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Sounds nice that UM. Our lass is the fish cook and she tends to cook them whole with heads and eyes intact, which does my nut in a bit. We had some skate during the week which was really nice. It's all about knowing how to cut the fish to avoid the bones. She did the skate with fried onions and carrots with white wine, thyme and bay leafs.

Always worth the little bit extra effort to get fresh ingredients. For a few broad beans though its probably not worth it since there are turnips, leaks, carrots and peas. If you cut the lamb into the right size and follow the timings exactly (i'd go 2 minutes but definitely no more than 3 each side) it will be perfect, dont worry. If i was going to the make the effort to cook that lamb, i'd want a nice bottle of red. The problem with the recipe is he says use a light young red like a beaujolais to make the sauce. Thats probably because it makes a better sauce and doesnt over-power the lamb which is easily done. However, I'd want a heavier red than that to drink with the meal but not too strong. Cotes du Rhone/ Crozes Hermitage/ Bourgogne etc. If you cant source by region, get a Merlot or a Cabernet from anywhere.

Macro models predicted a slowdown from the austerity drive but lets blame the snow, aye. Orders for goods are driven by aggregate demand, not the ability to supply them so the clogged roads just delayed goods getting to their recipients. That might translate to reduced retail spending but that was only off 0.4% over the year. GDP is about more than the High street. If it is bad weather, we should see the 0.6% we lost back, plus whatever growth there was meant to be in Q4 (0.5%) plus the growth predicted from Q1. So lets say that adds up to 2% kick up in Q1 satisying the demand that was not sated because of the weather. The warning signs are there, the predictions are in. We'll see when the Q1 results come in.

Tory rhetoric has fuck all to do with bailouts or QE, they can't otherwise they would have acknowledge that global debt and deficits have little or nothing to do with Britain's 'bloated public sector'. As for the stimulus spending, that's what got us moving again at the end of 2009. Now they've stopped the stimulus, look what happened in Q4 2010. Mugs.

I'd have absolutely no desire to go and see that album live. Its immersive headphone music.

Seriously? Economic growth is immaterial to you? You realise that strong economic growth is central to the government's hopes to cut the deficit and 'repair' the country? I do, but I'm realistic to know that the road to recovery is going to be a bump one, unlike past recoveries, for lots of reasons. But I would rather have this lot making painful decision than Ed balls trying to half heartedly tackle the problem. We wouldn't be seeing any of these historic reforms taking place under special Ed. Labour are a spent force with most of the talent gone. They need a good spell in the wilderness to come up with modern policies fit for purpose. Labour are apparently the only party who understand why we are in this situation. A recession caused by a financial crisis. The Tories incorrectly think its because of Labour's expenditure policies. The fact that this exact same debate is going on in many other countries, not least the US, demonstrates that the global economic conundrum has little or nothing to do with the UK Labour party. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-k...prss=ezra-klein

Seriously? Economic growth is immaterial to you? You realise that strong economic growth is central to the government's hopes to cut the deficit and 'repair' the country? The economy shrank by over 6% in 2008 and 2009 ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10613201 ) and the smallish growth since then still represent an overall shrink. The population of Britain didnt shrink during that time so demand on public services didnt shrink, the recession also gifted the government something like 700,000 new unemployed or something. Economic growth needs to sort all that out but it was actually -0.6% for the last 3 months of 2010. Thats why Osbourne is downgrading the growth forecast. The main issue is that the 1.5% growth from 2009 to 2010 was from a massively reduced GDP level. That looks like its now stagnating, little or no GDP growth wont help us in increasingly expensive oil markets. Then in addition, as you say, there is the more pressing problem of the deficit reduction plan relying on economic growth. This is in the midst of an austerity plan predicted by many to be have the opposite effect. Was never clear where Osbourne's original optimistic 2.1% came from. Fucking Tory wankers.

http://www.arabyouthsurvey.com/asdaa-finding.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/ma...lown-off-course

Nostradamus? Quasimodo.

"Whilst you're at work, i'm on my 3rd bottle of white wine" 150 years of convict genetics summed up in one sentence.

They trained him to do that with that circumcision video.

He does seem to over react a bit.

A married man in France is suing GSK over its Parkinson's disease drug ropinirole because (he claims) after he started taking it, it turned him into a gambling and gay sex addict. Thats some powerful side effects.

Baddass of the week: Hideaki Akaiwa http://badassoftheweek.com/akaiwa.html

Peer inside a black hole as its a complete unknown. Evolution is pretty much proven (imo). Evolution is of social importance, black holes are more spiritual.

He comes across as incredibly enthusiastic about the beauty of nature in his books though (God Delusion aside). Have you read any? Nah, not seen his show about cutting up corpses either. Just based it on interviews really. I much prefer physics to biology though. I like space travel and ipods. Biologists just keep extending life expectancy...and overpopulation is going to kill us all...the evil bastards Did he not get to 4 G? There really is no competition in this, its Lenny Henry's ringpiece all the way. I guess its a portal to different dimensions. Someone should ask Dawn French tbh. http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.5914 http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v106/i10/e101101

Me looking out to sea earlier.

Fretting.

Aye. Doesnt take much tbf.

Cox is the man like, that new series is amazing. "Everything in the universe travels in a straight line, planetary orbits are following curves in space-time"