A Fish Kettle or a fine kettle of fish?
Posted: Saturday, 20 January 2007 |
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For goodness sake don't get the wellies with those silly buckles. No-one knows what they are for and they just snag on hidden coils of rusty barbed wire around the Fank, you don't want to go your length in front of Hopeful Sue and all the other expectant women.
Flying Cat from at the barbour's
The buckles on the wellingtons are very significant. On Lewis as soon as you reach the stage where you cannot reach down and fasten or unfasten them, then it's time to make the journey out to the slopes of Muirneag to await death. This saves paying some locum thousands of pounds to come from Portugal for the weekend to tell you what you already know - that you are terminally ill.
calumannabel from outside the deserted health centre habost
my wellies have buckles - they look great but are actually blue not green. they do snag on everything and are a nightmare to take off as are too tight. maybe a nice ice breaker at the Fank - help-needed-with-rubber-boots stall? And if you were to find a nice gentleman or lady you could always buckle up together...
scallowawife from in the boot cupboard
3 legged welly racing. Wahayy. If you buckle the together empty as it where, can you wheek them further? Bolas style, and would this disqualify you at a welly wheeking competition.
Hyper-Borean from Mr Connoly's shadow
Hoo-wee, another Fankal Attraction! The 3-legged buckled wellie Paul Jones. What an icebreaker.
Flying Cat from in a fluff
and just which buckle would be fastened to which boot, scallowawife????
mia from a cheshire grin
Fiirstly, apologies I am informed by one of superior knowledge that wellies are wheeched not wheeked. Secondly to adddress the buckling problem (too few hering available?) sorry, buckling; right to left obviously! If you buckle up right to right or left to left you face in opposite directions and can only proceed in circles. However if you buckle right to left and left to right you end up in a compromising postion, or back to back if you are not too bright. This latter position is sometimes referred to as dosie do from the frencch ,"Dos a dos." which in turn explains my apathy to barn dancing..
Hyper-Borean from Further in the Big Yin's umbra
This latter position is sometimes referred to as dosie do from the frencch ,"Dos a dos." which in turn explains my apathy to barn dancing.. Hyper-Borean from Further in the Big Yin's umbra # You are hilarious, Hyper-B.!! The conga line is more your style, eh?
mjc from NM,USA
forget green wellies-they're out of fashion and does crofterbill need help in boiling his fish????
carol chauveau from france
Is this some kind of Fank Code?
Flying Cat from cookery nook
Does CrofterBill need help boiling his fish? I dunno, but I expect he'll be heard from soon enough. These blogs are sure teetering on the edge...
mjc from NM,USA
But we can be confident Anne won't let them teeter over it.
Flying Cat from Cheshire Grin
it was just a simple question from a simple mind--if someone gave him a fish kettle was it not to cook his fish in? and do men know how to cook fish properly? p.s. no dout i can't either
carol chauveau from france
Real men do, without a doubt.
Flying Cat from cookery nook
what's a real man? hopefully he'd ken that you steam in a fish kettle not boil. if he was health conscious that is. And does it matter? Hmmm. a boiled fish is better than no fish at all. a man who boils everythin is better than no man at all. a man... hmmm. lets go no further.
scallowawife from in the dictionary looking up REAL
If he's got a leg on each of two corners and arms at the others and a head at the North end and sundry little bits further South.........he's probably Real. I've never been steaming in a fishkettle, but a Real Man from Way Back taught fpu to poach a salmon in a fk - Put fish in fk; cover with cold water; add bayleaves; Bring slowly to the boil; switch off; go away and see esther; by which time fish is cold, cooked and skins cleanly. I'm away to stare fixedly at a tin opener.
Flying Cat from Fanny's Haddock Hoose
stir-fried is best
mjc from NM,USA
thanks fc , i'll show the recipe to my friend maybe he'll take the hint-he only eats raw fish and most other things as well
carol chauveau from france
And that FC was good sdvice from a man who knew about poaching fish.
Hyper-Borean from A stick from the wood
fc, friend won't even consider eating cooked fish ---pain in the but he's becoming-he goes back to nz end of march -not too soon
carol from france
More ways than one, Hyper-B, more ways than one....
Flying Cat from Fanny's Haddock Hoose
Steamed or boiled fish is good. Glad to see the conversation ran on and on. Any lady who wants to have a sample should make herself known - now. Tatties all flowery and steaming with a large chunk of butter - you cant beat it - but you can beat eggs. Carol you should be my first guest to try some. Bon Appetit mon ami
Crofterbill from vatersay
Wa-hey! A proposition by gum! And Fank'07 hasn't even begin yet....at least I don't think it has...sometimes it's hard to tell whether it has or not. Or even if it actually IS or not! (I think she's an amie rather than an ami, unless there's something you should know before it's too late.)
Flying Cat from puzzled&confused
Flying Cat, thank god your around to save me, yes yes of course its amie, I wouldnt want to offend. The fish will be cold if you dont get a move on Carol. The green wax jacket arrived from eldest son. wrapped in the centre of the coat were a nice new pair of wellingtons, no buckles, no straps, just plain old green wellies. He even sent some nice green gardening gloves. Isnt he a good boy and working for a garden centre wholesaler, how did he know what to buy me? I wonder?
Crofterbill from Vatersay
Thank goodness someone appreciates me...I'm in the doghouse elsewhere...
Flying Cat from enteringthedoghouse
whenever you want,crofterbill,whenever you want
carolfeeling hungry from france
I read right through this looking for an answer, like Crofter Bill I got a fish kettle as a gift, have been out poaching salmon, theres a great run this year on Skye, and dont know how to use the F kettle. Can you help?
Dodi from Skye
The island, the people and the "Master" -- the sea
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