Not location specific, No rules: Welcome to ILX heaven

I find drinking to be easier still and involve more alcohol and less prepping.

(talking of which, provisional house-warming/BBQ - ha, optimism - plans for 7th Sept if you and the missus are around, onimo)

and anyone else, obviously, but the likelihood of that seems remote

Grass cut. Brownie points gathered :)

All the kids in my street are having a water fight outside, I used to love that when I was a lad. It was all squeezy washing up liquid bottles in my day - this lot have what appears to be high-powered riot-control water cannons.

I'll let you know re the 7th. It's Anne's Mum's b/day that weekend but I don't think they've arranged anything yet so we should be ok.

Treacle sounded hard! making dough and everything. Also I wasn't sure b/c of the syrup if I could make it ahead of time and keep it in the fridge.

And trifle is disgusting yuck :(

Really? This is what I've been thinking it is: layer of cake topped with liquer, varying layers of fruit, pudding, cakes, jam, whipped cream, etc. sounded super easy and yum to me!

Make vodka jelly. It's jelly, with vodka.

Have they burst a fire hydrant yet? That's when it's properly summer.

xpost: No bother, it's just provisional at the moment anyway, figure it'll take us a couple of weeks to get settled enough to let people near the house.

more xpost: Trifle is gooey, and can vary tremendously. I'm not a fan, but what you've described is pretty much the idea.

and other xpost - aye, do that. That's always good. In fact, I might do that for housewarming, hurrah!

I want something British, and Harry Potter-ish. Treacle Tart's the best option but I do believe a trifle is featured in Chamber of Secrets.

One of the women coming is married to a Brit and the rest are Potter fanatics like me so I worry about authenticity. Maybe I should just throw some Digestables on a plate, call them wizard wafers, and make a pot of tea.

Skipping dickheads is easy. It's avoiding the passive agressive or the attention whores is the hard part!

British and Harry Potter-ish? Spotted dick. Note: significant other will need to be comfortable with sharpie near dangly bits and need to adopt posh accent.

Also:

http://m.assetbar.com/uua45HwGS.gif

</incredibly unfunny (and creepy) joke>

I'm afraid of the wizard-related porn which might really exist.

Making dough?? You can if you want but the rest of us just buy dough if you can't be bothered making it :) Here is my easy guide:

line your tin with dough
mix up some golden syrup, breadcrumbz, ginger and lemon
stuck the mix inside the tin wot is lined with DOUGH
make strips out of remaining dough and put them on LATTICE STYLE
Brush with milk or egg or whatever

BAKE
SCOFF

Trifle is way more f-d. Shudder.

(Spotted dick = YUM YUM YUM. Gots to have your custard though. Oh yes, Sam, you will also need custard. Custard custard argh I am so hungry why I am going for sushi tonight I just clearly want TWENTY PUDDINGS)

f-d

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Okay, yours sounds easier, maybe I'll try it. This means I will have to run to central market though to look for the golden syrup. They should have it.

I want to make things that are in the books. I should flip through the sections at the Burrow and see what Mrs. Weasley makes. Surely easier than the Hogwarts feast. Parsnips! Never had those before. Don't even know if I could find them.

Roast parsnips are nummy.

Are they like potatoes? I don't think I've ever seen them in stores here and don't remember having them when I was in England. But the cook at the college I was at was French.

Pretty comprehensive list here!
(http://www.hp-lexicon.org/wizworld/food.html)

OMG you don't have parsnips??? They are root vegetables but much sweeter than potatoes. Great roasted or you can make parsnip chips which are amaaaazing.

Hahahahaha tripe! I love tripe but with all the best intentions do not serve this yourself...

HOWEVER I highly recommend black pudding fried up with leeks served with a big pile of mashed potatoes and plenty of gravy with treacle tart for afters maybe (have the ambulance on standby).

ooo, good list.

Although I would love to recreate a Hogwart's feast that's not going to happen. I can only take off half a day of work to prepare and most of that will probably be spent vacuuming dog hair.

We're doing pot-luck style that's why I'm going on about the dessert. Also I'm contributing homemade guacamole and salsa which is very, uh, not British.

This parsnips thing has knocked me for eleventy. I suppose they do need frost to grow... maybe it is more available in northern north america ie COLORADO and the like (i hear it is cold there, a lot). Gosh! Parsnips though. Nom nom.

Treacle tart, do it do it do it (I think I will make some myself soon too)! Ooh I will bring some to sinipicnic! YAI.

Stop making me sad that I am not going to sinipicnic. Dang Perry and treacle tart and indie dancing and people what I haven't seen for years...WAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

Yes, I was just thinking that parsnips are around somewhere over here. There's a Dave Chappelle sketch where they do a husband swap between a white and black family. The white man makes parsnips for the black family and they're all "wtf??" So yeah, somewhere. But not the South!

Dudes! I did not post earlier because I was out in the world. I can report back that it's a bit shit, and I do not plan to go out in it again (well, I might go into Dublin on Saturday).

So, the Dublin Fringe Festival is on in a month's time, and get this, a guy I used to know (who is a playwright and poet) is putting on a show where he RECITES HEART OF DARKNESS. Not reads, RECITES. He has spent a whole year learning it off by heart (of darkness). It is the maddest thing ever. I MUST see this show.

Will you shout "Comma" and things at the appropriate times? Will you tell us who it is?

It's Gavin Kostick.

I actually really want to go to it, but I'd be kind of afraid I might put him off. Also, I would feel unable to leave if it was shit.

Here's hoping he doesn't google himself, see that and start getting paranoid!

Oh don't worry, I intend to contact him and say "hey Gav, I want to come to your show but reserve the right to leave if it's shit".

I did some computer based training this morning for the first time in years. I forgot how patronising faceless voices can be.

'I...am...speaking...very...slowly...because...this...bit...is...IMPORTANT'

I hate computer based training stuff. I don't think I ever done a training course on a computer where I have managed to retain any information passed a couple of days.

I do like looking out for sad has been actors in training DVDs, though.

Retaining information is a problem, and this one will have a closed book examination at the end :(

I was out in the world.

Traitor! I'm sure it's completely overrated.

I just realized this morning that I will not be able to take a week off come October when my sites are done. I will be in a MWF class. :( Also this means we will have to take our trip to NOLA at Thanksgiving.

I AM BORED WITH ILX AND MY INTERACTIONS WITH IT. THE SAME THINGS OVER AND OVER AGAIN. I MUST GO NOW, BACK TO MY PLANET. PEACE BE WITH YOU ALL.

you never us

I PAID GOOGLE TO SEARCH FOR ME BECAUSE I AM RICH MAN AND IT LOOK INTERESTING

KV NOL PLEASE STAY, YOU ACTUALLY CHEER PEOPLE UP!

I AM BORED WITH ILX AND MY INTERACTIONS WITH IT. THE SAME THINGS OVER AND OVER AGAIN. I MUST GO NOW, BACK TO MY PLANET

This would make me sad.

After yesterday I was about ready to flip ILx the bird and keep on moving. But who am I kidding? I'm not going anywhere.

don't you leave either, ms misery!

I'm not. After six years it would take a lot to make me leave. Too ingrained a habit. Although sometimes it gets so boring there's not much worth reading. . .

Traitor! I'm sure it's completely overrated.

It's rubbish. The train was late coming and going, and Dublin city is just FULL. There isn't space to walk on the path. I hates it, precious.

I just realized this morning that I will not be able to take a week off come October when my sites are done. I will be in a MWF class. :( Also this means we will have to take our trip to NOLA at Thanksgiving.

I don't understand these acronyms.

Sorry, "Monday, Wednesday, Friday" and "New Orleans Lousiana"

Woah, I will be more careful with my declarations after caffeine in future. Thanks all.

I am bored with ILX, I am bored with most things. This is because I am not 'doing anything different'tm at the moment. Even though I'll be busy it doesn't feel like I'm up to much.

Suzy, trust me you cheered me up no end on the maid thread I'll be honest with you! I used to occasionally dip into the Watercooler. No more, it all got to be really, really repetitive in the worst possible way.

I walk away from some threads after awhile, too much headache. The maid thread was one.

It was a very good thread though! I want to read the graphic novels one but christ, I don't have the time (he says posting yet again etc)

Some of it was, yes. After awhile I just get tired of the conversation. The best solution for me though is just to not get too invested in any thread here.

I just followed a trail of old threads via a revived old thread. That was, um, fun? Interesting? Weird? I dunno. Let's just say some people never change.

Six years Ms Mis?! Fuck! I think I'm near my 4th 'anniversary' here and I really should let go.

I will as soon as I find something else to do with my time. Work doesn't cut it :)

I think I'm near my 4th 'anniversary' here and I really should let go.

No, don't. We have many Lost seasons ahead of us.

I started posting on 9/11 so it's a very easy anniversary to remember.

I walk away from some threads after awhile, too much headache. The maid thread was one.

I thought it was a good thread too, as long as I let my eyes just slide over some posts. I like any thread that has stet and grimly on it; they have good banter.

And no, onimo, I'm not going to start reading the Scottish football thread. I hear enough about Hibs and Kilmarnock et al. when I'm in my folks' house on a Sunday (because my brother rings from Glasgow and he and my Dad talk about the football).

Really? Why? I mean was it a google that brought you here I mean! (xpost)

No, I was led to ILM by a former co-worker through which I found ILE. Which was much more my style. I had been lurking off and on before 9/11 and then that day I couldn't get to any other sites, except for here. That was long before Greenspun started bombing on a regular basis.

Stet and grimly do not frequent our Scottish football-loving world. It's pretty much just me, Onimo, aldo_cowpat and treefell, with very occasional contributions from Brigadier L-P and Scotstvo.