My very first MMP!

[Old_Wench]

@scareyfaerie

Due to the usual conspiracy of things, we were a bit late arriving in sunny Blackpool, pearl of the North Eastern Riviera and (apparently) gateway to the festering hordes of superspreaders. Blackpool has, for some unknown reason, been excluded for the restrictions currently imposed on the rest of that part of the country and consequently had record numbers of visitors at the weekend.

You didn’t go to Blackpool Pleasure Beach?? I was there in 2015. BPB has one of the last two remaining Noah’s Ark walk-through attractions but it’s no longer in use. The other remaining one is at my local park (Kennywood) and it’s the only one still in use.

[BippityBoppityBoo]

@scareyfaerie

a good weekend at the seaside was had by all, despite not actually getting as far as the beach or the water

Reading your story of events was as pleasurable as dipping toes in the ocean. Thank you for all the detail. You’re a great travel columnist! Made me dash over to google and read more about Liverpool and The Waterloo. All the best writers make you want to dig in deeper.

I enjoyed being along for the road trip. I’ll be ready to jump aboard again soon.

BBBoo

[BippityBoppityBoo]

@BippityBoppityBoo

about Liverpool

@scareyfaerie
Either my brain misfired or auto-typing changed it from Blackpool. It’s actually Blackpool I wikied. Looks and sounds like my kind of place!

From ‘flyover’ country across the sea, BBBoo

[carnivorousplant]

They both sound like the names of RN destroyers in an Alistair MacLean novel.
Apologies if appropriate.

[BippityBoppityBoo]

@Die_Capacitrix

I was wondering how crushed/ground the poppy seeds should be. Just cracked open, or really fine?

Maybe if I find a Hungarian store I could buy prepared filling, but I’ve never seen any kind of fruit/seed filling already prepared here.

When I made poppy seed filling from scratch the mortar and pestle was used to just crack the seed, to release the flavor and allowing moisture in to soften the seeds. Nowadays I buy prepared poppyseed filling in a can pre-made. WalMart and my local supermarket chain (Hy Vee, midwestern region) both sell it, Solo brand. That same brand is available through Amazon. It has less expensive than making your own and just as good, you can tweak it easily if you like. Other brands may be available in specialized Czech or Hungarian stores.

Bon Appetite!!

Boo

[Die_Capacitrix]

@BippityBoppityBoo

When I made poppy seed filling from scratch the mortar and pestle was used to just crack the seed, to release the flavor and allowing moisture in to soften the seeds.

Perfect. This I can work with.

Thank you.

[nightshadea]

@carnivorousplant

A White guy in his 20s sat in a lawn chair with cold drinks while a bunch of Mexican guys did the work.

this has been so cal construction for 40 years and what’s worse the white guy sitting there is gewtting a bonus for how fast theyre getting it done…

[carnivorousplant]

It was difficult to not yell, “Workers of the world, unite!” or something like that.
Trabajadores del mundo, únanse!

[elfkin477]

Here’s something mundane and pointless: the state of New Hampshire has officially decreed that I have hazel eyes, not blue as stated on all my previous licenses.

Some people insist that in order to be hazel eyes must at some point appear brown or amber, and mine don’t.

I asked the clerk what the state considered hazel, and explained that mine are most often blue-green, sometimes blue or green or gray but never brown. She said the state considers all eyes that change color hazel, and made me correct my form, lol.

So now my new Real ID license has my “new” eye color