That one person..

You know the one I mean!

You have just done something to the best of your ability, other people have said "well done!" and you are feeling on a bit of a high but then...

Someone 'kipper slaps' you right back down to earth.

I'm sure they don't mean to do it but it kinda' sets the tone for the rest of the day.

Usually this person will be quite close to you which makes it all the harder. I think the only way to deal with it is to smile and say "I'll do better next time"

Sunday's a comin'

Found a classic video on the Stuff Christians Like blog

It is a brilliant satire on Sunday morning church services
Check it out!

"Sunday's Coming" Movie Trailer from North Point Media on Vimeo.

Lucid Lynx and mounting Windows shares using cifs

By default in Lucid it would seem that it is impossible to mount a windows share using the mount.cifs command


This is because the 'set uid bit' is not set.

It can be sorted by the following commands

sudo chmod +s `which mount.cifs`
sudo chmod +s `which umount.cifs`

Courtesy of of UbuntuForums.org

Omelette Recipe

Ingredients:

Half a red pepper
Handful of beansprouts
Half a small onion
Small amount of left-over broccoli (cooked)
Some extra mature cheese - grated
3 eggs

Method:

Sweat the pepper, and onion in some olive oil
after 5 minutes add the broccoli and beansprouts - Increase the heat and stir-fry for 3 minutes
Pour on the beaten egg (with some s+p)
When firm, add the cheese
Cover and cook until the cheese is melted
For something a bit extra, break out the blow-torch and go to town on the melted cheese!
Lob it onto a plate and 'there you go'; filling meal in 10 minutes

I'm getting old!

That's it - I've finally, officially grown old!

I have joined....

We are going to Belton House today as the weather has obviously read an earlier blog entry and got an attack of 'teh guilts'!

(can the 2 people who read this NOT tell the weather I have posted this!)

Fish and Leeks - New Recipe

Ingredients:

3 Leeks
Medium Cauliflower
Salmon
Cod (or any other white fish)
Cooked and Peeled King Prawns

For the sauce:
1 Medium pot of double cream
2 tbsp Full Fat Phili
2 Cloves of garlic - Mashed with half a tsp of salt
Ground black pepper

Method:
Steam the cod and salmon until cooked to your liking
Steam the Cauliflower
Fry the leeks in butter

Sauce:
Add the Cream, Phili, Garlic and pepper into a saucepan and cook for about 3 minutes
Add the prawns and simmer for another 2-3 minutes (until the prawns have heated through)
If the sauce is not thick enough - Mix a little cornflower into a couple of teaspoons of cold water and mix into a paste. Add the paste into the still simmering sauce and it will thicken.

Pour the sauce over the Fish and Veg and enjoy as it is or Grate some cheese over it and grill!

Bank holiday weekends

Why does the weather always seem to know when it is bank holiday? We have just had a positively gorgeous week with temperatures just shy of 20 degrees C (over at some points) but now look at it! my central heating actually came on today!

We had better get a BBQ summer this year!