).

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WHISKY AND ORANGE XMAS PUDDING

250g dried mixed fruits

175g stoned dates

85g dried cranberries

1tbsp grated ginger

Grated zest 1 orange and juice

100ml whisky

100g butter

2 large eggs beaten

50g s-r flour

1tsp ground cinnamon

85g walnuts

Topping

100g butter

100g muscovado light sugar

50g walnuts

50g dried cranberries

1 orange

3tbsp whisky

Swarm dried fruits and stuff for 10 mins to make sticky

Beat butter sugar eggs and flour and stir in fruits.

Put in pudding basin, cover with greaseproof and foil.  

Put in large pan and half fill with boiling water and steam for 

3 hours topping up water regularly.

Sauce – melt butter and sugar, add walnuts and stir, and add rest and simmer until bubbling, rich and syrupy. Cool.

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RESIGN

Obviously anyone with some integrity would resign. And still the thralls come out to justify the absurd! However maybe the nasty party has too many potential criminal cases pending (If we had an impartisan police force). How many MP’s have a clear conscious? Now overthrow the greatest liar we have seen in No.10 and then prosecute all those who have broken the law.

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JAMES WEBB

Something to look forward to Space telescope tinselled up – Final preparations are under way for the launch of the James Webb space telescope, built to peer back through space and time to the first stars and galaxies that lit up the universe. Regarded as the successor to Nasa’s Hubble space telescope, the mission is scheduled to blast off on Christmas Eve from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. More than 30 years in the making, Webb will orbit the sun, unlike Hubble, which circles the Earth. Its destination is the second Lagrange point, or L2, where the balance of gravitational forces will hold it in place between the Earth and sun.

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COVID

The public has lost confidence in the government – a good friend told me she was changing her plans for Christmas (which included visiting her grandmother). Personally I hope she does not come to regret this, but totally understand her logic. People can go to a pub and the Government,ent has said office parties should not be cancelled. Mixed messages and dithering.

I would recommend people to look at the government statistical web site and perhaps make their own decisions. The figures are dated so one can see where they are lagging (e.g. the maps tend to be 5 days behind).

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WORDS

A new word – to me this year is egregious meaning outstandingly bad; shocking.

And some words I had not come across for a while – scrumptious, ravenous, yum.

And some of my favourites – baobab, granite, cumulus, cirrus, sesquioxide.

And one I dislike sayings it makes me sound like I have a speech impediment –rural

A few more – efficacious, aplomb, excruciating, superfluous.

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TOMATO SAUCE +

Onion, garlic, olive oil, can tomatoes, tomato puree or sun dried, pepper, sugar (pinch) and depending on meal – red wine.

Cook onion gently for 10 mins, add toms and garlic and simmer to reduce to a sauce. Also add herbs of choice or a little chilly.