It’s December, it’s dark, the weather is foul and EDL shouldn’t be limited to Friday & Saturday

What ya got?

I’m with you on that. Its sleeting outside, it’s effing freezing and dark and generally ‘orrible

E: Slow-cooker weather, so I have a beef goulash that’s been on all day and is smelling awesome
D: San Miguel
L: Various mixes off the lockdown rave thread 😀

E – Just sliced up and made some skin-on chips in the oven. seasoned with paprika, garlic, salt and oil) with fried egg and baked beans. Chip butty also.

(Egg beans and chips is perfect tonight. Miserable out, even the dog refused to walk)

D – Flat lemonade that was left over, with ice.

L – (now) Masterchef (judge currently enthusing about ‘fruity explosions’ 🤣)
(later) ufo documentary on Youtube (The USS Nimitz signtings)

E: freezer leftovers with spicy sweet potato wedges

D: Hobgoblin ( well it is wintry here)

L: Soul Mining  – The The 😎

I feel like I’m in my early teens again

It’s time for a preprandial…

Chicken and prawn fajitas
Blood orange gin, day 4 of the advent calendar, and tonic
Catch up on Sky

E. Prawn red Thai curry

D punk IPA.

L the clash on Spotify and the crackle of the stove.

E – Bowl of salad and some homemade spicey cauliflower and butternut squash soup

D – Council pop

L – Masterchef then probably watch some Bald and Bankrupt on stupidtube

Bangers , mash and onion gravy
Have I got News For you
Vinsobres St Cosme 2018 (Rhone Red)

🍕 roast gammon, baked potatoes and veg

🍻 Vocation Life & Death

🎵 Doves back catalogue on random shuffle

E: Chips, corned beef, beans. Crusty bread.
D: Tea all day but coffee now to be followed by a couple of bottles of Perla (a 6% Polish Pils) and probably a Dark’n’Stormy around bedtime.
L: A 20Gb shuffle list to get listening to stuff I seldom listen to. Followed by a film of some kind. Currently playing is Wooden Song by the Butthole Surfers.

Down the pub eating a substantial meal.

E:Burger…
D:Tea now after afternoon San Migeul Especials, unfortunately cheaper than coke(diet)
L: nuttin but can hear the strictly 🙁

@Caher – Scotch eggs??

😜

Ribeye, grated sprouts, chestnut mushrooms, lardons and potato slices.
Rioja
Siren on catch up

Scotch eggs??

Unfortunately not. It’s a pizza. But we did 50 miles today so quite diserved. Nice Ibiza-chill tunes for listening fare.

Film turned out to be Man of Steel as I have never seen it. Not bad until the last half hour when it was special effects.

C’mon it’s Friday… let’s have ’em 🍕🍻🎵

Carpet picnic pizza
Cotswolds cloudy Christmas gin and tonic
A Christmas Feast on catch up

Eating a leak pesto and goats cheese tart.

All home made very tasty

Drinking craft beers

Listening to massive wagons live stream from FB….

Scoffed—> pork stir fry with peanut butter sauce.

Rosado

Come On Feel the Lemonheads  on headphones while the rest of the house watch 5th Element .*

*  hope they remember to fast forward through the Lee Evans bits.

Pizza
Punk IPA
Mandalorian, then The Prestige (been afew years, still love it)

E: tartiflette – left over gammon, potato, onion and reblochon

D: various but now on Old Pulteney

L: Bombay Bicycle Club

E: Just Hasslebacked a Keilbasa and am roasting it over peppers/red onion and mushrooms. There is a maple syrup and apricot mix being applied to the sausage now and then. It will be eaten with some of those great Tesco mediterranean flatbreads.
D: Just a can of Carlsberg, later there will be coffee followed by either another Carlsberg or a Dark’n Stormy.
L:Playing the guitar now after wiping the maple syrup off the fingers but later after eating a slumping there will be assorted jazz from Miles and Coltrane. Later still will be the Zappa documentary followed by Rob Zombie’s 31.

None of this is British. How will I manage after Jan 1st?

E: Crispy Duck, selction of Chinese starters
D: Jaipur at the moment, also got a Brewdog ALD IPA.
L: 80’s internet radio station and the hand mixer creating a birthday cake for me in the kitchen

E: Linda McCartney pie with mash and peas
D: Beaudoux
L: Craig Charles funk and soul show on 6 music

Tapas from local pub takeaway
Mulled winterberry gin and tonic
Phil Spector’s A Christmas Gift for You whilst we decorate the Christmas tree

E: Home made paella

D: Anti Establishment IPA (Aldi)

L: Ragga Jungle mix on mixcloud

E: homemade pizza
D: moscow mule
L: Love – Forever Changes

E: Mushroom and nut stir fry/chop suey cooked on the camping gas instant stove (because the electric oven-hobs are the worst lumps of rustyironshite)

D: Council pop

L: A spirited discussion between self and spouse about my just-realised OCD insistence that canned foods be right way up on shelves (just spied a tin of sweetcorn, bumside up. I had to turn back and correct it)

She then declared me laughably ‘inconsistent’ because ‘hah! yr man-cave is full of bloody ‘anomalies!’

My genius grown-up retort happened to be ‘ you’re anomalous!’ And so ended the discussion. And now P-dog is barking. Some drums, methinks.

L: Love – Forever Changes

For every kind of win!
I saw Arthur Lee and John Echols perform it in Brighton 2005. Been my favourite album since forever. I’ve worn out vinyl and cassette copies galore.

It’s Black Eye / Mad Friday…. what’s your EDL?

E mince pies and cream
D coffee
W The King’s choice

E: chicken & squash risotto

D: Cabernet Sauvignon

L: The Lumineers III

E; Homemade Pizza
D; Tea/Punk IPA
L(w); Mando/Snooker

E: A co op hot salami pizza

D: Trapiche Malbec

L: the fall , on the back of a thread a couple of nights ago and reliving my youth ensconced in Corbieres (mcr) with the band ( minus Mark) circa 1982 drinking bottles of Pils

Ooh Corbieres…I spent many a night in there. Best music in Manchester

The best jukebox ever

I’ve just finished work…. it’s Xmas Eve, let’s have ’em!

Finished December billing earlier and took the family for a walk round the local lights.

Time for elvis juice and m+s party food.

Dug out my clubbers Bible 2002 and set it up on the big stereo