Tea? (Part 2)

[Speicher]

Gentle for Stephenite.

and and biscuits

 

[Biscuit]

Ouch @Stephenite

 

[Biscuit]

I have worked out my porridge aversion.
I make it slightly thicker and cook it for slightly longer and add sugar.
Then when it has cooled enough in the bowl to cut into chunks with a spoon I can then eat it.

100g of porridge oats, just add cold water, and eat. It's what I got used to camping / hiking, and now can't get out of the habit.

 

[Stephenite]

Thanks folks. Just what i need.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

I have worked out my porridge aversion.
I make it slightly thicker and cook it for slightly longer and add sugar.
Then when it has cooled enough in the bowl to cut into chunks with a spoon I can then eat it.

Not the way I'd prefer, but if it works for you .

Another ouch @Stephenite. The description has made me all squeamish. I hope it heals quickly.

 

[coffeejo]

The description has made me all squeamish. I hope it heals quickly.

Just me who was hoping for photos then?

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Just me who was hoping for photos then?

(Faints)

 

[coffeejo]

*wafts one of @phil_hg_uk's shoes under nose to wake up*

 

[Speicher]

* faints at the smell of Phil's shoes *

 

[coffeejo]

*rustles Lindt chocolate paper*

 

[ColinJ]

*wafts one of @phil_hg_uk's shoes under nose to wake up*

When I finally got back on my bike after a 9 month break, I did a 5.5 mile ride round the nearest flat roads, then came home and put my bike away. I wandered about in my cycling kit for a few minutes and became aware that a ghastly smell was following me about, a heady mixture of industrial solvent and the remains of Yorkshire Dales roadkill. It took me a while to work out what it was ...

Wind the clock back to Summer, 2012 - you know, the one where it rained a lot, in those heady days when I still had lungs that worked and a hefty belly to lug about to test them. Well, I only went and did a long ride in the rain, didn't I! But that isn't really the pertinent fact. No, it was the fact that I left my cycling shoes where I took them off, and made no attempt to dry them.

Now, advance to mid-July and my forum ride to Otley ... I was rushing about getting ready to go out and meet my victims fellow forum riders, when my nose detected the stench of death - it was my rancid cycling shoes!

Something had to be done in a hurry. There was not time to put the shoes through a 6 hour wash cycle. My eyes darted about the room, finally alighting on a bottle of cheap aftershave which had been given to me over a decade before by a family member who clearly didn't like me very much, and had connections in the chemical industry. I seized upon the bottle and tipped 10 mL of the evil liquid inside each shoe ...

Fast forward 8.5 months and the smell of the shoes lingered on! Evidently, the half-life of semi-dissolved decaying pheasant is measured in years rather than months ...

I'm now waiting for somebody to do the research which shows that chemicals absorbed through the soles of the feet can cause life-threatening DVTs!

 

[Speicher]

*rustles Lindt chocolate paper*

 

[Speicher]

Joking apart, I feel all today. It must be the weather.

 

[Night Train]

I have a cake in the oven!

 

[coffeejo]

Joking apart, I feel all today. It must be the weather.

I have a cake in the oven!

I'm going to a BBQ on Saturday and volunteered to bring sausages and cake. Need to ring up and say the cake isn't going to happen.