stuart ashley

Cyclist, allotmentor, environmentalist & TCBC Pontnewydd Councillor & Mount Pleasant Pontnewydd Cwmbran Community Councillor @welshlabour expressing own views

[stuart ashley @landdodger]

@London_W4 Looks like Spud box Cwmbran/ Warrens Pontypool market - neither would do one for other - always thought cheesy beans was good - made for brown sauce & black pepper

[stuart ashley @landdodger]

@PenumbraeLeo @AvonandsomerRob Single Gloucester used to be our regular cheese in rural Gloucestershire - from Fred's Shop at Arlingham - it was my grandparents cheese & pickle sandwich cheese & cheese on toast cheese - very rare now I am told.

[stuart ashley @landdodger]

@BuyEnglishMade Very disappointed with Clipper have drinking green for years - seems to have changed?
Support for Northern Irish tea Thompson - great tasting Gold & Decaf seems to work in our Welsh water.
Also Porlocks finest on the shelf.

[stuart ashley @landdodger]

@BuyEnglishMade Love the idea - pity we live in Wales - still support producers in all 4 home nations - was at Malvern RHS Spring Garden Show a few weeks ago - not everything is what it seems?

[stuart ashley @landdodger]

@SamaHoole @lou_chatfield All very well - then factor in both world wars and the 1920s - have a look at W W Rationing - after Dunkirk the country was on the brink of starving, Battle of the Atlantic - if you grew it you ate it - 1950s children knew this - don't waste food.

[stuart ashley @landdodger]

@cm_bagot What no salad potatoes?

[Rohoza (Дев'ятий) Mykhailo 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇨🇦 @Oct7NeverForget]

After becoming president, I asked my bodyguards to take a walk with me through the city. After the walk, we went to a restaurant for lunch. We sat down in one of the central restaurants, and each of us was asked what we wanted to order.

After a short wait, the waiter brought our meals, and at that moment I noticed a man sitting alone at the table directly in front of us, waiting to be served. Once he received his food, I told one of my soldiers:

“Go invite that man to join us.”

The soldier walked over and delivered my invitation. The man stood up, picked up his plate, and sat beside me.

Throughout the meal, his hands trembled constantly, and he never raised his eyes from his food. When we finished eating, he waved goodbye without even looking at me. I shook his hand, and he left.

One of the soldiers said to me:

“Madiba, that man must be very sick. His hands wouldn’t stop shaking while he was eating.”

“Not at all,” I replied. “The reason for his trembling is something else.”

They looked at me in confusion, and I explained:

“That man was a prison guard at the jail where I was imprisoned. After the torture sessions I endured, I would often scream and beg for water. He would come to humiliate me — he laughed at me, and instead of giving me water, he urinated on my head.

He was not sick. He was terrified and shaking, perhaps afraid that now, as President of South Africa, I would send him to prison and do to him what he once did to me — torture and humiliate him.

But that is not who I am. Such behavior is not part of my character or my ethics. Minds that seek revenge destroy nations, while those that seek reconciliation build them.”

— Nelson Mandela

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“Tyrants and autocrats have always understood that literacy, learning, books and newspapers are potentially dangerous. They can inspire independent thought and even rebellion.”

— Carl Sagan

[stuart ashley @landdodger]

@NoContextBrits Thankfully I am a vegetarian!

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Pensions and Healthcare are 'benefits' too.

You have been warned.

[stuart ashley @landdodger]

@CockertonMark @gezkirby Plenty of devices out there - extending pole with squeezee on end - once brought cuts out any of this negotiation with so called small businesses, and the necessity to go up ladders.

[stuart ashley @landdodger]

@oaksandlions That list left out a few notables -
The plain digestive - best dunker
The jammy dodger
The Bourbon
The chocolate finger
The ginger biscuit or knob
The shortbread or shortie
The mint cream

I rest my case

[stuart ashley @landdodger]

@oaksandlions What you have with tea - Can you Dunk? ( Dip your biscuit in tea) - each biscuit has a different dunking quality - do other nations dunk other than UK
At official meetings there are 3 grades of biscuits - Special, ordinary & those - Special are rare

[stuart ashley @landdodger]

@TheRealJamieKay Don't forget butter/margarine & a raid of fathers greenhouse & garden for cucumber, lettuce & other salad in season - topped off with salad cream

[stuart ashley @landdodger]

@TheRealJamieKay Of course cheese and onion cob/roll/bap/crusty roll/slice of french bread/ slice of cottage loaf/ door stop - cheese extra mature west Country farmhouse & onion either extra powerful Bedford Champion slice (with vinegar and salt) or sweet red onion - bliss

[stuart ashley @landdodger]

@ColinSpenc4257 The ash men as the bin men were called - all those coal fires - in Wales now pushing 70% recycling amongst the best in the World - the bin men/recyclers collect very little rubbish - everything is separated into stream's of recycling - brilliant

[stuart ashley @landdodger]

@Ford_Nick As per Mrs Beetons & my father - a small amount of milk in a milk saucepan add a knob of margarine/butter heat together drop in several lightly whisked eggs bring to heat - turn down to low heat until scrambled, separated with liquid -enjoy

[stuart ashley @landdodger]

@Matt_Pinner A good book - Sci Fi, Novel or factual.
Listen to BBC radio especially Radio 3 classical music, Radio 4x replayed comedy and archives, Radio 6 album and specialist music - BBC Sounds podcasts

[stuart ashley @landdodger]

@80s_Kidz I used to go there for the cooking section pots and pans still have the giant enamel stew pot & the tool section ( saved me going to B & Q ) for hammers, screwdrivers & sandpaper - also hardware - shoe polish.

[stuart ashley @landdodger]

@80s_Kidz You could tell the seasons by what was on sale in the local Woolworths - Christmas all lights, trees decs & cards, spring was gardening - seeds, equipment & tools, Summer was camping & pick nick's & autumn back to school, Halloween & Guy forks night