Make yourself a special birfday dinner xx

Happy birthday Mr Car

Hippy Bathday Bubblecar

I hope your day if full of good food and great wine :D

Thanks everyone :)

I’ll endeavour to enjoy the day once I’ve navigated around this hangover :)

At some point during the day I’ll see if I can work out how to post a thank-you in Facebook for the birthday wishes on my Wall.

Happy Birthday, Bubble Car – I will miss you if you go…so please don’t go.

Happy Birthday Mr Car!

HB Car.

:-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mD-JeYjozc

Must be something missing from that URL, neomyrtus, ‘cos it’s not showing as a link and doesn’t seem to lead anywhere when copy & pasted….

Tonight I’m thinking: roast beef with a rich brown wine & mushroom gravy. Roast spuds & carrots (no parsnips after the parsnip soup pigout yesterday :)). Leeks, peas. And for dessert: the older sister’s delicious orange & almond cake + the younger sister’s fruit scones with her excellent fig jam and double cream.

Yesterday’s lunch went very well but we had to eat in the kitchen, on account of the studio floor is now too dangerous for that room to double as the dining room. While vacuuming it yesterday morning I nearly fell through the floor and would have ended up under the house had I not deftly jumped aside upon hearing the snapping of ancient timbers. One of the floorboards now leads into the foundations :/

I’ll give the estate agent a call tomorrow.

Bubble Car said:

While vacuuming it yesterday morning I nearly fell through the floor and would have ended up under the house had I not deftly jumped aside upon hearing the snapping of ancient timbers. One of the floorboards now leads into the foundations

That happened to Dads house. He took the wood to a hardware to get the right size and was told he had ants that were eating his house. He thought the Aussie hardware assistant was taking the piss. When he learned the truth he became a committed poisoner. Under his house will be a no go for generations with the amount of chemicals under it.

There have obviously been borers at work here for decades, and they’re still going. Little piles of chewed wood are a common sight, especially in the studio. The bedroom’s not much better and has already had several boards replaced since I’ve been here. But there are still ominous floor creaks and movements each time I get into bed.

May you feast merrily on the birthday turducken..

Dropbear said:

May you feast merrily on the birthday turducken..

eek.. I wouldn’t wish this uppion my worst enemy.

HB.. bubbles.. many frothful wishes.

I don’t know why everyone is giving Bubbles a HB message.

He’s gone, I heard about it last evening.

He’ll be sadly missed.

He’s bakkk.

jjjust moi said:

He’s bakkk.

dunno why he bothers.. plain speak will be fine.. why not get down to it.
?

Ta people :)

Lunch, which I’ve just scoffed, was a heavenly batch of pickled sardines from the Salad Bowl in Hobart.

I’m off in a moment to shop for some dinner ingredients, then back to try to reconnect the VCR for that programme tonight.

Dropbear said:

May you feast merrily on the birthday turducken..

Last week i saw a piecaken… 2 pies baked inside 2 caked then placed one on top of the other and decorated :D

Stumpy_seahorse said:

Last week i saw a piecaken… 2 pies baked inside 2 caked then placed one on top of the other and decorated :D

Just looking at that is enough to put someone into a diabetic coma!

…and that from you? pmsl

Stumpy_seahorse said:

Last week i saw a piecaken… 2 pies baked inside 2 caked then placed one on top of the other and decorated :D

I really don’t understand the point of a piecaken.

Happy

Bubble Car said:

Must be something missing from that URL, neomyrtus, ‘cos it’s not showing as a link and doesn’t seem to lead anywhere when copy & pasted….

works for me (but it doesn’t really – Lawrence Whelk never does)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mD-JeYjozc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4327HSXY56k&feature=related

Ah ta, neomyrtus. I wonder if he’s the only US TV host named after a shellfish.

Now I’m thinking I’d better get some beer, to join the wine & brandy….

and its a happy birthday from me.

and him points

all the best mr car.

Happy Birthday from me too. :-)

Thanks comrades :)
Roast so far, with the roots chucked in. It’ll need another hour or so, while I attend to the leeks and peas cooked in butter and a rich brown gravy involving quite a nice cab-sauv, 6 large Swiss Brown mushrooms and plenty of garlic.

Looks terrific Mr Car!

… what are doing for mains?

:)

:)

need to deep fry that lot in lard before serving..

>…and a rich brown gravy involving quite a nice cab-sauv, 6 large Swiss Brown mushrooms and plenty of garlic.

…and fresh rosemary.

Bubble Car said:

>…and a rich brown gravy involving quite a nice cab-sauv, 6 large Swiss Brown mushrooms and plenty of garlic.

…and fresh rosemary.

…+ a heaped spoon of Green’s Gravy powder, 1 beef OXO, splodge of cream, plenty of pepper.

Oh!

“HaPpY BiRtDaY!”

Bubble Car said:

Bubble Car said:

>…and a rich brown gravy involving quite a nice cab-sauv, 6 large Swiss Brown mushrooms and plenty of garlic.

…and fresh rosemary.

…+ a heaped spoon of Green’s Gravy powder, 1 beef OXO, splodge of cream, plenty of pepper.

…+ five teaspoons of capers.

In a fit of inspiration, I’ve added a cup of leftover parsnip soup to the leeks and peas, to create what the French might call a mess de soupe de beurre, les poireaux, les pois et les panais.

Ta monkey. I think I need a drink after reading that :)

Bubble Car said:

Ta monkey. I think I need a drink after reading that :)

I am having a vat of tea.

Since I am trying my new soup mugs. I had a lateish lunch. So instead of minestrone I am having a tea. It seems the soup has been received favourably otherwise. Looks across the room.

Well that’s my belly full to capacity.

Bubble Car said:

Well that’s my belly full to capacity.

If I had a percentage of your appetite we would both be better off.

Skunkworks said:

Bubble Car said:

Well that’s my belly full to capacity.

If I had a percentage of your appetite we would both be better off.

I sometimes work out the details of a magic spell – “make it that I’ve eaten half the amount I’ve really eaten over the past six months, and ooh, 100 fewer bottles of wine over the same period. This will come to pass and be reflected in my weight and fitness etc, as soon as I say the magic word.”

But I never actually say it, ‘cos magic is cheating.