blonde poker forum
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
March 28, 2024, 07:07:58 PM

Login with username, password and session length
Search:     Advanced search
2272476 Posts in 66752 Topics by 16945 Members
Latest Member: Zula
* Home Help Arcade Search Calendar Guidelines Login Register
+  blonde poker forum
|-+  Poker Forums
| |-+  Diaries and Blogs
| | |-+  Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary
0 Members and 20 Guests are viewing this topic. « previous next »
Pages: 1 ... 2073 2074 2075 2076 [2077] 2078 2079 2080 2081 ... 2340 Go Down Print
Author Topic: Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary  (Read 3587149 times)
Karabiner
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 22737


James Webb Telescope


View Profile
« Reply #31140 on: September 09, 2019, 02:19:15 PM »

What is a Wimberry? It sounds like a song by Karl Denver.

I'm surprised you've not heard of The Travelling Wimberries.
Logged

"Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated. It satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time maddening and rewarding and it is without a doubt the greatest game that mankind has ever invented." - Arnold Palmer aka The King.
typhoon13
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 3286


View Profile
« Reply #31141 on: September 09, 2019, 03:09:59 PM »


Was at a shoot dinner on the south Welsh borders and the host was very proud to offer us locally picked Wimberry pie, very nice too

First time I had heard of it and the last
Logged
Pokerpops
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 1423


View Profile
« Reply #31142 on: September 09, 2019, 03:34:50 PM »


Was at a shoot dinner on the south Welsh borders and the host was very proud to offer us locally picked Wimberry pie, very nice too

First time I had heard of it and the last


It’s so much a Welsh delicacy that it features on the Brecon Beacons website. It’s a supper super food too.
http://www.breconbeacons.org/wimberries
Logged

"More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly."
Supernova
Sr. Member
****
Offline Offline

Posts: 920


He who laughs last didn't get it.


View Profile
« Reply #31143 on: September 10, 2019, 10:58:21 AM »

Can find sloes where I am also for the Xmas gin, now if anyone could get hold of a kilo of wimberries for me to make a mucky mouth pie I'd love you forever.

Wimberry is a new one on me as well. We stopped making sloe gin, found a well sweetened sloe vodka the ideal hipflask tipple for a cold winter.

Edit, bilberry or blaeberry up north of the wall. Never found enough to bother with a pie though.


We make more sloe vodka than gin these days too. Mrs Red collects little fancy bottles throughout the year and we give it away as presents.

A wimberry/bilberry/whortleberry is a tiny blue berry (smaller than a blackcurrant) found on moorland and makes the most delicious fruit pie I've every tasted, closely followed by gooseberry imho.

It's a labour of love to pick enough for a pie, you need about a kilo and they are tiny, the bushes are sparse, small and are one of the prickliest bushes in the world, you end up incredibly scratched and bloody. Sloes are easy peasy in comparison.

I make sloe gin and vodka and then use the berries again to make sloe sherry which is gorgeous, the nicest sherry I have made is plum. I have on the go in the kitchen at the moment: rhubarb gin, rhubarb and ginger gin, raspberry vodka, sloe vodka, blackcurrant vodka, violet vodka & plum sherry.

I boxes of small bottles and a fair bit is given as presents to friends at Xmas. A friend gave me a bottle of her home made rumtopf last year and that is lovely. It's too late to make a batch this year and I didn't have the time until it was too late but I'll make some next year all being well.

« Last Edit: September 10, 2019, 11:03:55 AM by Supernova » Logged

And I need you more than want you.
And I want you for all time.
Supernova
Sr. Member
****
Offline Offline

Posts: 920


He who laughs last didn't get it.


View Profile
« Reply #31144 on: September 10, 2019, 10:59:25 AM »

What is a Wimberry? It sounds like a song by Karl Denver.

I'm surprised you've not heard of The Travelling Wimberries.

 thumbs up
Logged

And I need you more than want you.
And I want you for all time.
typhoon13
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 3286


View Profile
« Reply #31145 on: September 10, 2019, 11:06:06 AM »

Can find sloes where I am also for the Xmas gin, now if anyone could get hold of a kilo of wimberries for me to make a mucky mouth pie I'd love you forever.

Wimberry is a new one on me as well. We stopped making sloe gin, found a well sweetened sloe vodka the ideal hipflask tipple for a cold winter.

Edit, bilberry or blaeberry up north of the wall. Never found enough to bother with a pie though.


We make more sloe vodka than gin these days too. Mrs Red collects little fancy bottles throughout the year and we give it away as presents.

A wimberry/bilberry/whortleberry is a tiny blue berry (smaller than a blackcurrant) found on moorland and makes the most delicious fruit pie I've every tasted, closely followed by gooseberry imho.

It's a labour of love to pick enough for a pie, you need about a kilo and they are tiny, the bushes are sparse, small and are one of the prickliest bushes in the world, you end up incredibly scratched and bloody. Sloes are easy peasy in comparison.

I make sloe gin and vodka and then use the berries again to make sloe sherry which is gorgeous, the nicest sherry I have made is plum. I have on the go in the kitchen at the moment: rhubarb gin, rhubarb and ginger gin, raspberry vodka, sloe vodka, blackcurrant vodka, violet vodka & plum sherry.

I boxes of small bottles and a fair bit is given as presents to friends at Xmas. A friend gave me a bottle of her home made rumtopf last year and that is lovely. It's too late to make a batch this year and I didn't have the time until it was too late but I'll make some next year all being well.



Also good to add used sloes into apple pie
Logged
RED-DOG
International Lover World Wide Playboy
Global Moderator
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 46911



View Profile WWW
« Reply #31146 on: September 10, 2019, 11:37:52 AM »

Mrs Red puts used gin & vodka soaked sloes into melted chocolate blobs and then moulds them into simple shapes as liqueurs. They are the most popular of all the sloe products. 
Logged

The older I get, the better I was.
typhoon13
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 3286


View Profile
« Reply #31147 on: September 10, 2019, 11:50:32 AM »

Mrs Red puts used gin & vodka soaked sloes into melted chocolate blobs and then moulds them into simple shapes as liqueurs. They are the most popular of all the sloe products. 

Yum Yummy
Logged
booder
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 12769


Lazy , Hazy days


View Profile WWW
« Reply #31148 on: September 10, 2019, 02:30:15 PM »

<3 Gooseberries.
Logged

Quote from: action man
im not speculating, either, but id have been pretty peeved if i missed the thread and i ended up getting clipped, kindly accepting a lift home.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King Jr
RED-DOG
International Lover World Wide Playboy
Global Moderator
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 46911



View Profile WWW
« Reply #31149 on: September 10, 2019, 03:37:15 PM »

Bollocks bollocks bollocks!

Critical part, so I measured it 5 times.

Wanted to drill at 4 inches, actually drilled at 14 centimetres.

Fuck decimalisation.




 Click to see full-size image.
Logged

The older I get, the better I was.
RED-DOG
International Lover World Wide Playboy
Global Moderator
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 46911



View Profile WWW
« Reply #31150 on: September 10, 2019, 05:25:27 PM »

How do things like this happen, and how come I haven't noticed it in the last 10 years?

The sink isn't tilted, it's level, but look how much the tiles are offset at the top.

The basin is actually warped at one end, the clay must have settled a bit before they fired it.


 Click to see full-size image.
Logged

The older I get, the better I was.
typhoon13
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 3286


View Profile
« Reply #31151 on: September 10, 2019, 05:26:07 PM »

Bollocks bollocks bollocks!

Critical part, so I measured it 5 times.

Wanted to drill at 4 inches, actually drilled at 14 centimetres.

Fuck decimalisation.




 Click to see full-size image.



Way out Tom, you been on dat sloe gin obviously
Logged
RED-DOG
International Lover World Wide Playboy
Global Moderator
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 46911



View Profile WWW
« Reply #31152 on: September 10, 2019, 06:31:52 PM »

750mm Square laminated splashback from the kitchen shop = £104.


750mm Square laminated table top from IKEA = £15.


 Click to see full-size image.
 Click to see full-size image.


Logged

The older I get, the better I was.
tikay
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Online Online

Posts: I am a geek!!



View Profile
« Reply #31153 on: September 10, 2019, 06:36:33 PM »


Very nice job Tom, but you are gonna struggle to eat your tea off that.
« Last Edit: September 10, 2019, 06:38:19 PM by tikay » Logged

All details of the 2016 Vegas Staking Adventure can be found via this link - http://bit.ly/1pdQZDY (copyright Anthony James Kendall, 2016).
RED-DOG
International Lover World Wide Playboy
Global Moderator
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 46911



View Profile WWW
« Reply #31154 on: September 10, 2019, 06:37:51 PM »

Sigh...
Logged

The older I get, the better I was.
Pages: 1 ... 2073 2074 2075 2076 [2077] 2078 2079 2080 2081 ... 2340 Go Up Print 
« previous next »
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.21 | SMF © 2015, Simple Machines Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!
Page created in 0.153 seconds with 21 queries.