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Posts by Alexander Rooksmoor

For a long time it has been chicken noodle but recently I have been moving to cock-a-leekie which I suppose is appopriate since I relocated to Scotland.
It is almost impossible to get fish soup in the UK, but if in France, my favourite is the traditional brown fish soup with croutons and cheese.

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Well, given whenever I play that as a European state, the USA comes under a dictatorship and conquers Canada, in this world at the moment that does not seem that ridiculous.

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It is if someone says they are planning on restoring the German, Russian or Ottoman empires that we need to start really worrying.

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In some ways it make sense. Though there have been a lot of changes, economically, the Habsburg Empire made sense. I imagine some of the railway routes still run the way that would make it work.

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This is useful to watch. I have tried making egg foo yung in the wok and it has never turned out as well as from the takeaways. Clearly I need the wok really hot so it cooks in an instant the way omelettes do when you are doing four or five in a row.

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Finished Episode 3 of 'Grace' Season 6 and started Episode 4.

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from a chicken that has had a full diet. Remember chickens are omnivores, not herbivores, and them eating bugs, worms, frogs, etc. means your egg gets Omega 3 in it, something which went from eggs in the 1970s when battery farming really took off.

By now the other customer has usually walked off.

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are genuine free range eggs the way you can with brown-shelled eggs. A very pale brown-shelled egg, suggests the chicken was not getting a mixed diet with grass, bugs, etc. The real tell-tale is the yolk. If it is watery and yellow then that is likely to have come from a battery hen. Dark orange is

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been an explosion in white eggs. I know white eggs are a big thing in the USA, Ian Fleming wrote about the US insistence on white eggs and it even featured in an episode of the 1960s 'Batman'. I am sure inside the white-shelled eggs are little different, but it is harder from outside to tell if they

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It is fatal when someone asks me this in the supermarket. I have had four types of chicken in my life, all laying brown eggs and one way to tell what how good their diet is, is to see how brown the shells are. Now, not all chickens lay brown eggs and for some reason in the UK suddenly there has

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renewable energy sector does not bribe him the way the oil sector does and his son cannot gamble in wind the way he does in oil to make millions of dollars.

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of the tourist industry. There is no reason why they cannot be rimmed with wind turbines. As it is Trump already complains offshore ones spoilt the view at his courses in Scotland, one of which was built on a site of special scientific interest. However, he hates wind turbines anyway because the

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Yes, Scotland has a population of about 5.5 million, a little over half that of London. It does have the highest per capita number of golf courses, reckoned to be around 550 though some accounts put it as high as 614. In part this is because the game was invented in Scotland and it is a big part

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A bit grim!

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Possibly not too unexpected in an era when more people have believed in a flat Earth than for centuries. Hopefully we can avoid the burnings this time round.

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Reformation II - this time it's personal!

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"The sweetest melody is an unheard refrain"

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It is a fair point, but maybe it can be left to the reader to envisage. I know these days readers insist on every detail being pinned down for them, but that was not always the way. Look at the domino game in the movie 'Ocean's Thirteen' we never learn the rules of it.

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How many members were actually in the band? It looks like they got a crowd of their mates along to mime on 'Top of the Pops'.

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No-one would question if you read a 30-year old book, watched a 30-year old movie, listened to 30-year old music, let alone looked at a 30-year old painting.

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Would really suit a Goth family.
I had a friend who lived in a converted church. He painted life-sized murals on the interior walls including a jousting knight and used to ride his motorbike in through his front door.

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I have never heard of either of those!

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on flats or houses they own as they see it as providing no additional profit for them, for their expenditure. This is why I feel the move to electric is socially class orientated, simply benefiting the rich and steadily blocking poorer people's older cars from more roads.

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The nearest one to me is 7 miles away. They are simply not being rolled out fast enough especially into areas where people do not live in detached houses. There are street after street of blocks of flats, tower blocks, etc., which have no access to chargers. Landlords are not putting solar panels

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Sounds fascinating. I have never come across this.

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However, as a tenant living in a flat, I can neither have an EV charger or any control over what power comes into our block. So, I feel the same as you about gas prices, but have no ability to change that unless somehow I win a house.

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Of course you will not see this reported by Tommy Robinson, Nicholas Farage, et al. In their eyes only brown Muslims can be paedophiles.

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It is, however, how he has kept his figure. Big Bird on the other hand ...

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It is such a great place to visit anyway. It does get busy. A couple of wonderful second-hand bookshops too. I used to pass it regularly on my commute but often found it difficult to find time to go in, but when I did, I really enjoyed it. If you can't find any, many places sell them there.

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Will we get to see a battle round the walls of a whirlpool then?

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