Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Antonio Carluccio suffered greatly from depression. I read how he attempted suicide a total of six times.

I like to watch him on TV doing his thing and I also like to eat in his restaurants which follow the essence of his very classy Italian cooking techniques and styles.

My favourite one is in Leicester and is across the road from the large indoor cinema with luxury seating. I book the cinema tickets and then go and have a meal. Then it's back over the road to watch the movie. Then back to Northampton on the M1 which takes about 40 minutes or so.

One of Carluccio's hobbies was foraging for funghi in the woods. He was a pretty good expert on funghi and has written an excellent book about them. He also used to whittle decorative 'thumb sticks' to help with the searching. He made them out of hazelnut and decorated the thin bark with a pen-knife to create quite elaborate patterns. You can see some of them in this picture:

I have eaten in two Carluccio's. Bath and Windsor. The first was by accident and I enjoyed and the second was by design, and I didn't. I prefer to sit outside on a warm evening because inside they are rather depressing. In my view. But there again any meal can be enjoyed with the right company, so maybe it was the company not the meal, and I'm sure Antonio would have been great company. RIP.

Pretty Bad all gone. No More.

Who is next?

May-bot will be mixed up in this somewhere...what is a minister doing wondering around Israel without a minder or several?

The answer of course is they don't, and therefor the gov knew full well what she was up to.

Watch now for a remainer to be appointed in her place.

Hooray!!!!!!!!!

;-)

She wasn't there on private business?

Carluccio sold the business in 2010 to a Dubai company and part of the deal was to continue to use his name.

Hays,

Is it true that Theresa has phoned the Jobcentre looking for a replacement for Pretty, or is she just placing an advert for a high paid short-term job?

Very dubious longterm job prospects!

Watch Melania in action giving a speech at the podium:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=722ay7RcOZ4

10/10 or wot?

Hot flushes for Fred :-)



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https://order-order.com/2017/11/09/penny-mordaunt-new-dfid-secretary/

Who's speech did she pinch this time?

Penny Mordaunt replaces Priti Patel in cabinet reshuffle

An interesting choice.

Good luck to her!

Get ahead with a job in the Tory cabinet..then get it chopped off 😄

She's rather large up top !
Do i get jailed for saying that these days ?

Of course..bang him up 😆

She plays upfront for Burnley jimmy .

I think Donald Trump Is closer and closer to getting a free Panda...he's really trying hard to please the Chinese !......(euhhh... I don't mean of course a new vehicle or being driven away in a police car...though you never know nowadays)....also...they are bound to ask him (the trick question) of ...what does he think ...about ...."The Great Wall" ?....his answer of course as you've all guessed will be : "that they've put in the wrong place and that it should be along the Mexico border !....bloody builders....I'm tellin' you"....

h/t to leeds across the road.


https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/11/does-theresa-mays-zombie-government-even-want-to-survive/


The maybot needs to go, and the hammond creature as well!

Within screen calibration range:

Mordaunt - Never trust a woman who wears mauve...

Mind, if she is also short, could make speaker - drum, cymbal, coat.