mikebirty
Mike Birtwistle
mikebirty

It’s worth a shot. I have to overcome more than a decade of doing cardio first but I’ll try. I normally only use cardio to get my heart pumping before the weights as a sort of high powered warm up

Also bringing the pastry together with a fruit juice rather than water gives the pastry a bit of flavour. Great for a dark chocolate tart

My aunt uses half and half wholemeal and plain white flour for a short crust pastry. It makes a very good crisp pastry. Needs a bit more sugar if you’re making a sweet pie. I used it for my Christmas Pies this year and would recommend.

That’s a good job water is better as coconut water is what evil tastes like

I can’t imagine ever working anywhere this would be an issue. Organise and unionise. The only way to improve this is through solidarity

15 years ago I was recruited by a really good guy in a hospital. He was information manager and the most technical person there. I was going in as web developer / programmer.

I’ve been wearing various pairs of wireless headphones for ten years now. I used to only wear them in the gym but now I’ve got a decent pair they’re my main headphones.

“left over rotisserie chicken” ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

There was a Rugby workout that was 30 seconds *on*, 30 off for 6 minutes I think. Add up the metres you do on the fast intervals. Pros were doing over 1k

Our solution was to talk about it for a year or more and then just do everything in 6 weeks. We told my parents what date we had planned the day after Christmas. Got married by the end of Feb.

My favourite is to use from the fridge orange juice to bind the pastry rather than water. Coupled with some zest in the dough. Gives the pastry a nice orange taste and works great with chocolate tarts or mince pies (the ones with lost of dried fruit, not the meat ones)

I always thought it was because their physio wanted to prove they were doing something.

NOMINATE Anything with the day of the week on. Makes picking socks a breeze. Buy three week's worth and you even get a warning when you need to do a wash

NOMINATE Anything with the day of the week on. Makes picking socks a breeze. Buy three week's worth and you even get

Having switched from ES to Solid a couple of weeks ago, the only feature I can't find is a transfer between Androids. Which was really good with ES. Course there are apps that do that bur would've been nice to have them all together.

I’ve just bought a new Win10 laptop and the apps really surprised me. I had had 10 on my old laptop but for some reason, removal of bloatware I think, this is the first time I had a look at apps.

Step 1 is by far the most important.

What was the launch game for the Sega CD which had Skywalker in it? Wing commander? That may not have been a historically bad game but it killed the console before it had launched. Probably the most damaging?

Been told headphones are unprofessional and unsafe...

Was just about to rant about how imdb only does US times and this whole article is a sham for overseas readers....

I measured my sleep using a smartphone app for the best part of four years. Then when a combination of work and other stresses started messing with my sleep, I had to stop. Kept finding myself waking up and the first thing I'd think of is if I am awake enough to turn my app off. Or should I leave it on and if I don't