Marty
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Yea, you're right. A bit of a tear jerker indeed. Eagerly awaiting the next chapter! As an aside, I was completely flummoxed when you mentioned rag pudding. Having Googled it, I am now amazed I never came across it when I was growing up in the Manchester area, especially as my mother actually worked in the cotton mills when I was a child. Perhaps the reason was because, even though we only lived six miles from the centre of Manchester, we were actually in Cheshire, not Lancashire. But a favourite recipe of my mother's was steak and kidney pudding, which I suspect may have been the local variant of the rag pudding...
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Good afternoon, Albert. (Sorry, it was too wet today for gardening... )
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Well if he wants pictures of me naked whilst gardening.... Hey, Gary!
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Seems like Bill slipped Jason some sort of date-rape drug. Whether he was intending to rape him himself, or he had planned to sell him to one or more of the people he had been dealing with during the day, isn't clear. Hopefully Jason will make a full recovery and the hospital will identify whatever drug Bill added to the coffee. But I'm not sure all that sure whether anyone in authority will be able to pin it on Bill. Now, I wonder if Steve and Kate have room for another foster child..?
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If you insist... You offering to be the naked photographer?
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Okay... The cake is baked. A skewer inserted through the middle of it came out clean and dry. I'll leave it in the baking tin to cool overnight and head to bed now. Chat yous all on the morrow, gang!
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Now there's a thought...
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Well here's a photo I took on Wednesday of the lower part of the back garden, near the house itself: (I think there's a stone built garden shed under all those bushes on the right. It may need re-roofing once I rescue it, though )
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God so loves a trier!
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Now... whilst the cake is baking, I have to edit some photographs... Chat yous all later.
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One of them is actually going to Germany with a friend. I'll bring the other one to England when I go over to my sister's for Christmas. Sorry, buddy, I won't have time to make a third one to post across The Pond...
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I actually met a young friend for lunch today and had fish and chips (with a side salad).
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I could tell you ... ... but, as it's my own secret recipe, I'd then have to kill you. Actually it's a version of a Rich Fruit Cake. A typical recipe can be found here. But, as I say, I've adapted it for my own use. In particular, I have used different spices to give it a seasonal flavour. A rich fruit cake only improves with age. It will be wrapped in baking parchment and tinfoil, and unwrapped at weekly intervals and a dessert spoonful of Irish Whiskey carefully poured over to soak into it. About a week before Christmas, I'll cover it in marzipan (almond paste) and then ice it a few days before the big day.
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I'm currently mixing the ingredients for my second Christmas cake...
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In parts of Scotland they call fish and chips "Fish Supper" Apparently they are often bought on the way home after a night in the pub.
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That makes you sound totally British! I assumed they'd be called Fish & Fries on your side of the pond... Or are you having fish and the following?. (What we call crisps our side of the pond, but I believe you call chips...) Enjoy, anyway!
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I think every reader will have noticed that!
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Hey, Gary! Not moved in yet. Finally got oil delivered today; but boiler not working. May be a fault in the boiler, or just an air lock in the fuel line. I'll try and get a technician to look at it over the weekend, or early next week. The house has been standing unoccupied for at least ten years. Don't see me moving in any time soon. Have to get the heating sorted first, and get the inside dried out. Might not fully move in till the spring. The small house (apartment) I am renting at the moment is almost beside it, so I can do bits of work, and certainly tidy the garden, in my own time.
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Greeting. young Albert.
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Oh look! A ghost! It must be halloween... Hi, Higster
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Well, the Major certainly got put in his place! Good for Ward Sister Judy. Poor Danny. Hopefully the school will do the right thing. Either that, or hopefully the school he moves to will have better bullying policies in place. (I can't help wondering what's going on at The Boot whilst all this drama is going on elsewhere..)
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Hey, Gary
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II see someone's getting into the spirit of the season... Hi, Albert!
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Just after 1am here. Think it's time for my beddy byes.
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Sounds yummy! I've got a Christmas cake baking in the oven.
