Paul Brownjohn @Paulos_the_fog@social.cleverlibre.org
Retired software engineer & woodworker.
Anglo-francophone.
Detest tories. Subscribe to green, leftish radical politics but not to any particular political party!.
Love the EU and all it stands for, moreover, I spent the last 10 years of my career working at an EU agency.
Enthusiastic photographer, especially wildlife and most especially butterflies.
Slightly knowledgeable gardener.
Atheist; loathe almost all religions and pity the people deluded enough to follow them. I make exceptions for Buddhism as it isn't really a religion in the strictest sense of the word as it doesn't postulate the existence of any god, and Jainism which is the epitome of peace.
For anyone who is interested, my header photo is of the most stupendous sunset I have ever seen. On the right is the waterfront of Vientiane, the capital of Laos, on the left is Thailand and in the middle, acting as the border between the two countries is the mighty Mekong river.
Joined Nov 2022
Paul Brownjohn
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RT @vivamjm@twitter.com
Brexiters:
2016 Brexit will make us better off
2017 Brexit could make us better off
2018 Brexit could make us better off in 50 yrs
2019 Nobody said it wld make us better off
2020 We won't starve so we should be grateful
2021 It's Covid's fault
2022 It's Russia's & Remainers fault
Paul Brownjohn
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New study: "Between 2018 and 2021, the excess death rate for Republican voters [from #COVID19] was 5.4 percentage points, or 76 percent higher, than that of registered Democrats. The majority of the difference, though, was concentrated after the introduction of COVID-19 #vaccines: after vaccines became available, the death rate gap between #Republicans and #Democrats widened from 1.6 percentage points to 10.4 percentage points."
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2022/12/02/yale-study-identifies-partisan-disparity-in-excess-covid-19-death-rates/
Paul Brownjohn
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I must confess that when I was younger I expected the future to have more robot butlers and jetpacks, and less plague and fascism, but here we are.
A friend brought some M+S mince pies back from a visit to England and to my great surprise, I thought them pretty good. Much better than the Mr Kipling rubbish!
A rush - like alcohol (except that that's a rush I do like)
I'm still struggling to make/bake sausage rolls that I actually enjoy eating. They are of course completely unavailable over here in Luxembourg (that's a lie - they do make them but they are disgusting - hot-dog style whole sausage complete with skin in pastry - YUK!!!)
I must look up the recipe Escoffier recommends for short sweet crust pastry. I have never really mastered melt-in-the-mouth short pastry!
Annoyingly, Escoffier's 'Ma Cuisine', uses British weights and measures (unsurprisingly, the French language version uses sensible metric units and completely omits British only recipes like mint sauce, mincemeat and christmas pudding). However, I have converted the weights and measures in this recipe into metric units.
It is; I tried it last year - it is delicious! It reminded me of my childhood when sugar had only recently come off rationing so people had developed the habit of using as little of it as possible!
Perhaps that's why I am intolerant of the bucket-loads of sugar bakers use today (that, and T2 Diabetes).
It has a much more complex taste than the likes of the filling Mr Kipling use for their revolting mince pies.
I cannot stand the palate-cloyingly sugary shit with which they fill mince pies these days so I have started making my own mincemeat to a recipe used by Auguste Escoffier; chef de cuisine at the Savoy at the turn of the 19th/20th century. His recipe contains no added sugar at all, but a fair bit of alcohol as indeed it should (to preserve it).
If anyone is interested, the recipe can be found here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/s3sgk0j9gms7ass/mincemeat.pdf?dl=0
Ooooo - the first sleet of the winter is falling in my little corner of Luxembourg!
Paul Brownjohn
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This cartoon is what goes through my mind when people start talking about homeless issues.
Paul Brownjohn
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Right @BritishGas, do you wish to comment on this, please?
I call on every customer who is with @BritishGas_UKB to cancel their contract, this needs to stop.
The @GOVUK are doing very little to stop these Theifing fat cats. Now, we need to act as a people
Paul Brownjohn
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They also use GPS...
RT @stevesurrey1@twitter.com
I'll just leave this here
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/stevesurrey1/status/1597868790691205120
It would be ironic but tragic if the child died or suffered brain damage whilst this nonsense is making its way through the court system!
Retired software engineer & woodworker.
Anglo-francophone.
Detest tories. Subscribe to green, leftish radical politics but not to any particular political party!.
Love the EU and all it stands for, moreover, I spent the last 10 years of my career working at an EU agency.
Enthusiastic photographer, especially wildlife and most especially butterflies.
Slightly knowledgeable gardener.
Atheist; loathe almost all religions and pity the people deluded enough to follow them. I make exceptions for Buddhism as it isn't really a religion in the strictest sense of the word as it doesn't postulate the existence of any god, and Jainism which is the epitome of peace.
For anyone who is interested, my header photo is of the most stupendous sunset I have ever seen. On the right is the waterfront of Vientiane, the capital of Laos, on the left is Thailand and in the middle, acting as the border between the two countries is the mighty Mekong river.
Joined Nov 2022
