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    Well done to this man …

    The greener comment was the opinion of the Telegraph I think. Nick Hoult. Never having played in Pakistan, I will, of course, defer to your knowledge. Re the strip Cricinfo again: ‘ICC's pitch regulations only require the "best possible pitch and outfield conditions" with no stipulations...
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    Well done to this man …

    Cricinfo: ‘Pakistan are set to use the same pitch twice in a row in Multan as they look to respond to their innings defeat against England. Industrial-sized fans were set up at either end of the pitch as both teams held optional training sessions on Sunday after it was heavily watered by...
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    That time of the year already

    We have -5̊C forecast for Saturday night on my hillside. But gets warmer again afterwards. I dare say we will survive. Might have to switch from t-shirts to polo-necks. Nae, it’s only October.
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    Well done to this man …

    Yeah, same venue in a few days’ time. 15th I think. It was reported that the next strip was being watered a lot. Hence… But I see what you are saying, it is most unlikely to be a true green top.. It’s only a three test series. Interesting to see if they change their team.
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    Well done to this man …

    Well that was a turnip for the books. As Zaltz said, ‘that is a record number of records’. And most commentators were still saying the pitch was a flat deck. I dunno. I almost preferred watching England in the late 80s and 90s, when you were sure they would extract defeat from the jaws of...
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    Fish Dishes?

    Oh, Chris, that (bouillabaisse) may be a rabbit hole you don’t want to go down. If you ask a dozen cooks how to make it, you’ll probably get more than a dozen recipes. It can also be a bit of a faff. What I like (and no doubt I’ll get shot down for deviation from some imagined original: and...
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    Fish Dishes?

    I’m pretty certain the Stein mention would be in the 2001 ‘Seafood’ And the Grigson would be Jane. Although her daughter’s book Fish (written with her then husband, William Black?) is very useful. Sorry to be a bit vague – all my cookery books (except what I have on my Kindle) are down in the...
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    Fish Dishes?

    I was mucking around on the computer, and found some pics. Chả Cá La Vong. Monkfish vindaloo. Gravlax with dill potatoes and pressgurka. And back on the subject of dogfish, Stein refers to them as rock eels, I found at the weekend. As does Grigson.. So the eel analogy, however...
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    Well done to this man …

    Were you keeping wicket then? I can see that could be a bit trying. Good workout for the glutes though. Still there are worse experiences on a cricket field. You’ve not seen some of my bowling spells. Boring? No. Depressing? Yes. I believe I have bowled twice against a certain MAA. Once against...
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    Well done to this man …

    Brook has proved to be quite handy too. I doubt I have scored 317 runs in my entire life. And the other Pakistan seem to have turned up today to bat (and one of the Pakistanis - Abrar I think - is in hospital just now) . We shall see…
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    Well done to this man …

    Yip, good effort. Bit of a road at present, may crack up, but to be honest looks like a draw. Root is no. 5 now in total Test runs scored.
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    Rant

    I thought people from Tunbridge Wells (or should that be Royal Tunbridge Wells) were proverbially disgusted, rather than stonking rich. I wouldn’t know, I’ve spent a lot of time out of the UK, maybe my cultural references are a bit off. Obviously only a comment from a retiree from Edinburgh and...
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    Rant

    A while back US corporations were buying up independent UK funeral businesses big style. I was valuing a chain of them at the time. ‘Easy money’ is I think how they saw it. Big margins, little competition. I have never arranged a funeral myself. My partner has: seemed expensive to me. A lot...
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    Don’t forget your covid jabs folks.

    Well, it’s vernacular, lallans, probably. However, not being a linguist, anything spikey, like a needle. Now in the OED. Partick Thistle are referred to as the jags (possibly the only bit of Scottish soccer trivia I know). And I have heard milk thistle referred to as jaggy thistle. Which seems a...
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    Don’t forget your covid jabs folks.

    Mmm, just been invited for my jags. NHS Scotland seem to be quite good once one gets into the system. All notes are copied to me as well as my GP. Takes about a week. And whilst I am not very old, I appear to have got on the ‘medically sensitive’ list. Goodness knows why. They seem to be...
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    Baguettes?

    I have never really cooked a truly successful baguette. Adrian will know more than me, but I think hot oven, heat below, steam injection, a somewhat less hard bread flour and maybe a bit of glucose on the crust. I always get ficelles, when I am entrusted to go out. But, as a diversion, bánh mì...
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    Two of my favorite knives, excellent at keeping an edge and very inexpensive.

    Same website: Nail clippers/nail file Yes No, I don’t understand it at all. Knitting needles are fine too. Pointy metal thing about 300mm long? Do parliamentary draftsmen live in the real world? Actually, I know they don’t. Used to have a flat mate who was clerk at the HoC. So the...
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    Two of my favorite knives, excellent at keeping an edge and very inexpensive.

    Totally agree. Although I have probably lost more of them than anything else on the planet. Except, of course my moral compass(es). But I stopped trying to replace those a long time ago.
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    Two of my favorite knives, excellent at keeping an edge and very inexpensive.

    This is from https://www.gov.uk/hand-luggage-restrictions/personal-items. Copied out just now. Knife (with a sharp or pointed blade and/or blade longer than 6cm) No So it can't be sharp. Or pointed. It's an and/or. Goodness knows how they determine pointyness...
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    Two of my favorite knives, excellent at keeping an edge and very inexpensive.

    Here are the two I usually have. No 08 inox (walnut), and no 12 carbone (beech). Easier to get an edge on the carbone. But both sharpen satisfactorily. Generally carry them because we travel a lot, and normally stay in aparthotels (partner’s onion/cucumber/banana… aversions, which can make...
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