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Justice 4.1
Its really good. Go, read it, you know you wnat to!!
Will it be suitable holiday in Barcelona reading, do you reckon?
Of course! Its suitable for anywhere in the galaxy...
I better hurry up,and finish my current tome then, eh?
Yep, get that out of the way and get to the good stuff!
Goodness knows it's been on my TBR long enough.
It's really snug tucked in quietly down here below the sin bin as well :-)
BELOW the sin bin?? I never realised there was anything down there!
Sheesh.Simon is worth every penny I pay him.
Sorry, Jim. I've fixed it now.
Don't worry, the sin bin fairies ejected it back up into it's rightful place :-)
The experience of being beneath the sin bin would make for a good blog post, I reckon.
It's already on my kindle, so I'd best get on and read it now :~)
Just bought my copy. Looking forward to reading this one, Jim.
Jim wrote: "Nah, no way http://jandbvwebster.wordpress.com/20..."Ha! Great post!
But now I need to know about the pouring drink into strange ladies.
You mean you don't know about pouring drink into strange ladies!
Pouring drink into strange ladies is a very Anglican procedure.But aside from that, people have kindly sent me their holiday photos from Tsarina. You can see them
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And thanks to Rosemary and Gingerlily we now know how environmentally friendly Tsarina is!https://www.facebook.com/TsarinaSecto...
I'm expecting a gift of smoked gastropod for christmas.
Let's hope you don't get a big box of yak poo.
We've already got the 'smoke your own' kit packed and ready for delivery to her.One box of lovingly air-dried yak dung, indigenous stove plus smoking rack.
They normally assume you have your own gastropod and don't need any sending.
HEY! I want the end product - i.e. the actual smoked gastropod. I don't have any gastropod. I was going to say I didn't want the yak poo smoker, but after all the cigarette smoke my neighbours have subjected me to I think its about time I returned the favour...
I'd like to know how to air-dry, lovingly...
Oh that's simple Rosemary• First slice the yak dung lengthwise into pieces about 1/4 inch wide.
• Then sprinkle salt onto the dung slices and pour some red wine vinegar into a bowl.
• Each dung slice gets a quick bath in the vinegar — only a second or two
• Then skewer the dung slices and hang them to dry in the a big dry place (at home, perhaps the garage. Use Skewers because you then have as little contact with a hard surface as possible, and everything that touches a hard surface can trap moisture and promote mould growth. Do not let the dung slices touch each other when hanging.
• Check them every day. You can take them down when the slices are dry but leathery; if you let them get crispy I feel they burn too quickly.
Gingerlily - Elephant Philosopher wrote: "HEY! I want the end product - i.e. the actual smoked gastropod. I don't have any gastropod. I was going to say I didn't want the yak poo smoker, but after all the cigarette smoke my neighbours have..."Well you can smoke snails of any size, ideally after they've been removed from their shells.
If you're wanting to produce more smoke to irritate the neighbours (air dried yak dung produces a very delicate, fine, smoke, suitable for the subtle flavours one gets with the best quality gastropod) then I'd just throw in old shoes, food scraps and damp wood.
How about the contents of a burst feather pillow?
Being a gentleman I will not ask exactly how you managed to burst a feather pillow, but still, given that the purpose is to smoke your neighbours rather than high quality gastropod, it'll probably work
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Jim wrote: "Nah, no way http://jandbvwebster.wordpress.com/20..."Ha! Great post!
But now I need to know about the pouring drink into strange ladies."
The answer lies in the soil, or at least here
http://jandbvwebster.wordpress.com/20...
I read this some time ago and love Jim Webster's humour which is dry and clever rather than slapstick. I kept getting the characters mixed up, though, which made me go back a few times. The world he creates is fascinating. I love the way, in this series and his fantasy stories, I can almost taste the food. Even the yak!
Especially the yakWell especially if you have the yack préparé avec un vin rouge et sauce à l'ail , servi sur un lit de choux.
You can end up tasting it for days.
If you just have it lightly grilled with chips and mushrooms it's fine
Or with baked beans. Cooked round a campfire.
No blazing saddles references here, we're far too politically correct.Just for those who have not yet had time to purchase this fine volume,
Haldar leaned over his shoulder to look. “Military surplus? I always liked the ones which included chicken; even if the ‘chicken’ was really gastropod.”
George shook his head. “Local manufacture; they use a carton rather than a can. You can use the cartons as kindling to light your fire.” He looked at the labels. “No chicken, just a hundred different ways to cook elderly yak. You might find them a bit heavy on the sauce, and a bit light on the meat, but between ourselves, once you’ve eaten the meat for as long as I have, you’ll prefer it that way round.”
Haldar took a carton and read the nutrition information: “May contain trace quantities of hallucinogenic lichen?”
“There was an unfortunate incident some years ago. Elderly yaks of the sort which tend to grace ration cartons will survive the winter by eating the lichen off a rock-face. Some of the lichens have strange properties, but yaks have a high level of tolerance.”
That would feed a lot for people for a long time!
You see why we never bothered importing chicken
Then we'll all tiptoe round slowly so as not to disturb you :-)
PSWhen you read the book you'll realise that most of the Gastropod fixation is due to a certain Gingerlily picking up on a couple of throwaway lines
I was thinking of having a Gingerlily's snail, but remembered we've already got a dragon
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Hahahahah I'd forgotten about that!
Don't worry, there's a certain dungeon bar and grill in my Oxford that will serve practically anything (although not to just anyone)...
So glad I've never influenced anyone's writing.Oh wait.
I think I've been killed off in more than one story. Nevermind. That's balanced by being the namesake of a Pathologist in one series.
You're in this one too, remember. I don't think you get killed off though...
You haven't cropped up in any of mine yet - although there's still time...(GL's in there, DD's in there, the Wailmeister's in there, Andy Barrett of course. But as Kath will be at pains to point out, she hit the cutting room floor!)
did she damage it when she hit?Yes, I know, I am casting her as a sort of female Chuck Norris...
Or maybe Chook Norris!
And I'm reminded that old man Webster appears in one book...
This book has beer, punctuation, probably bacon and all sorts of really wild things.
Like spaceships and blasters and old men who aren’t wearing swimsuits.
And Yak, did we mention the yak?