http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: argh - Recent Posts en Wed, 13 May 2026 04:07:17 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18292#post-318710 Sat, 30 Nov 2019 21:51:58 +0000 acsimpson 318710@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That sounds cold. However is Tony's fish bar not still almost directly over the road from the bike station? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18292#post-318699 Sat, 30 Nov 2019 20:15:41 +0000 Arellcat 318699@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ponied up for the bus this afternoon and took an exploratory ride into town to see where the bus went. Jumped off at Tollcross and wandered over to Evans to look at touring bikes, then Laid Back to say hello, then wandered up to my actual destination of Morningside to catch this evening's showing at the Dominion, buying myself a nice decaf latte en route to take in with me.</p> <p>Discovered that, this being Saturday, the film was unexpectedly fully booked already, and would I be minded to book for the later showing? Some simple arithmetic gives me the answer. Would I [rule 2].</p> <p>It is now shortly after 5pm. I am three hours early leaving the cinema, I have half a cup of coffee getting cold, and I am a mile and a half west of the bus route to get home. I walk to The Bike Station on a prospective visit but find it closed half an hour ago. There are no fish and chip shops in my location. I walk to the bus stop and my bus is still 20 minutes away. I carry on walking. I end up walking another mile before it catches up with me.</p> <p>I am now drinking tea and eating chocolate. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18292#post-316644 Mon, 28 Oct 2019 22:09:48 +0000 MediumDave 316644@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Those two anecdotes have definitely put me off replacing my ancient gas cooker with induction for eco reasons!</p> <p>The baking tray problem contains the germ of its own solution though: turn the hob back up to 9 and put more oil on the tray. That should nicely season the burnt bit and render the tray non-stick once again. </p> <p>Hopefully not too many "interesting" fluorine compounds will be produced by this exercise... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18292#post-316619 Mon, 28 Oct 2019 16:26:02 +0000 I were right about that saddle 316619@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Madame IWRATS's mum has an oven so automated that you can't set the temperature. You have to tell it what you're making and it decides what hotness that requires. Sometimes I have to unplug it to prevent incineration of the food. I suspect it somehow connected to the internet in 2016 and caused Brexit. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18292#post-316617 Mon, 28 Oct 2019 16:19:25 +0000 Arellcat 316617@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Some days when I get home from work I just don't feel like inventing and cooking a meal, and have only the enthusiasm for heating food. The other day I decided noodles and sauce would be just the ticket. So I boiled the kettle, and stuck my noodles into the saucepan and switched the hob onto '9' to get the saucepan warming up. The pan didn't seem to be getting warm at all and the water was just sitting, but why was there a vague smell of burnt olive oil?</p> <p>Oh no! The hob had auto-detected both my saucepan and my steel non-stick baking tray that I'd plonked out of the way at the back of the hob – but not out of the way enough so it was sitting on one of the powerful heating elements – and instead of my saucepan the hob had auto-selected the baking tray, which I hadn't realised, and which now had a lovely circular mark through the non-stick where it had been inductioned to within an inch of its life. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18372&page=3#post-286643 Mon, 09 Jul 2018 23:06:30 +0000 unhurt 286643@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks folks. And thanks, universe, for podenco ears. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18372&page=3#post-286589 Mon, 09 Jul 2018 11:36:59 +0000 Frenchy 286589@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>That be a podenco. </em></p> <p>Not yet completely convinced it's not actually a kangaroo. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18372&page=2#post-286587 Mon, 09 Jul 2018 11:25:32 +0000 I were right about that saddle 286587@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That be a podenco. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18372&page=2#post-286583 Mon, 09 Jul 2018 11:04:47 +0000 Frenchy 286583@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Greyhounds have the best ears</em></p> <p>I wish to retract this statement.</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/28TthEW"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1809/43245655322_b1c0fecfdf.jpg"></a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18372&page=2#post-286570 Mon, 09 Jul 2018 09:31:47 +0000 ARobComp 286570@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I spoke to a runner getting into cycling about being a cyclist getting into running. One of my favourite things about a long cycle is indeed the first while of rumination, and "thought sorting" if we can call it that, but then I love the moment of nirvana akin to what I assume truly successful meditation is like. Just the moment is in your mind. </p> <p>My frustration was that I'm not good enough at running yet to achieve that during my runs as I have to focus on keeping my pounds of flesh plodding along at a reasonable rate. Her complaint was similar as a novice cyclist, she struggles to get past thinking about form etc (she's particularly cycling to aid recovery in a knee operation)</p> <p>So to each our own way of getting to that state, but good for the mental health it is (along with the exercise of course). </p> <p>@Unhurt - we are all here to hear from each other. I hope your swims over the weekend did some good and you're doing ok. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18372&page=2#post-286568 Mon, 09 Jul 2018 09:23:31 +0000 dougal 286568@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>"A bike ride doesn’t cure everything."</em></p> <p>My wife finds that bike riding is dangerous because it allows time to ruminate with little interruption. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18372&page=2#post-286559 Mon, 09 Jul 2018 09:03:57 +0000 paulmilne 286559@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@unhurt, hang in there. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18372&page=2#post-286540 Sun, 08 Jul 2018 22:29:41 +0000 chdot 286540@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“Including posting here”</p> <p>Good that you can.</p> <p>A bike ride doesn’t cure <em>everything</em>. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18372&page=2#post-286539 Sun, 08 Jul 2018 22:25:33 +0000 unhurt 286539@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The black dog came back. Pulled me into a dark well - the anti-Lassie. Intermittently less dark the past few days but still So. Anxious. About. Everything. Including posting here. Thanks, brain.</p> <p><em><a href="https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/having-it-out-melancholy">A piece of burned meat </a><br /> wears my clothes, speaks<br /> in my voice, dispatches obligations<br /> haltingly, or not at all. </em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18372&page=2#post-267517 Thu, 23 Nov 2017 21:27:28 +0000 unhurt 267517@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thursday things X4: (1) Positive PoP meeting. (2) Chilly cold birl home hitting green lights all the way from The Mound. (3) Remembering (once again with slight surprise) that ooh, yes, I own a bath now. One environmentally questionable vat of hot water and (4) a glass of red wine coming up. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18372&page=2#post-267139 Mon, 20 Nov 2017 13:31:03 +0000 Stickman 267139@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Good news story:</p> <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/our-region/edinburgh/nine-year-old-in-bid-to-raise-3-000-with-36-mile-ride-1-4618042/amp" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/our-region/edinburgh/nine-year-old-in-bid-to-raise-3-000-with-36-mile-ride-1-4618042/amp</a></p> <p><em>"Writing on his online fundraising page, Cody explained he was inspired to fundraise for bicycles after he realised not all children had their own when doing Bikeability sessions at school. He said: “I hope to raise as much money as I can to purchase shiny new bikes for local children in time for Xmas."</em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18372&page=2#post-267087 Sun, 19 Nov 2017 22:39:01 +0000 gembo 267087@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Baths are good. The one in this house when we first moved in was a big belter you could swimi I it. Enamel bit chipped. EASY came and took it away. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18372&page=2#post-267084 Sun, 19 Nov 2017 22:26:46 +0000 unhurt 267084@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Eating at casa gembo sounds like good times.</p> <p>My Sunday good thing: remembering I own a BATH now. Filling it too full and lying in it for ages with a mug of tea reading a thematically relevant book (RLS's An Apology for Idlers). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18372&page=2#post-267074 Sun, 19 Nov 2017 20:56:22 +0000 gembo 267074@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@unhurt, yup, everyone ate it but I liked it best with two bowls and a sistema in the freezer for later. The potatoes and carrots I cooked in a different pans but ended up jut chucking it all in together. I had fought maybe blend the root vegs and add to the thinner courgette consommé but in the end worked fine. The hand blender has jizzed up the making of soup as it were.</p> <p>Bake spuds in oven whilst we went to odeon luxe at Wester hailes with the new reclining seats. Thor raggnarok with everyone from the directors previous great movie Wilder People, except maybe Ricky baker himself.</p> <p>The baked pots, baked but removed and mashed with cheddar and put back in to brown. Then have with rocket, Tom and avocado salad, it's gonna be awesome </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18372&page=2#post-267062 Sun, 19 Nov 2017 18:26:35 +0000 unhurt 267062@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hmmm that sounds very good. Now reconsidering fish and chips for dinner... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18372&page=2#post-267056 Sun, 19 Nov 2017 15:18:52 +0000 gembo 267056@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I went with fimm's courgette recipe except used chick peas instead of cheese, spring onions, carrots, masses of fresh coriander, did not blend it much, and added soya sauce and that chilli sauce that is all the rage as garnish. Apart from that it was the same after a long walk looking for hawfinch - a winter warmer. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18372&page=2#post-266965 Sat, 18 Nov 2017 09:48:50 +0000 gembo 266965@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hey @Fimm, I missed the BOFFOFHOF announcement or maybe that was it?</p> <p>CONGRATS</p> <p>You favour Mr Fimm over HOF. I was hoping for the The HOF. But Mr Fimm is equally good. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18372&page=2#post-266938 Fri, 17 Nov 2017 22:27:37 +0000 unhurt 266938@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That is satisfyingly good to hear. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18372&page=2#post-266935 Fri, 17 Nov 2017 22:14:47 +0000 Cyclingmollie 266935@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>More cheery news for you unhurt. Three 19th century Scottish wheat varieties have been found in gene banks around the world. Someone has grown them again in sufficient quantities to test and they are higher in micro-nutrients than modern varieties bred and grown for their protein or carbohydrate content. This is being done an hour's bike ride from Edinburgh. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18372&page=2#post-266915 Fri, 17 Nov 2017 17:45:24 +0000 fimm 266915@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thank you. Sounds delicious.</p> <p>I hope you are feeling a bit better (physically and mentally) today. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18372&page=2#post-266909 Fri, 17 Nov 2017 17:34:28 +0000 unhurt 266909@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><strong>Chicken &amp; Rice Soup w/garlic and chilli and thym</strong>e</p> <p>Ingredients:</p> <p> • Butter<br /> • 2 chicken breasts (or leftover roast chicken)<br /> • 2 celery sticks, chopped<br /> • 2 carrots, chopped<br /> • 2-3 garlic cloves,crushed or chopped<br /> • 1 medium onion, chopped<br /> • 1 medium chilli, chopped<br /> • 1.5 litres of chicken stock<br /> • small teacup of brown rice (or more and it comes out more like a stew; still good)<br /> • sprinkling/small bunch of fresh/dried thyme</p> <p>Prep: 10-15 mins Cooking Time: 30-40 mins Serves: 4-6</p> <p>Heat up a large knob of butter in a medium to large pot. Add the chopped carrots, onion, celery, garlic &amp; chilli and cook for approx 5 mins (add fresh thyme at this point; otherwise add dried thyme at end). If using uncooked chicken breasts, cut them to bite sized pieces and add to the pot and brown. If using leftovers just add to the pot and jump straight to adding the stock. Add the chicken stock to the pot, bring to the boil then add the brown rice. Simmer for 20-30 mins, till rice (and carrots) are done. Season to taste. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18372&page=2#post-266876 Fri, 17 Nov 2017 13:30:47 +0000 fimm 266876@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<em>...chicken &amp; brown rice soup with garlic &amp; chili...</em>"<br /> This sounds like the sort of thing Mr Fimm <u>would</u> eat. Any chance of a recipe? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18372&page=2#post-266865 Fri, 17 Nov 2017 12:56:06 +0000 unhurt 266865@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Stick blender was located early on. (Still no coffee stuff.) Though now I have a vat of chicken &amp; brown rice soup with garlic &amp; chili on the grounds that it might be medicinal: courgette soup will have to wait till next week. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18372&page=2#post-266846 Fri, 17 Nov 2017 10:35:07 +0000 chdot 266846@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"My "unfortunately" was more in the sense of "if unhurt can't even find her coffee pot"</p> <p>Ok</p> <p>"However he also doesn't like courgette"</p> <p>One thing about blending is that it can disguise things if objections are actually to appearance more than taste! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18372&page=2#post-266844 Fri, 17 Nov 2017 10:27:03 +0000 fimm 266844@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My "unfortunately" was more in the sense of "if unhurt can't even find her coffee pot, she's not likely to be able to find her blender (if she even has one)".<br /> I love a nice blended soup. My husband is less keen. However he also doesn't like courgette, so I get to eat all the above soup all by myself (I freeze it and take it to work for lunch). </p>