If anyone is looking for an absolutely brilliant short series to watch, I can highly recommend “All the Light We Cannot See” on Netflix. Set in the days leading up to the liberation of St. Malo in August 1944, it is the story of a blind teenage girl who acts as a link between the Resistance and the advancing American army. Some standout performances by the likes of Hugh Laurie, Marion Bailey, and Mark Ruffalo as Resistance figures, and by Luis Hoffman and Lars Eidinger as two very contrasting German soldiers, form the backdrop for a staggering portrayal by Aria Mia Loberti, herself a blind actor, of the radio operator Marie-Laure LeBlanc. One of the best war stories I’ve seen for a long time, do have a look.
Taken from Facebook - in case anyone is stressing about Christmas Day..............! Christmas Dinner.... I have concluded that the inevitable stress of Christmas dinner is created by adverts, supermarkets and TV chefs... It's a Sunday dinner for goodness sake!!! The only difference is that you are allowed to open a bottle of wine before you open the kitchen curtains. We do it quite happily 51 weeks of the year but can we the consumers be trusted to manage by ourselves on one day of the year...apparently not! Here goes... 1. Turkey... It's a big fecking chicken that's all, 20 minutes per lb plus 20 minutes at 180 degrees - jobs a good un! Get yourselves a meat thermometer £3 off the Internet poke it in the offending bird if it says 75 degrees or over its cooked! 2. Stuffing - regardless of what Jamie Oliver says you do NOT need 2lbs of shoulder of pork, onions breadcrumbs,pine nuts and a **** load of fresh herbs to make stuffing....( no fecking wonder he's bankrupt if thats what he spends to make stuffing!) What you need is Paxo and a kettle!! If you wanna liven it up squeeze 3 sausages out of their skins and mix that in with your Paxo before cooking. 3. Gravy - Jamie Oliver is copping for this one aswell.... Bisto Jamie.... All you need is Bisto! I ( nor anyone else I know) has got time on Christmas Eve to piss about roasting chicken wings and vegetables, adding stock and flour,cooking it for another half hour, mashing it all up with a potato masher and then straining the whole sorry mess to make gravy 4. Vegetables...Never mind faffing round shredding sprouts and frying them with bacon and chestnuts to make them more palatable... If you don't like them don't buy and cook the fecking things!! If your family only eats frozen peas then that's good enough! 5. Roast potatoes... Yes I par boil mine then roast them in goose fat but Aunt Bessie also does the same. 6. Trimmings /Christmas pudding and the like.... Aldi or Lidl! (oh and while we're on the subject of pudding- if birds custard is what your family likes on the wretched thing then that's fine - you do not need brandy butter /rum sauce etc or anything else that costs a fecking fortune and takes 2 hours to make!) 7. Family.... Children.. Feed the little blighters first separately, if they only want turkey with tomato sauce - fine leave em to it, it doesn't matter. Once they are fed bugger them off to play with their Christmas presents so that YOU can enjoy your dinner in Peace! Adults... Anyone that can manage to get their sorry arse to your dinner table is also capable of helping to serve up/ sort the kids out/ clear the table /wash up /dry up etc. And Finally..... NO ONE.... And I mean no one APART FROM THE COOK IS ALLOWED TO GET PISSED AND FALL ASLEEP BEFORE THE WASHING UP IS DONE!!! Rant over Merry Christmas! Cheers
Even the mere thought of Christmas before the middle of November is almost worthy of a ban Badger! Consider yourself rebuked!
I'm going to make a tree for outside the house this year. Out of pallets. Because I'm like that I'll post a pic when I've finished.
Must be Christmas cos the adverts are on telly. Another good thing about living on the Costas is the lessened amount of Christmas commercialism in the shops just now.
Have you ever heard of Brian the brown nosed reindeer? He is just as fast as Rudolf but not so good at stopping.
Some potential good news for anyone who suffers from high blood pressure. Positive results from a small test should hopefully lead to greater numbers being trialled. The bottom line shows how prevalent high blood pressure is in the UK. A TWICE yearly injection that switches off high blood pressure could soon consign daily pills to history. A single dose of the drug, called zilebesiran, can control the condition for up to six months, with few side effects. The blood pressure of most patients dropped after one jab. This represented a 20% or more reduction in the chances of suffering a heart attack, stroke or other cardiac event. Some people could quit all blood pressure medication. And medics said the injections could be self-administered like diabetes drugs. The breakthrough, unveiled at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions in Philadelphia, was welcomed by cardiologists. Although the study involved just a few hundred patients, the data was hailed as an important shift in the treatment of hypertension. High blood pressure is responsible for half of all heart attacks and strokes. Prof George Bakris, who was involved in the trials, said the idea of ditching daily tablets for two injections a year had patients “standing in line” for the drug. Calling for larger trials, he said: “If this lives up to its promise, it will represent a huge shift in treatment.” High blood pressure affects 14.4 million people in the UK.
Once upon a time there was a chap, who after a bitter divorce, became very lonely. And so he went to the pet store and told the owner he wanted an unusual pet to keep him company. After much discussion, he decided on a centipede, which he immediately named Carl. It came with a little white box which could be used as its house. He took the box home and found a good location for it, and decided that he would start off by taking his new friend to the pub to have a drink. So he peeked into the opening on the box and said "Hey Carl, would you like to nip down to the pub for a beer?" There was, however, no reply, and that bothered the chap a bit. A few minutes later he asked again and said "Hey, how about going down to the pub with me for a beer?" But again there was no answer from his new friend. So he waited ten more minutes thinking about the situation and then decided to ask one more time. He put his mouth up to the opening in the white box and shouted "Hey, you in there, would you like to go to the pub and have a drink with me. At this point, a little voice came out of the box and said "No need to shout, I heard you the first time. hang on a minute, I'm putting on my shoes!"
