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Grumpy about Customs charges. £4.60 duty - fair enough. The £8 additional handling charge bites every time.

Nervous about Fat Gerbil. He has taken to falling asleep on his back with his legs in the air, a position you only usually see in Dead Gerbil. Every time so far he's jumped up and gone "Don't worry, only sleeping!"

Crap at cooking duck. It was half price from the Co-op, use by yesterday, but I roasted it into a dry tasteless lump then butchered in with the usage of carnage rather than a person skilled in removing flesh from food animals. And the potatoes didn't work.

Happy that I did some getting-out-of-the-house photography, but aching from the extra time at the computer uploading images.

Planning to see Toy Story 3 this afternoon, with a big bucket of Diet Coke.

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That admin fee annoys me, too.
I hope all remains well with fat gerbil.

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Perhaps he feels really safe and secure and not like he needs to protect himself while he sleeps :-)

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Clearly he's imitating Ozzy.

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duck was far from dry and tasteless. Duck was NOM NOM NOM.

as for Fat Gerbil, I will arrange an Overseer.

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The trick is either to buy things under £18, which are usually OK, or to get several things from the same supplier and make sure that they only send one package, so that the £8 is a smaller percentage.

Edited Date: 2010-08-15 02:17 pm (UTC)

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Forgot to add, hope fat gerbil is OK!

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I'm making a graph. It's usually small, valuable things which ship for $14 so I tend to try to fill the box up a bit to reduce the proportion I spend on postage.

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I ruined a duck once, by dint of cooking it my usual way (part-poaching, to render out most of the fat and retrieve same while keeping flesh juicy, and then roasting for crispiness) without noticing what the kitchenmaster was saying about his oven being fan-assisted. I had never met such a thing. The result was ... unfortunate. (Tho' in your instance I am more inclined to believe

tamaranth, who clearly wants you to repeat the experiment.)

Carving fowl is not a requirement. I actually can do it - I have reduced whole dinner-parties to silence by dint of carving not only the legs but the wings too into slices - but mostly I don't. Lumps are fine, and bones are best for gnawing on.

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I tried the part poaching once, as recommended by Nigella, but it didn't work for me. Also coincidentally my oven is fan assisted. I wonder what one should do in these cases?

Generally I smear duck with marmalade and it is very fine.

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I think Nigella got it from Nigel (Slater), who is certainly where I got it from.

Can one turn one's back on fandom, as it were, and switch off the fan-assist?

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Rabbits do a real good job of looking like they're dead while they're sleeping. All these years on, I still nearly go into cardiac arrest every time I see them do it.

But you're probably right to be worried about Fat Gerbil - certainly when hamsters change their sleeping arrangements it's a sign they're not well.

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Back to normal now, both of them curled up tribble-style :-)

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