Green Fingers

I think I finally have something to plant with my chillies next year.

Travel Gadget

I'm a sucker for a gadget, and if it aids travel then I'm interested.

This is a pretty cool piece of kit, Grid-It.

Only problem is it does not appear to be available outside the US... which tipples the price when you add packaging, making a minor treat quite extravagant.

Does anyone out there know if there are any UK or even European stockists?

Briscoe's second outing...

... in an England in shirt gives another try, three now in total.

Well done to you Tom!

P.S. More cheese to come.

Out Foxed

It looks like Tony Smith in his infinite wisdom has dropped Peter Fox for Tom Briscoe.

Hull FC

Hull Daily Mail

Best of luck to Tom (and England) against the French!

(There will be a return to cheese related posts soon)

Cheese Essentials I

Not sure if there will be a post from our Italian Cheese Diarists, but I'll leave this little bite for anyone interested.

The Ritz Cracker, one of the holy trinity of crackers, yes there are two more to come.

They don't bounce, they just shatter and they are the perfect with any cheese, over all a perfect 10!

Even More Cheese

Another day without a post from our intrepid cheese boggers (The Italian Cheese Diaries), so I'm back again to fill to void and provide more
even amusement.

Update - Erm I jumped the gun and the Italian Cheese Police have blogged...

Today I offer you Dairylea spread

A classic from childhood for you all, I have chosen the classic triangles, just shows how old I am. The cows on the new packaging really worry me.

Colour: Under the bright blue
and silver packaging is a very pale firm creamy triangle of cheesiness

Tasting notes: Good with cream crackers, Ritz crackers, Rivita or and even on its own, very creamy. Mind the red plastic string/strip hidden inside to aid opening...

Bounce test: Dosn't bounce, think more of a crumple zone crash test, would be interesting to see how high to drop it from to break the silver wrapping.

Score: 6/10 (no good for nacho dipping so I had to mark it down)

More cheese

Another day without a post from our intrepid cheese boggers (The Italian Cheese Diaries), so I'm back to fill to void and provide more amusement than anything else.

Today I offer you Cheese In A Can

Another hat tip to our friends from over the Atlantic and I do when presented with things like this wonder what someone was thinking to try and create this. More worrying are the people who said "yes - what a great idea, lets market that"...

Colour: A very worrying orange that I believe is visible to the human eye from two miles even in the dark

Tasting notes: There are many things I will eat and have eaten, I'm afraid I am at this time unable to pass any judgement as to the best of my knowledge I have not eaten it... yet...

Bounce test: Win can, a good bounce at a guess, without can, more of a splat.

Reasons to be careful with a knife, 1

OK this is what happens when you loose concentration when chopping with a very sharp knife...

The years I spent trying to persuade my mum to buy really sharp cooking knives are a little wasted now.

If only there had been a little voice just before I picked up the knife... "Be careful with that, its sharp" and I may have not lost a very small part of my thumb.

On the bright side there was no blood and I only had more importantly minimal food waste.

Ice Cream

As our Italian food (The Italian Cheese Diaries) and drink blogers are currently without connection to great electric anorak that is the internet I will place my tongue back in my cheek and step in for now.

I offer you The Arctic Roll

A classic combination creamy vanilla ice cream wrapped soft sponge with a layer of jam between.

Colour: See the picture...

Tasting notes: Start with the ice cream and work your way out to the jam and sponge, mmmmmmm

Bounce test: more of a splat at a guess, wont be attempting this one

Score: 10/10

Cheese

Well, as my sister and her other half are not posting about cheese (or any other continental food product) today on their Italian jaunt I feel I have take up the mantle and provide a daily dairy hit for anyone (if there is anyone who reads my blog).

This is more in homage to our American neighbours who bless them are not really good with cheese, although they do seem to add it to as many dishes as possible.

Name:

Colour: Atomic orange

Texture: Rubbery

Smell: Unknown

Tasting Notes: this has a very plastic taste and tends to stick to the roof of our mouth when eating, it is much better when melting over a burger.

Score: 2/10 (Good for burgers and drunken eating challenges)

The Italian Cheese Diaries is a little better...

Caio for now...

Tent

After much research I have finally invested in a tent.

I was initially looking for lightweight backpacking tent to travel around Europe with, that is still in my sights, until then I have invested in tent I can throw in t0 my car. One with a little more space, in short more of a beginners tent.

Drum roll please for my brand new Eurohike Dart 3 (and thanks to a Millets closing down sale for a bargain price). Shown in all its glory to the right.

Admit idly I don't expect my first pitching attempt to look quite that good so there will be a few practice runs in my living room first.

I'm guessing the sunny Lake District will be one of my first stops to give this a good trial run, before then I have a pretty long list of other things I need, something to sleep on and in, cooking gear and some form of light... the list goes on and on...

Chance Sighting

Wandering round Hull Marina today to see Hull & Humber and some of the other clippers in the Round The World Race I saw a very familiar face, didn't occur tome until he had passed it was the legand Sir Robin Knox-Johnston.

What a nice little bonus that was.

The image is of the Hull & Humber Clipper with the

Princess Quay shoping centre in the background.

Black and White Wash

Carnegie Floodlit Nines 2009

HULL FC - CHAMPIONS

Hull Daily Mail Report

(Not had much to celebrate this year)

The important match

Celebrations & Highlights

Race Driver Grid: Drift III

This was a little bit of drifint with the actual game...

The combo is nealry 2 laps of multipliers, 12x....

Race Driver Grid: Drift II

Still the demo after play.com sent me the wrong game - Race Driver Grid for XBox!

Spot the ball

I saw this comment today attached to an article on the local rags sport website and had to post it...  

"Nobody can blame Hull fans for not wanting to pay £20 

to watch from the South Stand at Craven 

Park. It's like watching a subbuteo 

match from the wrong end of a telescope."

Boulevarder, In the Airlie Birds' Nest

(This a shot from the south stand with a powerful telephoto lens)

Beach Towel Wars

I did have to check the date when I read this, but it seems Thomas Cook have found a great way to extract money from German tourists, allowing them to pre-book sun loungers and umbrellas for a daily price of around €3 or €49 a week.


Hats off to Thomas Cook - if people are stupid enough to pay for it!

I have better things to spend my money on and do while I'm away.

Just a little blast from the past here - the old Carling Black Label advert...

Race Driver Grid: Drift!

I just wish this wasn't the Demo!

A volcano on Krakatoa is still erupting

This was sent to me yesterday... its the kind of picture you wish you had taken yourself!

Originally from NASA: Astronomy Picture of the Day.

Cricket Twitter

Oh dear Mr Ponting...

I think Stephen Fry's tweet says it all really!

CSN at the MEN

What a great gig - loads of CSN material, an acoustic Ruby Tuesday, some acoustic Dylan, a Graham Nash song I've neaver heard before, possibly called Cold Rain? Most impressive of all three Buffalo Springfield songs!

"Don't worry, we're going to do every song Dave Crosby can rember the words to!" Graham Nash

Pre show Picture!

Unfortunately you can't make out the hippy/morrocan throws and rugs!

Hull FC 18 - 10 Wigan

13-02-2009
I'll let the professionals describe the match (as usual) see below.

BBC Sport - Hull FC 18 - 10 Wigan
Sky Sports - Hull pile on Wigan woe

The attendance was 14, 573 by the way, (not 4, 573)

Man of the Match was awarded to Lee Radford (left).

Todd Byrne, Tom Brisco, Peter Cusak and Richard Horne also deserve a metion.

Snow

The view over my balcony!

STOP PRESS - Donner Kebab is not good for you!

It must be another slow news day - the big news on the radio this morning, and in other places throughout the day, the humble Donner Kebab is bad for you!

I'm not an nutritional expert, but I already knew this. It really took a study across 76 councils, sampling 494 Donner Kebabs to tell the country this? Good to see Tax pounds going to good use!

If you are interested this is an average of 6.5 Donner Kebabs for each council. I'm guessing that's between £1500 and £2000 worth of fast food.

Which is £20 to £26 per council which is around 13,000 to 17,500 paper clips or 8 to 10 450g boxes of rubber bands (size 89mm x 6mm) from a well know stationary supplier...

If the same number of Kebabs is considered over the duration of an average 3 year Undergraduate degree, its just over 3 a week.

One last thought, did they have Salad, Chips, Garlic Mayo, Chili Sauce, Pitta or Naan...

RFL Replace Klien

Super League 2009 - New Season - Coming Soon

Hull FC will open their 2009 Season at home, that's the last of the good news as they will be playing Wigan Warriors and it will be Friday 13th!
I'm not usually superstitious, but in this case...

Great New Adverts

All other Airlines should take note, these are fantastic Adverts...

Qantas - Got to love the music and the airline!

Virgin Atlantic - They may be 62 years less experianced, but this one may be the best airline advert ever, memories of my younger years - Our Price Records and Wimpy... brilliant!