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Keep us all safe, our Merv
And protect us from Chris Uhlmann’s barbs and pointed arrows
And wife-beater questions
Weary we are of his constant harping attacks and always negative whining about the goverment didn’t do this or failed to do that or hashed up whatever.
Sick to the navel or the Head of Defence Forces we are of him and his ABC harpies.
Release Emmjay from his prison hell in wardrobe
Turn off the pub TV
And let in a little light
And the patrons looked upon the Pig’s Arms LCD
And they saw that it was blank
It was good
It was Better than good.
It was excellent
And Merv sayeth until the multitude
I shall forswear the A of B and C
all the days of Viv and Ian’s childhood
And groweth-up they in a Pub with No Fear
For it’s lonesome away from no NEWS you can hear
By the pool table at night where the dart board’s quite near
And the News and 7:30
Will ne’er here reappear
For all the days I will walk
behind the bar you’ll recall
I will stroll straight and tall.
By the flickering light
of the Bally pinball.
There endeth the middy and the lassoo.
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
MIKE J: Gotcha!
I’ve requested emails; will it cost money?
Cheers
Venise
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Not usually, Venise, Why, have you got massive amounts of cash that disinterst you ? 🙂 Get back Pig’s Patrons, I saw her first !
Welcome to the Pig’s Arms. Open all hours ! Well, a lot more than many blogs ! And frequented by a most august clientele.
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Slavering Entrees, is an anagram of your pseud; so welcome to this weeks food club.
Herbs are the topic Venice.
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Venise, of course. Apologies 🙂
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Welcome Venise.
May our esteemed, and much loved, publican, Merv, only serve you the best of Pink Drinks, or, for that matter, Trotter’s Ale, with crisp wedges from the kitchen of Granny!
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My dearest wish – well – among others has been answered and thus we find Zeus is sometimes really just so kind to us piglets.
Welcome, Venise. 🙂
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Another wonderful Psalm, Emmjay! I think I spent many hours in my younger days playing a pinball table identical to the one in your picture! Elton John was no pinball wizard; he’d have eaten my dust!
I see, however, that you have still to discover the “Landlord’s Prayer”, which I submitted for review last night… I used the ‘quick print’ facility for the first time, so I do hope you’ll be able to find it; if not, let me know and I’ll re-post it.
🙂
😉
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Sorry T2. I haven’t been at the dash for a while. Still struggling with a work deadline. Consultant’s block. I’ll see what I can do.
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Take your time boss… nu hurry…
🙂
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Salamat tidor.
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HEY! Oive been to Ballypinball. Jest turn left boi the old stone gargoyle, 7 miles out of kiilliibiili. Watch out fer the Pooka, though.
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6 pm Letters & numbers. 6:30 News, then Heartbeat. That’s the go.
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My Mum put me on to Letters & Numbers. Richard Morecroft and David Astle are kind of hopeless, aren’t they, but in a nice enough kind of way. Go Lily.
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They don’t have television type personalities. Or rather, they didn’t. I notice more repartee and off-the-cuff comments now.
Lily loves to toss her hair, as she twirls to put a letter up. …I wonder if Madeleine watches her for the maths?
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She’s damn good at that Maths, isn’t she? Good at the hair flick and twirl too. And got the smile nailed. Apparently she perfected that while practising in front of her sister, who told her she couldn’t look like THAT when concentrating.
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She’s a maths genius.
I love testing myself without writing it down. I have highs and lows though. I’m better at the maths than the letters.
Some of the Australian, Chinese, Iraqi’s and immigrants (other ethnicities),ect ect, are surprisingly good at the letters.
Everything stops at 6. …Oh except for my little ritual of making garlic-bread from a small fresh ciabbatta. Bought from Horner’s, bakers in Bundall Rd. (A wonderful bakery: Rob the owner likes soccer.) The butter is made with rosemary, thyme, tops of chives, ‘cinnamon basil’ and tarrogan…ALL from the garden.
Put in the oven sliced and open topped with grill & fan for a few minutes. If one is hungary, sprinkle parmesan !
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If letters numbers was any slower, it would come out as a book. Good TV, it surely isn’t
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Don’t laugh..the book was in my Xmas stocking. It’s a French programme BTW…Did ye ken that?
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L&N is gentle and quirky. Love it that there aren’t any prizes. I can never get the conundrum.
I grew chives from seed this year; sprouted them in potting mix in a egg carton then planted them out along the border. Planted coriander seeds on the weekend directly into the garden. My herb area is tiny but has the basics.
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Been watching Letters and Numbers since day one. Mentioned it here sometime last year and I think it was Atomou who decried me for liking it. We all love it. Some weeks I don’t get the conundrum and other weeks I get it 3 times out of 4. To get it though one has to beat the contestants to it and the clock. We adore Lily and love David. Can now of course take or leave the 7.30pm (report).
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It’s harder than it looks. For one show only I tried writing down the Numbers solutions, as opposed to just doing them in my head, and that often makes it difficult to meet the time limit.
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Always do the letters and numbers in my head – quicker. But poor contestants have to prove their word or how they got the number answer so have to write it down. Not sure if that would be their preference. I have been trying to brush up on my 75 times table! I am often amazed at words that are now allowed because they are in the Macquarie dictionary.
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Yes, I don’t watch it regularly, but it quickly becomes apparent that very little practice in 75 times tables goes a long way. That and a couple of techniques Lily mentions. It’s probably possible to quickly scribble enough to pass muster if you practice a bit.
The SBS studio is not far from where I live …
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See you outside at noon.
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Can’t we just meet in the usual place? 🙂
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Ok. Ho hum. See you in church…As usual.
I’ll be in a pew.
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……………………………………..With a bunch of tarragon flowers. They’re out now: bright yellow. Edible as well. Impress your guests.
I’ll put some in the chip butties for tomorrow. Well have lunch in cloisters.
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I’ll meet you Aldi. I’ll be wearing a mini-skirt with thigh-boots and a 80 gig sshd, dangling on my lanyard xxx.
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I can’t cook at the moment because I can’t smell or taste. Driving me insane.
Never used fresh tarragon. Use a small quantity dried in a chicken and white wine thing, and in omelettes sometimes. Is fresh tarragon worth the space? I do have an overflow area of poor soil besides a fence where I grow a few spare thyme plants. Could fit some in there.
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Tarragon, has a mild licorice flavour, as you probably know, but is more aromatic, fresh.
It probably doesn’t make a lot of difference to the un-discerning, in a violently cooked stew.!! But in a lightly roasted poussin, salad, fish dish, or garnish, the difference is noticeable——But of course only if one knows what one is comparing it with??
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I grew tarragon once, many years ago, and found I hardly ever used it as wasn’t quite up my alley or tastebud area. However, it seemed quite hardy and would grow in that less loved area.
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Yes, it will spread a little, die down; and sprout the following spring. I love the small bright yellow flowers. They look great as a garnish–which of course doesn’t have to be eaten.
I know what you mean about flavours. I adore fresh coriander, but know several friends who hate it.
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My daughters reckon coriander smells like cat’s piss. Consequently we avoid it – the fresh leafy stuff that is.
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I agree. I avoid it too.
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Who are Viv & Ian?
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Merv and Janet’s twin babies – the birth happened a few psalms ago
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Emmjay, this Pig Psalm is a rip snorter.
‘And the patrons looked upon the Pig’s Arms LCD
And they saw that it was blank/It was good/It was Better than good./It was excellent.’ 🙂
Beats me how every ABC channel you turn to it’s playing old old news and ABC24 seems to be no longer where old news goes but rather it travels idly between them over the course of a matter of days or runs simultaneously so sometimes just to feed the habit I watch the kids’ programme on ABC3 chewing on a wheat biscuit. Pathetic. The same items of ‘news’ are being dished up as well for kids on ABC3. 😦
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Thanks, ‘Shoe. Too kind. I have to admit to some small pride in the escalation of a blank screen. I liked it for the build…. the growing excitement of the null 🙂
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Of course we may both be speaking entirely out of our aras, but it interests me that we both consider this ‘good’ and even ‘wow, not bad’.
I myself particularly like its droll irony, that a diminishing of an LCD light to a state of null could be described thus, the turning off in fact an accelerant. 🙂
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‘The must see 7.3o with our Kerry’ is now ‘I don’t want to see the surly pompous Uhlmann.’
Gez put turned the telly off, and put on some nice music…and you should see my wardrobe now, looks neat and tidy like a David Jones store 🙂
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Last night was another “last straw” Helvi.
Watching SBS news now and not missing anything from the ABC – the murderers of Unleashed, Q&A, the News and 7:30. And the purveyors of worthless crap like ABC 4 24 hour news and the hopeless Drum.
In fact the only news worth catching on the ABC is “Hungry Beast”.
The barbarians are so in control. I despise the Labor government for not gutting Mark Scott and his henchmen. Julia’s mob are so piss weak they don’t even see that failing to smash the ABC extreme right is another knife in Labor’s back.
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I too am surprised about Julia not stepping in…
Loved watching ‘Whites’ with Alan Davies(?) and that lovely red head from Dr Martin…I think it’s finished now, will watch Chrissie Lillee when he finally comes on, and I’m also a fan of ‘Spooks’…
That’s about all.. and so far QandA, the last one was a bit of an embarrassment though.
Not much really, seeing Lillee has not even started, thanks for reminding me of ‘The Hungry Beast’.
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I dunno. Q & A’s got its moments. I think Tony Jones has hit his stride, although I wish he could loosen his policy of not allowing panel members to question each other.
Rudd was very Ruddish about a week ago on Q & A. I thought he was performing for the US Ambassador.
I have to admit that I think Julie Bishop is an impressive performer in the politics game. Thing is, she seems to be playing it so hard that she’s lost track of its relationship to reality. She’s another attack dog, like Julia Gillard in that respect IMNSHO. A quality that’s useful in a deputy, but not relevant to being a leader.
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