h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Speaking of DVDs, libraries that put enormous stickers *right over the top!!* of the summary text. Sure, the cover LOOKS interesting, and the title SOUNDS interesting, and I might well have checked it out, if I had the SLIGHTEST CLUE what the plot was.

Yeah, Neil Peart called her a genius… he was young and stupid.

Why is ANYTHING always taller than my cupboard shelves? Ugh.

Called BA, I'm not in the database, but there IS cash gone on the card… it just says payment but I've a feeling that’s the flights’ cost. *sighs* I need to call the bank in the morning then.

Cooking boiled eggs. How do you know when they're done? And what about duck eggs? And if you want to serve a soft boiled duck egg on a salad how do you a) know when its done and b) peel the beggar!

Didn't we just have this conversation about peeling boiled eggs? Or was that another thread?

Yeah, yeah, we did! Here you go, Sir Beatrice; perhaps a quick gander at it will provide a solution to your problem: http://h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/alabaster/F19585?thread=242934&skip=12373&show=20

Yes I remember reading that. Peeling cold eggs is OK, it's the warm ones that I find tricky.

So... Why don't you wait until they're cold?

you just need to do it really quickly with cold water to dip your fingers in as needed

I was peeling boiled eggs last night, they were really fresh eggs and the first one was a nightmare. That's when I remembered that tip about putting a hole in each end and blowing. I have to say, it didn't work, but it did loosen that membrane considerably and the egg was much easier to peel.

Deb

The advice was to put a touch of baking soda in the water when you boil the eggs to lower their acidity and hence loosen/soften the shell. Then you can blow the eggs out of their shells. However, I am not sure if the baking soda refers to baking powder or bicarbonate of soda.

The recipe was for soft boiled duck eggs on roast asparagus and black pudding. Cold eggs wouldn't have worked.

The original egg peeling post was mine a couple of weeks ago.

Is this an edited guide entry waiting to be done?

So this reminds me that I have a lovely jar of pickled eggs at home ready to eat.

Yum.

Just as well that Mrs PP isn't staying over tonight.

PP.

Tesco (they just happen to win the award this morning - it could have been anywhere that I shopped).

I pulled a muscle in my back in the shower this morning (don't ask!) and stopped off at Tesco for Ibuprofen because I can't raise my arms above chest height at the moment.

The Ibuprofen is at shoulder level.

Oh and since I am first in the office, I need to turn off alarms and so on. They are at eye level.

So far the day hasn't been going well.

PP.

Sorry, PP, couldn't help grinning at your plight.

if you lived in the supermarket wasteland, PP, that TC and I do, you'd have had to wait until the chemist opened for the ibroprufen. Which would have solved both problems:

1) the chemist would hand you the pack because they are too explosively dangerous to Germans and have to be behind a counter

and

b) you wouldn't then have been first in the office

That's reminded me of a petty hate I thought of a few days ago and then forgot to post. People who, when they are explaining something, start to list things and go "A: blablabla", but then get waylaid with embellishing on "A" and forget that it's supposed to be a list and you never find out what "B" is.

at Sho.

When you think you've enough book left to do you before bed, but it turns out most of those pages are either blank, or ads for other books.

Dropping the soap whilst in the shower, it’s as if the blighter has got a mind of its own, it never stops and it just keeps on swirling around.

Mind I have been known to deliberately drop it, when the girlfriend is in the shower too

When you think you've enough book left to do you before bed, but it turns out that there is rather more than that.

My aproach under these circumstances, if to chuck the soap out through the bathroom door towards the stairs and send her after it. "Make me a cup of tea whilst you are down there love."

I'm a romantic, me.

PP.