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Foreign Products / Tiny Toblerones from USA
« on: March 13, 2008, 03:56:50 pm »
Had some brought back for me from USA. Not the single triangles we get here, these are teeny bars! Hope to upload a pic but not working at the mo 
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General / Bird Question - for Bounty maybe?
« on: November 30, 2007, 10:07:16 am »
Can anyone identify this bird for me?
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General / Throwing food away
« on: November 01, 2007, 01:25:27 pm »
From Sky News:
Who are these people who throw so much away? It's eat or be eaten in my house
Britons throw away a third of the food they buy - and a campaign is being launched to make people more aware of how much they are wasting.
The Government-backed Waste & Resources Action Programme said bins across the UK were being filled with food - at great cost to consumers and the environment.
It found 33% of all the food bought in the UK is thrown away untouched - the same as ditching every third bag of groceries.
This equates to 8bn of squandered produce, and as a result 6.7 million tonnes of food waste is dumped into landfill sites every year.
This rots away - producing 15 million tonnes of carbon dioxide.
Preventing the build-up of this level of CO2 would be the same as taking one in five cars off the road.
Who are these people who throw so much away? It's eat or be eaten in my house
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General / Bought Wispas today
« on: September 27, 2007, 10:32:57 am »
Bought a box of Wispas today 
haven't eaten any yet, I hope they
haven't eaten any yet, I hope they are the same as they used to be.
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General / Separated at birth?
« on: September 18, 2007, 04:03:08 pm »Watching a series called "Kitchen Criminals" on BBC I noticed a distinct similarity between the chef John Burton-Race and Jack Skellington from a nightmare before Christmas
Who do you think were separated at birth?
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General / Opera legend Pavarotti dies
« on: September 06, 2007, 09:39:57 am »The singer, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year, was 71. His charismatic performances - particularly alongside fellow tenors Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras - helped bring a new audience to opera. Pavarotti had cancer surgery in July 2006 in New York, five months after his last performance. He had not made any public appearances since then. He underwent five bouts of chemotherapy in the past year, and was admitted to hospital with a fever on 8 August. He was released two weeks later following diagnostic tests. | ||
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General / Jamie Oliver - New Series
« on: August 21, 2007, 03:40:46 pm »
Yes now he's a cartoon (extract from Yahoo news)
The show - a collaboration between the Naked Chef's Fresh One production company and Aardman Animations, the people behind Oscar-winning creations Wallace and Gromit - tells the tale of a fictional ten-year-old Jamie and his quest to become a chef. Joining him on his journey are a troupe of strange characters, including a mad scientist called Eggs Benedict who has a chicken on his head
"I want to pass on a little knowledge in a fun way," says the 32-year-old chef. " I can't tell you how passionate I am about kids and food."
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Foreign Products / Zip
« on: August 13, 2007, 04:31:35 pm »
Bought a Zip bar in Belgium, tried it today. It's made by Cote d'or (Kraft) in Belgium. It's milk chocolate with caramel and rice. Kind of like a Riesen with rice in it. Very chewy but nice. Worth a try if you like that sort of thing anyway.
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General / Des the Cat
« on: June 12, 2007, 01:44:24 pm »
From BBC News:
Owner's appeal over cat's 26 toes
They say cats have nine lives - so meet Des, who has 26 toes.
While most pet cats have 18 - five on their front paws and four on their rear - the 10-year-old boasts seven on his front and six on his back paws.
The extra digits have left owner Alison Thomas, of Felindre, near Swansea, pondering whether it is a UK record.
One expert said cats with extra toes were common in the area around the old county of Cardiganshire and were sometimes known as "Cardi-cats".
A animal with too many toes is called a polydactyl.
There are unconfirmed reports in north America of cats with up to 28 toes - but Mrs Thomas cannot find records closer to home.
Mother-of-three Mrs Thomas said: "He came to us when he was about six months old - he just turned up on the doorstep and it was even more noticeable then because his paws were so big.
"The first thing people say when they see him even now is 'look at his paws'.
"He is a bit temperamental - if you know him you are okay but Des can be quite quick with his paws and leave a nasty scratch because he has so many claws.
"He did have a problem with his paws a while back - nothing to do with the number of the toes - and the vet said he could amputate the extra ones.
"But they don't cause him any problems - he does not scratch the furniture - the children know and they say 'don't go near Des's claws'."
Mrs Thomas said she had read it was common for a polydactyl to have 24 toes - but 26 was 'very rare'.
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General / My car's windscreen
« on: June 06, 2007, 05:06:59 pm »
So have you heard the advert where the Brummie salesman tells you to have the chip in your windscreen repaired before it turns into a crack and you have to have the whole windscreen replaced?
Well last Sunday I got a chip in my windscreen, so when I got home I called the company in said advert to come and repair the chip. The earliest they could do was today (Wednesday.) Well, whilst repairing the chip (it is done with resin under pressure) the windscreen cracked and now I have to make another appointment to have a whole new windscreen fitted.