ROY X CONE contest, 1.1.11 - 2.1.12

[DocBlue]

Thanks Paul

[aho]

dkatz, I sure hope your relief wasn't too far upstream, otherwise I would have to say you might not want to wash your ROY's in that water lol

[DocBlue]

never seen something like that before..... thought i would share.

yysbbPStfWw

[fre-co]

Thanks everyone for your kind words (and to cash and Mike for the repz).

fardin and fresco.....give the pasta a go! It's not that hard (otherwise it would be beyond me) and it's well worth the effort. The great thing is that it impresses people much more than it should.

Yeah I am a regular fresh pasta maker. My favorite recipe is a ravioli of broad bean and pecorino puree with sage butter sauce. It is spectacular when done with freshly picked beans (summer only)

[Paul T]

Yeah I am a regular fresh pasta maker. My favorite recipe is a ravioli of broad bean and pecorino puree with sage butter sauce. It is spectacular when done with freshly picked beans (summer only)

Pics (in the summer) or we don't believe you.

[lostinthesupermarket]

dkatz....great pics.You look like you are enjoying yourslef at least some of the time.

fre$co: Sounds fantastic. We're going to grow some broad beans this year..... I would definitely be interested in the recipe if you cared to share. Last year we only did runner-beans.

[fre-co]

Yeah no worries, I'll try to find the recipe before the summer.

We are growing lots more this year. I am going to start preparing the vegetable patches this weekend. We grew broadbeans and peas last year in a few pots and they did remarkably well. Before that we used to go to a pick your own veg farm and had vast amounts to experiment with.

There will be pictures Paul.

[roy6]

^DocBlue, that was pretty awesome. I have to confess though, my favorite part was the chick in the convertible.

I guess that's a Russian bootleg of a Bollywood film?

[robbie]

dkatz- must spread, those pictures are awesome AWESOME!-

[tg76]

so many good updates over the last week

me and my ROYs spent the week in the far north on the annual year 13 leadership camp

day one we set up giant spider webs in the bush and put up tents and stuff like that then sat round the marae drinking beer

day two i spent 5 hours in and out of the sea doing coasteering,,, my ROYs sat in my tent and waited for me

day three my ROY boxers facilitated some team building games in the morning then they sat and waited with my ROYs while i went snorkling for a few hours

day four snorkling in the morning then my ROY boxers ran around in the bush playing survival,,, i was a deer, i killed 3 rabbits a rat and a kiwi before man shot me

day 5 snorkling then pack down

lots of other stuff happened as well

where are the photos?

well

i was with 120 bikini clad 16 and 17 year old girls and would be un proffessional of me to post pics of them on the internet

today i am going to help chop gorse back from the mountain bike tracks

ill try and redeem myself

[robbie]

sounds like fun (not the 16 and 17 y/o's the leadership stuff, i did weekends like that in this church scout group i was in back in the day)

this is my crappy attempt at a decent wayjdt post

excuse the shitty pics

I got off early enough to come home and relax ...

listened to some jazz before 'all things considered'

and caught up on some important reading...

[DocBlue]

[Paul T]

listened to some jazz before 'all things considered'

Jazz, then All THings Considered on an old Victor radio. What could be better?

(You've also given me a good idea for a trip... more later)

[pomata]

I took my family and my roys to the dolomites with me for a couple of days.

first ride of the year around this big mountain. nice

this girl rides fast! (or am I gettin' older?)

[pomata]

later chilling at home

with the local goods

deer salami and speck

this cheese was great

canederli and goulash

sorry no pics of the denim today but they are doing fine! will post some more pics tomorrow cheers guys!

[Atzec]

^mountains look great, so does the food (it looks absolutely amzing tbh). where is it? sella ronda?

[pomata]

yes we've been ridin g the sella ronda today and the house is in Ortisei.

cool scenic pists you know, too bad there's no powder for off piste riding.

[mikecch]

Very nice pomata!

Found a old, mouldy berry in the cuff folds of my jeans, ewwww.

[roy6]

My ROYs walked down Valencia street today:

Beignets at Straw.

Went to Four Barrel Coffee. This stretch of Valencia st. used to be one of the seediest runs in San Francisco, but over the last decade its gentrified almost out of recognition. This space used to be a shystie garage, across the street was Valencia Gardens, one of the worst housing projects in the city, famous for stolen dog fights. Now the projects have been torn down and rebuilt as shiny new mixed residence/retail space, and the garage is now the most hipster cafe it's possible to imagine. In fact, the name slipped my mind and I googled "Hipster coffee San Francisco" and it popped right up. Like a little bit of Brooklyn broke off and floated over. The place is run by twenty year old dudes with Edwardian beards or pompadours and young girls who are "borrowing nostalgia for the unremembered '80s", as J. Murphy would say.

Barista spinning vinyl in between making espresso drinks.

At the drip coffee bar you select inconveniently sourced beans and they grind them and offer you the grounds to sniff and approve in an overly-serious, self-important manner.

A stuffed unicorn head down the street at Paxton Gate,

The window display (about scurvy) at 826 Valencia, a combo pirate supply shop and writing workshop.

Inside, the storefront has pirate apparel, chests, nautical relics, etc.

In the rear a writing workshop for elementary school kids was going on.

[devilish]

I liked Valencia St. the way it used to be. You could actually walk down it quite peacefully on a weekend without a thousand douche bags in skinny jeans or breeders in family gaggles with their brats in strollers getting in the way. Fuck the fancy coffee shops and such, bring back the crack heads and smell of warm piss.

[mikecch]

Caught a movie at the local casino.

Chinese New Year celebrations happening at China Town.

Lots of food stalls (massive rip-offs, btw) and lots of people.

Bonus hairy denim shots.

Some weird glare messed up the colour on the only near-decent pic of me, so here's the b&w version

[zissou]

Hey Pomata! My father was born in Sporminore, just ~100km from Ortisei. Beautiful photos!

Thanks for the tour down Valencia, Roy6! I have only been briefly, but need to go back...

My daughter and I spent the evening at the Annual Valentine's Day Chocolate Festival, which is a benefit for the local Planned Parenthood. It always draws a huge crowd, and I saw several friends there.

It's a pro-am competition where anyone can make a dessert and submit it. Each attendee pays $10 and get a ticket good for 10 samples (and most of the samples were rather generous!). This was just a small fraction of what I tried.

After a wonderful time there, we joined some friends in their hot tub for a good soak under the falling snow...

[dr.house]

I took my family and my roys to the dolomites with me for a couple of days.

first ride of the year around this big mountain. nice

Hey Ale, hows your son doin'?

[Paul T]

Looking good, Roy. When did you get the LVC shawl collar?

[Atzec]

yes we've been ridin g the sella ronda today and the house is in Ortisei.

cool scenic pists you know, too bad there's no powder for off piste riding.

is it your weekend house?

spent 4 days in ortisei last december. should have sent you a message...

[pomata]

Hey Ale, hows your son doin'?

he's very well, thanks!

Atzec, no we're guests at some friends' house but let me know the next time!

the fit:

[Paul T]

Looking great, alle.

Quick trip out this morning.

In my new G-1..

The nipper is modeling his own flying jacket (note to self - gotta reverse synchronise outfits in future) with vintage headgear.

We hung out in the old naval college... I've posted the bar part before, doubtless I'll post it again. THis is the view when you come out:

One of the buidings is known as the Painted Hall. You'll have seen it in The Mummy Returns, THe GOlden COmpass, Sherlock Holmes (plus the upcoming sequel) and the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean. It was painted by James Thornhill - father-in-law of the even more celebrated satirist William Hogarth. He got a space rate, something like £12 a square yard.

But... once the Brits imported a new royal family from Germany - George 1, who everyone hated - the new regime left lots of debts unpaid. Thornhill delined to paint the new Hanoverian king - but he added a self-portrait, with his hand out, waiting for the money he was owed.

On the way home.. Roy, we check out your bag. Lovely hide. £120.

[devilish]

G-1 looking good PaulT. The Missus is wrong on that score new one is better than the old copy.

[big truck]

nice arse Paul T! And a great all round outfit

[DocBlue]

nice arse Paul T! And a great all round outfit

i have to (reluctantly ...) admit the same. NICE.