Fire pixies up!!

Oh no. We would never chance that. These are the resident outdoor birds- free entertainment for the kitties- from the safety of the living room window.

And a couple of mALX... um... squirrels, who seem to eat most of the seed. Just put a couple of peanut butter apples out.

Lovely fire, mirocu. Makes me long to build one my own self. But not enough to knock all the ice off the twigs, dig through the wood pile, clean off the hearth... etc. etc.

I shall simply go to Netflix and search for "Yule Log Fireplace," with actual crackling and background music.

Yeah, the cat had run of the house EXCEPT the bird room. Every time I saw him lingering around that door, I'd spray him with the squirt gun and tell him "NO!"

The birds were let out of their cages to fly every day, and had little gym sets they could play on that sat in the window (all the outside cats loved to watch the birdie in the window show every day). As soon as it got dark the birds would fly back to their cages and sleep. I had a breeding pair; sold off the babies after training them to be handled and not use the bathroom anywhere but their papers.

I kept a thick towel wedged under their room door so the birds couldn't escape into the cat area; but the only indoor cat we have would wait till we were asleep and pull the towel out of the gap.

Every morning I found the towel pulled out, no amount of squirting water or telling the cat "NO" changed his behavior. I got bigger towels, used more than one, etc. I even closed the cat up in my son's room while I was sleeping or going to work; but my husband let him loose while I was at work.

My poor beautiful bird, I raced him to the vet, but they couldn't save him. I really miss him. .

After that I called the vet that bought all my baby birds and sold my whole operation to her. If I couldn't protect them, didn't want to go through that again.

Poor little birds

Hope everyone's had a good Pancake Day/Shrove Tuesday.

Today I discovered that people down here in Yorkshire sometimes put gravy on their pancakes. I'm not sure how I feel about that

I know, I loved Peep, he was very smart and sweet. The remaining birds got a great home though, one with no lurking cats!






EW! Pancakes and gravy? Urk!

Are you sure it is pancakes? My mother made something bready called "Yorkshire Pudding" that tasted good with gravy.

The good ol´ town of York! Oh, how I remember the times of yore...

Yep, it was definitely pancakes. This place is very strange.

Yorkshire Puddings are slightly different and super popular all over the UK, mainly as part of the traditional Sunday roast/Sunday lunch/Sunday dinner.

...Pancakes and gravy?...*Shudders*...Noooo...Lemon and sugar for me, ta...

Gravy?... ...Oy...

Aye, McWife loves her Yorkshires with her Xmas dinner...Not a fan meself...

It's basically - I'm reliably informed - the same batter as is used for pancakes...But pancakes (possibly called crepes in the U.S.) are shallow fried in a frying pan, and Yorkshires are cooked in a special tin in t'oven...

But are essentially mixed the same...You could use the same batch to do pancakes and Yorkshires at the same time...



EDIT!!!...Before someone says it, the Yorkshire Puddings bought at the supermarket tend to be - at least in part - pre-cooked...Hence why you can just shove them on a baking tray to heat up as the shape is already there...

So I'm told... ... ...

This post has been edited by McBadgere: Feb 18 2015, 02:38 PM

The only things to put on pancakes


Edit: Argh, I think my head's going to explode. Trying to find particular ideas in the mess of notes I've had dropped into my head. I know what I'm looking for is in there, but I just can't find it!

This post has been edited by Callidus Thorn: Feb 18 2015, 04:41 PM

All alone again here at chorrol forums..



I should get a medal for member-being-here-the-most-even-when-nobody-else-is-around....

Or a deodorant?

That might do the trick!




But then I´d get no medal!

My Mom made it with a hearty beef roast for Sunday dinners.




My Mom made the Yorkshire Pudding in the actual roasting pan the roast was made in, and in the hot meat juices left by the roast. It was AWESOME !!!!!!




This post has been edited by mALX: Feb 18 2015, 10:03 PM

When I were a lad, this were the only way you could do it. AND you had to take it to Yorkshire and get it approved before you could call it a Yorkshire pudding!

Kids these days ... Get off my lawn!

When I were a lad in Glassgo, all them lasses brrought poddding up to grrampa and he toss them all ey penny to split!








Sorry!!

Some things you just can't force.




D'aaaaaaw !!!





Bwaaahaaaa !!!

It is starting to seem that the more I try to bludgeon it out of my head the harder it is to find anything. Maybe I'll leave it a couple of days, see if anything shakes itself loose.

Or...

My head will explode and once everything's on the walls it'll be much easier to find what I'm looking for!

A lot of times when you are having this hard a struggle to write, what you do get out feels tortured to the reader; you don't want that. Wait till you have an inspiration that you can't deny and can't stop writing it out - that kind of writing grabs readers and they can't stop reading - that is what you want.

Gi mi ma pott o gooold!!