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Great fun but these selfish, ungenerous tops are starting to p**s me off.

Delightful and educational. I’d never heard of Wrest Park and the restoration work on the gardens looks magnificent. Thank you, Robert

Thank you Spyke! I love meatloaf but it wasn’t a common dish when I grew up in uk. I think shepherds/cottage pie with their potato topping were much more well known.

V hard to imagine @PrivateTim like this! Always imagined a hotter version of The Lincoln Attorney with a Carrera 4S….

Can’t open link but would love the mini. Meatloaf recipe. Tim has the page prepared!!!!

Not sure if I like the verb “caved”, @PrivateTim. My old club, The Athenaeum (founded in 1824) suffered turmoils before we finally voted to have women members in 2001. The reason was actually v simple. A member listed all of the then current senior legal, academic and ecclesiastical posts that would have automatically welcomed male holders, but were no longer represented in the Club as they were now held by women. Excellence demands equality. BTW, the Carlton Club, home of the Tories, couldn’t have Mrs Thatcher as a full member, despite her winning three elections…..

At -8°C last March in central Spain I told the owner of the rental I just wanted to go home. One of his hunter dachshunds had cut the power to the boiler so no warmth and then the water got cut off. All this for $3500 for a fortnight of “Hell frozen over”!

Another excellent installment. Thank you Mark. Medusa was good fun!

I’d catch pneumonia!

I’m wearing two pairs of socks at home. One normal cotton pair and thick Nordic socks on the top plus slippers. It’s 21° c inside but the floor tiles are icy cold.

Today’s lunch: 1 large potato thinly sliced 1 large onion thinly sliced pack of scallops - fresh if you are feeling flush, frozen if poor like me! fish/seafood stock - I normally make my own but I bought a bric which was perfect 1 spread the potatoes and onion in a shallow oven pan 2 add stock to just cover the potatoes and put in a hot oven 180°C 3 turn potatoes when almost soft and drain off any excess stock (save it!) 4 for extra crispy potatoes switch oven to grill as you heat up a griddle pan 5 quickly fry the scallops which have been seasoned and anointed with oil DO NOT overcook 6 if posh put potato and onion on serving platter topped with scallops. If normal serve from oven. this is my basic recipe but you can addd garlic, marinade, chilies etc etc total cost today with frozen scallop 15$ for two

Love the colours!,

Totally agree! This story is like a delicious stew gently simmering and gradually coming to the boil. An excellent read.

Worth a prize, Lee!

It’s midnight here in Spain so my recipe must wait! Thank you, dear, Tim x

Hey, you guys are making me hungry 🤤 Tim, perhaps we need a drop in recipe section. Am happy to share my supper menu: fishy slim spring rolls, tagliatelle with prawns, sizzling beef. Oh, the recipes, contact “China Town” restaurant 😂

Exquisite. Thank you.

Went to click on next chp after a binge reading session and….. no new chp. And a mega cliffhanger as my punishment. As ever with our esteemed author, things get better and better

What the man said!

I am in total shock, @Summerabbacat, I only wish I could afford the sports channels to watch it 8 hours a day….. 😜

A great chp. I’m liking this story more and more. Thank you. Sorry @Summerabbacat, another artist I’ve never heard of. Fans of @Mark Arbour have been giving me stick for not know Beach Boys’ songs (apart from “skateboarding USA “ or something like that 😈). When vol 2 of my story comes out there will be links to the hero’s operas ….

Above comment was a compliment, a big one, Robert. Great writing skill.

A truly horrible restaurant scene. I was so angry reading it. WELL DONE @Robert Hugill x

My Mancunian nana used to say, “there’s nowt so queer as folk.” …… the second half of it gave the world “queer as folk”, perhaps …. 😂

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