This thread may be digressing a bit from fact to experience but I went to my local supermarket Friday to offer my services to stack shelves (no cash handling or such), including stock rotation if required, for FREE, for a few hours every day.

The offer was appreciated but turned down as they wouldn't be covered for insurance for harm to myself or others.  Fair enough.

The shelves were fairly well restocked but I think people have moved from anticipating food shortages to alcohol shortages, prior to the announcement of closure of pubs, clubs and restaurants as they were fairly well emptied and since I suppose are deemed none essential, will not be restocked anytime soon.

Latest news

All schools in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales are to close from Friday*, until further notice, not to protect children who seem to be more or less immune to Covid-19 but to slow down the spread to the more vulnerable in society.

*Except for children of key workers such as health care, police, delivery drivers and children who are vulnerable or have social workers, etc.

On an aside, I have not been panic buying anything as I usually get small amounts every day or two but when I went out to get some chicken yesterday, there was none and today I visited 1 high street supermarket and 2 different asian supermarkets, all had no onions at all unless you can carry 20kg sacks (now priced at

Most Wednesday's, I cook many meals, some for the weekend and some for the Freezer.

It has become known by my neighbours and my monthly window cleaner as 'curry night' even though we (my son and I) don't actually eat them on that night, it is just when I have the time to make the majority of future meals.

It was tonight again noted that the house smelt like a 'curry house' when they knocked on the door and when asked, they had no idea whether it was Pakistani, bangladeshi or Indian.

I am either a bad cook or have less discerning neighbours.

Good pics UF    I am making this dish again tonight (Patala) and a standard Hot CTM, as they have become something of a favourite with my son as well.

BAJ

Darn you sir, not drivel but more dribble!
I am not sure my weekend is long enough (makes mental note to check personal posting next w/e in case I missed any)

Thank you.
BAJ

Welcome A Board Bob.

Quote from: Naga on January 18, 2020, 08:05 AM
Looking good, MA! Like you, I've recently been revisiting some of the not-to-be-missed golden oldie recipes. A very worthwhile exercise IMO.

For any new boarders, trying to find a recipe can be like the proverbial Needle.
As with the Chicken Patala I referenced recently, this is one I had missed, so thank you and on my list for the next week.

BAJ

Welcome A Board Rich.

Quote from: Peripatetic Phil on January 06, 2020, 08:25 AM
A CME is presumably a coronal mass ejection, Bob ?

Yes.

They happen fairly regularly and 'often' in geological terms.  The solar energetic particles strike the Earth with such force that it ionizes the atmosphere, creating a vast cloud of energetic electrons that bounce around inside the atmosphere destroying electronics and fusing conductive wires everywhere.

The 2012 event missed us by a hair's breadth
The 1989 event caused the Quebec blackout
The 1859 event destroyed much of the Victorian telegraph network in Europe and North America

We have just about covered the planet since then with networks that rely on power.

Now imagine a planet with no electricity or electrical systems.... no communication, no transport, no energy, no water, no hospitals, no drugs, only a few days of food, farming set back to the middle ages, etc.

I won't sugar coat it, it is a very very scary thought but would probably be the only way to make a Global difference to Climate change and allow Nature to take the planet back under control however I won't pray to the Sun for one but it would be poetic justice if we won't heed the warnings and do something about only for the Sun to reset the balance.  Yes, we can shield electrical systems and infrastructure from it and be safe but again, that reduces profit and is also seen as 'unnecessary'.

I fear that for all our hubris, we will never learn.

Livo,

I really have no understanding of what it is like over there right now, other than media.  I do however have family in both Secret Harbour, Perth and South Island, New Zealand, so my concerns are real.

I have made my position clear on Climate Change when the boards were quiet, so I don't need to reiterate those views.

The devastation Australia is facing and that Koala's are now 'functionaly extinct', along with probably many other species should be a wake up but unfortunately they have no quantifiable 'VALUE' to those making decisions there and around the world, so you might as well pray to a God for change.

Personally, I do believe there are too many people on the planet and since WWIII would solve the problem irrevocably, it would also destroy everything else, so maybe just a CME of the type that comes around every 100 years or so and which we dodged in 2012 is the answer.

My thoughts are with you, yours and all those effected.  May it end soon.

BAJ