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Looks fantastic! Can I offer a wee tip? Take a very sharp knife/razor blade if you have a clean one, and make a few diagonal slashes in the top, just before it goes in the oven. It'll rise even more. X
Amen!
10cm across, or make a regular sized pizza base and cut it. Entirely up to you. But make more than you think you'll need. They're very, VERY more-ish!
Top tip for BBQs & parties...make a basic pizza dough, roll into small rounds ca. 10 across, brush with a good slosh of the garlicky, herby oil, sprinkle with flaky salt & bake in a screaming hot oven 220-240ยฐC for about 8-10 minutes depending on thickness. Garlic pizza breads. Thank me later.๐
...warm, sterilised jar/jars. Voilร ! You can spread the garlic onto bread, squish it into soups and sauces or just eat it from the jar ๐คซ The oil, well, drizzle that on any & everything! Just make sure the garlic stays covered. Top up if you must. Good for up to 6 months in the fridge, but no chance!
...Feel free to use half olive oil & half a cheaper oil like rapeseed or sunflower, btw. You really won't notice. Cook for 45 minutes (up to 60 if using really chunky garlic) at 160ยฐC in the air fryer or oven. Needs to be very soft, and just going a golden brown, but not totally mush. Pop into...
Couldn't be easier. 4 bulbs of garlic, separated & peeled(That's the only faffy bit). Put 1 big bay leaf & 6 sprigs of thyme into a small pyrex bowl. Throw the garlic on top (this stops the herbs floating to the top & burning while cooking). Add enough olive oil to cover everything by a few mm...
Did someone say confit garlic? Oh, go on then! (Done in the air fryer btw)
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Well the rugby is excellent, the garlic is finally all peeled and in the oven...so I'll set about doing my best with the rest. ๐Whatch'ya watching?
Halftime DJ nailing it for the spectators of the NZ-Ire match btw.
Watch women play rugby and confit lots of garlic...then drink wine until I fall over.
So not the M6 toll then?
๐๐๐ The village has just installed a new one & they tested it yesterday at noon. Eldest daughter nearly laid an egg, youngest didn't even notice!
Must be hard to declare anything with your tongue wrapped around Putin's prostate....๐คฎ
Wait until they're old enough to do their own laundry mate! You'll be going through two bottles a week because "more is more".
30 odd years later, I'm still absolutely fucking livid about that.
...could have been learning to stand together. To tackle dickwads like that to the ground. We could have been learning to play to our collective strength. But that was deemed "too dangerous", so we learned to put up & shut up instead. We learned what we could wear & where we could go to be "safe".๐คฌ
The girls weren't allowed to play rugby when I was at school. Too dangerous. Instead we had to run along a main road in athletic pants, getting cat calls & wolf whistles from passing cars. We ran through woods in which weirdos would masturbate in the bushes as we passed. I wish I was kidding! We...
Of course! It won't be his arse on the front line. T'was ever thus.
For far too long girls have been told they have to look this way, behave that way. Here they can see women in all shapes& sizes being strong, fit, taking no nonsense and being adored for it. My favourite sign of the tournament? "Thick Thighs Score Tries!" Strong, fit, unafraid...beautiful.
Watching the Black Ferns facing up to Ireland for the pre-match Haka I'm reminded again of what I find so wonderful about this tournament. Women standing together. Big ones, small ones, slight ones and ones you really wouldn't want to pick a fight with. All beautiful, all strong. Great role models.
If you vote Reform you will be voting against womenโs equality, for more harassment in the workplace and beyond (as if there isnโt enough) Remember 41% of the Farage Foot Soldiers arrested in last summerโs disgraceful riots had already been REPORTED FOR DOMESTIC ABUSE
Hope they're not on Bluesky then! ๐ Right pour yourself a large one of whatever you fancy, put that thing that YOU want to watch/listen to, but haven't been able to properly enjoy for a month on, get comfy in your best relaxing gear (or lack thereof) and chill. X
Failing that, see if you can edge it with 2 long wooden Kebabspieรe to stop you being able to just pull it that wee bit too tight.
The Scottish commentator for the Italy-Brazil match sounds exactly like Susan Calman, and that just amuses me no end.
Even when they're not being a pain in the hoop, complaining about this, that or the other, it's little things like "helping around the house", meaning you'll spend the next 6 weeks looking for stuff because it's been put away somewhere else, everything's folded wrong & the house smells different.
Don't talk to me about the bloody cabbage whites! Stripped all of my cavolo nero plants this year! Yeah, had LOADS of those. But just a few common brimstones, the very occasional peacock & a few commas. Even the hummingbird hawkmoths are way down this year.
I find it really frightening how few butterflies I've seen on my and my mother in law's buddleias. 10 years ago or so they'd have been absolutely full with so many different species, but it's been a very poor show this year.
Japan have been superb in this match. All credit to Spain, but Japan have just been relentless. #RugbyWorldCup ๐ฏ๐ต vs ๐ช๐ธ
What EXACTLY did the ones who voted for him expect?
I hear you! From Christmas 2001(when my 1st baby was due on the 22nd -sherrived on Boxing Day, after a fortnight of my mother nagging ๐) my mum got into the habit of descending on us for a minimum of 4 wks at a time, often twice a year! Christ, it was exhausting!
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Not even Ron Jeremy has seen that many cunts in one room! ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
Yeah...that particular Venn diagram is just a fecking circle!
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The 1st episode was fantastic, and it just keeps getting better.
It's fucking unhinged is what it is! The man should be dragged to the nearest secure home for the bewildered and left there!
Well, there's that...
Yeah...not his finest hour. You really do need to check out the AMC Interview With The Vampire though. It's absolutely outstanding!
Most of it would be my guess...
What a time to be alive. Trump is completely unhinged and threatening war against Chicago.... One tick closer to the next American Civil War.
Imagine being this pathetic, weak & desperate.....and still thinking he's a tough guy. It'd be hilarious if it wasn't so dangerous.
So do I, but I won't be holding my breath!
Can you imagine the hissy fit that'd follow?! ๐
So something else he's no fucking good at then?
They're fucking note, sunshine!
Who ties their shoelaces for them?
Fair point.
The whole tournament has been brilliant so far. The standard of rugby being played... it's a joy to watch!
If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula... Any excuse ๐
I just don't get it. When did the UK become such a stupid & nasty place that it allows a grifting gobshite like him to totally dominate the media, and steer the direction of politics in general? Starmer making a terrible mistake trying to hang on his coat tails, bloody fool!
The parliamentary register of interests shows that Farage has made nearly ยฃ400,000 from GB News since August 2024, for c190 hoursโ work. This suggests he is being paid more than ยฃ2,000 an hour by the news channel. All paid to Thorn In The Side Ltd owned solely by Farage 25% tax rather than HR
Surely the vegetarian option should be a black bean? ๐ค
Ok, while my heart goes out to the poor souls arrested in this farce, this is genuinely hilarious. You couldn't bloody write it! Satirists around the world are weeping....
In fairness, I don't know when or why cars in shades of Cold War Communism & concrete became a trend, but they can fuck all the way off!
* Clive Lewis: tinkering wonโt fix democracy * English xenophobia? Alive & well * Farage flounces out of Congress after being called a โPutin-loving imposterโ. All in this week's Pecksniff's Diary... and more
I've had a cheapo ice-cream maker for about 20 years. Aldi's finest, I think. Just need to remember to put the body of the thing back in the freezer after use, so it's always ready to go,or by the time it's ready I've gone off the idea of ice-cream ๐Makes outstanding strawberry sorbet.
Was he watching a re-run of Grimm?
Ah shite!
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On the same day in the Telegraph:
![The Telegraph Rayner tax scandal - ยฃ40k tax dodge - Statement Angela Rayner dodges ยฃ40,000 stamp duty Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence [Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday] Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent 29 August 2025 8:57am BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreihe5mm7nwmwvzhtgadmsafyvsaxhrufuai2d2j2rju5zt6g2lytea@jpeg "Click to view full size")
![The Telegraph Money > Property > Second homes How to avoid tax on your second home From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net [Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto] Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer 29 August 2025 1:21pm BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreieuwgc2vsmyfcctmf4cnpcqckij2pqdk2gmzajpnihrsqyqmzyr5e@jpeg "Click to view full size")
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Christ! "A song she wrote herself" just to make it even better?๐คฆโโ๏ธ I haven't been able to bring myself to watch with the sound on, and now I'm never going to. It'd have been bad enough if she'd been singing something people 'might' have joined in with. I can't with this level of shitwittery anymore.
Led By Donkeys have got Fartrage's number.
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Not sure it was ever "on". ๐คฎ
WTF has happened to the UK?! How in God's name did it fall victim to the cult of personality bullshit doing so much harm to politics in the US? Farage and his little unlimited company of like-minded wankers are the dictionary definition of snake-oil salesmen, FFS. Have so many gone completely mad?!
๐ดThe Fake Patriotism of Nigel Farage Despite his claims to love this country, few politicians have done more to undermine its interests and assist its enemies than the leader of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-fake-p...
Rancid custard.
Pretty sure this is called"grooming".
It's almost as though he is, was and always will be full of shit...who knew?!
Must have taken a shit tonne of Charlie to stay awake long enough to come up with that load of bollocks.
What "press scrutiny"?! Farage has NEVER faced any.
Ah...just another tawdry racist thundercunt then?
Oh dear! Come on, Scotland! #RugbyWorldCup
Birds of a feather....
Honestly though, have these people got no self-awareness, no self respect? WTF does she think she looks(and sounds) like?!!๐คฆโโ๏ธ
Yes! But have to be home made or from a proper bakery, not mass produced, plastic wrapped crap.
Certainly knocks Theresa May's Abba shuffle as she walked on stage into a cocked hat!
Beat me to it! ๐
Only if the jumper comes down to your knees. And doesn't have batwing sleeves.
'Hypocrite' Nigel Farage didn't pay ยฃ44k stamp duty then blasted Angela Rayner www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Funny isn't it? The Racist Party are absolutely fine with brown people if they're prepared to peddle the "right" brand of bullshit.
Yep. Can strongly recommend not doing that.
No tune from Tony Hart's Gallery? ๐
Of course it is...
It's called Fox News.
I swear to God, they're all smacked off their tits. Who's buying this undiluted wankpish?!!!
Are they all doing lines of Charlie for breakfast?!!
Oh, thank you! Not just me then? ๐
Good luck with that one! ๐
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Lunchtime Saturday... haven't been online yet this morning. What have the headbangers fucked up so far today?
Speaking from personal experience, there are smarter ways to test how much a caramel sauce has cooled...yes, I can be THAT fucking stupid. ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
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