It's amazing how different the same pattern can look in different colours.
Miscellany of Randomness
From the sublime to the ridiculous...
Wednesday 24 April 2024
What a good idea!
I've often thought it odd, that when you get flowers they come with a sachet of food, but then when you change the water - which you're supposed to do - you're throwing away the flower food and now just have plain water.
Obviously someone else thought this was odd, too.
Saturday 30 March 2024
Chicken & bacon recipe
You will need:
- Chicken breast (I used frozen chunks)
- Bacon
- Corn
- Flour
- Butter
- Milk
- Honey
- Mixed herbs
- Black pepper
- Folded flatbreads, wraps or similar.
(Sorry, I didn't measure any of the quantities - this is why my white sauce is very unpredictable!)
What to do:
- Chop up the chicken and bacon and cook in a frying pan with a very little oil, until nice and brown and cooked through. (I tend to add a little water occasionally to stop it from sticking).
- Meanwhile, make white sauce with the milk, butter & flour.
- Add honey to sauce (I used a couple of teaspoons for 3 people). Add pepper & herbs.
- Add corn to frying pan and heat through.
- Add chicken/bacon/corn to sauce and stir.
- Warm flatbreads.
- Fill with mixture.
- Eat.
Friday 29 March 2024
Last Words
Labels:
Bible,
celebrations,
Easter,
Good Friday,
Jesus,
songs
Wednesday 27 March 2024
💧Drip
When people move a bucket that has been placed under a leak - because the bucket is in their way - what do they expect to happen? Do they expect the leak to move, too?
Hopefully the sign will help...
Tuesday 12 March 2024
Old broken stuff
A fun conversation from the radio sitcom Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully.
An alien commander is complaining that earth is 'a dump':
Zone Commander Ravella: There's old, broken stuff everywhere.
Lucy: You mean like that shopping trolley in the canal.
Zone Commander Ravella: Yes - but also all those old castles. Can you really not be bothered to demolish them?
Katrina: They're our history.
Zone Commander Ravella: I see. We write history down, instead of clogging up the landscape with ugly heaps of useless stone.
Thursday 7 March 2024
Tips for hymn writers
1) Write a chorus.
You may not think your song needs a chorus. You may be right. But someone, somewhere down the line, will decide it does.
While the adding of choruses is particularly popular currently, the most bizarre example I can think of is the late 19th century addition of a happy jolly chorus to Alas, and did my saviour bleed, which is more of a sombre lament. Most added choruses are better than that - some are excellent. But if you want the chorus to say what you want to say, write one yourself.
Of course, if you do add a chorus, someone will decide it also needs a bridge...
2) Don't die.
The song you write will remain under copyright until 70 years after your death. So if you want to prevent people from monkeying around with your carefully thought through lyrics - sometimes ending up with a song that says something completely different than what you were trying to say - this is a simple (if impossible) solution.
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