UKCruiseJeff

There was an old bloke on Cruise Critic Whose posts were quite analytic He left the high seas Because of bad knees And hiis grumblings became more prolific.

Pussy Galore 🙂 Jeff Today’s Gherkin

Pasta La Vista 🙂 Jeff

We’ve been watching YouTubes on French brasseries this afternoon where they were featured more than once. We were wondering whether they keep and wash the bones and refill them with some concoction or other. They all seemed prestine rather than looked like they had been baked. Jeff

I’m envious. Satay Street is our first night ritual. 40 sticks plus a jug of Tiger from a Tiger Aunty. Jeff

I think it always depends on the ratio of pasta to béchamel sauce and then meat and sauce I use to spend my time looking closely at the beef percentage which seems to hover between 25% to 30% and sometimes more. More meat “must” be better - right - was the thinking. They then add a splurge of tomato sauce sometimes with a little TOO MUCH wine. And to me sometimes it can be simply become too rich and too meaty and “heavy”. So I was confused. More meaty MUST be better. When I was confused about why this less is more preference ie why do i prefer cheaper rather than the so called luxury option it occurred to me that the dish in origin is a peasant rustic dish made by canny grannies and mums to stretch out beef and/or pork and so perhaps they really did know what they were doing and so the meatier the dish the less tasty and authentic and therefore “not as good” as your/my choice. Only then did my cheaper choices make sense to me. It is what mamma would have made! 🙂 I do overthink don’t I! 😉 Jeff

Thanks Terry, I understand the need for short visit accelerants and the time considerations and therefore the consequential visit imperatives. I just happen to believe that when one decides on the concentrated personal tours to simply succeed in ensuring you get the ticks off the top-level list one too often misses the essence one would really like to find. However short the visit. More often, in my view when I see these plans for luxury fast-limo it seems to me that when I happen to know and love a place well, that a well chosen personalised slower set of suggestions although seemingly less in number is considerable more potentially memorable than a fast skim of the surface. It’s great you enjoyed your visit. Jeff

All I’m going to say is that no laws were broken with this array and it is a lovely way to spend an afternoon with my extraordinary partner in grime. Jeff

GD, That is sublime platage. I think you are eating out of my league. I hope you have some left-overs for me. 😀 I so appreciated you indulging me with the piccies. When we see food piccies I always learn a bit and sometimes yearn a bit. 🙂 Jeff

The top piccy …..❤️ Jeff

And a litre of Goats Du Roam instead of sparkly water. Jeff

Hong Kong! Lovely cats, but you must have eaten? Where were the pics? Jeff

I think you’ve nailed it. That concoction of whiffs will advertise your pre-arrival way before your entrance and those strides are sleek. I think you will certainly attract exactly the type of attention you seek. 🙏 Jeff

What sort of person decides on Jeans but then bottles out and goes Versace. It’s sort of “I like you to think I’m edgy but I also want you to know I’m wealthy”. Do you wear aftershave as well? 😀 Jeff

It isn’t 🙂 Jeff

L, This is in single, double and family servings. It is inexpensive but in my tastings the best from Ocado/M&S. I cannot make a better one. Jeff

Shop bought lasagne is a wonderful thing in the basket of a lazy foody person. Jeff

That is so tempting ….. but it would be cruel wouldn’t it. 😉 Jeff

Terry, I followed you through Singapore and enjoyed it. I hope you showed your passport and got your pensioner 90% discount at The Orchid Garden and remembered my **hint** and not follow the arrows to the left but instead avoided the line and the crowds but turn right when you go through the gates and walk against those ‘beedin’ people squeeling and taking selfies. It is a completely different experience. Our favourite tree in Botanic that had our bench blew over last year and now we do not have our favourite place to sit. I guess in front of you in that picture under the big tree the slim elderly ladies were doing their collective tai chi. Lovely. And many memories for me. We use to go two or three times a year for three weeks at a time and we miss it. I’d love you to return to Singapore and eat with the locals. Singapore is probably the best foody destination in the word! But only if you do not eat in restaurants. And the people are sublime so you have to eat with them and share a beer. But that needs weeks not hours. 🙂 Go back and linger awhile. Life is far too short to speed through it. 🙂 Jeff

Davy, Nothing wrong with that dish. But it isn’t a bacon and chip sandwich with Sarsons. You may feel like you are extending your life, but perhaps it just “feels” far too much longer. 🤔 Jeff

Coolers … it is a 2 bottle Rhone day today. Life doesn’t get much better. Or at least “feel” much better. 👍 Jeff

Terry, It is TRUE! Owners do look like their dogs! 😉 😄 Jeff

That’s unlucky. Hope they have more than 9 lives each. Jeff

I do so miss my two. Jeff

Enjoy you r trip home fudge .... About time we had a few kebab piccies! Jeff