It's the elite choice.

I love it when I forget why I avoid certain things and then my body reminds me after the fact.

*adds sugary foods to the list of nice things we can't really enjoy anymore, again*

Saddam Hussein about to drop some sick beats at Dry Bar, Manchester, 1989.

“No I haven’t got Going Underground. Fuck off.”

It says 'I did it and got away with it'.

MUST. PILE. STUFF.

We planted a Bramley last October, it's blossoming now and it's utterly lovely.

Frozen fruit as a coolant in summer drinks is wildly underused. Especially frozen slices or chunks of citrus. If you're going to add a slice why not make it do the job of an ice cube?

Obviously avoid raspberries right now though...

Yup. It just adds to the general feeling of joy.
I got alcohol intolerance turn up as an ME symptom and it felt brutally unfair.
All this and no booze? At all? Even a little bit? Bastard.

It's been years for me there, but I feel your pain.

Oh god, that's grim.

The Travelling Whaleburys

A sense of shame having an impact on deciding whether to act like a cunt or not

All of these plus 'TikTok is a PRC psyop'.

Birds aren't real is a joy.

Happy to back this up.

I'm genuinely interested in that sort of thing, not particularly a believer but I love folklore, mythology, ghost stories and weird shit in general.
In theory it should be right up my street. Nope.

...much risk of messing it up. Substituting a proportion (maybe up to a third) of ground almonds for the flour will get you a denser, moister cake.

Grease and line your tins, preheat oven and DO NOT CHECK until at least half way through cooking time.

You can get a good basic sponge recipe by weighing your eggs, then weighing equal amounts of fat, sugar and self raising flour. If you want chocolate take a bit of the flour out and add cocoa powder instead.
You can add flavourings like vanilla or lemon zest (and a bit of juice) without...

Oh this is great news! So glad you've got something workable.

That looks... organic.

Silly, glossy, and CJ Cregg turns up.
Worth it.

That sounds like my kind of jam.

Or just old and on the internet.

As an aside, the other thing that mill has are some massive trees next to it, that are home to an established rookery.

Complaints were made, trees were pruned, nests removed.

Trees grew back, rooks returned.

Nature 1 : Humans 0

We live near a lace mill that's been converted into rather bougie flats.
The mill clock still bongs loudly every quarter hour.
It's great, it's lovely to hear. You move into that building and whinge? You absolutely did not spend enough time viewing your flat.

This is not reactionary. This is 'don't be a prick'.
You choose to move to a busy area or near to an established venue and noise is the consequence, suck it up.

*urge to jump around living room intensifies*

I do not hate this earworm by the way. It's on my 'brings joy' playlist and was on the wedding playlist as well, which was entertaining to watch.

Living up to the bio again, are we?

I sometimes got the feeling that every piece of advice Sun Tzu gave could have been prefaced by "Dude, Seriously..."