Hobbies
Confessions of an inept handyman
Ann had been telling me forever that the hot tap in the bathroom sink needed looking at. It didn’t turn on fully, apparently, so it was pot luck whether the flow was enough to tell [more…]
Hobbies
Arts
Cooking
Baking bread with Going Postal
With Christmas now history, I put to you, what has been your most useful/favourite Christmas present in recent years? For me, it was not last year’s set of kitchen knives and four cans of special [more…]
Arts
The Old Grey Wankpuffin Test
© EJ 2016
Cooking
The GP Advent Calendar of Cuisine – LetEnglandShake’s Game Terrine – H F-W
Any or some of these selection of lean game meat, about 1kg/2¼lb in all, which could include: breasts of pheasant (hung about 5 days) breasts of pigeon breasts of duck or other wild fowl saddle [more…]
Arts
Cooking
The GP Advent Calendar of Cuisine – Geek’s Finger Lickin’ Good Fried Chicken Recipe
Ingredients: 2/3 tablespoon salt 1/2 tablespoon thyme 1/2 tablespoon basil 1/3 tablespoon oregano 1 tablespoon celery salt 1 tablespoon black pepper 1 tablespoon dried mustard 4 tablespoons paprika 2 tablespoons garlic salt 1 tablespoon ground [more…]
Arts
Hobbies
Give a man a fish
A poster asked a question about what would the assembled despicables of GP recommend as a hobby now the nights are long and the weather foul. The most popular recommendation seemed to be railway modelling [more…]