Random Daily Banter

[midlandsgrimpeur]

I could add in some "life's small pleasures". One of which is ice cold milk on cereal. Ice cold as in to the point of starting to freeze. Cereal with fridge chilled milk, or worse still tepid hotel breakfast buffet milk, repulses me.

 

[briantrumpet]

I could add in some "life's small pleasures". One of which is ice cold milk on cereal. Ice cold as in to the point of starting to freeze. Cereal with fridge chilled milk, or worse still tepid hotel breakfast buffet milk, repulses me.

For those of a certain age, the milk in 1/3pt bottles at school was nearly always warm by the time it got to us children. Maybe that's why a certain prime minister (allegedly) stopped it, to save us from room-temperature milk. Blessing in disguise (and obviously no politics here).

Best milk is the stuff I used to drink by the gallon from the farm bulk milk tank - chilled to 4C within seconds of coming out of the cows. I kept a stock of Weetabix there for extra breakfasts, but a pint of the freshest cold milk on a hot day is bliss.

 

[First Aspect]

Weirdos.

 

[Psamathe]

Best milk is the stuff I used to drink by the gallon from the farm bulk milk tank

I remember we used to ride on the electric van thing the milkman delivered to houses from, supposedly helping deliver milk. We used to get a small bottle of chocolate milk at the end of the round. I don't think we were much help, probably more of a hindrance on days he collected money.

Ian

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

For those of a certain age, the milk in 1/3pt bottles at school was nearly always warm by the time it got to us children. Maybe that's why a certain prime minister (allegedly) stopped it, to save us from room-temperature milk. Blessing in disguise (and obviously no politics here).

Best milk is the stuff I used to drink by the gallon from the farm bulk milk tank - chilled to 4C within seconds of coming out of the cows. I kept a stock of Weetabix there for extra breakfasts, but a pint of the freshest cold milk on a hot day is bliss.

I was listening to a radio 4 bit on food dislikes and phobias last week. One of the most common is milk and it directly relates to people's childhood memories of warm school milk. I refused to drink it, the teacher eventually gave up with me and stopped trying to make me.

 

[Ian H]

Musical Weirdness:
In Australia years ago there was a TV series called The Money or the Gun and each week they gave a guest the music to Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven and they had to perform their rendition of it. Many had never heard the original so what they did was entirely their interpretation.

Worked well and they released a CD with the performances (I was given the CD years ago by an Australian). Many are actually really hood or maybe at worst "interesting ".

Youtube have a playlist of the tracks and maybe worth spending a bit of time running through the interpretations (easy to skip those very "not my taste"


View: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB51C97ADB8ED0B89

nb the embedded video is hard to skip between tracks, the link is to a page where each track is individually listed.

So often cover versions are dull reproductions of the original but these are mostly nothing like Led Zeppelin's and are real individual interpretations.

You can throw insults at me when you think it was all a waste of time ... except this yhread is a "no insults" thread.

Ian

I'm aware that there was a version by Rolf Harris.

 

[Psamathe]

I'm aware that there was a version but Rolf Harris.

Rolf Harris version started on the program but for obvious reasons people omit him from playlists. His version from the program is on the CD which was released long before.

I guess that back then as he was working in the UK as well he could play it to UK media but other artists are domestic Australian.

Ian

 

[Ian H]

Rolf Harris version started on the program but for obvious reasons people omit him from playlists. His version from the program is on the CD which was released long before.

I guess that back then as he was working in the UK as well he could play it to UK media but other artists are domestic Australian.

Ian

Or was ît Ralph Horace?

 

[briantrumpet]

Weirdos.

Excuse me!

Old weirdos.

 

[First Aspect]

Well, yes.

I do remember those bottle of milk. And breaking the foil cap with a straw. It was an odd ritual, looking back.

 

[The Crofted Crest]

£60!
SIXTY BLOODY QUID!
What my other half has just had to pay for a visa to visit the UK and spend lots of money on shoes, handbags, cheese and lemon curd.
Sixty bloody quid!

 

[briantrumpet]

£60!
SIXTY BLOODY QUID!
What my other half has just had to pay for a visa to visit the UK and spend lots of money on shoes, handbags, cheese and lemon curd.
Sixty bloody quid!

Don't go telling CC or they'll want to charge Bike Radar refugees the same. Though probably not to buy handbags.

 

[briantrumpet]

Well, yes.

I do remember those bottle of milk. And breaking the foil cap with a straw. It was an odd ritual, looking back.

A straw? You wuz lucky... must have gone somewhere posh.

 

[briantrumpet]

Anyway, today I bought a kilo of fresh cherries from Provence for 6€. I'm eating some now.

 

[Psamathe]

Anyway, today I bought a kilo of fresh cherries from Provence for 6€. I'm eating some now.

I remember when I lived in France and discovered that strawberries actually have a taste (unlike the "bouncing strawberries" in the UK).

Ian