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Shattered. Two nights on the razzle is too much for me. Thank goodness I'm working from home today - commute was 30 seconds across the garden.
haven't had razzles in a coon's age
 
Hi Dave, it's a secret!
But it's well known that certain flavour combinations make products moreish whether sweet or savoury. In Savoury products we have Umami and Kokumi 'flavours'...
https://www.kerry.com/insights/kerrydigest/2020/umami-and-kokumi

It's why the burnt scrapings around the edge of the roasting pan are so bloody delicious!!! Soy, MSG, Yeast extracts are all materials which make foods more 'addictive' not in a narcotic sense, but in the 'pleasingness' of taste. Even the fineness of salt grains used impacts the pleasure sensation.

Hah, it's something instinctive that good cooks seem to have, i.e. getting the balance of flavours right.
 

oldwheels

Legendary Member
Location
Isle of Mull
Another grey day with rain showers.
Just been to the funeral of my wildlife pal's wife. Big turn out as it is the socially expected thing to do here.
It is almost exactly 6 years since my wife died and they are buried near each other in the same cemetery.
We were together for 60 years tho' only married for 58. I still miss her.
 

postman

Squire
Location
,Leeds
Ok story.Postman arrived in the village of Hunmanby Tuesday afternoon hungry.Was going to buy from local shop a meal deal.But saw the tea room was open and doing a good trade.Two summer's back dead as a dodo.So one latte and a hot sarnie off I goes to Ernies. that night fish and chips.Next day dinner is at lunchtime where I take him to the church cafe,two course meal and a brew.Cold sarnie at tea time.Yesterday took him to the tea room,now the new ladies who now have it turns out one was the local taxi driver,but fancied a change.So knowing Ernie they allow him to take his electric scooter in to the cafe,very narrow cafe.So lunch is consumed and I am stood at the counter. Just going to pay,we are the last in,it did have eight others plus a couple of walk in takeouts.He now is putting his key in the ignition,before he has sat in it.He has draped his walking stick over the handlebars,somehow he starts it off,it knocks him to the ground,comes towards me and the counter and afridge knocking over two tables seven chairs and scattering our cups.I jumps in between it and the counter Knock the walking stick off the handlebars and turns off the power.My shoe is the only thing between me and a thousand pounds worth of damage the tables have stopped it from moving any further forward but the engine is still trying to move it on,we turn and he now is laid out on the cafe floor winded.Well after twenty mins he drives home and the cafe owners are ok,later that night we go to the pub for dinner.I am back home for a rest,Ernie on the other hand is going to the village pub for a couple of pints what a visit.
 
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No, not recently LOL...I seem to attract men that either fancied pro photography on the cheap, or who were much like my late and rather unlamented father. It's just far easier, and far less stressful, to be single. :blush:
I hear ya. my parents recently celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary. been using separate bedrooms for the past 30 years
 
flooring guy is done. carpet out, flooring in. Wifey will be pleased when she gets home. too bad he wasn't vaccinated
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didn't have to disassemble Wifey's rack system, he just slid everything underneath. got the doors back on the closet & they roll better w/o the carpet
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new bed comes tomorrow. I'm sure the cats can't wait to pee on it
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the carpet knew our previous cats. all too well. but here's to Rita & Ramona, you are not forgotten. the past 11 years have flown by
 
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Another grey day with rain showers.
Just been to the funeral of my wildlife pal's wife. Big turn out as it is the socially expected thing to do here.
It is almost exactly 6 years since my wife died and they are buried near each other in the same cemetery.
We were together for 60 years tho' only married for 58. I still miss her.
*sigh* sorry for your losses. here's wishing you strength right now & nothing but the best memories of both
 
I've just made contact with the bike mechanic at work.

Having an unusual self-built bike is a great conversation starter. He showed me some of the bikes he's built from scratch and we ended up on the shop balcony discussing life, the universe and everything. Now I have a new friend and he says I can use the bike building workshop at work.

Oh, and he can weld and he's happy to weld some lugs onto the frame for the new touring bike.

In return I've promised to try and supervise the lads taking scrap bikes to bits in the workshop near mine, so he gets a more stable supply of parts.
 
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All the errands I wanted to do in town are done. I now have a 2m extension cable, a daylight balanced E14 candle bulb, a bottle of liquid soap flakes, four pints of milk, two loaves of bread, some extra fruit & veg and a suitable quantity of crumpets.

The boxes with the cans of Gourmet were no longer on offer, so I didn't buy any. The girls will have to slum it with their usual Felix AGAIL or Sheba Fine Flakes.

Lots of gaps on the shelves in both Wilko and Tesco. Tesco petrol station totally out of diesel.

I canned my plan to visit that antique shop that specializes in small silver tschotchkes. Likewise to the jeweller to get the ring on my St Christopher pendant pulled back into shape and soldered shut. The reason? I got stuck in the queue of traffic heading to Tesco.
 
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