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My Dearest Langstraat
..I would like to congratulate you on your ability to entertain the people of this forum withyour autobiographical anecdotes. I have no doubt many a maxim could originate from within the ‘Bizarre World of Langstraat Series’. You had me in peals of laughter at the idea of boiling an Avacado, whist the your youthful entusiasm for romance made me sigh with admiration and envy for the girl in your heart in those far off and heady days of your youth…… Sighs
As to boiling tins of delicacies, the only anecdote i can supply is when i decided to make a banoffee pie. Two tins of Nestles milk, boiled for 2.5 hours in a pan was to produce the delicious toffee for this scrumptious desert. But alas due to a memory the size of a gnat, i forgot to top up the water in the pan and the carnage which insued resembled Jackson Pollock’s ‘Autumn Rhythm’ http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ASI/musi212/margaret/pollock.html
Nevertheless, as the Wife of Bath declared “Any Woman worth her salt, can always prove her man’s at fault. My man at the time was to remind me to top up the water and refrained from doing so. I suspect he still denies responsibility for the resulting chaos. The toffee clung to the walls and burned the curtains in its volcanic discharge, and could not be removed by any means. The kichen walls and ceiling had to be repainted to cover the offending toffee, to this day if one looks closely with a critical eye (like a mother or mother in law) remnants of the toffee can still be discerned. I can assure you i have never tried to be so adventurous as to try to create this desert again.
Once again my dear Langstraat i salute you, and the genius that is your ability to entertain