Idle. Sometimes bone-idle. Trying to write fiction, intermittently. Also (still) trying to find the right chap. Easily distracted. I'm in South Australia, by the way. Sealions muted on sight.
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Last Notes npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Important bandicoot news. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser I'm going to have another day or two without news sites, for #auspol reasons. The Libs are reviving some of the policies that worked so well for them at the last federal election. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Redefining the borders of vulgarity. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Gearing up for a big night in front of the telly watching election results. Starting things off with ibuprofen. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Young woman applying liquid foundation on a moving bus. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Once again there's a Jehovah's Witless recruiting stall at Paradise. Job done, surely. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser On my way to collect my new, unsmudgy, reading glasses. Literally the highlight of the week. I'm old enough to hope that there are no additional unanticipated highlights. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Actually, Friday's looking better than Thursday for grocery shopping. A mere 36°C rather than 41°C. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Looked at the weather forecast. I'd better go for a walk tomorrow morning so that afterwards I can stay inside without even the slightest regret until Thursday. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Sorely tempted to have another bit of time offline, but at this point I think it could be a bit silly of me to isolate myself completely from knowledge of whatever the fuck is going on. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser The horror, the horror. I have neither muffins nor crumpets. Nevertheless, I will not be going to the shops today, that would interfere with my idleness. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser I have a long list of things not to do today. Do take some time out of your day for not doing things, maybe even all day, it's the best way to be. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Packidge. At last! npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Packidge is said to be "onboard for delivery" which is promising but not certain. What if the driver gets lost on the arrow-straight road from the depot to the top of my street? It has happened before. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser I'll have to ask a soothsayer about that. On the bright side, it's a domestic packidge so they'll tell me if it's nearly here and I can lie in wait. They won't track overseas packidges, even the ones with teacking numbers, and deny having been kicked in the head by a horse when asked. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Packidge has left the local sorting facility and is in transit to another sorting facility. Australia Post moves in mysterious ways. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser I am expecting a Packidge. It's at the local sorting facility. Will it come today? Dare I dream? npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser I've revised the menu so there's less effort required. Less movement. No prolonged bouts of standing at the stove. They'll come, they'll feed, they'll go. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Saw a poster for a Fringe show - "Dial M for Mushrooms" - beardy lads staring in horror at a beef/pastry dish. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser On bus 5 now. Likely to have 20 minutes waiting at Paradise. Never mind, the rest has worked neatly. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Current temperature 26°C. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser The Good Shop has been raided. Now waiting for bus 4. Almost 8am. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser The very first bus of the day on the stupid arse-end-of-the-year timetable is running seven minutes late and getting slower according to the app thingy. A good start. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser I've had a terrible idea. Go to The Good Shop for veg and random household chemicals, then go to the market which isn't fully open today but the good butcher is. I'll end up catching six buses,, but won't have to go out tomorrow unless I really want to. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser The bins have been put out. Found a small gecko under one of them, so he's also put out in a different way. Shortly, I shall put myself out. It's VegQuest! The apathy is tangible. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Making up for her childhood. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Yeah. Telly, K-pop, FC Barcelona.. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Memory-based nightmares are the worst. Sifting through them to identify the nuggets of reality, before I can dismiss the rest. So I've earned a distracting treat this morning involving a bookshop. Also the search for a birthday card for an 83-year-old who's more like an eternal teenager in some ways. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Same, without cricket. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Mum will be 83. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser 3:45pm. People have been and gone, thoroughly fed. I can now do nothing whatsoever in whatever manner I choose. I can also start planning the menu for Mum's birthday next Thursday. Essentially it'll be a repeat of today with different food. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Oh, that's easy. Someone in a "service" role must be on call 24/7. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Does the NGA shop still sell the "Blue Poles" jigsaw? I never got around to buying it... @npub1m5m…07y0 npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Rang a dedicated phone service to talk absolute filth. (The Council's rubbish contractors. They didn't pick up my green waste yesterday, and I don't need that hanging around in Summer.) npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser In #Adelaide the lobster people have invaded. Or is it just English cricket fans? Easy mistake to make. Seriously lads, use sunblock, wear hats, and stay in the shade whenever you can. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Temperature's just dropped to 40.8°C, so that's nice if you like that sort of thing. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser The early morning nutters are probably career-minded corporate drones. Yuck. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Tomorrow's plan: Get up at first light, open the house up while it's still under 25°C, water the garden. Retreat inside, close the house, shutter the windows, and consume sandwiches as the temperature rises into the 40s. Move as little as possible (that bit's like any other day). npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser I shudder at the thought of commercial network coverage, and certainly won't be having a look... npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Trying to watch some unchallenging telly, but there's a ticker suggesting changing to the ABC News channel for the latest news on the events in Bondi. Fuck entirely off. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Most of them, yes. The more robust ones are for tomorrow, or maybe Thursday. Today it's leftovers. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Very tired today. Very, very tired. It's almost like I didn't sleep at all... npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Typical, the way Netanyahu jumps in with his bullshit faster than you can say "notoriously corrupt shitcunt." npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser I have a bottle of Smirnoff which I stuck a few vanilla beans in some years ago. If I mix it with Coke it'll taste like creaming soda. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser I'm going to look at the news sites I trust, both of them (okay, one more than the other). I will not be looking at opinion pieces. I won't be linking to any of it. Then maybe a vodka. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser That's quite a mental picture. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Shop's selling Bluey milk choc baubles. Dog's balls. Not tempted. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser I can hear my grandmother saying something rude and untranslateable. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser There's a youmg woman here in a floaty knee-length sun dress and Doc Martens. The 90s are back! Or I've slipped throigh a portal again. Hate it when that happens. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser At sodding Paradise again, grateful for the caffeine vending fridge. I could have gone through to town on that last bus. Someone's choice of perfume (somewhere between artificial vanilla, coconut and flatus) made that undesirable. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Half-asleep at a bus stop, an hour behind schedule. I almost care. But if I find the shop crowded and irritating when I get there I'll probably still complain about it and accept no responsibility. Anyway, the full range of baked goods should be on the shelves by then. Swings and roundabouts. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser See if you can get a celebrity endorsement. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser $38 for cheap ingredients contaminated with brioche? Yeah, nah. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser So much better than stalking individual chickens. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Sorry to report that things gave gone badly for the Noisy Miner fledgling. I've just arrived home to find that it had wandered into the road. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser The best option of course is for him to resign and just bugger off forever. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Good news. The Noisy Miner fledgling that blocked my front door yesterday is still alive, very feisty, and barricading the garage instead of the front door. It'll be fine. The parents still bring it snacks. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Wow. Another thread from a primitive society equating the demise of cheques with fascism. I've blocked the originator of this one for being a fucking idiot. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser I've had a very stupid day with a sudden irruption of bureaucracy. I'm cooking a pizza about it. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Inevitably. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Good grief. I've just seen a thread of complaints from a primitive society about the phasing out of cheques. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Was in and out by 8am. It was still irritating. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Accidentally heard the 6am news, complete with audio of some senile shithead rambling on about ending entirely imaginary wars as some corrupt bastard gives him a fucking medal or something. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Just wondering how long it would take me to recover from attempting the Central Market on a Saturday morning. Should I put myself through that tomorrow, or wait until Tuesday? I mean, I'd go early and not linger, but would it still do my head in? npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Sugar soap is bad for diabetics. Also everyone else, I'm guessing. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Hmm. Basically, it's the sort of shit that's designed to get the attention of the witless on Farcebook. Let's say a combination of "human interest" (including photos of people looking glum and oppressed for the camera) and deliberate misinterpretation of government policy and/or governmental processes. These links are usually posted by people who either haven't read the article, or who just want attention. The desire of humans to wave their ignorance about is a constant niggle. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser And here I am again, hoping to avoid news in general and news items intended to provoke outrage in particular. My choice of trusted media outlets means that I usually find the outrage-provoking headlines here. While I understand the human impulse to share the sort of stuff that raises one's blood pressure, I'd like people to think twice about posting it. Agitprop is a terrible thing, even on the side of the angels. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser 9:30am. Oh no. I've just stumbled across a post with a news item that could have been specially curated to give me the absolute screaming shits. I don't want to do that. I want a calm day. So I'm offline until midnight at the earliest, it's the only way. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Leaving the tuna, corn and white gloop out would be a good start. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Tuna mornay, a combination of wallpaper paste and macerated sea creature with corn kernels for colour, is a relic of the time before taste buds. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser A remarkable thing happened yesterday. Australia Post delivered a thing, on a Sunday, and the delivery bloke - the usual one - rang my doorbell! He got right into it. Almost a jazz solo on the clangy brass bell. All it took was waiting most of a year, repeated complaints to Auspost, and a grumpy lecture to the delivery bloke a few months back, but he finally understood how to use a bell. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser There are a few things that make me want to run away screaming. Street theatre, for instance. Dogmatic bloviators. Tuna mornay. But phlebotomy is absolutely the worst. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Today is mostly going to be a chance for me to fret at length, for tomorrow I encounter Dracula again. I hate this so much. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Are you in Double Bay this morning? npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Rather a good GP too. She picked up on something that all previous GPs had glossed over. Then she went on mat leave or something... Never mind, everyone else at that practice was sensible too. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Can't read the article, but checked to see if the writer was who I thought it would be, and it is. She was my GP for a while, a couple of decades back. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Saturday, I think. Might get up and do some laundry. Or is that more of a Sunday pastime? npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Well-known allegedly cheap pharmacy chain has a black friday sale. Makes me think of discounted plague. Two-for-one buboes. Anyway, what I'm really trying to say here is, fuck that shit. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser A classy suburb. Elsewhere it would have been VB. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser 9:15am. Opened a bottle of fizzy sugarless caffeine at the bus stop. Drew a Pavlovian respone from the shabby bloke in a shabby suit who was already there. He perked up at the hissing sound but lost interest almost immediately when he saw what it was. He was drinking Heineken. There's a novella lurking here. I shan't write it. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser CPI increase in January with Comsuper. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser I should just scrape tjrough this fortnight too, but that's a seasonal affliction. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Payday! The perfect day for a pissweak adventure. I'll pick up a few things in town before I head to The Good Supermarket. Perversely, this means catching a later bus than usual. How to fill in the time? Crumpets! Goodness, the excitement. But first, another half hour of just sprawling here. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser A carriage each? npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser First, take some of the strange leathery fully-dried tomatoes from the local Afghan shop, hack them into fragments and bring to the boil in just enough water to cover. Remove from heat and leave to reconstitute while you go into town and back. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Happy Bin Day, if that's as relevant to your life as it is to mine. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser My copy of "Birds of the ACT" lists the Australian (not Mallee) Ringneck under Rarities, as either an introduced species or an aviary escapee. But it's a 1993 book, reprinted 2006, and that's enough time for populations to move. I mean, I never saw ibis in Adelaide last century, and now they're a daily sight and crapping on my letterbox with abandon. Fruitbats (not a bird, yeah) turned up here about 20 years ago and now they're entrenched. It's like there's been some sort of environmental change... npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Working on it. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Going home via Paradise. Inevitable really. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Giving myself a cheap thrill by going to town on a bus that doesn't go through Paradise. You too can make your own fun. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Well. I had a couple of DMs from one of the #ScoldsOfMastodon in response to that post. Someone who followed me just to tell me that they would be blocking me because of my uncharitable attitude. Someone I'd never heard of before. What a fuckhead. Blocked them, obviously. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Looks like I've been followed by, if I'm being charitable, a bit of instagram flotsam. A new account, with selfies and platitudes. We are unlikely to be kindred spirits. Maybe a cruel subtoot will induce them to go away of their own accord. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser The green edge puzzles me. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Was she hinged previously? npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Here's hoping for a false alarm, but if it is indeed a misbehaving appendix she's in the right place. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser While I might aspire to replace the gas appliances with electric, there are advantages to having two independent fuel sources. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Revised revised plan. I'm told that the gas will be off tomorrow while the hole-in-the-road blokes replace the mains. So, no experimental cookery. It'll be a good day to roast stuff instead. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Asparagus is cheap at the moment, so that'll be in there. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser Revised food plan. Today will be Leftover Eradication Day. Tomorrow will be Experimental Risotto Day, which will of course generate leftovers, and so the cycle repeats. npub1untelp33wcstyvksa7lepttjf220w6yuza7aqhvg8jkq262p6jhqm8e5lx Mark Asser At last, a reason to get out of bed! A recipe has just assembled itself in my brain, and I have all of the ingredients, and it will be today's experiment. Now to get my feet on the floor...
