OK, has anybody NOT met Robert Plant?

Me to barmaid “Can I have a half ounce of golden virginia please”
Barmaid “Certainly, that will be £x.xx”
Max Miller (sat on barstool) “Alright, mate”
Me “Alright”

maybe read the news a bit more regularly
if you really want to know
http://syria.liveuamap.com/

Don’t take drugs – just get one of these
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/testing-the-vibrating-drugdriving-suit-that-could-cut-road-deaths-a3119806.html

The walk through oak woodland up the estuary from Lawrenny Quay to Garon Pill and back was one of my favourites.

You need less yeast if you use modern fast-acting yeasts because they disperse better than traditional bakers yeast.
All I would add to excellent ideas above is potato bread, basically bread made with equal mashed up cooked potato to flour. It is a little tricky to knead and it makes a good moist white loaf. Nice with a bit of rosemary in it.

Lidl had a fantastic offer four weeks ago – a pack of 6 x 330ml products of Brouweri Van Steenberge for £7.99. Worth keeping your eyes open for next year.

Cold when you make it, hot when you bake it.

My mum and dad both voted by postal vote, one voting in and the other out. If I were them, I wouldn’t have bothered.

a tin of butter beans in tomato sauce, it being greek week in Lidl

They are not difficult things to dig out. You just need to get a fork in the ground then you can get a hand under them and pull. It depends how massive your massive patches are.

Surely if you drink the water first then its gone before you know whether you like the coffee or not? Am I missing something?

Lidl pickled gherkins are the best

I don’t really do tea. I drink espresso when I want caffeine and rooibos when I want liquid.
If you like rooibos keep an eye open for honeybush. It is similar but a bit sweeter. They make a good blend.

Spaghetti and homemade pesto
Goose Island/Proper Job
Dragons v Leinster

and they keep saying “the marshes” when referring to an ombrotrophic mire

glad I didn’t pay money for that

I never see Desires in the shops these days.

2009 grassland macrofungi

I’m ignoring you now

http://www.waitrose.com/shop/ProductView-10317-10001-236252-Booja+%2525252D+Booja+hazelnut+truffles

and lol immensely

Miscanthus is a perennial grass similar to bamboo but it is a more efficient producer of biomass. It is still being developed as a crop but there are commercial UK plantings and it is burnt at Drax power station

Nobody growing/burning Miscanthus then?

Has Turkey bombed Syrian Kurds? I know they fired some shells at Tal Abyad a few weeks ago but I thought their bombing of PKK was only in Iraq (and Turkey)

al-anfal?

“I didn’t like Saddam, but at least we didn’t have war. When you came here, the civil war started.”
Bullshit. Maybe sincerely believed, bur bullshit.

surely an obvious difference between his version of justice and “ours” is the his version was inflicted on aid workers and journalists and “ours” was inflicted on a self-confessed murderer who provided video proof of his own guilt?

He plays on Brian Eno’s Another Green World and on some of John Cale’s best stuff.

Not sure if this is an autumn soup but it is a current favourite. The recipe is quite frugal which I like but you could add stock, cream, even bacon I suppose, if you wanted. Just use loads of parsley and barely cook it so it stays bright green. http://www.tarladalal.com/Potato-and-Parsley-Soup-33960r

Just had a pack of veggie samosas that was reduced in Morrisons. With lime pickle.
Drinking a Proper Job IPA from St Austell Brewery.
Listening to Grace Jones on 6 Music

I’m going for Sheps IPA. Generous with both malt and hops, 6.1%, and £1.50 for 500ml in the supermarkets. Whats not to like?

Feeding a cat a vegetable diet is problematic because the amino acid balence in vegetable proteins causes alkaline conditions in the digestive system and leaves te cat vulnerable to urinary tract infections. If a food is properly formulated to avoid this (and contains synthetic taurine, as all commercial catfoods do anyway)then there is no nutritional reason why a cat can’t eat a vegan diet. However, they are fussy buggers and possibly wouldn’t eat it (when they can go next door). (Personally, I wouldn’t keep a cat anyway.)

If land is unsuitable for arable food production it could be used for wood or other bioenergy crops for fuel

“Veganism is a way of living which seeks to exclude, as far as is possible and practicable, all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose.”

Some of the iron in meat is part of protein complexes which makes it more digestible than that in vegetables.

GrahamS – Consider that she may have been a complete fruitloop anyway before becoming vegan

There are plenty of bottled vegan beers but few cask ones. Exceptions include Sam smiths, Hastings Brewery and Brass Castle

…..for winter flowers on bare stems and scent

Dwarf conifers, No. If you want winter interest get a Hamamelis.

Thanks to this post and to Wikipedia I now know that I am 4.09 miles from the birthplace and home of Caradog Jones, the first Welshman to reach the summit of Everest.