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Chilly out today, so thought I'd make this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/scotchbroth_8116 Absolute doddle and the results are lurrrrrvely. I chucked in a parsnip for a bit of sweetness and used savoy cabbage instead of kale (because a Tesco Express in Lewisham is going to have kale). You can use any kind of "soup mix" thing for the dried ingredients, doesn't have to be exactly as prescribed. Feels a bit daft recommending a recipe where the method is basically "put some stuff in a pot; wait", but there you go.

The Black Door at the Biscuit Factory. ( just over the railway from the Tanners) Excellent. Is that where Barn Again (or its successor) is/was? Loved that place when it was up by the ground, though I realise that's going back a bit now.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/2...e-geordie-shore MTV buffs up Jersey Shore for UK as Geordie Shore Network to make British version of hit US format in Newcastle It is the most popular show US music cable network MTV has ever had. Now the broadcaster is bringing its hit reality show Jersey Shore, in which eight impeccably groomed twentysomethings share a beach house on New Jersey's Atlantic coast, to the UK. The twist is that it will be based in Newcastle and renamed ... Geordie Shore. MTV said it chose to base the series in the north-east because its residents know how to have a good time come rain or shine. "Jersey Shore is set in the summer and it is always summer in the north-east," said Kerry Taylor, the director of television for MTV Networks UK and Ireland. "No one wears a coat and Geordie girls are always out in their miniskirts." The original US incarnation, which began in 2009, quickly became a cultural phenomenon and returned for its third series with 8.4 million viewers earlier this month. But it was not to everyone's tastes – one Guardian writer described it as making "Big Brother look like Dostoyevsky" – and it caused controversy after it was accused of stereotyping Italian-Americans. The UK version of the show will be made by Liverpool-based Lime Pictures, producer of another teen reality show, The Only Way Is Essex, which was a hit for digital channel ITV2 last year, and Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks. Taylor said it would be "loosely based on the American show". "The things we are taking away is the great cast – memorable characters who are funny and brash but at the same time warm and get on with each other," she added. Fiona O'Sullivan, the head of factual at Lime Pictures, added: "We've already found some perfect characters to bring Geordie Shore to life and can't wait to get filming on what we believe will become the next big, must-watch, reality show." Geordie Shore will air on MTV in the UK in late spring or early summer.

I'm getting the word... nonce. Zsa Zsa Gabor will be dead, Portugal will have been bailed out by the EU and at least one Nordic country will be sending a heavy metal band to Eurovision.

in the banner you daft bugger.

I've always seen Palermo and Catania as akin to the breakaway factions in Abkhazia and South Ossetia myself.

Solomon Burke - Nashville

http://www.sweet-david.com/ I swear you must be on commission from that place. just showing you a website you might enjoy with some like minded souls dear I'll pass, but thank you for sharing your life experience. Nowt to do with me darling, I'll leave that sort of experience to the freaks. I'm glad you've either bookmarked the URL or committed it to memory, though. You never know when it might come in "handy" one night. I doubt it sweetie. You're obviously quite a bit of an expert yourself, with lots of experience. I'm flattered. Just for that, I'll PM you some links for when you get bored of David and his "special friends".

http://www.sweet-david.com/ I swear you must be on commission from that place. just showing you a website you might enjoy with some like minded souls dear I'll pass, but thank you for sharing your life experience. Nowt to do with me darling, I'll leave that sort of experience to the freaks. I'm glad you've either bookmarked the URL or committed it to memory, though. You never know when it might come in "handy" one night.

http://www.sweet-david.com/ I swear you must be on commission from that place. just showing you a website you might enjoy with some like minded souls dear I'll pass, but thank you for sharing your life experience.

Omm nom nom, natural egg product

FYP

http://www.sweet-david.com/ I swear you must be on commission from that place.

One of Neighbours' less successful characters.

Would you say the same thing if Israel was a nation of homosexuals instead of Jews? Antisemitism rears its ugly head again. And before you mention anything about prejudice, I have already stated that my record of supporting gay rights is impeccable, having purchased every Right Said Fred album and even voted for Will Young on the X Factor, so don't even try me on that front, I can hold my head high, loud and proud. And it basically is, Dana International is just the tip of the banana

The phrase "straw man in a wheelchair with learning difficulties" springs to mind

Loving the Smiley Culture action Meanwhile, the fat emo gays are out in force in Iceland:

A career in internet meme-generation clearly beckons for the lad.

Take the baby and run, run, run!

Damn it, I think that's what I must have done too.

Some of us had your pic sellotaped to our bedroom walls already aye but that was PM, this is pubic My point.

Nearest I've been is just along the way in Bad Tölz. Didn't even realise you could get sunburnt in the mountains. I love learning things everyone else knows already.

Some of us had your pic sellotaped to our bedroom walls already