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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 24/04/2025

The words "A Major Award" just passed through my mind, followed rapidly by "FraGEElay"... :->

Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 24/04/2025

M&M sandwich - not the alien form of Smarties but Marmite & Mayonnaise. Can be bread or toast. Can add a couple of crisp bacon rashers and / or slices of salami if desired. Can add a dash of Tabasco or Franks. Yum. Best not to wear white, though...

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 18/04/2025

DD & I bought ourselves all of Glyn Hughes's books as household Christmas presents, and the original "Foods of England" website has been comprehensively archived. web.archive.org/web/20231209...

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 09/04/2025

I know some of the terminology (a youth ill-spent reading Westerns and thrillers, where the game featured a lot and often ended in exciting violence) but an actual poker player I Am Not. Snap or Happy Families is more my level, and I don't have the patience for Patience.

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 09/04/2025

There's a gruesome painting from 2013 by John Brosio (johnbrosio.com/figures/) which fits the bill.

The painting is called "Dinosaurs Eating CEO" and shows the non-frenzied feeding pattern of dromaeosurid dinosaurs, possibly Deinonychus or Velociraptor mongoliensis. Two dinosaurs have hunted down and killed a grey-haired man in a business suit, presumably the CEO of the title. He has been eviscerated and his entrails are on the road beside him, upon which the dinosaurs are starting to feed. In the background two more dinosaurs pursue a second business-suited man, while the house lights of an unconcerned rural community glitter on the distant horizon.

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 03/04/2025

A vertical mouth would fit with old-style ribbed hydrants in a Dark Manhattan where the feral cabs are - you told me once - Checkers. But I always saw that horizontal mouth as where cap met trunk, like a trapdoor spider lair. Prey approaches, lid pops up, tongue shoots out and Gotcha!.

Old-style US fire hydrant with ribbed body and cap, peeling paint and a general air of having seen better days.

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 01/04/2025

One of several reasons why @diane.dianeduane.com and I are so keen on train travel. This brings back fond memories of my first-ever bowl of goulash soup in a Mitropa dining car. (There have been others since.) :->

And of course @diane.duane should have been @diane.dianeduane.com, but for a bit there I was having trouble remembering ME...

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I just wish I’d been writing when it happened, because I was actually watching a BBC adaptation of an M. R. James ghost story, the BANG happened at A Good Bit, and it was several seconds before I detached myself from the ceiling. Triple espresso to calm my nerves, then bed. :-P (6/6)

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Because BANG it was, and BTW, I can assure one all that The Scent Doesn’t Fade. (5/6)

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Last year DD said “decant it into smaller bottles so The Scent Doesn’t Fade,” so I did. They were screw-top bottles. Oops. Big mistake. The R&G push stopper and the old wicker wrapping may have been a safety feature as much as a design trademark. In case of BANG. (4/6)

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Two Christmases back I bought @diane.duane a bottle of R&G Jean Farina, her favourite, and because I was a bit flush I made up for being more skint at prior Christmases with a 1 litre bottle. Divvied into sprays etc. I thought, that should last a while. (3/6)

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Turns out a bottle of cologne had exploded. Does cologne do that? Yes. Oh, very yes. At least this one did, with great enthusiasm. Looking at the splinters, I’m just glad I wasn’t in there when it happened. But why? (2/6)

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 22/03/2025

So I'm up late (01-55) in my office, which doubles as a spare bedroom so there’s a shower-room attached. Suddenly there’s one hell of a BANG in there, and within seconds I'm breathing more Roger & Gallet eau-de-cologne than air. (1/6)

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A place for those times when someone needs to get dead drunK.

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 19/03/2025

Basel... Chur... It's been far too long since we were there.

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 17/03/2025

When he got back almost all the duck was gone & we had to order another. Mum really liked duck - and was also a lot more skilled with chopsticks than either of us realised... :->

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 17/03/2025

We once took Mum to a Chinese restaurant in Belfast where one of the dishes ordered was crispy aromatic duck. Our waiter brought the 1/2 duck, pulled it apart with forks then went to get pancakes, cucumber, spring onions, sauce etc. (1/2)

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 13/03/2025

I’m now entertaining serious thoughts about toasting a really thick slice, drizzling it with cream, custard or vanilla sauce then eating it as a dessert, though current state of play means this will require baking another loaf then making sauce or custard. Oh dear, how sad, never mind. :-> (3/3)

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 13/03/2025

It’s also marvellous toasted & spread with butter, but heat loosens the crumb so much that it starts falling apart as the butter goes on, as that melts it becomes impossible to eat by hand, and fork or even spoon becomes a necessity. Oh, woe. (2/3)

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 13/03/2025

This is great banana bread, and the ginger & lemon zest add A Certain Special Something! Side-notes say use more ginger & lemon, so we used juice & zest of entire lemon & 3Tbsp ginger. Next time we might also add finely chopped crystallised ginger & a tiny pinch of Habanero chilli powder. (1/3)

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 12/03/2025

I mentioned that face spike in the ALT, but not the arse-armour. When I first saw this last year, I discovered that the buttock and inner-thigh armour is A Single Plate. There's no articulation at all. If the front-thigh coverage matches the rear, he couldn't walk. www.tumblr.com/petermorwood...

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Oh deary deary me... :-P At first glance it looks like he's been trying on a winged helmet that's far too big and it's slipped down to chest level without actually resting on his head - though a hel…

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 12/03/2025

When @diane.dianeduane.com mentions "idiotic pauldrons", I'm pretty sure I know the ones she has in mind. You'd be hard put to find more idiotic pauldrons than these. And then you start to notice other details...

DAZ or something "armour" featuring the most ridiculous pauldrons (shoulder guards) I've ever seen. Let's not even mention the look-down-suddenly-and-spike-your-own-face breastplate.

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 09/03/2025

There are many ways to get a rep as a red-hot lover. This is not one of them. :-P

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 03/03/2025

I eat soda bread the way my dad used to, like a combine harvester in a field of standing barley. Although combines don't use as much butter.

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 03/03/2025

Sounds like a late-at-night-and-I'm-famished notion. Maybe butter the cut surface of the farl, or use EVOO or garlic / chilli infused oil, so the sauce won't make things soggy. TBH after a fry, or butter & jam, or toasted with even more butter, there's usually not much farl left for "pizza". :->

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 03/03/2025

I've a memory of seeing or reading about the "Breakfast Farl" - a soda farl split, fried, and closed over a rasher, a sausage, a slice of black pudding, a piece of tatie bread and an egg. Sounds good, though a too-runny egg might be tricky. (Plays air-banjo chord on shirt-front.)

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 19/02/2025

Bribe rather than tip, and given before the start of a meal rather than at the end. Also once translated directly to English as "a sweetener" with the same meaning of bribery, though that definition is mostly buried under a mountain of saccharine and aspartame.

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 17/02/2025

Funny thing, I too have a Minolta 35mm SLR (and a couple of compacts, too, which I keep meaning to get rid of and never do). The Minolta replaced my Nikon after it was stolen, and then the Nikon was recovered. It's an unlikely story, but real. petermorwood.tumblr.com/post/6286259...

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Lost & Found.

I mentioned having a stolen camera recovered in rather silly circumstances during the reblogging of this post, but didn’t give any details. @handbellanon asked for the story of those details, so here...

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 16/02/2025

I still have some of that old tech - camera body & flash - but the 28-210 Tamron zoom which took the photo met with an accident and was replaced by two Sigmas. The camera has deep sentimental value, being my Dad's last birthday present to me before his death.

A 1980-vintage Nikon FE 35mm analogue SLR camera with a Philips dual flashgun (its filters and bounce screen are beside the camera) and two Sigma zoom lenses, 28-70mm and 70-210mm.

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Photographic evidence - the illustrated transformation took almost 35 minutes (13:56 - 14:29).

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I wrote this down here - mind-palate.com/three-pulse-... - in plain words: "Heat the ghee or oil in a large pan (a wok is good for this) and gently fry the onions until they turn golden. This will take longer than you think..."

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Three-Pulse Dhal (for "World Pulses Day") - The Mind Palate

mind-palate.com/three-pulse-... Something I cooked up for World Pulses Day. It's very good, and from the look of things there'll be enough for a couple of days after, too...

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A simple lentil curry from store-cupboard ingredients

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