Fairly Gruntled Tonight

"Gruntled" is a word,  correct?  If you can be "disgruntled" then one must be able to be gruntled, or that's how I see it.  Conrad - making the English Language work for him.

Tonight's Cakery Bakery
     Today I decided to make Lemon Drizzle Muffins, to use up a couple of lemons in the fruit drawer, and because I had the necessary yoghurt.  First potential pitfall with muffins - over-mixing.  You only mix until the ingredients are *just* combined, and no more.  Overmix and you get nasty dry muffins.  Second pitfall with these is the temperature, Gas Mark 6, which is high.  If you don't turn the tin halfway through and if you don't take them out early to test, you get nasty burnt muffins.
     Well, Conrad is happy to say the muffins are neither dry nor burnt.  They are cooling off in the lounge, away from our cats.  Thanks to the lemon drizzle I can't simply put a towel over to keep cat hairs off, so they are in a different room entirely.
     These muffins are for Friday morning, so I have tomorrow after work and before the pub quiz to decide whether to bake an additional something for work.

Wallace and Grommit and Storm Thorgerson
     Wallace and Grommit the whole world knows by now, the hilarious duo featured in "Curse of the Were Rabbit" amongst others.  Storm did the cover photography for Pink Floyd amongst others, and is recently deceased.
    What's the connection?  Aardmann Animations did W & G, and have been tasked with a trailer for the Tom Stoppard* play "Darkside", which takes inspiration from Dark Side of the Moon**.  After kicking my PC around the room with toe-tector boots when it failed to play sound properly, I managed to watch the trailer and quite liked it.  A touch surreal, a touch sinister, a touch we're all doomed doomed doomed.  Herein the link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23768213

So - Tanks?


In the Freudian "My gun is bigger than yours" design race, the Churchill AVRE trumped nearly all.

Churchill Crocodile in action.  Their barbecued chicken tasted of petrol ...
 

 The above are variants of the British Churchill tank - incidentally good at climbing hills - during the latter part of WW2.  If a particularly recalcitrant pillbox or bunker were encountered, the AVRE would hit it with a shell the size of a waste-paper bin.  A few rounds of these might encourage the inhabitants to give up.  If not, up tootled the Crocodile, one of the most terrifying weapons of war to ever exist.  It squirted several squirts of unfired fuel, then a last one of definitely fired fuel.  Bunker occupants instantly converted to charcoal.
 
*Tom is actually Czech but chose to become British, showing sound common sense.
** Dark Side of the Moon - come on, I don't need to educate you about this, do I!