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biggs682

Itching to get back on my bike's
Location
Northamptonshire
Time to clip in
 

woodbutcher

Veteran
Location
S W France
Had a tasty supper of fish, tabbouleh and steamed beans and broccoli.

Bought the fish as plaice, but while it was a flatfish, it sure as hell wasn't plaice. The skin was darker and the spots were black, the fish was wider across the beam and the skeletal structure at the edges was different.

Not that I care, it was bloody lovely whatever it was. And only 69p :laugh:
The cover all name for such a fish used to be a "flatty" or maybe "flattie" ...... maybe thats not a good selling name tho' :smile:
 

deptfordmarmoset

Full time tea drinker
Location
Armonmy Way
Morning tea tipplers.

I woke from a very vivid dream in which I'd had my wallet stolen. I had to check that it was only a dream. So, I lost all my cards and around £300 cash in dream money but won £25 premium bonds in electric money.
 
Quite a successful afternoon...

I ran over the cord on the lawnmower and ripped it to shreds as I was cutting the grass. This blew the fuse on the consumer unit.

Then, putting my rear light back on the bike, after recharging it, I managed to snap it in half. I've glued it, and clamped it lightly in my vice.

Then, I decided to clear the boot of the car out after taking grandkids for a ride this morning only to find that a bottle of juice hadn't had the lid screwed on tightly so it'd leaked. Fortunately, the car has a rubber boot mat insert thingy so I rinsed it with the hose.
Kenny Everett used to have a keen DIYer sketch a bit like you . :whistle:
 
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I had so much planned for today - vacuuming, grass cutting, tidying up, etc. Thanks to a major CBA moment I went for a bike ride instead. I've the week off work so plenty of time for boring stuff.

In slightly less mundane Premium Bond news...

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Premium bonds news..

Just a measly £25 this month.

Bin news..

The recycling is out.
Checks Spam folder, Damn Damn & double Damn, I had made arrangements to retire tomorrow!
 

Salar

A fish out of water
Location
Gorllewin Cymru
Had a tasty supper of fish, tabbouleh and steamed beans and broccoli.

Bought the fish as plaice, but while it was a flatfish, it sure as hell wasn't plaice. The skin was darker and the spots were black, the fish was wider across the beam and the skeletal structure at the edges was different.

Not that I care, it was bloody lovely whatever it was. And only 69p :laugh:

Difficult to say without a picture. Might have been a flounder, they can have dark spots. Could also have been a brill, but they are more rounded, or even a baby turbot.

I was staying in a Birmingham hotel a few years ago and had a bar meal of plaice and it chips.
Well that's what the menu said, it was obviously flounder, which is a lot cheaper.

I told the waiter, who went to get the chef, who wouldn't show his face. So the waiter brought the box out from the freezer.
All it had on the box was "Flatfish". All the same the waiter said. I then gave him a mini lecture on fish species, which surprisingly he found quite interesting and he toddled off no doubt to tell the chef of his new found knowledge.

And don't get me going on "sea bass" it's bass.

The other thing which rubs me up the wrong way is when TV "chefs" use rainbow trout and pretend it is sea trout or salmon.

Rant over.
 
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