Living Planet

[voice]

Mrs Voice did the sane for me just the other week gave me a pizza without telling me it was a cauliflower one, i just knew something was shite about it

[flatandy]

The crust is pretty nasty when it comes out of the oven, but once it's been out for about three minutes it turns into this really nasty mealy cardboardy stuff. Better to just eat cheese and pepperoni and tomatoes than pretend it's a pizza.

[voice]

I think it was made worse by being a beyond meat one

[Repat Van]

Mar 9, 2021 18:47:07 GMT flatandy said:

The missus has inadvertently proven a theory of mine.

I had never had a cauliflower crust pizza because the idea was horrific.

People who didn't enjoy food or who hadn't eaten pizza in years had claimed to me that "Cauliflower crust is a good as real pizza. And it's a great diet food."

The missus brought a cauliflower crust pizza which we just tried for lunch.

My theory has been proven correct.

The theory was: Cauliflower crust pizza is not as good as real pizza. It's a great diet food because it's nasty and you just don't want to eat much of it.

Well pizza itself is basically a diet food because it’s too nasty to eat.

[perrykneeham]

Yep. It's the most despised food in the world. Nobody eats it.

[voice]

Well might be time to admit I'm getting a bit long in the tooth for wild adventures, spent the day canoeing down the Squamish river in a 17 foot open canoe, 21 miles in total. Stared off great, calm water sunny day, perfect conditions, though within 15 mins we were in narrow channel rapids and get flipped, the boat pinned me to a log, quite terrifying really, lost my mobile, GoPro, paddle I've had for years, managed to get myself free and recover the canoe, though the water was fast as fcuk, one of the people were stranded on a log in the middle of the river and the other was swept downstream for half a mile. After getting things all sorted, dry clothes and so on, we finally set off again (this is quite a remote area, no cell coverage even if I'd had a phone, so self rescue was the only way) Eventually we worked our way through the rest of the rapids and got onto the main stretch which was amazing, saw trumpeter swans, fish jumping, grizzly bear tracks (no grizzly's thankfully) and the snow on the Tantalus range was breathtaking. All went well till about 3 miles from the end where the Squamish is joined by the Cheakamus river, the first rapid was a bit rough a few waves over the stern, the second was even more challenging and the third I was drenched and the boat was filling up, but the forth had a precipitous drop that we had no choice but to go down, the canoe hit multiple boulders and was almost flipped several times, I was laying down backwards to drop our center of gravity and paddling like f**k to get through, the most terrifying minuet of my life for years, had to beach and get out just to stop shaking, we were too shook up to try the last set of rapids so portaged round. Finally made it to the pick up point at 7pm having set off at 12.

Amazing day, but fcuk me it was hard work. Mrs Voice has been telling me I'm getting too old for this sh!t, perhaps she's right. I feel like I've been run over by the truck now.

[ootlg]

Why?

[perrykneeham]

Mar 26, 2021 3:59:27 GMT voice said:

Well might be time to admit I'm getting a bit long in the tooth for wild adventures, spent the day canoeing down the Squamish river in a 17 foot open canoe, 21 miles in total. Stared off great, calm water sunny day, perfect conditions, though within 15 mins we were in narrow channel rapids and get flipped, the boat pinned me to a log, quite terrifying really, lost my mobile, GoPro, paddle I've had for years, managed to get myself free and recover the canoe, though the water was fast as fcuk, one of the people were stranded on a log in the middle of the river and the other was swept downstream for half a mile. After getting things all sorted, dry clothes and so on, we finally set off again (this is quite a remote area, no cell coverage even if I'd had a phone, so self rescue was the only way) Eventually we worked our way through the rest of the rapids and got onto the main stretch which was amazing, saw trumpeter swans, fish jumping, grizzly bear tracks (no grizzly's thankfully) and the snow on the Tantalus range was breathtaking. All went well till about 3 miles from the end where the Squamish is joined by the Cheakamus river, the first rapid was a bit rough a few waves over the stern, the second was even more challenging and the third I was drenched and the boat was filling up, but the forth had a precipitous drop that we had no choice but to go down, the canoe hit multiple boulders and was almost flipped several times, I was laying down backwards to drop our center of gravity and paddling like f**k to get through, the most terrifying minuet of my life for years, had to beach and get out just to stop shaking, we were too shook up to try the last set of rapids so portaged round. Finally made it to the pick up point at 7pm having set off at 12.

Amazing day, but fcuk me it was hard work. Mrs Voice has been telling me I'm getting too old for this sh!t, perhaps she's right. I feel like I've been run over by the truck now.

Same old same old, eh?

[ootlg]

I've had one or two terrifying minuets in my time.

[voice]

Mar 26, 2021 7:10:50 GMT ootlg said:

Why?

seamed like a good idea at the time

and who wouldn't want to be someplace like this on a sunny day

[ootlg]

Yeah, I accept it's not such a mindless thing to do as I usually tend to think because at least you're a long way from civilisation there and not disturbing the natural beauty of the place. I get pissed off here because it's increasingly difficult to find anywhere that's not choca with idiots doing stuff. Some of the gorges get canoe traffic jams, rock faces are being ruined, country tracks turned into race tracks by cyclists; balloons, hang gliders and drones filling the skies, wind surfers and idiots with all sorts of contraptions skimming across the surface of the sea, jetskis... f**k me man, everywhere you go...

[mids]

All Brits I assume?

[ootlg]

Nah, the Brits are packing the bars.

[voice]

There are a few places closer to the city like that here, its why I do so much back country stuff, you can hike or paddle for days without seeing anyone. This summer going up to the Cariboo to paddle a lake chain 120km long, might see the odd boat in the distance but probability not.

[ootlg]

You're fortunate to be able to appreciate that sort of wilderness.

[perrykneeham]

Looks lovely, if a tad parky.

[perrykneeham]

Take that! Boris's justice. No fear, no favour.

"An Army major general who dishonestly claimed £48,000 for his children's boarding school fees has been jailed.

Nick Welch, 57, claimed to live in London rather than Dorset, near their schools.

Welch was convicted of fraud by a panel of senior officers after a four-week trial at Bulford Military Court and handed a 21-month sentence.

He is believed to be the most senior officer to be court-martialled since 1815."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-dorset-56538334

Colchester's gotta hurt at 58. Still, stand by for his gritty memoirs.

[Marshall]

Terrifying though it was, that sounds like great fun, voice.
I really miss canoeing. I may have gone through a one or two class 5 rapids in my time but mostly class 4 or below.

Scariest moment for me was when I flipped while kayaking after going through a stretch and couldn't find and remove the spray skirt to get the hell out.
Didn't want to open my eyes underwater as I was wearing contacts. I quickly changed my mind about that.

[ootlg]

Contacts underwater. Blimey. No goggles?

We used to swim in a fast river outside Bern in Switzerland where the thing to do was to go downstream avoiding the rapids. I got dragged into them one nice sunny day and almost drowned. Very strange. Like being in a washing machine filled with freezing cold water and rocks.

[Marshall]

Well I wasn't planning on going under. But yeah, with a kayak it's not difficult.

Luckily for me my contacts stayed in.