Gus Mears

The Divine Comedy are one of my favourite bands and Neil Hannon is an excellent and multifaceted songwriter. None of this is going to stop this film being the absolute shits.

Anthony McGill's new beard is a crime against humanity.

He rips the top off one at a time and downs them like oysters.

Guessing you're over in the Land of the Free based on the copious amount of Smuckers?

Christ. I think I'd just take the immediate execution.

Near Malin in Donegal. Sterling stuff.

So nice even the cow was staring at it

Tesco finest individual Christmas pudding yesterday. Really excellent, might be my go to for the rest of the season. Under 2 quid with a Club Card.

I'm adding a whole sticky toffee pudding with about a litre of double cream to my order.

11 minutes ago, Loki said:

What snooker is upcoming on the BBC?  A lot of it seems to be on channels I can't get now.

UK Championships starts tomorrow. There's also a hatful of tournaments on ITV4 coming up as we approach the new year.

Outside having a mug of tea and heard a Eurasian Curlew! The weekend has peaked and it's still Friday morn.

The police have been round and seized your computer. They've read your posts on shitting backwards and shagging your cousin. The judge was unequivocal in his sentence, you're going to the chair tomorrow.

What are you having and why?

I'd be ordering a Big Fuck Off Cheeseboard. All of the poncey French cheeses I love (hopefully I'm getting fried in the winter so Vacherin is in season) and the expensive biscuits I don't usually buy - some of those charcoal ones, some Melba toast too. A big block of Glastonbury Twanger cheddar, Stilton, red Leicester, wendsleydale. Maybe chuck in a few grapes. If it's my final night anyway, it may as well be with dairy-based stomachache.

I'm over in Eire for a few days, so naturally the first things I've done is buy a multipack of Taytos and a pack of Barry's.

The latter lives up to the hype. A quality brew. Bit more mellow than Yorkshire which is pleasant this time in the afternoon and unsurprisingly pisses all over Typhoo, PG Tips and other associated shite.

Not to go all Duane here but there has to be more to this than meets the (brown) eye. Why would a big shit snap the seat? The physics don't make sense unless you sat down like Earthquake or have an arse like Jimmy Hill's chin.

@SuperBacon Many of the same sort of YouTube channels when I head to bed. This one which is cab views of Norweigian train tracks might be up your alley https://www.youtube.com/@RailCowGirl

So, if I am getting this right, Alan Ravenhill phoned up Haven with a hot tip that one of the wrestlers they are hiring is shoving microphones up their arse? And this resulted in him being asked to run these shows instead?

Don't know why you're celebrating. Trussell Truss will be out of pocket 75 quid this year now.

An awful tournament redeemed only slightly by India losing at home which was objectively hilarious even if it had to be against Australia. As Lion said, the format was gash and it felt like there was about 2 weeks of pointless matches at the end of the group stage. Lack of close matches hurt enormously too.

Looks like cat vom but wife said it was spot on so who am I to judge.

4 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

So are they just like a scone texture then?

Yeah, not dissimilar. They're less crumbly and somewhat different taste. Recipe I used included buttermilk and honey which probably gives it some of that different flavour.

Mrs Mears birthday and she asked if I can cook biscuits with sausage gravy for breakfast tomorrow after we're out on the town later (in her defence she's from North America). Really pleased with how the biscuits turned out, much nicer than the shite I've had at US takeaways unsurprisingly 

Place for any BirdChat, robins to condors. Coming out of a conversation in the things that cheer you up thread.

3 hours ago, Gus Mears said:

I downloaded the Merlin app a while ago, which recognises birdsong and tells you the type that you are listening to. Waves of excitement every time I hear something new and scrabble to my phone to record it. My wife and I recently went on holiday to New Hampshire and I got recordings of all sorts - Hairy Woodpecker, Black-capped Chickadee, Golden-crowned Kinglet. 

It gets you like gardening does. Went recently some local lakes and marshland where rare migratory birds sometimes hang out and saw an advert for a local bird watching group. Ten years ago I would have ignored it completely but now? I'll have signed up by the end of next year I would imagine.

One of the worst things about the house I live in now is the lack of birds in the garden. Last place, despite the fact it backed on the GWR mainline and was in the centre of Reading, had shit loads - red kites and buzzards overhead, robins aplenty and blue tits nesting in the end of the bathroom which was the highlight of the pandemic, watching the brood grow and fly away. Just pigeons wallowing the bird bath now.

I downloaded the Merlin app a while ago, which recognises birdsong and tells you the type that you are listening to. Waves of excitement every time I hear something new and scrabble to my phone to record it. My wife and I recently went on holiday to New Hampshire and I got recordings of all sorts - Hairy Woodpecker, Black-capped Chickadee, Golden-crowned Kinglet. 

11 minutes ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said:

Plexy could. 

Only Anneka Rice.

Fine Monday plate this. Changed up my mushroom sauce and parmentier recipe, both to better results.

It looks tasty by and large but the Pomegranate seeds are a reprehensible addition. Pomegranate and egg? Bring back hanging.