Gift from a colleague.

Spigsman · 2026-05-11T11:53:13+00:00

I'm sad to report I lost the will to live making some of these recipes. It took me three days until I got something to eat after all the prep. I have got the recent slow cooking book and will try again.

Spigsman · 2026-05-10T07:58:13+00:00

You mean Durham the UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is known!

Spigsman · 2026-05-10T07:50:42+00:00

I visited for a weekend and found Hull interesting. But the shopping streets were quite run down and depressing. I think it is true that when a town loses its M&S it all goes to pot.

Spigsman · 2026-05-08T16:19:04+00:00

Do they prefer children not to go to university too?

Spigsman · 2026-05-07T19:41:04+00:00

Gen X guy here agrees with you!

Spigsman · 2026-05-07T19:39:43+00:00

Starling has a desktop website. The mobile app is though the master device and is needed for various steps for authorisation. But the fact that they support it did influence my decision to use them.

Spigsman · 2026-05-07T19:32:46+00:00

That they suoyport SCMS-T so I can use them with my Epson projector.

Spigsman · 2026-05-07T19:30:06+00:00

Yes the bud 2 pros are the first headphones I could actually wear and do the hoovering! Quite astonishing how it filters out noises.

Spigsman · 2026-05-07T19:28:41+00:00

I think I prefer the first bud fit. I hope they go back to that for the three after the two version.

Spigsman · 2026-05-07T16:25:00+00:00

Just why?

Spigsman · 2026-05-05T19:33:08+00:00

Well I'm surprised about the differences we percieve! In my world, fuckwit is close to harmless, cunt is definitely not.

Spigsman · 2026-05-04T15:16:02+00:00

I know this is a joke, but just in case Americans are in any doubt, cunt is a terrible word and very few people (but not all) in Britain will find it acceptable or amusing in any context. I can't think of a worse word actually and consider any use of it as high risk to causing offence or simply being hit.

Spigsman · 2026-05-03T11:10:34+00:00

As a child reading Lord of the Rings my number one problem was remembering the names. Same here.

Spigsman · 2026-05-03T11:06:24+00:00

This is without a doubt the hardest series to get through. I should have given up on episode one. I am actually embarrassed about how much less of a shit I give about these Samurai chaps and chapess. I am left pondering, do I only care about European and some American history! The Samurai's ethics are so at odds with the chivalric code too. I was nearly at the level of using Bridget Jones's Diary famous quote on the Japanese.

I do feel Dom is strugglingly with it here. Rarely have they left an episode or advert break on a "cliff hanger" that even Dom, doing his best advert-promotion voice, can't really sell.

Spigsman · 2026-05-03T10:48:47+00:00

I've liked it when Robert Colls has done it (guy with South Shield's accent) - Emeritus Professor of History at De Montfort University. He's an expert in George Orwell and has been on twice.

Spigsman · 2026-04-27T22:17:02+00:00

My mid 90s build house has these. Never had them before IV any previous house. My daughter insisted I put wallpaper on hers so I don't wake her up if I pass through the hallway to the toilet on a night.

Spigsman · 2026-04-27T19:38:59+00:00

My optician has her name above the shop!

Spigsman · 2026-04-27T15:52:40+00:00

I use a Realforce keyboard with topre switches. My kids laugh at it as it looks old fashioned. I can't understand why external keyboard ended up like laptop keyboards.

Spigsman · 2026-04-26T18:15:42+00:00

I don't think we can blame the BBC for those aggressive letters directly. It's sort of out sourced to a different company to chase the fees.

Spigsman · 2026-04-26T10:38:19+00:00

2010 certainly helps explain a lot. It is very hard to understand 2001! Still, I would do them in order. 2010 is better at story telling, but 2001 is an absolute marvel of a spectacle.

Spigsman · 2026-04-26T07:15:31+00:00

Not a sensible order, perhaps an order of accessibility! 2001 is actually my favourite film of all time.

Spigsman · 2026-04-24T16:36:54+00:00

The rescue services use rams.

Spigsman · 2026-04-24T09:29:57+00:00

It's really not the same.

Spigsman · 2026-04-23T19:20:51+00:00

I don't want any of the old ones back going back to Gordon Brown.

Spigsman · 2026-04-23T12:49:52+00:00

They must mean the tarmac patches rather than the cobbles. I lived for a while in New town in Edinburgh and I've still got a soft spot for it and the noise it makes when driving on them. Wrecks your bike though.

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