Happy to share the recipe with you, from my forthcoming Northern cookbook.
1. Carefully peel and slice 4 large Greggs sausage rolls. Be sure to save the outers for a delicious breakfast treat (see page 17, Geordie Croissants)β¦
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Happy to share the recipe with you, from my forthcoming Northern cookbook.
1. Carefully peel and slice 4 large Greggs sausage rolls. Be sure to save the outers for a delicious breakfast treat (see page 17, Geordie Croissants)β¦
<Suspicious>You're just after me ramen, aren't you?
10.08.2025 17:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Making chilli pork ramen, even as the temperatures here in the North soar to 6Β°
10.08.2025 17:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Why does Vladimir Putin look like heβs just chalked his cue while pondering how to get back on the black after potting a tricky red to the far corner?
09.08.2025 17:18 β π 97 π 28 π¬ 2 π 1βYou know what they call the Hunger Games in France?β
βThey donβt call them the hunger gamesβ
βNo man, they got the welfare state, they donβt know what the hunger games areβ
βWhat do they call them?β
βBattle Royale With Cheeseβ
What if two wrongs DO make a right, and minutes after touching down in Alska, Putin is grabbed by 5 armed, masked guys in a Ford F140 pickup and bundled off to some South American gulag?
09.08.2025 15:54 β π 57 π 3 π¬ 7 π 2You're all taking noted dishonest framer stats for lefties seriously despite their reputation as a noted dishonest framer (or sometimes fabricator) of political issues? It's even in the name, stats for people who like to pick and choose their numbers...
08.08.2025 16:26 β π 10 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0Can confirm, as an Englander who went on holiday to Scotland last month, and was staying somewhere very slightly further South than my house.
08.08.2025 16:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Go on David, one shove and it's Lab 56% (+24)
08.08.2025 13:22 β π 226 π 45 π¬ 9 π 2"Gosh, Mr S. Lushfund, of 999 Destroythis Drive, Cayman Islands, sure does a lot of consultancy for us. Good for him."
08.08.2025 09:23 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0He's come back once, he could easily do it again. As he himself said, "Those who do not learn from history are destined to become a nation of shopkeepers."
07.08.2025 20:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I watched all of Sharpe on ITVX the other week. Grand it was and Iβve learned that if a cavalryman comes at you then you simply knock him off of his horse with the butt of your rifle.
07.08.2025 20:38 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0I set βem up, you knock βem down.
07.08.2025 20:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Is there a lot of running?
07.08.2025 20:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I have thought recently about penning a new note from Burgon and just haven't got round to it, but if it's what the fan base* wants then I might be tempted.
*You. It's just you. It always was.
I found my old Google sheet that generates random James Bond film titles, and I am ready to pitch every one of these...
07.08.2025 13:06 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 3 π 0The blog posts from @nearlylegal.co.uk on housing law issues are (and have been for many years) outstanding. Nice to see them break out from the legal community.
07.08.2025 12:41 β π 4 π 4 π¬ 2 π 0βIs doing an antisemitism antisemitic? Many would say yes, I am not so sureβ
07.08.2025 08:31 β π 54 π 9 π¬ 2 π 0Look, she might have been told that she was in charge of homelessness without it being clearly specified whether she was meant to be for or against it.
07.08.2025 08:31 β π 18 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Interesting choice of words, the use of "left us", rather than just "left" suggests they weren't merely found stashed under his bed, but were a specific bequeathment.
"To my son, Dick, who I hope will be as surprised as he was surprising, I leave my treasured collection of Pure Man-Love monthly."
ISTR that the owner was refusing to sell to the cleric even before the pariah priest got involved.
06.08.2025 08:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Could we maybe just call it a day and pave over the whole lot, to make a car-park for people who want to visit Canada?
06.08.2025 07:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Y U not care bout frozen caveman?
06.08.2025 07:31 β π 26 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Can we hold out hope that all the repellent scumbags currently controlling America through Trump kill each other in a shoot-out to see who's going to be the new boss?
06.08.2025 06:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0"Why is it easy to hold in a piss when you fart, but hard to hold in a fart when you piss?"
06.08.2025 05:30 β π 11 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Also 8, Morse and manager.
06.08.2025 04:44 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βWho the hell wants an MP with no intelligence, who just parrots back to you what you want to hear, and doesnβt even have a physical presence,β ask the people of Clacton, as they vote in Mark Sewards.
05.08.2025 19:45 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I suspect that if thing had gone pear-shaped then both insurers would have said their policy was void, because you can only use NCB on one at a time, and Iβd have ended up on Dibbles On Da Box anyway.
05.08.2025 18:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0