Ronnie By The Sea

  Cooked Australian Sand Crab Sand Crab Feast One of my favorite kinds of seafood to eat is a Sand Crab. I'll buy one for lunch, mix up some seafood sauce and just pull the thing to pieces and listen to a podcast... its a delicious treat and a relaxing way to enjoy a meal break. I traded fishing secrets recently with  Laurie Suarez and learned some interesting tricks of the trade... and collaborated on some videos about Sand Crabs. Turns out I know more about cooking crabs than catching them, which works out fine as I tend to buy them anyway. The scientific name for the kind of Sand Crabs, or Blue Swimmer Crabs we get in Australia, for the most part is: Portunus Armatus, which doesn't sound tasty at all. The best way to enjoy sand crabs in my opinion is to buy them cooked and pick the crab meat yourself, here is a video explaining how to clean a sand crab . If you have heard 'soft shell crabs' mentioned in American TV shows, they are referring to sand crabs, or soft sh

Spring Onions / Green Onions / Allium Fistulosum, also known as Shallots in some countries, can be re-grown from the root offcut in your garden.  Yes it can be done... but there are some important steps along the way for growing shallots / spring onions if you want to do it again and again. First buy a bunch from the market and aim for a larger thicknesses in the bunch. Make sure you buy the ones with the roots still attached. Cut the stem of the spring onions off about an inch above the roots. Keep the remaining spring onions to use in your cooking. Next you need a glass to start the green onions growing again. One that light can penetrate because you are going to put it on a window sill where it can benefit from sunlight. Put your green onions in the glass - its fine to crowd them in, with the roots on the bottom of the glass. Put a small amount of water covering the roots - note covering the roots only! Then place your glass on a window sill that get ambient sun light or even direct

Ogden Nash was an American poet celebrated for his clever and amusing verses that won over readers with his distinct style of poetry. One of his exceptional works, "The Possum," is a delightful piece that blends Nash's playful language with a sprinkle of fancifulness. This write-up takes a closer look at the poem's themes, structure, and language techniques, providing a thorough evaluation of its enduring popularity. I. Overview of Ogden Nash and his Poetry: Before delving into the specifics of "The Possum," it is important to understand the poet behind it. Ogden Nash, born in 1902, gained fame for his light-hearted and satirical poems. He possessed a remarkable talent for crafting clever wordplay and employing unconventional rhyme schemes. Nash's poetry often celebrated the quirks of human nature and the absurdities of everyday life. II. Unpacking "The Possum": "The Possum" is a concise yet engaging poem that exemplifies Nash's d

Constructing the vidaXL Washing Machine Pedestal stand  with  drawer is difficult & time consuming. The user manual is close to useless. This detailed guide & close-up photos will save 2 hours. Two things you will definitely need to put together the washing machine stand that are not included when you unbox are: A Dry Bar of Soap, and A Philips Head Screwdriver Once you have successfully built the washing machine stand it works great, so disregard reviews that say the drawer falls out or rattles... they just assembled it incorrectly. Here are the stages you should use: Stage 1: Assemble the basic Washing Machine Stand (leave the rubber feet to the side for now) Stage 2: Assemble the Drawer including affixing the rail. Stage 3: Affix the housing to the legs of the stand for the rail on the drawer to slide into Stage 4: Insert the Drawer into the Stand (note this step is more easily done with everything upside down). Stage 5:  Finishing Touches - Affix the Square Black Pads &

If there is one thing I love, it is words: I love their sounds, their meanings, their double and triple meanings, and their etymology, which is just a classy way of saying “their derivation!” But I have discovered the word that describes me: logophile, from the Greek logos meaning “speech”, and the ending – phile meaning friend or lover. I don’t know that I’d go quite as far as to claim “epeolatry”, the worship of words, first coined by American Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1860. Literarian? … an educated or lettered person? … maybe. I hope I usually give an opinion only on things I know about, rather than be accused of ultracrepidarianism! And yes, I love books, am therefore a bibliophile, but not necessarily book-bosomed, because I don’t carry a book at all times. Am I a bibliobibuli? Mary would need to answer whether I read too much. Reading a few books at a time, as I sometimes do, would render me a bibliophagist! But I’m sure I am not the only one who is bibliosmiac – surely the

We are not supposed to tell jokes about ethnically-grouped people, people of faith (any faith), persons of other gender or sexual orientation etc etc etc. A comedian asked the audience if there were any Irish in the audience. Hands went up, and he said he wouldn’t tell any Irish jokes.  He asked if there were any Jews in the audience and hands went up again, so no Jewish jokes.  Similarly, no Polish jokes, Catholic jokes, Canadian jokes, blonde jokes, trans-sexual jokes etc, etc, etc, and so on ... Finally, when no further hands were raised, the comedian was able to say, “Two Etruscans walked into a bar ....!” … and so, a blonde joke which, I’m sure you will agree is acceptable: A blonde walks into a big city bank and asks for the loans officer. She says she’s going to Europe on business for two weeks and needs to borrow $5,000. The bank officer says the bank will need some kind of security for the loan, so the blonde hands over the keys to a brand new, hot-red Porsche Boxster.