thumper63 Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 Just finished up breakfast at The Nest. A nice meal with Mr. Big Guy 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thumper63 Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 Now for a good foot massage 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trip Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 3 hours ago, thumper63 said: Just out of shower. Going to hunt down a breakfast spot Casa Pascal 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thumper63 Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 Just finished foot massage and on our way to Cafe Pitini for ice cream 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stillearly Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 One more flight and I'll be home ... security at T5 was a complete ballache 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krapow Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 4 hours ago, boydeste said: Safe travels, very hot here now. Brought my mankini, all good 👍 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zambo Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 8 hours ago, Glasseye said: Once drove down to London from Dumfries Scotland. I was in a fcuking car with manual transmission, sitting on the right side shifting with my left hand. Pissed like cats and dogs the entire journey. Found the exit on whatever M it was by sheer luck. Dumfries! You must have tried the national dish of scotland INGREDIENTS 1 Mars bars 1 cup plain flour 1⁄2 cup cornflour 1 pinch baking soda beer oil (for deep frying) DIRECTIONS Chill the chocolate bar by keeping it in the fridge, but don't freeze it. Mix the flours and bicarbonate of soda (baking soda) together. Add beer (which gives a lighter until you get a batter with the consistency of thin cream. Heat the oil until a small piece of bread will brown in a few seconds, but don't allow to smoke. Remove wrapper (optional) from chilled chocolate bar. Coat completely in batter. Carefully lower into hot oil and fry until golden brown. Serve, with ice cream or french fries, if you're so inclined. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fygjam Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 17 minutes ago, Zambo said: Dumfries! You must have tried the national dish of scotland INGREDIENTS 1 Mars bars 1 cup plain flour 1⁄2 cup cornflour 1 pinch baking soda beer oil (for deep frying) DIRECTIONS Chill the chocolate bar by keeping it in the fridge, but don't freeze it. Mix the flours and bicarbonate of soda (baking soda) together. Add beer (which gives a lighter until you get a batter with the consistency of thin cream. Heat the oil until a small piece of bread will brown in a few seconds, but don't allow to smoke. Remove wrapper (optional) from chilled chocolate bar. Coat completely in batter. Carefully lower into hot oil and fry until golden brown. Serve, with ice cream or french fries, if you're so inclined. 1 cup plain flour 1⁄2 cup cornflour 1 pinch baking soda Just use a tempura batter mix. Flours with a high sugar content, potato starch, rice flour, tapioca flour, corn flour, give a crunchy batter rather than a chewy batter which a high gluten (wheat) flour gives. beer Or soda water. Either way the liquid should be as cold as possible. Prevents activating the gluten. More crunch, less chew. Don't work the batter too hard. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Dangleberries Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 20 hours ago, Krapow said: Going to get my daughter from school in an hour, then taxi to the airport Have you packed her arm bands for horse riding ..??? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zambo Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 2 minutes ago, fygjam said: 1 cup plain flour 1⁄2 cup cornflour 1 pinch baking soda Just use a tempura batter mix. Flours with a high sugar content, potato starch, rice flour, tapioca flour, corn flour, give a crunchy batter rather than a chewy batter which a high gluten (wheat) flour gives. beer Or soda water. Either way the liquid should be as cold as possible. Prevents activating the gluten. More crunch, less chew. Don't work the batter too hard. Yours sounds much more healthy, perhaps Glasseye could hsve 2 as a treat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fygjam Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 Just now, Zambo said: Yours sounds much more healthy, perhaps Glasseye could hsve 2 as a treat The Japanese do tempura fried ice cream. Perhaps he could do one of each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Dangleberries Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 13 hours ago, coxyhog said: Then a 30min wait for my mate to pick me up & straight into a snarl up on the M25... Could you briefly give walking directions from Immigration/Baggage Hall to the pick up point for cars please? EVA and National coaches were complete and utter bastards on my last trip so I might ask my son to pick me up ... and wizz along the M4 like you - but not as far..!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zambo Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 3 minutes ago, fygjam said: The Japanese do tempura fried ice cream. Perhaps he could do one of each. The Japanese are very Scotisized, take their love of Scotch whisky for example. So no big surprise they adapt the national dish as their own. Their national football team goalies also seem rubbish as if by homage. There the similarities end. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coxyhog Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 1 hour ago, Derek Dangleberries said: Could you briefly give walking directions from Immigration/Baggage Hall to the pick up point for cars please? EVA and National coaches were complete and utter bastards on my last trip so I might ask my son to pick me up ... and wizz along the M4 like you - but not as far..!! Who are you flying with/which terminal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coxyhog Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 10 hours ago, Glasseye said: Once drove down to London from Dumfries Scotland. I was in a fcuking car with manual transmission, sitting on the right side shifting with my left hand. Pissed like cats and dogs the entire journey. Found the exit on whatever M it was by sheer luck. I rented a car in Zurich when my missus came out to visit,chose a manual Nissan Micra because that's what she had in the UK. Of course it was LHD & she couldn't change gear....I'd had a few pints so we ended up with her operating the clutch & me the shifter....great fun,in retrospect. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krapow Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 1 hour ago, Derek Dangleberries said: Have you packed her arm bands for horse riding ..??? Big girl now, stage 3 at swimming school, can swim really well. No armbands, even on horses 🤣 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Dangleberries Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 1 hour ago, coxyhog said: Who are you flying with/which terminal? Ooooh f**k T2/T3 .....which one did you land at ..?? Finnair and EVA are neck and neck at the moment ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Dangleberries Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 1 hour ago, Krapow said: Big girl now, stage 3 at swimming school, can swim really well. No armbands, even on horses 🤣 Yep they sure do grow quickly don't they !!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krapow Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 (edited) I remember posting on a different thread about how some lose weight in Thailand, but I put it on, even though apart from coffee cake, I don't really eat sweet stuff. I put it down to the many crazy crisp flavours, I love crisps. I mean fried squid eggs ffs, it's hardly Tudor pickled onion 😆 I just bought a small box/tube of spicy garlic prawn pringles. Edited March 27 by Krapow 2 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stillearly Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 and home .... 37 1/2 hours door to door ... although that did include a night in London because it was too late to get a flight home and the Sun is out , blues skies 😎 hoping for a good Spring and Summer 🙏 4 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stillearly Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 3 hours ago, Zambo said: The Japanese are very Scotisized, take their love of Scotch whisky for example. So no big surprise they adapt the national dish as their own. Their national football team goalies also seem rubbish as if by homage. There the similarities end. 15+ years ago I always used to buy Japanese Whiskey when going through duty free ... the Yamazaki 12 was good but the 18 year old was my favourite and was about £60 a bottle ... but then you couldn't get hold of it and the prices went crazy ... just googled it now , the 12 year old is now £140 and 18 year old is for sale at £850 a bottle ... doubt if I'll ever get to taste it again ... 555 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coxyhog Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 (edited) 1 hour ago, Derek Dangleberries said: Ooooh f**k T2/T3 .....which one did you land at ..?? Finnair and EVA are neck and neck at the moment ... I landed at T4,but if you Google it for your terminal you should be OK. It's £7.50 fro 0-30mins in the short term car parks. So long as you've got a credit card then can pay at the machine when exiting. Edited March 27 by coxyhog 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coxyhog Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 Tried to pay my mum's care home bill online but the bank sent me one time passcodes which I'm not receiving. Then something twigged - went into my iphone & sure enough the missus put her UK sim card into my phone....I knew I should've done it. Getting a replacement but it means she won't be able to ring me once she's at LHR.I'm sure she'll be able to cadge a phone call from somebody. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coxyhog Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 Went to see my mum this afternoon,there's no way she can go home so now I have the task of raising the dosh for her £1500pw care home. Sell her house & cash in her premium bonds & her investments....I'm gonna be busy. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stillearly Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 22 minutes ago, coxyhog said: Tried to pay my mum's care home bill online but the bank sent me one time passcodes which I'm not receiving. Then something twigged - went into my iphone & sure enough the missus put her UK sim card into my phone....I knew I should've done it. Getting a replacement but it means she won't be able to ring me once she's at LHR.I'm sure she'll be able to cadge a phone call from somebody. If she's got a Thai sim , it will pick up the U.K. network, with dtac you get free data roaming in U.K. for 24 hours, as assume other Thai phone companies offer similar 🤷♂️... just make sure she has your full U.K. number + 44 etc in her phone 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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