Scottish Biting Midges.

comment by Ramsfanbaz. Are Soles Fish? ™ 9 /10 Prem... (U2480)
posted 7 minutes ago
Moj, their maybe a pre-match gathering if you're interested? There was a rumour..
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12.15pm KO - will the secret location be open???

Plus I have the dilemma and potential conflict of McDonalds v. the Secret Location

I said the same thing view but Igor was adamant that the Travelodge will be open for business?

Igor knows

Will be there in spirit

Ditto

View: Pre-match gathering sounds good!

Just arrived back in Spain to news of todays result.

However, well done to Durango's lot...hope there's no repeat on Tuesday!

comment by AnglianRam (U17428)
posted 1 day, 4 hours ago
Well done Moj !
We got a couple this week also for w stand upper - arrived this morning.
Where will you be ?
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Anglian: West stand upper!

comment by Ramsfanbaz. Are Soles Fish? ™ 9 /10 Premier League penalties are dives. (U2480)
posted 1 day, 4 hours ago
Moj, their maybe a pre-match gathering if you're interested? There was a rumour..
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Baz: I'll try and attend pre-match gathering. I'll be laden down with stage gear and bass guitar, which I'll leave with security, as I have to leg it to the train station immediately afterwards to I can perform down in Somerset that night!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-26526076

Mary Berry has caused consternation among the dinner party-giving classes by suggesting that cheese should come before dessert, writes Ben Milne.

Which comes first - the tarte or the Tallegio? As weighty dilemmas go, it's not exactly the Schleswig-Holstein question, but Mary Berry's admission on TV last night - "At my dinner parties, I like to serve the cheese before the pudding" - has caused a sharp intake of breath on Twitter. In the words of Woman's Hour presenter Jane Garvey, "It's the morning after Mary Berry said she serves cheese before pudding. Nothing will ever be quite the same again. #dinnerparty"


Once things were simple - the English drove on the left, kept their socks on in bed, and served cheese after the dessert. But Berry has placed a bomb (or perhaps a bombe) under this last assumption.

Guardian food critic Matthew Fort is in complete agreement with her. He believes that the British custom of dessert, then cheese, is just a hangover from a bygone age. "It rather depends whether you're clad in the fustian of Victorian habit or you embrace the common ground with our European cousins," he says.

"I always serve cheese before pudding because I like the meal to end on a sweet note." He believes this celebrates "Britain's own contribution to gastronomic culture - the pudding - by making it the full stop and sometimes the exclamation mark".

But this is not an opinion shared by everyone, and the the habits of several generations may be hard to shake. While many English people would concur with the sentiments of John Shuttleworth's song, "I'm halfway through my pudding/ I can't go back to savoury now," Tim Hayward, author of Food DIY is not one of them:

"It's one of those pieces of English middle-class francophilia which drives me up the wall. It's just wrong!" he says of cheese-before-dessert.

He thinks that this trend originated with a post-war generation influenced by the food writer Elizabeth David, which championed foreign food and was disparaging about home-grown customs. "My generation are positioned against that denial of Britishness," he says.

"English cheese is now the best in the world," he says. Serving it last is a good idea because "it's so social - everyone kicks back and that's when the great conversation begins - you re-write the constitution or discover gravity".

I couldn't possibly countenance such a thing! Having 'forged close ties' - yes, it's a euphemism....with Mrs. Moj and by extension, though not biblically, her cheese-munching familial brethren, I must state categorically that I will always devour the jam roly poly and custard before even considering stampeding in an unruly yet gallic fashion toward the camembert. It's a universal law. If we falter from well-trodden paths such as these, why, we might even start believing in Putin's poppycock that the Ukraine is full of disgruntled Russians in balaclavas who don't come from Russia at all, but have Moscow plates on their, er..military vehicles. First cheese, and then the world. Stop now, before it's too late! The First World War may have begun in the mountain fortress of Montengro, but make no mistake, the hotbed of militaristic and political activism in the modern day is Woman's hour. SAY YES TO CHEESE LAST!