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Come Inside... => The Snug => Topic started by: Nick on September 23, 2008, 11:59:50 AM

Title: An insomniac writes
Post by: Nick on September 23, 2008, 11:59:50 AM: At 5.45 this morning there was a very interesting programme on the wireless all about turnips. Recipes and suchlike. It sent me back to sleep anyway.

If you fancy a nap you can Listen Again here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/farmingtoday/ (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/farmingtoday/)
Title: Re: An insomniac writes
Post by: Snoopy on September 23, 2008, 12:09:02 PM: Listen to it most mornings.

No ~ not insomnia .... diuretics. confused:
Title: Re: An insomniac writes
Post by: Nick on September 23, 2008, 12:11:38 PM: You a Scientologist then?
Title: Re: An insomniac writes
Post by: Snoopy on September 23, 2008, 12:14:36 PM: Please explain the connection between taking diuretics (which make you pee a lot to disperse excess fluids) to ease heart failure (which causes a build up of excess fluid around the lungs and heart) and Scientology.

Perhaps I am dim today but I can't see it.
Title: Re: An insomniac writes
Post by: Nick on September 23, 2008, 12:16:23 PM: I thought you meant Dianetics redface:
Title: Re: An insomniac writes
Post by: Snoopy on September 23, 2008, 12:18:19 PM: Please put brain in gear before operating mouth. point:
Title: Re: An insomniac writes
Post by: Nick on September 23, 2008, 12:18:49 PM: Why break the habit of a lifetime?

Anyway. Turnips sleep017
Title: Re: An insomniac writes
Post by: Snoopy on September 23, 2008, 12:20:29 PM: Quote from: Nick on September 23, 2008, 12:18:49 PM
Why break the habit of a lifetime?

Anyway. Turnips sleep017

I must have been having a jimmy 'cos I didn't hear that bit.
Title: Re: An insomniac writes
Post by: Nick on September 23, 2008, 12:22:03 PM: What?The bit about stuffed turnips?
Title: Re: An insomniac writes
Post by: Snoopy on September 23, 2008, 12:23:15 PM: The only bit of "Farming Today" that I caught this morning was the weather forecast.
Title: Re: An insomniac writes
Post by: Nick on September 23, 2008, 12:25:11 PM: They were doing turnip recipes noooo:
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Post by: Snoopy on September 23, 2008, 12:25:58 PM: Did DS get a mention?
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Post by: Nick on September 23, 2008, 12:26:55 PM: They mentioned the "country's leading turnip farmer", but no, it wasn't him
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Post by: Snoopy on September 23, 2008, 12:27:55 PM: Somehow I can't imagine there being a Bernard Matthews of the turnip world noooo:
Title: Re: An insomniac writes
Post by: Nick on September 23, 2008, 12:28:27 PM: Bernard Manning, yes
Title: Re: An insomniac writes
Post by: Grumpmeister on September 23, 2008, 12:30:45 PM: Quote from: Snoopy on September 23, 2008, 12:14:36 PM
Please explain the connection between taking diuretics (which make you pee a lot to disperse excess fluids) to ease heart failure (which causes a build up of excess fluid around the lungs and heart) and Scientology.

Perhaps I am dim today but I can't see it.

I could easily connect the dots but they are scary buggers and down here en masse at the moment so I dont want to get on their bad side. scared2:
Title: Re: An insomniac writes
Post by: Nick on September 23, 2008, 12:31:43 PM: You have a rash and I claim my £5. Off to the Clap Clinic with you
Title: Re: An insomniac writes
Post by: Darwins Selection on September 23, 2008, 01:21:19 PM: TURNIPS RULE, OK

cloud9:
Title: Re: An insomniac writes
Post by: Nick on September 23, 2008, 01:35:33 PM: I shall offer Mrs Nick a stuffed one this evening and send you her comments
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Post by: Darwins Selection on September 23, 2008, 01:51:32 PM: Quote from: Nick on September 23, 2008, 01:35:33 PM
I shall offer Mrs Nick a stuffed one this evening and send you her comments

Make sure it is small and sweet.
Title: Re: An insomniac writes
Post by: Nick on September 23, 2008, 01:52:19 PM: I am concentrating on the stuffing at present, thank you.It requires concentration
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Post by: Darwins Selection on September 23, 2008, 02:12:10 PM: Quote from: Nick on September 23, 2008, 01:52:19 PM
I am concentrating on the stuffing at present, thank you.

It requires concentration

Oh dear. . .
Title: Re: An insomniac writes
Post by: Barman on September 23, 2008, 02:51:56 PM: Quote from: Darwins Selection on September 23, 2008, 02:12:10 PM
Quote from: Nick on September 23, 2008, 01:52:19 PM
I am concentrating on the stuffing at present, thank you.

It requires concentration

Oh dear. . .
"Police called to exploding turnip incident" point:
Title: Re: An insomniac writes
Post by: Pastis on September 23, 2008, 04:04:59 PM: What d'you do with the stuff you've extracted from the turnip in order to stuff it? If you get my drift...

Perhaps a little turnip sorbet? Anyhoo, shouldn't this be in the Restaurant section? rubschin:
Title: Re: An insomniac writes
Post by: Nick on September 23, 2008, 04:06:53 PM: Turnip sorbet? sick2:

Darwin lives on it.
Title: Re: An insomniac writes
Post by: Pastis on September 23, 2008, 04:11:48 PM: Perhaps he'd be so kind as to furnish us with a recipe... eeek:
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Post by: Nick on September 23, 2008, 04:12:42 PM: It involves whips,I gather. And cream scared2:
Title: Re: An insomniac writes
Post by: Darwins Selection on September 23, 2008, 04:22:34 PM: Quote from: Nick on September 23, 2008, 04:12:42 PM
It involves whips,I gather. And cream scared2:

Just like any other Lodge meeting.