Just a quick post to say I am still alive! I have been so busy since the BTCC season kicked off and with work and holidays, I have struggled to find time to write. I have a few blog posts planned before the end of next week.
Sorry if this annoys those who have me loaded in to their RSS feedreaders, pointless post I know, but if I don’t write this I will NEVER get around to writing anything, you know how it is 
Chris
I have just had to close one of my credit cards for the most obscure reason… I have used it too much. Ok it’s worse than that, much worse. I have used it too much and made to many payments to it. MBNA who ‘did’ look after my Virgin Atlantic American Express, have told me that I have broken the terms and conditions by using my card too much.
When they approached me last year I told them that I was in the habit of clearing my balance each month – saves interest, so based on this the advisor recommended the Virgin Atlantic Black Card. It has a higher interest rate an annual fee of £115. The benefit being that I would receive 2 virgin miles for every pound I spend, or 4 miles for each pound when I use the card to buy Virgin Atlantic flights. Being a regular flyer with Virgin it meant I could add miles monthly to my Flying Club membership. These ‘miles’ can ultimately be used to book Virgin flights with ala Air Miles.
In the office at sunshine, there are only 10 of us and one of those people doesn’t drink tea or coffee, so just 9 hot drink consumers. To save the arduous walk to the kitchen to get tea, we have a kettle, fridge and all the tools in our small office. So as you can imagine, when one person makes a cuppa, they tend to ask everyone if they want a drink too, very rarely will you get everyone say ‘Yes Please’. So at worst you might get done for 5-6 brews. Every one takes turns so it isn’t all bad.
However, recently it has come to light that we have, what has been named as, a ’Stealth Brew Maker’. A stealth brew maker or SBM, is someone who quietly makes them self a cuppa and then sits back down again, citing that they are too busy to make everyone else a drink, but when one is offered to them by another equally busy person they always accept the offer of a cuppa, even though they have no intention of returning the favour.
As the home counties became covered in 6+ inches of snow I started to wish I had ordered the wooden Toboggan I wanted the last time it snowed. Of course the kids would be the main beneficiary of such a purchase - honest.
With the kids off nursery on Monday morning I decided to have look and see what was about to buy, so that I had something for ‘next time’ it snowed. Bearing in mind that the press were reporting that 65% of the UK’s work force had taken the day off I didn’t think I would see anything I ordered until at least late this week or early next.
As it appears I am on the brink of the dreaded Man Flu, I thought I would help my fellow sufferers spread the word about Man Flu. This crippling disease that regularly spreads through the male population of the country, has been claimed to be ‘the closest thing to death without actually dying’. However others say that to claim a common cold to be Man Flu is an exaggeration on the part of the man - of course this was probably written by a woman.
Another year, another christmas day lunch and yes, another bunch of crappy Christmas Cracker jokes - I love it. I have noticed in recent years that we don’t just get a joke anymore, we get a general knowledge fact!
Jokes where originally added to Crackers around the 1930’s. Before then they contained love poems or more recently motto’s. The love poems were to accompany the sweets/bon bons that originally went inside the cracker when Tom Smith invented them in the 1850’s.
Here are a selection of the best/worse jokes from the last few days.
So how does a Nun stir tea? Personally I have no idea and nor does someone else by the look of it as this question, among a few strange others, was in the referrers for the blog post I wrote in September about the perfect cup of tea. I have yet to find the answer, maybe someone else knows?
Another was asking “Should you squeeze the tea bag?”. Now personally it depends on how long the tea bag has been left to stand in the mug ‘brewing’ If it’s only been in there a couple of minutes then yes, but don’t squeeze the living crap out of it, otherwise it will taste bitter and horrible. Now, if you have accidentally left the tea standing for more than a few minutes with the tea bag in, then I avoid squeezing the bag. I just lift it out and then stir the tea. If it still looks over-stewed, then you might be just aswel making a new one.
The wife was making porridge this morning and told me that she was making it with full fat milk as it had a higher calorie count. My immediate reaction was that it was ‘gross’, however I was then informed that she has always made porridge using full fat milk. ‘What you don’t know, won’t hurt’ sprang to mind.
I am starting my shiny new blog with a subject very close to my heart. How to make a decent brew. Now I know that there are loads of websites covering this subject, so I am not going to give a blow by blow account on how to make a cuppa, however I am going to tell you how I think you should do it, in one easy step..’
Tea bag, milk and then hot water. In that order.
Anyone who gives you the ‘put the milk in last rubbish’ doesn’t live in a hard water area. Tea bag and then hot water before milk means you’ll end up with a scum topped brew and a stained cup.
Regardless of if you like your tea bag in, don’t put the hot water and then squeeze the living crap out of the bag. Please for the love of god let it brew for a minute.
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