Yay, it's cheery Friday.

[Alpinum]

ground nut oil.

Gets me thinking. Are nut ground before they get squashed, or are they usually just trown in for squeezing with no further do?
I could ask my boss, his background is food process engineer ETH, but I leave him alone 'till Monday.

All packed and ready for a 1.5 day ride in the Engadin, will be revisiting some places I've been with Karl B. and Pete D. Good memories.

Oh... it's not Friday anymore (I'm an hour ahead here).

[sean_iow]

Definitely not Friday now but only just seen this.

https://www.iwradio.co.uk/news/isle-of- ... -of-wight/

They are hoping to reintroduce beavers not far from me. Ignoring the flooding issues...it does mean when I'm out riding/running I might get a glimpse of some beaver*

*Childish I know but too good an opertuniy to waste.

[BigdummySteve]

Also Sean it’s an excuse to listen to
Wynona’s big brown beaver
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aYDfwUJzYQg

[frogatthefarriers]

**No, not oven chips because they're horrible. These are real chips just that I cook them in the oven, so roasted I suppose.

Controversially, and I throw this open to the usual Cheery Friday suspects for discussion, I chopped the spuds into half inch CUBES. Shades of Fawlty Towers and the 'amphibious landing craft shaped chips' there perhaps. So there's your question. What shapes are permitted? In the past I've also done crisp-shaped ones too.

Here's my take on chips. A favorite of my own kids and my grand-kids. I give you -----
Pigs-Nose Chips....



Potatoes cored longways with an apple corer, then sliced crossways to make the noses. The cores also sliced, into little circles to make pig-poo. Deep fried of course, probably in lard.

[RIP]

Well why not eh! . What about trotter and curly tail shapes?

[benp1]

I was going some googling of various things down towards the IoW (I’m moving near there) and discovered the White Tailed Eagles that were reintroduced there. Very exciting, although I think only a couple are there still with the others “flying the nest”

[sean_iow]

One or the eagles has just returned after 17 months off flying about.

My Mum has a problem with doves from the house down the road coming up and eating the food she puts out for the wild birds. She text me yesterday to say there was a buzzard sat on the back of the chair on the patio outside her kitchen window and it was surrounded by white feathers. The doves are no longer eating the wild bird's food.... they now ARE the wild bird's food

[Verena]

It's been quite the week, with many reasons to be cheery this Friday: in addition to the wood burner and the new car, I've had my second covid jab, Mr Z has had his first, and I've completed my training to be a bank vaccination clinician on Saturdays as and when I'm needed (I actually gave two people their jabs on Wednesday ). I've got yesterday and today off work for a bit of a rest, the only fly in the ointment is the weather forecast - had hoped for some good times out on the bike, but at the moment it's more appealing to check, on my phone and from the comfort of my bed, that my car I indeed still located just outside my house, and that it has charged itself back to full power over night. Also to muse to myself when it would ever be useful for me to use the function of navigating (on foot) from my current location (bed) to my car (just outside). Or the pre heat/ pre cool function, although when proper cold and iced up I can see that...
Have a good one everyone !

[slarge]

Well, it's our 1st anniversary today (got civil partnered last year after 33 or so years together).

Plus, it looks like the company I have been at for the last 36 years is going to be releasing 2000 people. I have registered my interest and think I might be on the shortlist!!! That is truly great news (for me), and it might even mean I get to have the summer not being a slave to a laptop in the spare room.

[Bearbonesnorm]

I get to have the summer not being a slave to a laptop in the spare room.

Aye, when porn loses it lustre eh.

[PaulB2]

Our local vaccination centre put out a call yesterday that they had spare doses available for registered carers so my missus was able to get her first jab which means that she won't have to start shielding with the new guidelines coming into place. Hopefully the first step to something approaching normality.

[Chicken Legs]

I get to have the summer not being a slave to a laptop in the spare room.

Aye, when porn loses it lustre eh.

Thats conjured up an image I didn't need

[sean_iow]

I get to have the summer not being a slave to a laptop in the spare room.

Aye, when porn loses it lustre eh.

Thats conjured up an image I didn't need

Was it this, Steve and Javi holding their bananas?

[sean_iow]

Seeing as it's Cheery Friday I've updated my avatar from my serious riding face to... well you can see

[slarge]

I get to have the summer not being a slave to a laptop in the spare room.

Aye, when porn loses it lustre eh.

Thats conjured up an image I didn't need

Was it this, Steve and Javi holding their bananas?

Where did that photo come from?

Some cheery people in here today (as in pisstaking barstewards)

[sean_iow]

Where did that photo come from?

Weirdly Javi sent it to me randomly after the event you were at, I think he meant to send it to you originally and I assume 'Steve' and 'Sean' were near each other in his phone, or he got us mixed up as we could be twins

Imagine what it was like for me when I'm sat on the sofa minding my own business and that popped up on my phone unannounced and with no explanation

[Bearbonesnorm]

Anyway - you must be getting slow Steve because judging by the medal, it looks like Javi won

[RIP]

Seeing as it's Cheery Friday I've updated my avatar from my serious riding face to... well you can see

Now much as I'm a huge fan of Ralph and his adventures, having him stare out at me every time I read one of your posts is going to take some getting used to. That cheery cheeky grin is belied by those EYES. Which I've not really registered before now. Good grief, he's either been a witness to some terrible accident, or he's only recently managed to escape from Village Of The Damned. I'm going to have to go and have a cup of tea and a biscuit.

[sean_iow]

That cheery cheeky grin is belied by those EYES. Which I've not really registered before now. Good grief, he's either been a witness to some terrible accident, or he's only recently managed to escape from Village Of The Damned.

I might not make him a permanent change, I'll have see how cheery I am.

As for the eyes, well he came with me on the Lomond Trossachs loop and if you recall I had come 'chaffing' on the Cairngorm Loop I rode beforehand, so every night in the cramped confines of the tent he would have seen me applying the sudacream and then the bum butter in the mornings.... you'd have eyes like that if you'd witnessed it

[RIP]

. I'm sure I'll get used to it. It's a helpful reminder that I'm lucky enough to have led a sheltered life .

[Richard G]

I couldn't find the panda thread...

https://twitter.com/AnimalsWorId/status ... 6168669190

[Alpinum]

I seem to have messed up by body clock by sleeping 1 - 2 h more than usual.
Couldn't become tired to feel in need of sleep.
Went to bed 01:30. Cat was a menace. F@ck it at 02:40, up for slow breakfast, prepared a few things and started riding to work (dead easy and mostly nice single tracks for 49 km).
Mud in gooey and frozen flavour. Some snow and ice left too. Started to feel tired, so took the train after about 1 h of riding.
Had a 1 h nap at work, finally. In my new office, comfy tiles to sleep on. Small rucksack for cushion, old 130 g rainsmock for upper body mat and the second last BB vest (orange/black one) for my legs. Lab coat (clean one) for a blanket.
After 6 am I started working (worked on reports, exported data from a machine) - no fancy lab experiments. Coffee at 9:20, not feeling like a zombie. Great work with pilot production staff (super folks to work with, really, really appreciate them private and professional) programming a machine from 10 to 11:30. Back to office, shut everything down, took train to highest and midway point of commute and leasurely rode home, including some firn snow (melting xc ski tracks).

Currently at home enjoying the sun, soon to clean my long travel trailbike for a big service next week, shower and pack bc-skis onto fatbike, load it up for another 2 day trip.
Enjoy a good meal with gf etc.

Weird, but cheery. One to remember.

[summittoppler]

Friday started off fairly cheery but the Welsh Government announcement on what restrictions are being lifted (not much) has put a dampener on things.
Get this, I can teach from next week but can't put my bike in the car to go a ride in the hills!

[RIP]

Friday started off fairly cheery but the Welsh Government announcement on what restrictions are being lifted (not much) has put a dampener on things.
Get this, I can teach from next week but can't put my bike in the car to go a ride in the hills!

Sez 'ere: "Talks are taking place about reopening tourism in time for Easter, with bed and breakfasts and hotels with room service likely to be the priority". Bivvies at Easter then? We shall see.

"

[Dave Barter]

Our veg box got delivered today and it has pears in it. I bloody loves pears I do.