Robert Turner | 
07 31st, 2005| 
Our dog Taffie, mentioned in this Blog in the past has learnt a neat trick. Watch the MPEG file below to see how she lets herself out of the house:
Jul
29
Here is another recipe for Naan Bread, my wife had no idea what Bicarb was as its not used in Canada apparently, eh?
Jul
29
UKTV Food : Recipes : Quick Peshwari Naan : by Paul Hollywood : from Great Food Bites
Quick Peshwari Naan
by Paul Hollywood from Great Food Bites
For quick-to-cook bread with an Indian influence, Paul Bloxham makes a cheat’s naan without any yeast – great for curry in a hurry
Servings: makes 8
Level of difficulty: Intermediate
Preparation Time: 45 minutes
Cooking Time: 10 minutes
Ingredients
500g plain flour
1 tsp Baking powder
1 tsp Bicarbonate of soda
1/2 tsp Salt
250ml Milk
2 tbsp thick plain yogurt
200ml water
1 egg
25g butter, melted
1 tsp Sugar
1 tbsp ground almonds
2 tbsp sultanas
5 tbsp clarified butter, for frying
Method
1. Mix the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt together in a large bowl.
2. Add the milk, yogurt, water, egg, butter and sugar, and stir until the mixture becomes a smooth dough. Tip out onto a floured board and knead in the almonds and sultanas.
3. Divide the dough into 8 balls, place on a floured baking sheet and press out into naan shapes. Leave to rest for 15 minutes.
4. Heat a frying pan over a medium heat with a tablespoon of clarified butter. Cook the naans, one at a time, for one minute on each side, until golden and puffed up. Serve straight from the pan with curry.
Jul
20
Eternal Summertime Shop - Soon!
Having a father-in-law who is a genius inventor but is having problems being heard and his inventions being in-line with the whole concept of EternalSummertime I am contructing a shop front for Eternal Summertime to see if see can move prototype inventions into money making products.
ES would also like to invite Vancouver Island based artists, sculptors, inventors and other creative types who have a product they wish to reach a larger market with to contact us so we can facilitate the selling such items.
Jul
20
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Jul
20
BOB THOMAS - Yahoo news.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - James Doohan, the burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the original Star Trek TV series and motion pictures who responded to the command “Beam me up, Scotty,” died early Wednesday. He was 85.
Doohan died at 5:30 a.m. at his Redmond, Wash., home with his wife of 28 years, Wende, at his side, Los Angeles agent and longtime friend Steve Stevens said. The cause of death was pneumonia and Alzheimer’s, he said.
The Canadian-born Doohan was enjoying a busy career as a character actor when he auditioned for a role as an engineer in a new space adventure on NBC in 1966. A master of dialects from his early years in radio, he tried seven different accents.
“The producers asked me which one I preferred,” Doohan recalled 30 years later. “I believed the Scot voice was the most commanding. So I told them, ‘If this character is going to be an engineer, you’d better make him a Scotsman.”‘
The series, which starred another Canadian, William Shatner, as Capt. James T. Kirk and Leonard Nimoy as the enigmatic Mr. Spock, attracted an enthusiastic following of science fiction fans, especially among teenagers and children, but not enough ratings power. NBC cancelled it after three seasons.
When the series ended in 1969, Doohan found himself typecast as Montgomery Scott, the canny engineer with a burr in his voice. In 1973, he complained to his dentist, who advised him: “Jimmy, you’re going to be Scotty long after you’re dead. If I were you, I’d go with the flow.”
“I took his advice,” said Doohan, “and since then everything’s been just lovely.”
Star Trek continued in syndicated TV both in the United States and abroad, and its following grew larger and more dedicated. In his later years, Doohan attended 40 “Trekkie” gatherings around the country and lectured at colleges.
The huge success of George Lucas’s Star Wars in 1977 prompted Paramount Pictures, which had produced Star Trek for TV, to plan a movie based on the series. The studio brought back the TV cast and hired a topflight director, Robert Wise. Star Trek - The Motion Picture was successful enough to spawn five sequels.
The powerfully built Doohan, a veteran of D-Day in Normandy, spoke frankly in 1998 about his employer, Paramount, and his TV commander: