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Bloody Hell - Plum Stone won the 3.50 ! why didn't I have that?

and another winner for Dick's Tips: Hannah's Turn 10/3 win 3.40 Southall

Seeing as I had a non-runner, I'm going 2 plums each way on Lilywhite Gesture in the 3.50 at Lingfield.

Ruby Valentine wins @ 10/1 ! - 29p profit Uncle Dermot non-runner

Dick's Tips for Tuesday: Not many good prices around, so a couple of each ways today. Ruby Valentine 10/1 ew 1:00 Fakenham Uncle Dermot 6/1 e/w 12.40 Southall Hannah's Turn 10/3 win 3.40 Southall My winner yesterday @ 3/1 gave me 16p + 8p remaining in my sack = 24p I'm going to stake 4p on each race today, leaving 12p in my sack.

Pretty good today CVB - 2 wins and a place from your 3 tipped favourites. How far ahead are you betting to get those prices? eg. Doubletoilntrouble ended up 5/4f from your 3/1 Waiting for the 4.30 to see if Ruwaiyan can make it 2 out of 3 for me too.

Zafranagar wins. 2/1 sp

You should probably put values with you bet, £s or your own currency e.g dicks or would all bets be for the same amount? and then are each way bets half the size of to win bets? Good idea, Zak. I'm going to put 20 plums in my BetDick account to start myself off. I'll have: 4p on Zafrangar to win @ 3/1 2p e/w (4p) on Great Link to place (1,2,3) 4p on Ruwaiyan to win @ 13/8 leaving 8 plums in my BetDick account...

I'm going to post some of Dick's Tips as well. These are based studying the form for a few minutes, looking at who's tipping what and the science of "liking the name". I'm not going to bet any money on anything yet, but will spend a few days seeing how I do. Then I'll blow my wages and ruin Christmas... So for today: 2:40 Leicester - Zafranagar 3/1 F 3:40 Leicester - Great Link 33/1 e/w 4.30 Wolves - Ruwaiyan - 13/8 F

Marvellous

Best bet is to avoid Canal Road/Shipley Airedale road Maybe best to cut through the city centre and snake up to Manningham from Thornton Road. I would suggest Lumb Lane and Bowland Street area might be good - only a couple of minutes walk to the ground and on the correct side for a getaway. If you see a guy on a bike in an orange jacket, riding up Lumb Lane at about 4.45pm, it's me.

oh and the Sparrow is good: https://www.facebook.com/thesparrowbradford

As a Bradford resident I can recommend - Fighting Cock - small backstreet real ale boozer a mile from the ground, frequented by myself and mjmooney Corn Dolly - real ale pub on the ground side of the city centre. There's a couple of Wetherspoons - one in city square and one up behind the Alhambra theatre, 2 mins walk from the square.

Summery Justice might be worth a punt, along with Your Busy or Becauseicouldntsee. It's anyone's race that one.

Dicky's Tips for today... 1.30 Peddlars Cross - rubbish 2.05 Catch Me (e/w) 2.40 Riverside Theatre (Capt Chris e/w) 3.20 Oscar Whiskey (Dynaste e/w) 4.00 Hector's Choice 4.40 Your Busy (e/w) / Becauseicouldntsee (e/w)

RIP Paddy. VT will miss you. Very sad.

Oooh kinky

Nice! And a couple of kisses at the end. Keep 'em coming, this is great work.

My prediction of mjmooney's lunch choice was admittedly wrong. Shoot me down if you like but I am still ITK. The Cornish Pasty/Shortbread combo is only a short term appointment - a four hour contract infact. Spag Bol will be the long term choice, announced at 7pm (by Mrs Mooney shouting "dinner's ready Mike!". There are 4 chairs. Expect Meltdown as cheese is selected up top.

I remain focused and am working hard to secure the best lunch which will complement my commitment to be true to my heritage, competitiveness and passionate appetite, and will have the lunch in place to prepare myself for the afternoon and this evening's pub quiz. No further statement will be made until the press conference. I am ITK about mjmooney's lunch. I know some of won't like this, but it has proven successful in Italy and over here. I could be wrong about this, but we work at the same place and on the canteen menu today is ... Spaghetti Bolognese...

I'm off to watch Reg Holdsworth on Celebrity Come Dine With Me...

Correct, Mike. You have stepped out of Off Topic to provide a much-required rational viewpoint.

Sounds good that Peter. I wonder how many VTers have pomegranate molasses in their cupboards? I'll be investigating that one. Is it similar to tamarind syrup?

I'm an expert when it comes to soups so hopefully you'll enjoy this recipe. Finely chop one onion and do the same with 1 clove of garlic, fry off the garlic and onion in a large cooking pot for 4-5 minutes, then chop the squash into small chunks, add the chunks to the garlic and onion and fry off for another 5 minutes. Boil some water, put a vegetable or chicken stock (chicken stock works better and will give more flavour) in a measuring jug, once the water has boiled fill the measuring jug up to 250ml, stir until stock has disolved. Once stock has disolved, add that to the squash, onion and garlic, pour a cup of water in too and 40ml of cream. Bring to the boil and simmer for 30 minutes. Season generously with salt and pepper, very finely chop up (just less than a handfull) of corriander add that to the soup and stir then let the soup to cool for 5-10 minutes. Last step, blend the soup with a handheld blender (push the blender into the pot all the way down so it doesn't splash everywhere!) or alternitively, transfer the soup into a electric blender and blend it for around 20 seconds. Re-heat and then serve. It's true, the texture of the blended butternut squash gives a really silky texture to the soup. I do something similar but using thyme instead of corriander. It's even better with some roast pine nuts and a strong grated cheese on top. Cheese, nuts, silky, butt, squash, texture... mmm I'm coming over Nigella. Now there's a thought.

There's a curry house here (in Bradford - Curry Capital!) that does a great Lamb and Spinach Karahi (Balti to you lot). It was visited by Rick Stein on his Food Heroes programme and the recipe is in his book. They now have "Lamb Rick Stein" on the menu. And it rocks. A good one for the slow cooker