Last night, Katy was having a bad dream and she thumped me on the head twice, with a fair bit of oomph. When I asked her WTF she was doing, the only answer I got was a sleepy “sorry, I thought you were a crow”.
Riiiiiight…
On the way to making money, hopefully
I’ve invested a large part of my EBI end-of-contract money in a long-term fund platform offered by Generali International.
The portfolio is fairly well balanced:
currency distribution
% USD 27.5
% EUR 72.5
asset distribution
% BOND 37.14
% STOCK 44.06
% CASH 14.23
% OTHER 4.60
geographic distribution
% AMERICA 31.11
% EUROPE 38.61
% ASIA 30.20
% USD 27.5
% EUR 72.5
asset distribution
% BOND 37.14
% STOCK 44.06
% CASH 14.23
% OTHER 4.60
geographic distribution
% AMERICA 31.11
% EUROPE 38.61
% ASIA 30.20
Never underestimate the english palate for tea
That’s a good brew, that!
We have a proper englishman in our team. A northern lad through and through. We were talking the other day and he was complaining that while you can get decent coffee out of a machine, you can’t get a good cuppa. It’s just not doable. This morning, I challenged him to a blind taste test – a cuppa PG tip vs a special T English breakfast. He got it spot on, on the sip.
“I can’t say anything about wine and stuff, but I know my tea”
Yet another quote of the day
Quote of the day
What is your Pink Floyd song?
I don’t know, mine would probably be The Great Gig in the Sky, followed closely with Is There Anybody Out There/Nobody Home.
Shit happens
Agnostic: Shit might have happened; then again, maybe not.
Agnostic #2: Did someone shit?
Agnostic #3: What is this shit?
Atheism: What shit?
Atheism #2: I can’t believe this shit!
Buddhism: If shit happens, it isn’t really shit.
Calvinism: Shit happens because you don’t work.
Capitalism: That’s MY shit.
Catholicism: If shit happens, you deserve it.
Chauvinism: We may be shit, but you can’t live without us…
Christian Science: Shit happening is all in your mind.
Commercialism: Let’s package this shit.
Communism: It’s everybody’s shit.
Confucianism: Confucius say, “Shit happens.”
Creationism: God made all shit.
Darwinism: This shit was once food.
Episcopalian: It’s not so bad if shit happens, as long as you serve the right wine with it.
Existentialism: Shit doesn’t happen; shit IS.
Feminism: Men are shit.
Fundamentalism: If shit happens, you will go to hell, unless you are born again. (Amen!)
Hare Krishna: Shit happens, rama rama.
Hedonism: There is nothing like a good shit happening!
Hinduism: This shit has happened before.
Idolism: Let’s bronze this shit.
Impressionism: From a distance, shit looks like a garden.
Islam: If shit happens, it is the will of Allah.
Islam #2: If shit happens, kill the person responsible.
Islam #3: If shit happens, blame Israel.
Jehovah’s Witnesses: >Knock< >Knock< Shit happens.
Jehovah's Witnesses #2: May we have a moment of your time to show you some of our shit?
Judaism: Why does this shit always happen to us?
Lutheran: If shit happens, don't talk about it.
Mormonism: God sent us this shit.
Narcisism: I am the shit!
Nihilism: No shit.
Practical: Deal with shit one day at a time.
Presbyterian: This shit was bound to happen.
Protestantism: Let shit happen to someone else.
Quakers: Let us not fight over this shit.
Rastafarianism: Let's smoke this shit!
Satanism: SNEPPAH TIHS.
Scientology: If shit happens, see "Dianetics", p.157.
Stoicism: This shit is good for me.
Taoism: Shit happens.
Unitarianism: Come let us reason together about this shit.
Utopianism: This shit does not stink.
Wiccan: An it harm none, let shit happen.
Zen Buddhism: Shit is, and is not.
Zen Buddhism #2: What is the sound of shit happening?
[Recipe] Jerusalem artichoke tartiflette
floury potatoes 600g
Jerusalem artichokes 400g
smoked lardons or pancetta 250g
olive oil a little
red onions 2, sliced
crème fraîche 300ml
reblochon 350g
Peel the potatoes and artichokes then steam or boil them in deep, salted water until tender. They take roughly the same time, so you can cook them together. Drain and cut each one into thick slices. Don’t worry if they crumble a little. Cut the pancetta into short, thick pieces. Heat the oven to 180C/gas mark 4.
Warm the olive oil in a shallow pan, add the lardons or pancetta and cook over a moderate heat with the occasional stir, until the fat is golden. Transfer the pancetta to a plate, leaving behind the oil and fat. Peel the onions, then slice thickly. Add them to the oil and pancetta fat and cook for 10 minutes, until pale gold and soft.
Put the sliced potatoes and artichokes in the pan with the softened onions, and continue cooking for 3 or 4 minutes, shaking the pan occasionally, until they have coloured lightly here and there. Stir in the cooked pancetta.
Cut the reblochon into thick slices. Spoon a layer of the potato, onion and bacon into a dish, add a few slices of reblochon then more potato mixture. Finish with spoonfuls of the crème fraîche and, if you wish, a fine grating of parmesan.
Bake the tartiflette for about 40 minutes until bubbling.
I miss them too
Don’t you worry about it love.
I’m sure that your kleenex box really needs its own seat on a busy rush-hour bus full of people. You just keep not making eye contact with anyone else…