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I thought I would jump back on and report on the beef bourguignon which I cooked yesterday, because it was the best I have ever made, and I've been cooking them for 40 years, trying loads of different recipes and variations, and even having a disgusting version in a restaurant in Menigoute (near Poitier, France)! For those looking to do a slow cook version of anything that contains beef, then I can recommend using the very cheap shin of beef....."The shin is a highly worked muscle that is supported by high levels of connective tissue. This connective tissue is broken down through slow cooking over a low heat and results in a moist, tender meat with rich flavour". Chuck steak is another worth considering however I have found that for long slow cooking it tends to break up. So in summary: – local cheap cuts of beef are fantastic for slow cook beef recipes.

Obviously we are finding out loads of different ways to prepare and cook good steak, and I think I've got it down to a fine art now, and one of the things I learnt just recently from a top chef was that the steak needs to be out of the fridge and left at room temperature until it attains that temperature (about an hour?). Searing it in a hot pan for a few minutes either side, and then putting it into an oven at about 200° for about five minutes seems to do it for me. Now on the subject of New Zealand ribeye, which was why I originally decided to reply, I had some poor quality NZ ribeye a while back, and I vowed never to buy it again, and when I went back to NZ and mentioned this to a couple of guys whom I had recently met, they were astounded because they worked at the plant which produced the meat!!! I gave it another try when I got back here, and still reckon that it isn't a patch on the Australian tenderloin which can be bought here – – and if I'm going to have a good steak, with a lovely bottle of wine, then that's the steak I buy.

So many times, from so many posters, publications and reputable news media has this subject been discussed, but there are still going to be a few out there, and we have some on AN, who will not accept the truth and what actually happened, so we get this merry-go-round, and it makes me wonder as to the state of their mental faculties. It is unbelievable, but probably not so when one thinks that they are part of the trump supporters clan and are not renowned for their ability to understand facts and reason.

A cowboy appeared before St. Peter at the Pearly Gates. 'Have you ever done anything of particular merit?' St. Peter asked. 'Well, I can think of one thing,' the cowboy offered. 'On a trip to the Black Hills out in South Dakota, I came upon a gang of bikers who were threatening a young woman. I directed them to leave her alone, but they wouldn't listen. So, I approached the largest and most tattooed biker and smacked him in the face, kicked his bike over, ripped out his nose ring, and threw it on the ground. I yelled, 'Now, back off or I'll kick the <deleted> out of all of you! St. Peter was impressed, 'When did this happen?' 'Couple of minutes ago.'

It appears that xylitol, which can be bought through the likes of Lazada very cheaply, is toxic to birds – – so as it dissolves in water because it is like a sugar, I would suggest soaking some bits of bread in xylitol and leaving that out for the pests.

Perhaps they don't like nut jobs either!

Wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them, and I often wonder what guys like that are doing here, and a good bet would be that they are up to no good! No, really!

Never a truer word spoken, however I do buy the Australian tenderloin beef if I want a nice steak with a good wine, but my preference these days is a beef bourguignon, slow cooked in red wine and beef stock, with garlic, tomato paste, carrots, mushrooms and onions and if one really wants to go the whole hog, then add some crispy bacon bits (plenty of other variations on this). Thai beef is good for this and comes out really well after about 3 to 4 hours of cooking. So basically prepare it, set and forget it. Available in Big C or similar.

I don't believe it was a good decision to bring Lampard back on board, because rumours abound that he wasn't respected in the dressing room. IMO he is not a good manager and couldn't analyse a team to see its strengths and weaknesses if his life depended on it. Tactics?? He thinks they are the little mints that you suck on.

Well obviously they don't work well enough to be able to stop the environmental/atmosphere contamination, or to appease the "climate change" brigade? There has to be another way.........

Well in my day running aluminium cable into the copper clamp/insert on the distribution board was a no-no, and special connectors had to be used which would hold the aluminium cable and allow a small length of copper cable to be connected and then used to connect to the distribution board (for example). That's my take on it, however you would be better off asking someone like @Crossy or the other guys here who are more up-to-date with regulations etc.

"If"..................Well that would have to be a "given", especially in light of the thousands of other lies and false claims by the compulsive liar and grifter, and his associates/advisers.

Is this the feed to your Distribution Board??

Esp when some of the BIB own or have part ownership of go-go clubs!

Fantastic news for you Simon and I'm sure for all of the other folks who follow you on this forum. A short while back I did a post about my experience with the prostate and the calcification/lumps inside of it, which it appears you may well have, especially as I too had UTIs for months, in fact on and off for years, because of this (I did post about this in detail). I don't know what antibiotic they have got you on, but I would have tried just about every one on this planet and eventually, owing to the fact I contacted two professors who were investigating similar scenarios to yours and mine, I tried a combination of Fosfomycin (Monural) and doxycycline, which they recommended and they worked; and that is what they now put their patients, with similar conditions, on. Strangely enough a couple of decades ago I did try doxycycline on its own for three months and although it calmed the situation down, sure enough the UTI came back. Then ciprofloxacin was recommended and I was on that for about six weeks, and that was not successful. Anyway, the best thing is that you have no cancer, so heartfelt congratulations on your latest news.

Yeah right!

Now I'm nowhere the level that some posters appear to be with regards to their knowledge of climate change and associated science, but something came up just a few days ago when I was discussing nuclear power with a friend of mine who used to work in a power station in the UK. For him it was cleaner, greener, safer and where the world should be going with regards to power generation, but I had some questions: – – The fuel for nuclear reactors is uranium and this has to be mined, so both fossil fuels and uranium have to be mined, using all of the resources necessary – not necessarily clean and green (manpower, trucks, fuel etc)! – The mining for both the uranium and fossil fuel products can present health problems. – The uranium has to be processed, and carefully so, whereas fossil fuels not so much. – The burning of fossil fuels gives off carbon dioxide which is a key driver in climate change, whereas nuclear reactors don't. And this seems to be the difference as regards polluting the atmosphere. – Once fossil fuels are burnt that's about it for their life, however uranium etc has a life of 10,000 years plus and of course is radioactive, thereby presenting health problems if it's not handled properly. So burying it deep in the ground in concrete/glass casing seems to be the latest answer. My friend seemed to think that this was safe to do, whereas I brought into the conversation the fact that movements in the Earth's crust and earthquakes could cause some damage to encased uranium and if this were to get into the water table, then that would be a catastrophe. My thoughts were around the fact that if there was a way by which one could capture and even harness the outputs of fossil fuel burning, then that would make the whole process much safer, less expensive and provide a future which didn't rely on anything nuclear/radioactive. Some thoughts around that would be most welcome, and if I remember correctly a few decades ago "wave power" was touted to be the next big thing for power generation – – whatever happened to that?

Or, "Faux News", "Flakes News", "Fake News", "False News", "Not News"................

Now that I like mak mak!!

Not what one would expect of such a revered man.........

Or of course that this is the sort of theory that only a stupid person could think of!

I think you're probably right and that AirAsia just didn't know about the eight hour rule for British subjects transiting in Australia. My friend (not me) has a UK passport, so he thought that he would be able to transit Australia and then fly on to NZ which is what he intended to do. I only asked on here because someone else might have had experience with AirAsia in regard to something like this. As for me I have a British passport and a NZ passport and I have travelled backwards and forwards for many years with no problems?? Having said that I always used to fly JetStar into Oz and then transit to NZ and I never had a problem with JetStar and despite them getting a bad rap on sites like this, I've always found them to be excellent, especially their business class which wasn't much more expensive than "cattle class". I will pass this information on, and as regards fare compensation with AirAsia, I think he could be waiting a long time, if ever, to get that.

Thanks for the information, however as I stated in my original post, this was for a British friend of mine who was just refused a flight with AirAsia because even though he was transiting in Australia to NZ, they said he needed a visa? Now I have just found this on the web: – "British citizens are eligible to transit through Australia for a maximum of 8 hours without a visa". So he should have been okay but AirAsia still wouldn't let him board the plane.

Does a British citizen, with the correct passport, have to have an Australian visa to transit in Australia, on the way to NZ?? I've always believed that if you had a British passport then you didn't need a Visa to transit in Australia, but AirAsia refused a friend of mine because he didn't have this visa and despite his protestations, he couldn't get on the flight. This is interesting for me because I have relatives in Australia and also friends in NZ, and although I have a British and New Zealand passport, I'm wondering if there are new rules regarding this, or is it just AirAsia being difficult?

Stupidity knows no bounds (not you BigStar).