Dominic Raab did it this morning, whose turn is it to excuse the inexcusable tomorrow?
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
SNOW
Not likely this year. Dismal weather set for the rest of the year – maybe a bit of sun at times.
Sunday 2 Jan – Sunday 16 Jan
Any unsettled conditions during the start of the New Year are most likely to be confined to west and south-western regions, where longer spells of rain, and perhaps areas of snow, are possible with occasional strong winds. Through January, cold air is signalled to develop and remain in place across parts of Europe. From here, there is a chance that an easterly wind could bring periods of cold weather, and associated wintry hazards, to the UK. Milder spells are still likely, with these potentially bringing strong winds, heavy rain, and potential snow. Overall, the period is slightly more likely to be colder than normal although a lot of uncertainty surrounds this.
GETTING IT DONE – WHAT IS “IT”
I have thought he was a bit thick for a while – but does Johnson not realise the irony in his present and only reply to questions about basically anything is that his government ‘are getting it done’. Like Brexit? Like shortages of lorry drivers, like shortages of care home staff, like shortages of NHS staff, like creating 40 new NHS hospitals, like the new railways in the north, like creating ID identification for voting, like suppressing public demonstrations, like cutting the aid budget to the poorer parts of the world whilst shooting about global Britain, like giving awards to Conservative party donors, like trying to change the rules on Parliamentary behaviour on behalf of a MP who broke the rules, who promotes the demonisation of immigrants – past and present, who has wasted £ billions of tax payers money on silly projects like a bridge/tunnel to NI, like made promises of stupid air testing kits for schools, like still has a government where the rules for the summer exams are unclear.
Yes he gets it done – we are all unclear what “IT” is?