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Looks very tastey 😋 Pies and Stew weather is nearly upon us again.

Found this gem, which includes Michael Hordern. What a character Hugh Falkus is..!

Cheer's 👍 Cheer's 👍 I first heard it used in a bbc fly fishing documentary about 30 yrs ago. It was about chalk stream trout in England and ''Sewin'' on the Teifi in Wales. There was another beutiful word the Teifi angler had for foxgloves! I can pronounce it, but not spell it. Cheer's 👍Funny enough that is my first seatrout of the year, despite flogging away at my local brackish lake, that is full of trout. They just wont take any of my offerings, despite fishing 3 flies at times. I have been doing ok at the Mackeral bashing though.

Well had a bit of a tiff with TOH before dinner prompted me to throw the gear in the van and drive to a river 40miles away that I had been meaning to fish for awhile. It was a favourite haunt of an old friend and myself back in the day. It must have been near 20yrs since I last fished it. Long story short..! I relised I had forgotten the landing net. I was fishing two flies..a blue/silver on the point and a small brown fly on the dropper. A lot of water in the river and I was catching ''Brownies'' of various sizes on both flies. I would loved to have fished into the wee small hours, but I had to be up early this morn. So last couple of cast's and I got a nice tug that told me it was a bit bigger than the brown trout I had been getting. I played until it was beat and took the chance of lifting it up onto the bank. A wee sea trout of around the 1lb that took the lead fly. It will be cooked - en Papillote. There is something really special and magical about night time river fishing for Seatrout. I had forgotton how much I actually enjoyed it.

It was delicious..! Thanks for the tip 👍

Well I took tips from JohnfromUK and Old'un and used up some applewood smoked streaky bacon that needed using and added a splosh or two of ''wuster'' sauce' to a tin of Branston beans. I toasted the two left over Scotch bap's from yesterday and also fried up a couple of slice's of the ''wee black pudding'' and crumbled on top. Finished with a good zig/zag squeezing of HP fruity. No cheese on this occasion as I felt it would be a case of ''guilding the lily''.

Well they are not long back with the ''goodies'' and I had some for a late lunch. I tried both and ate a small bit of the boxed chub when cutting it before frying. A soft textured pudding and the spice's came through immediately. Almost a Christmas 'sy taste. Unusual in a pudding but not unpleasant. The Speyside one was very soft in texture and at room temp being in the suitcase. It was very nice indeed. I had both in a Scotch type bap with a farm fresh egg. I probably preferred the speyside one and I would guess it is very similiar to the Stornoway pudding, in texture at least. I'm going to get herself to order a chub of both pudding and haggis of Stornoway. A nice treat of something different than the norm. I might go out and bag a couple of woodies and try a pigeon salad recipe I seen on here a few years back ''if i can find it'' by a Scottish fella who used Stornoway, to use up what I have left.

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Well my two ladies are in Scotland this weekend at a dancing feis, and they are ''bringing home the bacon'' / black pudding. My daughter won the u9 Scottish national championship, so a super proud dad. I asked my wife to have a look see if she could pick up some Stornoway black pudding. Most butchers are closed as it is the weekend, but she managed to pick up both these brands for me. Looking forward to trying them both.

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Never seen these singers live, but Paul Heaten - The Housemartins/Beautiful South. Neil Tennant - The Petshop Boys and another vote for -Freddie !

But wouldn't that be then ''Beans beside toast'' rather than beans ''on'' toast..? For me I cut the toast into triangles and arrange around the plate then spoon the beans on! A grating of cheddar or sometimes a pinch of curry powder when heating for curried beans. Branston are way better than Heinz IMO although I mostly use Batchelors. As for Harry's photo, the toast laid side by side would tidy things up, rather than one piece on top of another.🙂

Very interesting indeed! There really are some wonderful things in this world. I recall Mr Wilson having such a flower in the Dennis the Menace movie. I think it only flowered for one night every 40yrs.

This! Another Dublin talent gone who has left us some memorable songs. The music world lost Aslan lead singer Christy Dignam a few weeks back also. I liked both Christy and Sinéad. Both had their own struggles and may they now R.I.P. Here she is doing a rendition of one of my favourite songs. Wrote of course by Patrick Kavanagh and made famous by Luke Kelly. It was actually about Kavanaghs love afair with a younger woman, whom I believe was the singer (Dido's) grandmother.

Looks very hearty that 😋

You can't beat it.! No waaaayyyyyy graaaavvvyyyy in this instance..! New spuds need nothing more than butter,salt and white pepper and maybe a few chopped scallions/spring onions. That said I had a York cabbage steamed then tossed in the frying pan with butter,salt and black pepper. We also had some butchers mince. A few months down the line when the spuds are not so new, then indeed a pouring of gravy will be a very welcome addition. That is a pity! Cheers Harry 👍

Very close! Spot on!

First new queen's of the season! Dug half a mile up the road by a local farmer. Usually earlies are a bit watery, but these were nice and floury. A few more weeks and it will be Kerr Pink time.

This fella is causing quite a stir locally! I haven't seen it and spent some time looking this evening along side some birders who travelled 6hrs to try and get a glimpse. Only the third recording in Ireland apparently. Can anyone put a name to it? I had never even heard of it before yesterday.

Tough question,as I like most meats, however if pushed I would have to say pork with farmed duck a close 2nd. A roast loin of pork with crispy crackling for me is hard to beat. I also think pork juices make the nicest gravy. I probably eat way more chicken than most other meats and would prefer slow cooked beef,lamb over steaks or chops. I dont eat farmed duck often, but any time I have it has been superb and memorable. I order it when eating out if on the menu and one of the tastiest I have ever eaten was prepared by the wife of a forum member, with homemade plum sauce. A spectactular meal and one that will stay with me.

That was a staple in most Irish households on a Friday. I used to hate the homemade parsley sauce made with crinkly parsley from the garden and the milk the fish was poached in. My sisters made it and it was usually thick and lumpy with two much corn flour. Handing half my wages in I insisted on packet sauce with mine. Roll forward the years and I still make this on occasion and now use the simmering milk with added mustard and parsley and thickened to a proper consistency. Proper food 😋

We done a glacier tour in which you snow mobiled up the glazier then went down a tunnel into the actual glazier, where there was a church carved out and a beutiful Icelandic girl who had an opera style voice sang for us. A brilliant experience. We done the usuals, out looking for the lights, two nights which was dissapointing. As for food the rather ''hipster'' getting lamb/mutton soup in a bread bowl is a very heartening dish on a cold crispy november day. Some of the street art in Reykjavik is class. And lots of brilliant taxidermy on display in lots of shop windows. I managed to tickle a trout out of a crystal clear stream, much to the delight of the group we where in,whilst out looking for waterfalls. I was able to lay down on some decking and managed to get one of a pair that was sitting in the stream. I wasn't able to hold onto it, but flicked it out onto the decking. I have a photo somewhere that the missus took of me laying flat out on the decking.

Now I will hold my hands up and shamefully admit, that I had never heard of either Arthur Ransome nor Michael Hordern before I happened upon these delightful videos on youtube. Some people will call these rubbish and nothing more than pompous waffle as was left in a comment on youtube. The same type of comments I have heard said on my favourite sporting author ''BB''s writings romantic rubbish.! Well I like this sort of thing and if only someone could do something similar with BB's writings and bring them to life as Michael Hordern does with Arthur Ransomes essay's. I'm on episode ten at present and eager for more.

Again looks like good honest hearty fare. The best kind of food IMO When tinned fruit is mentioned, my mind reverts back to Kenzie Thorpes story about Jame's Robertson Justice. Opening the tins and drinking the syrup before throwing the tin and fruit away. Think it was pineapples but stand to be corrected on that. PS My late father was a great lover of tinned fruit. Very handy to have in the store cupoard. Pears especially as most you buy fresh are as hard as a goats knee and often go off before being consumed.