Bondbug

Yes, I see what you mean. It's a long dead make, but there are a selection of photos on this link. http://photobucket.com/images/Bond%20Bug/ Has to be orange. The one with the Union Jack on the lid might be appropriate. Are we likely to have any copywright problems with these things, especially Gandalf? Better take a look at your photography classes! If I could learn to link images in a creative way it would be good. Trouble is I did so much in black and white days when I could develop my own, that the storage system got clogged up with prints and slides. So I packed it in. Much easier now. No darkroom. Lots of memory, but easy to bin (sorry..trash) the rubbish

erialc - thanks for the llink - gone into favourites for the Chef. Timo'D - Yeah it's the bad bits and the sheer quantity. Hadn't thought of cutting out the bad bits and storing whats left. The little b's get right into the core though, so cutting them out is major surgery. There's a place not far away that will mash them down and extract the juice for cider making. But I'm too disorganised. That's why my apple wine is apple cider. A grind, but saves money, creates culinary masterpieces (?) and us old folks need something to fill in our time between posts. Yes Erialc, booze is a reasonable way of using quantity. White wine or cider, but theoretically the former is safest. I have an 11 gallon carboy but last time I tried a brew in it I couldn't get it to ferment properly. Lots of apples, lots of sugar, lots of water, and nowt fit to drink. Been making elderflower syrup. That is good. So is elderberry. You can make a red wine with elderberries too - that didn't come out too well (long ago). That's when I learnt not to use a galvanised bucket.

Not far off. Or feels like it.

Me too - Jack. But only #5 seems remotely true.

Brilliant TimoD. But what of poor French which was, after all, until comparatively recently the accepted Diplomatic language. And Esperanto? No, I suppose we must stick with ToD's comic wartime German.

Oh, I had to turn it off, couldn't take anymore. A scream. And of course it's soccer. Where do you get to call it Football as if it wasn't one of a dozen or so footballs. Association Football - Soccer. Rugby Football - Rugger. ETC...er...Australian Rules Football - ?Arfer? American...er, well, leave it at that, eh? Do I get to have Claire let loose on me now - please.

Hey would I get credited a post just for that:) However, watch it Epox, my anti red spider spray is still loaded.

Phew. What a question. I need a shrink for this. Help me Tim!! To save a whole life history, there are a number of reasons why a reasonably sociable person becomes a 'loner'. And living in a foreign village, by choice, reinforces that in a number of ways. I have been addicted to computer games since 1990, and from time to time I have looked for help in forums (fora? any latin scholars?) and found them both difficult to navigate and unwelcoming. Then came Sacred! Wow! Easy to understand, sociable, incredible. So I began to communicate. Not easily, mind you because there is both a generation gap (or two or three) and a language problem (not being a HC gamer). And, such as it is, it became my social life. And now this forum, with a different mix, unbelievably encouraging. So I post because I can't resist it. Don't have to booze, don't cost anything, 'sympa' environment yet I don't have to sustain a conversation, just a comment here and there as I wish. And a section on food and drink. What more can anyone wish. So, if I can, I post.

Recipes in this thread so far: Preserving fuit (link from erialc) - here Plum brandy - here Clafoutis (cherries) - here Rumtopf - here Gooseberry Fool - here Don't misunderstand me if I say I am crazy-looking. Nor I don't just mean buy some in the market and 'hoy it doon yer gob' as they say where I come from. I wondered what other things people do with their fruit whether bought or grown in the garden or even backyard. We don't have a big garden. Not enough for vegetables. But we inherited or have planted one or two of most fruits that we like. Lord knows what will happen to the daylight if they all reach their full size. So we have a good pear tree (inherited); two eating apples (planted and non-productive so far); two cooking apples (planted - the Bramley has grown to 12 feet or so in 5 or 6 years - planted beside a leak in the pipe to the old cesspit) a Reine Claude (green gage but soooo sweet) which remained unproductive till we planted a couple of suitable types (mirabelle and quetch) to cater for the lack in its sex life; a cooking cherry which has sprouted stubbornly under the pear tree from the roots of the one I had to cut down and is linking in with the pear tree (all those little red pears just now!) plus the ones coming over the wall from another 'rooter' that came up in a neighbour's garden. Plus one redcurrant, one blackcurrant, one gooseberry, one other that is half gooseberry half currant and very productive. Plus rasps and strawberries, and one rhubarb. And this year looks like being a bumper crop and my poor long suffering cook-housekeeper (wife) will be going demented come peak season and giving her kichen slave (me) a bad time. Peak apple and pear season, even with only one of each tree, is a sort of hell. So she makes jam (not a lot), bakes pies, stews fruit and freezes it, bottles it in syrup for a year's supply, makes syrup to go on ice cream, but it is surprising how little is needed for each of these. I even tried apple wine last year, and we now have 19 bottles of superb cider vinegar (you want some for your ribs Ike? ). Then there is plums soaked in brandy or rum or whatever, but not many. And we had no luck storing fruit over winter, it is not usually in the good state necessary, often bug and ant infested, and not often good enough to give to friends. So please, those of you who are into this sort of thing - what can we do so as not to waste a bumper crop. What do you do?

Whoa....scrub that. I got an image in my mind at last. Gandalf (why didn't I think of him earlier). I have seen a shot somewhere (film poster, dunno) full length going into battle with sword and shield. Have hunted web this morning but can't find it. So Gandalf in battle array, in open country, with the Bond Bug, lid raised, as in first photo listed above, parked way in the background. Any hope? I don't have the technology (or the photo of Gandalf, perhaps someone can trace it?°

Same date as Gintukas, 18thMarch but light years earlier.

(replying to Gogo perhaps also to Schot if I was sure what nic meant! ) OK Let's go daft first. Two complicated ideas: 1. I like the Dwarf. Looks not unlike me, with my father's old leather motor cycle 'helmet'. I see him careering along on an old motor cycle/combination, with grandson in the sidecar screaming 'let's go get 'em grampy'. Weapons - Dwarf's backpack mortar and maybe a kid's catapult for his nibs. I'd like the WE on the back to complete the family with bow at the ready, but I think that is too much. Photo links: http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa150/sagbag/cowasaki.jpg http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa150/sagbag/grumpy.jpg http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa150/s...g/godfather.jpg http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa150/s...nnsroadtrip.jpg 2. The Bond Bug, a car I loved, cartooned into a snarling beast, perhaps again, lid off, with the dwarf in the driving seat racing into battle. Perhaps blades coming out of the rear wheel hubs like Boadicea's chariot. Photo links: http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa150/sagbag/IMG_5331.jpg http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa150/sagbag/BondBug.jpg Otherwise, working from Gogo's list: - humorous, yes but not crude; gore no; - interests, not really relevant unless a savage rugby player in torn scrumcap is suitable, choral singing (killing value of sound, 'Excruciating choir' like shattering glasses? Like Munch's ? picture 'The cry')....er...skip interests. - don't see myself as a medieval crusader standing on a pile of slaughtered foes - other people's avatars that I like. Difficult. No particular style, but good! I like Erialc's, Kelyndra's, the one you did for Jonjon, and Ike's. I will look around and come back on this one. - I also like some of the old silent film images. Some beauts in 'Ivan the Terrible' for instance http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b120/Lor.../Evil/Ivan4.jpg 'Dr Caligari' http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/Tara...aligari1919.gif Not so much horror films, just the old overdone graphic expressions demanded by silent films. Sorry Ike...games? Morrowind, Spellforce a bit, but mainly enigma games like the Myst Series, Longest Journey, that sort of thing. Baldur's Gate and NeverWinter. Didn't finish either, but got hooked on the design facility with NeverWinter. I keep adding to this! I like the colour tones on Ari'Laftia's avatar and sig, and Gogo's sig If any of that is useful....meanwhile I look around.

Sorry for the delay. Total PC breakdown. Two weeks back on the old Amiga. The car? Well, as I said, it's me. A Bond Bug. Three wheeler. Taken over by Reliant. Magic. A bit small for me. I had to drive it bowlegged. And if it broke down, you lifted the lid, pushed like hell, jumped in and slung it into gear.

Good having you around young feller. And to think you live just up the road.

Long time ago we lived in Tealing-by-Dundee, then in the Carse of Gowrie. No bridge then, but docks and an old plummy Victorian arch. Even then you daren't leave your car parked at a certain housing estate on the edge of the city, even in 5 minutes you'd find the wheels off and the car stripped. But I loved the place! Memories like playing cricket in the snow - wow!

If that picture is you Tim you don't look like a hardworking student. Put me down for Courcelles-de-Touraine, France and if you can find it on a map you get a bonus at the bar.

I could use some help for an avatar. Vague ideas, but too complicated for me to handle. Where do I start please?

Will 78 do?

Thought I read something about a crankshaft, or, surely not, a sump. Yes, thanks. I'll have a cuppa on you

Nothing impressive. Looks good, but it is a scruffy little village, and the wines in this region are so good I can't afford them. There are no shops, and the bar is full of nasty noisy young people Were in central France, a bit left of Bulgaria. Pop in if ever you're by.

Thanks a bomb buddy. I live in France. Did something fall on your head or something. Just step outside will ya. On second thoughts, my first instinct is to speak English, so that lets me off the hook. As to your last question, I guess the place is full of us

Yes. Next July sometime for a couple of weeks. Seems you'd be honoured to have our choir sing for you, though how that helps anyone celebrate I'm not sure.

You are not supposed to know - but this is me Of course I have a beard now.

Must say, the graphics in this forum are incredibly, flabbergastingly brilliant.

Hey, I couldn't possibly use that, all those women looking at my...er...maybe the other side would be less embarrassing GoGo.