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True. Another semi-underwhelming effort this week. Turns out there might be a reason I don't use my cookbooks as much as I think I ought to.

We also need to come up with a name for this novel and hitherto unseen arrangement. I suggest the "Union of Europeans".

Deep-fried instant mash balls disagreeing with your tummy?

Don't get me wrong, I have no intention of stopping voting and my vote's never going to waver much from the area of the dial where it currently points, it's more that it's increasingly difficult to feel enthused and engaged by the whole thing any more. It costs me nothing to put an X in a box where it might do other people some good, so I will, but if other people disagree en masse then ultimately what can you do. Although now that I think about it, I'm struggling to think of when I've ever actually voted for the "winning" side in any kind of election. Hmm.

This, more than anything, is what I'm taking away from the whole sorry affair. I'm starting to feel like I'm done with big movements and the greater good and understanding opposing views - right now I'd settle for being decent to friends and family, making things a bit nicer in my immediate neighbourhood and otherwise sitting in a comfy corner with a big pile of books for the rest of my days.

I think you just invented Tater Tots.

Really well, actually! It's a bit sweet around the edges, obviously, but no more so than a curry dish with sultanas or similar in it, and the sharpness of the rhubarb means you end up with a bit of a sweet-sour tang like in a dhansak or something. Very decent for a change. (I mashed up this and this - both allegedly from the same source but with some notable differences, e.g. one of them doesn't include any spices that'd actually make the dish hot - then improvised a bit.)

Had various things that needed to be used up, so today I made... a rhubarb and lentil curry.

"I wanted to talk directly to Labour Party members." *video cuts immediately to non-direct angle*

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/02/outrage-as-war-crimes-prosecutors-say-tony-blair-will-not-be-inv/

Mkhitaryan to Man U is an annoyingly good signing.

I like Keswick. Went to a very good tapas (not English ) and craft beer type place there last year. (Countryside is canny too, obviously.)

Fair

http://thebrexitplan.com/

https://twitter.com/hashtag/wearehere?src=hash

https://twitter.com/Samfr/status/748621668927541248/photo/1

Optional return, subject to Brexit negotiations.

Easyjet reintroducing Newcastle-Berlin flights.

What odds this glorious triumvirate will reform? (...ok, probably not)

The narrative is out there, though. Genie's never getting back in the bottle now.

Hezza: But at least he was really funny on HIGNFY.