- although in his middle-aged mind this tends to get confused. No, today Conrad did not suffer from debilitating thirst, nor did he swill down litres of lemonade and fruit juice followed by pints of water.
He attributes this change in behaviour to sitting directly over one of the floor-mounted vents in The Electric Goldfish Bowl. And do you know what else? There are no radiators for staff to set at "Broil". True, you can't open the windows, but there is an atrium of several million cubic metres just at one's elbow.
| What? Even Roger*? |
Handy And Dandy And Not Just With Candy
Or confectionery of any description. Yesterday I prepared a beef stew for the slow cooker and set it off this morning at 7:00 a.m., arriving back 10 hours later to a very nice braised steak stew. The trick with braising steak is to cook it gently for a long, long time. Never grill it! Or you end up with meat-flavoured rubber.
How good was it, Wonder Wife?
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| That good! |
Last year one of the more dubious and borderline-wicked amusements at BOOJUM! mansion occurred during the heavy snows. We live near the summit and near The Summit, near Summit, of a very steep hill. When the white stuff fell in inches, it became exceedingly difficult for traffic to make it's way up the hill and bus services terminated at the foot because they frankly weren't going to make it up that incline. Drivers of individual cars tried to get up, skidding all over the place, only to give up at our house since there is a road junction there that allows them to turn around and motor-ski back to the bottom.
Where were the denizens of the mansion whilst all this was going on? Why, sitting on the lounge windowledge, gawping, laughing and pointing.
In order to camouflage our diabolical enjoyment of schadenfreude, we have a bit of foliage in the lounge to hide behind this year. Is Wonder Wife all set for some malicious enjoyment of other people's traffliction**?
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| Wonder Wife is not amused. No snow, you see. No snow = no traffic in trouble. |
Well, almost. The Chinese are slowly and seriously creating a space programme that will see them putting boots onto regolith well within your lifetime, gentle reader. They haven't put a man (or woman) up there - yet. The "Jade Bunny" is going to be a predecessor to humans and I refer you to Aunty Beeb:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25178299
Mind you, Apollo did manage it 44 years ago.
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| Buzz. Not as punchy as Neil, but a good man in a tight spot. |
** I made this word up myself. Can you tell?
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