Ben Y Vrackie from the old A9 recently. Just south of Bruar.Tuesday, 31 May 2011
Friday, 27 May 2011
Saturday, 14 May 2011
Biscuit of the week - the Coco-nut Ring
I'm repeating myself again. I knew I shouldn't have eaten that second slice of black pudding this morning.
No. I have featured the Co-operative Coco-nut Ring as biscuit of the week before.
I'm sorry to be doing it again, really I am, but I have a very limited biscuit range. I only really eat Toffee Dodgers, jam sandwich creams (Fox's, preferably) and these. And that's probably quite enough. I'm not really interested in further biscuit exploration. I don't care for a chocolate biscuit as a rule, but if I do I would probably opt for a KitKat. Although I quite like those really chunky chocolate chip cookies. I dislike the word "cookie".
Anyway - the coconut ring is a plain biscuit, light and shortbready in texture with a very good coconut flavour - so good that it might well be artificial but I can't be bothered checking the list of ingredients to find out. There are loads in the packet and they're only 87p so a pretty good buy I reckon.
Highly recommended.
Biscuit of the week. The Co-operative Coco-nut Ring.
Friday, 13 May 2011
Scots wurd(s) o' th' day - fuckin' radge
We're abandoning Chambers's Scots Dictionary for the moment and coming bang up to date (well...1970s/80s) with our Scots wurds o' th' day.
Fuckin' radge. Or, fuckin' radgepot. Common parlance in the Edinburgh I remember so well from my youth.
Fuckin' adj. (NOT Scots, of course. It's merely a frequently employed prefix)
Radge(pot) n.
As in, "Ye're a fuckin' radgepot, ya bam."
I've just consulted Chambers's Scots dictionary (1959 edition) and I find the word "radgie". Interesting. I wonder if this is the same word? The dictionary has it as an adjective.
Radgie, adj. horse, &c.: becoming excited and plunging wildly.
It sounds plausible anyway.
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