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Well it wasn’t actually me that searched for the wire.It was my poor other half who has been trying to mend his precious rather elderly motorbike for months.Unfortunately it is something electronic.

He’s done a lot,replacing the fuel pump twice and because the electronics were playing up he had to find a way to override the circuit.Hence he looked for and found a Puny bit of wire,available next day delivery online.

And then it begun, three weeks later,after receiving notification that said PBOW had been despatched from Romania of all places,it was posted through our letter box.

He was at work when he received the notification and panicked as our dog was home alone and once ate some wire cable that was posted through the letterbox.

He made his excuses,drove home and found the dog had opened the package but thankfully not yet chewed the cable.The guilty look on the dog’s face meant that my partner had arrived just in time. The dog got an extra walk and the cable was put safely in the drawer

Pleased to say the cable did the job and possibly with a new battery the bike may be up and running,perhaps when we get back from holiday…perhaps.

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Z Cars always seemed so real and the Police were decent men and women  who solved crimes and looked after old people.

Anytime is a good time if you live in the moment.

©GeraldineBanksAug2024

What is my favourite recipe?

My favourite recipe by far for a Cornish Pasty. I love them and they are so easy to make from scratch.

They have a great history too, and were used to pay casual workers in past times, for example for working on the ground work in Trenance Gardens in Newquay, the workers were paid a pasty a day for what was incredibly hard labour.( Well it was all in a good cause.) All for the benefit of the great and good of Newquay. Who after completion of the project would be able to promenade through the park in their Sunday Best.

Miners, traditionally, would have a pasty that contained meat and veg one end and a sweet filling the other end for their lunch. Some would throw away the pastry as it was covered in coal dust and they had nowhere to wash their hands down the mine while having their meal.

So a Cornish Pasty has a long history of providing nutrition for people. The first pasty I made was at School and I made a giant one, much to the teacher’s puzzlement. I suppose I miscalculated something and I had one large pasty and one small pasty. Everyone else had the required 6 medium pasties. Whatever, when I brought it home , everyone loved it .

Basically , I think you should make the pastry from scratch( a lost art) and prepare the filling which consists of beef ( not an expensive cut), finely cut potatoes and diced swede or turnip( whichever is available).

Roll the pastry out and make equal size rounds and put a layer of potato, then a layer of swede/turnip and then some beef. Place a small nob of butter on top so as to add flavour and moisture while the pasty is cooking and season each pile with loads of pepper and a little salt. Don’t overfill as you will have to will have to seal the pasty and crimp the edges as best you can. There are encyclopaedias on how to do this correctly.

Once you’re pasties are sitting neatly on the baking tray ready to go in the oven, then brush them all over with beaten egg, to give them a nice rustic brown pastry colour and cook at Gas Mark 6 for around 50 minutes.

Eat when ready, I personally think it’s best to eat them and make a fresh batch each time. And remember it’s nice to share.

Warning: This is not an official recipe and I’m doing it from memory, if I were you and you really want to make a Cornish Pasty do check out the recipes from real cooks and chefs.

Namaste

Everything would need to be high, as I think there is something magnificent in buildings that reach for the sky and also that are self sufficient. So a building that recycles it’s water supply and has a perpetual enclosed heating and an air-conditioning system. A combined business and living space so that there is a genuine opportunity to work from home.

Everyone would be guaranteed a place to live and would have access to funds for whatever they need for recreation and education.

There would be dedicated buildings for Health, Leisure(Sports and Entertainment) and Government and Banking, all of which would be fully accessible to everyone. These buildings would be within a 10mile square perimeter in the city which would contain everything that everyone needs. There would be no cars or buses. Everyone would use a system of conveyor belts to move themselves and goods and services around.

Outside the 10mile square perimeter, there would be suburbs, where the transport methods to the Countryside and Foreign Travel would be located. This would consist of rental car ports and air transport ( both local and international).

There would be total freedom of travel, but the Cities would be so nice that visiting the Countryside though enjoyable was a leisure choice for some but not for all. There would definitely be citiphiles.

Our current obsession with owning Land will have ended and the Countryside would be managed effectively both for leisure and food production by the people and for the people( and for wildlife and fauna too). It would be seen as pointless to surround yourself with acres of redundant land purely for your own edification. The Countryside and the leisure and farming opportunities would be pleasant and easy to visit and indeed participate in should you so wish.

Finally when you think about it , why have we made such a mess of things? Our cities are horrible and we seem to want to decimate the Countryside either by farming it intensively , killing it’s wildlife or polluting it’s rivers and seas. We’ve only got 50billion years to improve things before the sun burns us up and we disappear into a black hole, so we’ve still got time and the opportunity to improve things for everyone.

Namaste.