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Living and cooking in Norfolk with an Airedale and listening to the Archers

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Reg Tubby@regtubby· 9d

But I did take a picture of the caramelised allotment carrot tarte tatin we had before it

Reg Tubby@regtubby· 12d

This local road sign always makes us do a double take.

Google street view image of a 30 mph speed limit sign. Below is a sign for the village of Yaxham in brackets it says Clint Green.
The spacing of the upper case L and I in Clint is such that the two letters could easily be read as a U.
Putting a completely different complexion on the name of the village.

Reg Tubby@regtubby· Jul 5

I have a food stall so we don't eat out often unless it's to try food from fellow traders. On Thursday we had a pub meal. No effort went into this £11.50 avocado caprese‽ The dots of mozzarella were like bullets. I turned the unpeeled avo over to read the label. Ready to eat? It wasn't.

Reg Tubby@regtubby· Mar 15

Something about this shop made me think of Brian #TheArchers #Cravats

Photo of the signage for a clothes retailer in Zadar, Croatia.
The sign reads "Croatian Fashion Square in the Homeland of the Cravat".

Reg Tubby@regtubby· Feb 16

We visited here last week for funny reasons

Photo of a railway station sign at Gujarat city of Wankaner.
No, it isn't spelt like that but that didn't stop us going there for the photo.

Reg Tubby@regtubby· Jan 30

Four years ago today this little bundle of joy joined our household.

Photo of an eight week old Airedale terrier puppy. Sitting in dappled sunshine in front of a garden fence.

Reg Tubby@regtubby· Jan 6

Oops, sorry forgot to add it

Reg Tubby@regtubby· Dec 24

Can I offer you a tin of Brussels Sprouts? Use by is 2022 so I might give them a few more years to mature before I open them. #thearchers

Photo of a can of Brussels Sprouts.

Tasty!

Reg Tubby@regtubby· Dec 4

I love the smell. It will be a few months before we find out how the quince ratafia has worked out but the tarte tatin was splendid

Reg Tubby@regtubby· Nov 23

Post a movie where you're from

Reg Tubby@regtubby· Nov 15

That's not far from Thetford Oranges

Photo of UK red border road sign pointing left towards "Thetford ranges".

A cheeky skamp has added an o to the sign so it now reads "Thetford oranges".

The amendment is a regular occurrence. Authorities remove the o and soon after another joker returns to replace it.

Reg Tubby@regtubby· Nov 13

Something about tonight's episode made me think of Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions. #thearchers #kurtvonnegut #beavers

Photo of double page spread of pages 31/32 of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Breakfast of Champions.
The pages of typeset text include handwritten text and a couple of drawings.

The text reads...

"At the time he met Dwayne Hoover, Trout's most widely-distributed book was Plague on Wheels. The publisher didn't change the title, but he obliterated most of it and all of Trout's name with a lurid banner which made the promise:

WIDE-OPEN BEAVERS INSIDE!" (handwritten)

"A wide-open beaver was a photograph of a woman not wearing underpants, and with her legs far apart, so that the mouth of her vagina could be seen. The expression was first used by news photographers, who often got to see up women's skirts at accidents and sporting events and from underneath fire escapes and so on. They needed a code word to yell to other newsmen and friendly police-men and firemen and so on, to let them know what could be seen, in case they wanted to see it. The word was this: 'Beaver!'

A beaver was actually a large rodent. It loved water so it built dams. It looked like this: "

Basic line drawing of a beaver

"The sort of beaver which excited news photographers so much looked like this:"

Drawing of some swiggly black lines above two vertical representing a slit.

"This was where babies came from."

It's all a bit purile but it's Kurt Vonnegut.

Reg Tubby@regtubby· Oct 18

Sadly no chips of any sort. It's all a bit mid 80s bistro in the Caroline Bone recipe book. #thearchers

Photo of an index page from a recipe book three potato recipes and a selection of pork dishes.

Reg Tubby@regtubby· Oct 15

When I was a child Tony Hart was a family friend and exactly as charming as you'd want him to. My friend Margaret and I were models in his 1971 book Fun With Historical Projects.

Black and white photo in a book of two young children playing on the floor. The girl on the right has built a castle from three cereal boxes and a henge from matchboxes.
On the left the boy uses a wooden sword to defend an archway made of cardboard wine crates.
The less than cheerful looking boy is me aged about six.

Reg Tubby@regtubby· Oct 10

I've been looking up the LaRue books. I'm not sure that this is the right summary for the book!

Image World of Books website page for children's book 'LaRue Across America'.
The summary of the book seems to be mixed up with 'What's Still Right with the Church of England' by Canon David Jennings.

Reg Tubby@regtubby· Sep 23

You mean this scene, preparing lunch at Crow Crag? #TheArchers #Withnail

Reg Tubby@regtubby· Sep 23

I don't think there is a reply to the mention of legumes #TheArchers #withnail

Reg Tubby@regtubby· Jul 23

I've dug out a box of gig and band photos and found this pic of a Norfolk broad and thought of @jodythompson.bsky.social

Picture of a colour photograph of Cathy Dennis taken at the launch of BBC Radio 1's Sound City 92.

Reg Tubby@regtubby· Jun 2

Oh dear, I have a data projector, the lounge curtains and a memory stick full of Cold War era Eastern Bloc TV ads. It could be a long night.

Reg Tubby@regtubby· Apr 8

An example of a painting photographed with and without polarized light and polarizing filter.

Photo of an unglazed 18th century oil painting in a gilt frame of a woman. The canvas shows reflections of the photo lights.

Photo of the same oil painting. This time the light sources have been polarized and the camera lens has a linear polarizing filter at 90 degrees to the polarized light. Consequently the canvas no longer shows reflections of the photo lights.

Reg Tubby@regtubby· Apr 5

My music HD in the car is quite eclectic, it often shuffles to things I don't remember having. The car doesn't always show track titles so I resort Shazam to get details. Here's one from yesterday and another from this morning. Both had been Shazamed 191 times!

Screen grab of Shazam library showing tracks by Fat Truckers and Mae West.

Reg Tubby@regtubby· Mar 23

Niche physics joke - if this is Fleming's left hand rule, hold up right hand in similar pose, what's this... ...Sooty in the nude

Illustration of Fleming's left hand rule showing how electro magnetism works in an electric motor.

Possibly, it's a long time since I did O'levels.

Reg Tubby@regtubby· Mar 16

Image of Styscraper tower of rubbish and nine pigs 15.44m tall.

Reg Tubby@regtubby· Mar 8

This can. Use a fork to hold one end of the celeriac then scrape away.

Photo of stainless steel julienne vegetable peeler

Reg Tubby@regtubby· Feb 23

Aged eight I blew my Christmas WHS vouchers on this and used my Dymo tape printer to label it as mine

Sleeve artwork of Elton John album "Don't Shoot me I'm Only the Piano Player".

Reg Tubby@regtubby· Feb 23

This is a favourite from the first River Café recipe book

Reg Tubby@regtubby· Feb 15

I might have to stop now

Reg Tubby@regtubby· Feb 15

Oh dear, I can see myself losing a lot of time doing this, especially as this was my first go in Nouakchott in Mauritania

Photo of a large plate of brown food on a bed of brown rice. Dish may include a couple of large chunks of carrot and a whole bulb of garlic. For colour there are two halves of lime.

Street view photo of exterior of the "restaurant" a non-descript, partially built concrete building on a sandy road with a pile of rubbish in the foreground.

Reg Tubby@regtubby· Feb 15

You've been murdered, who do you want on the case?

Photo of Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo from the episode Murder Under Glass.
The detective is in chef's whites sat at a set dinner table and is raising a glass of red wine to the camera.

Just one more thing...

He's wearing a chef's hat.

Reg Tubby@regtubby· Jan 30

Sleeveface from a very long time ago