You don't need to be an 'investor' to invest in Singletrack: 6 days left: 95% of target - Find out more
It's December, it's dark, the weather is foul and EDL shouldn't be limited to Friday & Saturday
What ya got?
I'm with you on that. Its sleeting outside, it's effing freezing and dark and generally 'orrible
E: Slow-cooker weather, so I have a beef goulash that's been on all day and is smelling awesome
D: San Miguel
L: Various mixes off the lockdown rave thread 😀
E - Just sliced up and made some skin-on chips in the oven. seasoned with paprika, garlic, salt and oil) with fried egg and baked beans. Chip butty also.
(Egg beans and chips is perfect tonight. Miserable out, even the dog refused to walk)
D - Flat lemonade that was left over, with ice.
L - (now) Masterchef (judge currently enthusing about ‘fruity explosions’ 🤣)
(later) ufo documentary on Youtube (The USS Nimitz signtings)
E: freezer leftovers with spicy sweet potato wedges
D: Hobgoblin ( well it is wintry here)
L: Soul Mining - The The 😎
I feel like I'm in my early teens again
It's time for a preprandial...
Chicken and prawn fajitas
Blood orange gin, day 4 of the advent calendar, and tonic
Catch up on Sky
E. Prawn red Thai curry
D punk IPA.
L the clash on Spotify and the crackle of the stove.
E - Bowl of salad and some homemade spicey cauliflower and butternut squash soup
D - Council pop
L - Masterchef then probably watch some Bald and Bankrupt on stupidtube
Bangers , mash and onion gravy
Have I got News For you
Vinsobres St Cosme 2018 (Rhone Red)
🍕 roast gammon, baked potatoes and veg
🍻 Vocation Life & Death
🎵 Doves back catalogue on random shuffle
E: Chips, corned beef, beans. Crusty bread.
D: Tea all day but coffee now to be followed by a couple of bottles of Perla (a 6% Polish Pils) and probably a Dark'n'Stormy around bedtime.
L: A 20Gb shuffle list to get listening to stuff I seldom listen to. Followed by a film of some kind. Currently playing is Wooden Song by the Butthole Surfers.
Down the pub eating a substantial meal.
E:Burger...
D:Tea now after afternoon San Migeul Especials, unfortunately cheaper than coke(diet)
L: nuttin but can hear the strictly 🙁
Ribeye, grated sprouts, chestnut mushrooms, lardons and potato slices.
Rioja
Siren on catch up
Scotch eggs??
Unfortunately not. It's a pizza. But we did 50 miles today so quite diserved. Nice Ibiza-chill tunes for listening fare.
Film turned out to be Man of Steel as I have never seen it. Not bad until the last half hour when it was special effects.
C'mon it's Friday... let's have 'em 🍕🍻🎵
Carpet picnic pizza
Cotswolds cloudy Christmas gin and tonic
A Christmas Feast on catch up
Eating a leak pesto and goats cheese tart.
All home made very tasty
Drinking craft beers
Listening to massive wagons live stream from FB....
Scoffed---> pork stir fry with peanut butter sauce.
Rosado
Come On Feel the Lemonheads on headphones while the rest of the house watch 5th Element .*
* hope they remember to fast forward through the Lee Evans bits.
Pizza
Punk IPA
Mandalorian, then The Prestige (been afew years, still love it)
E: tartiflette - left over gammon, potato, onion and reblochon
D: various but now on Old Pulteney
L: Bombay Bicycle Club
E: Just Hasslebacked a Keilbasa and am roasting it over peppers/red onion and mushrooms. There is a maple syrup and apricot mix being applied to the sausage now and then. It will be eaten with some of those great Tesco mediterranean flatbreads.
D: Just a can of Carlsberg, later there will be coffee followed by either another Carlsberg or a Dark'n Stormy.
L:Playing the guitar now after wiping the maple syrup off the fingers but later after eating a slumping there will be assorted jazz from Miles and Coltrane. Later still will be the Zappa documentary followed by Rob Zombie's 31.
None of this is British. How will I manage after Jan 1st?
E: Crispy Duck, selction of Chinese starters
D: Jaipur at the moment, also got a Brewdog ALD IPA.
L: 80's internet radio station and the hand mixer creating a birthday cake for me in the kitchen
E: Linda McCartney pie with mash and peas
D: Beaudoux
L: Craig Charles funk and soul show on 6 music
Tapas from local pub takeaway
Mulled winterberry gin and tonic
Phil Spector's A Christmas Gift for You whilst we decorate the Christmas tree
E: Home made paella
D: Anti Establishment IPA (Aldi)
L: Ragga Jungle mix on mixcloud
E: homemade pizza
D: moscow mule
L: Love - Forever Changes
E: Mushroom and nut stir fry/chop suey cooked on the camping gas instant stove (because the electric oven-hobs are the worst lumps of rustyironshite)
D: Council pop
L: A spirited discussion between self and spouse about my just-realised OCD insistence that canned foods be right way up on shelves (just spied a tin of sweetcorn, bumside up. I had to turn back and correct it)
She then declared me laughably ‘inconsistent’ because ‘hah! yr man-cave is full of bloody ‘anomalies!’
My genius grown-up retort happened to be ‘ you’re anomalous!’ And so ended the discussion. And now P-dog is barking. Some drums, methinks.
L: Love – Forever Changes
For every kind of win!
I saw Arthur Lee and John Echols perform it in Brighton 2005. Been my favourite album since forever. I’ve worn out vinyl and cassette copies galore.
It's Black Eye / Mad Friday.... what's your EDL?
E mince pies and cream
D coffee
W The King's choice
E: chicken & squash risotto
D: Cabernet Sauvignon
L: The Lumineers III
E; Homemade Pizza
D; Tea/Punk IPA
L(w); Mando/Snooker
E: A co op hot salami pizza
D: Trapiche Malbec
L: the fall , on the back of a thread a couple of nights ago and reliving my youth ensconced in Corbieres (mcr) with the band ( minus Mark) circa 1982 drinking bottles of Pils
Ooh Corbieres...I spent many a night in there. Best music in Manchester
The best jukebox ever
I've just finished work.... it's Xmas Eve, let's have 'em!
Finished December billing earlier and took the family for a walk round the local lights.
Time for elvis juice and m+s party food.
Dug out my clubbers Bible 2002 and set it up on the big stereo
A cheeky Heineken (I am on-call, so just the one).
Pizza
Muppet Christmas Carol
fillet beef in red wine sauce cantonese style
sweet and sour chicken hong kong style
special fried rice
started with ghost ship going for a fleurie with the chinese.
Project Binky and other utube banality
E: 3 course christmas meal, pate and toast, christmas dinner, then christmas pud with brandy sauce.
D: started on the baileys as i was making mince pies this morning, now on the prosecco. will be continuing with plum porter shortly then rum.
L: christmas radio im afraid. she loves christmas so i let her have control of the radio for these couple of days. only christmas mind......
E: A selection of fine meats and cheeses, garlic bread hummus, olives, SD tomatoes, crisps
D: Aperol Spritz! A reminder of Italian holidays past, and looking to a better 2021
L: Spotify Christmas Hits mix. To be followed by a series of South Park Christmas Episodes
La chouffe drinks
Pizza eats
A Dickens adaptation thing
Merry Christmas
Nice walk up around Howarth, even a flurry of snow.
Fish Pie.
Bollington Oat Mill Stout
Strauss Oboe Concerto.
E: trout, parsnip mash and veg
D: Morrisons Douro
L: The National
Tofu massaman
Nanny state
QOTSA
E: Cheese roll with sandwich pickle, crisps, lentil soup, followed by almond finger, chocolate. Omeprazole
D: MHB Feel Good (from a polypin)
L: Dog snoring
@p7eaven - us cool kids are on esomeprazole, the PPI of distinction
It's New Year's Eve Eve!!!!
Just got back from a very cold walk..sat drinking Little Valley Stoodley Stout in front of the fire.
What's your EDL?
Lamb shank is slow cooking along with a medley of veg.
Mad Fish Shiraz
Virus update at the moment whilst re planning tomorrow's ride now the Peak is going into 4
🍕 Veggie Quiche and Gnocchi
🍻 Proper Job
🎵 Pulsebeat Best Releases of 2020 Podcast (an ace mix of modern punk)
E: duck & potato dolphinwaaarrz +leftover red cabbage
D: Aldi Stellenbosch
L: The War on Drugs
@Tracey - did a 12km walk around Langsett and Cut Gate today. Crikey it was cold, thought I'd bump into some hardy riders like you, alas not one to be seen. Some MXers around though..☹️
We were going up to do an early ride this morning but let Abigale have a sleep in as she had a 10hr shift yesterday and didn't get back till midnight
Its a potential ride for tomorrow assuming the weather is the same. Just need to figure out where Tier 4 starts on the top. 😉
Got the fish pie out the freezer
The wine I bought from the shop down the road so I could get cash back
6 music
Peanut butter and raspberry jam sammich
Titanic Plum Porter
5 Live top 12 (?) football moments of 2020
Garlic prawns with fresh baked bread rolls
Chicken cacciatore with roasted baby new potato's
White rioja
Aladdin on Disney+
Managed a snow and ice Cutgate pootle.
tonights fare was
chicken jalfrazi (home cooked)
lidl's finest plonk followed by cognac & espresso
various stuff on the big speakers downstairs at fullish blast (annoy the neighbours 🙁 )
E: an indian stylee buffet, courtesy of my clever wife
D: prosecco, rum, and plum porter (not in the same glass)
L: (watching actually) To Nisi, greek dvd box series about spinalonga island in crete.
Halibut, creamed spinach, gnocchi, vermouth cream sauce
Chablis from Morrison’s
Some bland house mix which I hope picks up a bit
Chickpeas, chopped tomatoes; garnished with chilli and haddock.
Red Wine.
Vikings.
First time I have been home in 30 years so I have a head on me.
Cheese and lettuce sarnie
Mr Fitzpatricks - Sarsaparilla Cordial made with water just off the boil
The Cipher on BBC sounds
Brisket ragu buccatini (spag bol), pinot noir, globalfunkfam (discovered breaks streams on twitch)
A chicken special fried rice kind of thing. The best thing I've taken from lockdown has been cooking more chinese stuff and becoming proficient with chopsticks.
A few tins of Carlsberg alternating with full strength coffee
Nick Cave - Idiot Prayer. A solo piano performance at Ally Pally. Followed by some stupid 50s/60s SF film from archive.org and lots of playing my guitar to make me happy.
E: chicken za'atar & veg
D: Vocation Life & Death (now on the Old Pulteney)
L: random playlist now Hootenanny