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Yuck!! That's nothing like Granddad Curly's homemade cheese! |
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Tuesday, 14 September 2010 10:58 |
Dear Wayne and Omar here is a bit about that cheese.
It's called 'Casu marzu' (also casu modde, casu cundhídu in Sardinian dialects,
or in Italian formaggio marcio) It's a traditional Sardinian sheep milk
cheese, notable for being riddled with live maggots. It is found mainly
in Sardinia, Italy. Casu marzu literally means "rotten cheese" in Sardinian.
Casu marzu goes way beyond normal cheese fermentation, to a stage
which most would consider decomposition, this is made by the digestive
action of the maggots of the cheese fly Piophila casei. These larvae are
deliberately introduced to the cheese, giving it an advanced level of
fermentation to break down the cheese's fats. The texture of the cheese
becomes very soft and creamy, with some liquid called lagrima (Latin for
tear) seeping out. The maggots themselves appear as clear white worms,
about 8 millimeters long.When disturbed, the larvae can actually jump
for distances up to 15 centimeters. Some people clear the larvae from
the cheese before consuming whilst others don't!
Infact other European countries also have their own variations of these cheeses.
Chubbly the aviator.
Ashford , Middlesex, London.
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Will there be a recipe for Lorn sausage and tomato chutney sandwiches? |
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Tuesday, 14 September 2010 10:34 |
Never had anything like that b4 so dyin to try them. Mum said she will
make them if I give her the recipe, but we are still waiting! Sorry to
keep on but I'm gettin very hungry! Paul Richardson. Keswick, the Lake
district.
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There's so much more to older Music. |
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Tuesday, 14 September 2010 10:29 |
Here's something that everyone can have a go at. Choose one weekend,
have some friends around, with the permission of your parents of
course, choose some records from their old collection, and then give
them a play. Just like the music of today your bound not to like it
all, but I bet you will like at least some of it. Have a go you will be
surprised! Chubbly the aviator.
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Tuesday, 14 September 2010 10:27 |
I have a very unusual taste when it comes to my music. I like a few
modern groups like Coldplay and the Black eyed peas etc, but I spend
most of my time listening to much older stuff from dad's huge record
collection. I love groups like ELO, Fleetwood Mac and Supertramp, most
things that probably kids of my age would never listen to. Although I
think that maybe they would just given the chance. I think a lot would
be really surprised by just how Mind-blowing some of the older music is.
Chubbly the aviator, Ashford, Middlesex, London.
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That's absolutely disgusting!! |
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Tuesday, 14 September 2010 10:21 |
That cheese sounds grose! How could anyone not starving have possibly
eaten that? Any pics available? Sounds like a typical European dish to
me. Thank god for The Big Mac, Mcdonalds, Burger King and Pizza Hut.
Omar Polinski, Lancaster, California, USA.
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Not that I'm complaining, but.......... |
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Tuesday, 14 September 2010 10:18 |
Is this a blog for food and drink or what? oh and while we are here, did
you know that somewhere in Europe there was a cheese that was actually
sold up until fairly recently full of wriggling and squirming maggots? I
think that it has now been banned from public sale, but people say that
it's still available in some areas to order on the black market. Wayne
Knight, Javia, Spain.
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Gramophone granddad? You must watch this! |
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Tuesday, 14 September 2010 10:13 |
Talking about Gramophones, You have to see this, my dad showed me this
crazy clip on Youtube about a guy who goes into a shop to buy a
gramophone, it's really really funny. Take a look here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSINO6MKtco Will Turner, Woburn, Milton
Keynes, Bedfordshire.
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We all know that they are bad for us, dont we? |
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Tuesday, 14 September 2010 10:06 |
What you said bout the Fanta lemon made me think about exactly what r we
feeding our bodies on? There is no doubt about it, we as a race are
getting fatter and fatter. Did u know that just one can of coke contains
nearly 40% sugar, trouble is that all these things just taste sooo good.
Lol Simone Jennings. Poole, Dorset.
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Tuesday, 14 September 2010 10:03 |
I think Aggie's Oatcakes are going to be my downfall. I have just
finished making my eighth lot. The whole family love them, the kids even
take half each in their lunch box. It's all my fault, I bought
Charlotte the book, she loved it, then she showed her mum the website
and free downloads and that was it. Shel Kimberly, Ashford Kent.
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Tuesday, 14 September 2010 10:02 |
My sister is a bit like Tina Titmus, I can't do a single thing without
her poking her big nose in, just two more years to go and she will be
off to Uni hooray!!! Ashley Firth. Dundee, Scotland.
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Yuk! Root beer fizzy drink. |
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Tuesday, 14 September 2010 10:00 |
WWHHAT?
Sorry but Root beer literally sucks! It not only smells and looks like
drain cleaner it tastes like it to. How can people actually drink that
stuff? Wood barks, tree roots, sounds like some ancient witches potion.
Stay well away from the stuff if you ask me. Gary Ponds, Luton,
Bedfordshire.
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Chubbly doesn't make radio contact. |
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Monday, 13 September 2010 18:09 |
Hi Toby, When I fly 'The Flyer' I am always very alert and constantly
watching exactly what is flying nearby. I guess you can compare The
Flyer to nothing more than a large Radio controlled model or small
microlight, which fortunately for me is normally what people mistake it
for. As your dad will tell you, if one is flying outside of
International controlled airspace radio contact is not mandatory. So to
avoid any problems I keep things easy by always flying outside of
controlled airspace. Hope that answers you okay Toby. Kind regards
Chubbly the aviator.
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Download the history of flight on this site. |
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Monday, 13 September 2010 17:52 |
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Monday, 13 September 2010 17:15 |
Absolutely lovely, but doesn't even come close to the taste of Iron-bru, Sorry. Signed....... Chubbly the aviator.
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Model scaling made simple. |
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Monday, 13 September 2010 17:13 |
Hi Russel, In it's simplest terms the scale of a model is the ratio of
the size of the model to the size of the real item, meaning if you have
a 1:32 scale plane you will need 32 of them lined up nose to tail to
equal the length of the real thing, so therefore the size is 1/32 *.
*However 1/72 scale is the scale which is very popular amongst plane
modelers and model aircraft, corresponding to one sixth of an inch
representing one foot (or 1 inch to 6 feet). In other words, 72 of a
given model aeroplane placed end to end would represent the proper
length of the real aeroplane. Using this scale, a man who is six feet
tall would appear exactly only one inch in height.. I hope that this
clears things up for you a little. Kind regards Chubbly the aviator.
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What goes up must come down. |
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Monday, 13 September 2010 10:46 |
Dear Dean, It may well have been Isasc newton?
Most Historians believe that it was Isaac Newton... with his law of
gravity.
The only problem is that this is actually something that he later
conclusively disproved. If an object has a sufficiently high upward
velocity, Ie like firing a bullet from a gun straight up into the sky,
the earths gravity as it weakens with increasing distance away from its
centre, would eventually not be able to bring the bullet down. It
would therefore be in a 'hyperbolic' orbit as are Satellites, the Space
shuttle, and the space station etc.
In other words, it is popularly attributed to Isaac Newton, but it is
probably unlikely that he ever said it.
Hope that helps you. Kind regards Chubbly the aviator.
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Monday, 13 September 2010 10:14 |
Dear Earl, This happens when air or a liquid is either sucked or forced
through a smaller area, in your dad's case your car's carburetor intake.
The carburetor used in many piston engines contains a venturi to create
a region of low pressure to draw petrol into the carburetor and mix it
thoroughly with the incoming air before combustion. The low pressure in
the throat of a venturi can also be explained by Bernoulli's principle;
in the narrow intake, the air is moving at its fastest speed and
therefore at its lowest pressure and therefore lowest temperature, which
depending on the ambient humidity of the air entering, will often start
to freeze causing a build up of ice particles, eventually causing a
complete blockage of air into the carburetor entrance or intake as it is
called technically. This is exactly what is happening to your dad's
Beetle. There is a decrease in temperature of the surrounding air and
associated surfaces due to this venturi effect. (Bernoulli principle).
This effect can also be demonstrated each time that we use an aerosol
spray, the decrease in air pressure and temperature caused by the
escaping gas from the can nozzle immediately cools any moisture which is
contained in the nearby ambient air.
Bernoulli's Principle can also be used to calculate the lift force on an
airfoil if you know the behavior of the fluid flow (in this case air) in
the vicinity of the airfoil. For example, if the air flowing past the
top surface of an aircraft wing is moving faster than the air flowing
past the bottom surface then Bernoulli's principle implies that the
pressure on the surfaces of the wing will be lower above than below.
This pressure difference results in an upwards force, known to us as
lift, and the very reason that any aircraft can actually remain in the
air. I do hope that this clearly answers your question Earl. Kind
regards Chubbly the aviator.
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Monday, 13 September 2010 09:59 |
How are model aircraft scales worked out? Most of my plane models are
1/72 scale, but what does that mean exactly? Russel King, Poole Dorset.
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Monday, 13 September 2010 09:56 |
Has anyone built the Chubbly Biplane paper model yet?
I wondered if it would be best printed on photo paper? I downloaded it
yesterday and it looks brill!! IT doesn't have the scale on it? Clive
Cornet,
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Monday, 13 September 2010 09:47 |
Chubbly please can you tell me a bit about carburetor icing, what
exactly is it? We have an old Volkswagen beetle and on long trips during
cold winter days my dad say's that it gets carb icing, the car spits,
misses and stutters, finally coming to rest on the side of the road.We
wait a few minutes and it's fine once again. Dad doesn't know why it
does it, but a friend say's that small aeroplanes suffer from the same
thing, so I thought that you may know the answer. Earl Spencer. Manston,
Kent.
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What goes up must come down? |
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Monday, 13 September 2010 09:45 |
My father is always saying 'What goes up must come down' where does that
come from? I know he's not the only one to say it, and I thought that it
might have something to do with aviation? Dean Smith, Blackbush,
Hampshire.
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Television for Chubbly the aviator? |
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Monday, 13 September 2010 09:43 |
Do you think that there could possibly be a television series about
Chubbly the aviator? I could just imagine how it would be, far better
than a lot of the stuff that we have to put up with now! Everything
these days just seems to revolve around shooting, bombing, fighting and
killing. Come on BBC get hold of Chubbly b4 someone else does! Max
Davies, Crewkerne, Somerset.
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Monday, 13 September 2010 09:39 |
Will Talcum and Puff and D appear more in the other books? I love their
names and would like to see them more often in your books. Felicity
Dunn, Barton, Bedfordshire.
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Monday, 13 September 2010 09:37 |
If I was Chubbly I would have to strangle Tina Titmus, she must drive
him nuts. Poor Chubbly. Is she as bad in the next book?
I guess I will have to buy it and find out. Kelly Bowers, Maidstone, Kent.
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Monday, 13 September 2010 09:38 |
My dad's a pilot and he read The Flyer is Born after me. He enjoyed it
too, but asked me why Chubbly doesn't have any radio contact with the
ground, IE air traffic control. Can you answer that for me please? Toby
Jones. Cardiff, Wales.
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Monday, 13 September 2010 09:27 |
I really think that the Lochness monster really exists. I spent the day
there with my family, and some parts of the lake are really quite
spooky. It's so dark and deep that there must be something big down
there.(sorry maybe should have been on the blog page) shall I put it on
there as well? Mike Anderson, gillingham, Kent.
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Friday, 10 September 2010 19:17 |
I had a Fanta lemon last weekend, I normally don't drink fizzy drinks.
Anyway I was sat looking at the ingredients, something I never normally
do, but from last weekend onwards I will be checking everything for
their ingredients. They call it Fanta Lemon, so I guess it should taste
of lemons, right? Well can someone please tell me how it can taste so
much of lemons when each individual can only contains 1% of lemon juice,
that's right you heard me right, just one percent. Is that not just
amazing? Makes you wonder exactly just what's in the other 99%. Jenny
Hayes, Winchester, Hampshire.
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Friday, 10 September 2010 19:04 |
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Hi Irene, I have been looking around and have located several places selling your drink. I must point out to everyone out there that American root beer is a sweet soft drink (soda) which is sold all across the USA. Originally it was made using the root of a sassafras plant (or the bark of a sassafras tree) as the primary flavouring. But there are several variants which do contain alcohol so please be careful and watch out. The standard Root beer is normally a dark brown fizzy drink in and has a very distinctive almost disinfectant type of smell to it.(Weird).
It is made from a large variety of ingredients including artificial sassafras flavouring, vanilla, wintergreen, cherry tree bark, licorice root, sarsaparilla root, nutmeg, acacia, anise, molasses, cinnamon, clove and honey. I have found a huge selection of different Root beers available for purchase in the UK, so check out this site Irene, http://www.americansoda.co.uk/uk/user/search.aspx?q=root+beer and let me know how you get on. Kind regards Chubbly the aviator.
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Friday, 10 September 2010 17:31 |
I know that Chubbly's favourite drink is Iron Bru, but ever since going
to Florida USA on holiday I have gotten a real taste for a drink called
Root beer. Has anyone ever heard of it? I never had before going on
holiday. I think that it has an even more individual taste than Iron
Bru, but the taste is really difficult to describe because nothing else
exist with the same or similar taste. The problem that I have now is
that it is really difficult to find in the UK. Any body know where I
could buy some in England? Please let me know. Bowman44@hotmail.com
Irene Bowman aged 13, Bodmin, Cornwall.
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Thursday, 09 September 2010 09:40 |
Hi Billy, I am hoping that my Maps will be ready within the next couple
of weeks, but I will certainly let you know as soon as they go online
for downloading. Kind regards Chubbly.
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Thursday, 09 September 2010 09:34 |
Please don't worry Linda as both ways of spelling this word are correct,
so you may use either one Nosey or Nosy. In America it is normally
spelt Nosy without the 'e'./ Adjective/ inquisitive, curious, intrusive,
prying, eavesdropping, snooping /(informal)/, busybody. Example: He
quietly whispered to avoid being overheard by their nosey neighbours.
Kind regards Chubbly the aviator.
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Hoots Mon hit once again. |
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Thursday, 09 September 2010 09:19 |
I had heard this song before when I came across it in amongst my
granddads record collection,(small round flat plastic things stored in
an old cardboard box) He still has a record player that plays 45rpm
records (yes one of those music machines before Cd's, memory sticks and
PC's came along) And it's definitely true, the more that you listen to
this song the more you are going to get hooked by it. I think that it
could easily make it back into the music charts and become a UK number
one. Let's try and get it there again, it would be a real laugh!!! Jules
Baines, Valencia Spain.
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Thursday, 09 September 2010 09:18 |
I deal with nosey people in a very different way altogether. I tend to
feed them lots of useless information, send them completely astray,
right off the beaten track so to speak. In this way they get things
really mixed up, people wonder exactly what they are talking about and
never confide in them again. Chris Glenister, Leagrave, Luton,Beds.
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Thursday, 09 September 2010 09:16 |
I never know which one is right, sometimes the English language drives
me insane. I don't think that I will ever get to grips with it
completely. Anyway I'm getting side tracked, now back to the blog. Nosey
people will always let themselves down badly at some stage, a bit like
people who will insist on lying all of the time, eventually the truth
will come out, and they will look ridiculous. The way that I would deal
with this person is to play them at their own game, Like Chris said give
them much more than they need, but make sure that it's completely wrong
and so mixed up no one will ever make sense of any of it! Linda
Shearing, Bradford, Leeds.
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Thursday, 09 September 2010 09:15 |
I think that this person should just be completely ignored, as though
they didn't even exist. The is the best way that I have found to deal
with this type of nosy person.Talking to them only fuels their interest
in your business even further. Keeping quiet is the solution. Tell them
nothing at all. Do I sound really mean? I don't mean to be, but it works
believe me. Sandra Tomlinson. Weybridge, Surrey.
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Thursday, 09 September 2010 09:14 |
Sorry folks, disagree with you all. Ever since I was five, and I'm now
thirteen, (for those non mathematicians out there that's eight years!) I
have been eating Cross and Blackwell beans. I have tried others but
nothing comes close in my opinion to the great Cross an Blackwell baked
bean. Steve Piper Bere regis, Purbecks, Dorset.
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Thursday, 09 September 2010 09:12 |
I disagree with Chubbly the Aviator when he says that Heinz baked beans
are the best. I think that Sainsbury's have a much tastier and thicker
sauce. Anyone out there agree with me? Trevor Hill, Moreton-in-Marsh,
Gloucestershire.
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Thursday, 09 September 2010 09:11 |
Steve you mention about 'Hoots Mon' inside The Flyer is Born, but I'm
curious as to what kind of music Chubbly himself is really into? Freddy
Baker. Hounslow, London.
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Thursday, 09 September 2010 09:10 |
Hi there, Just wondered how long it will be before the new Chubbly maps
are out? Thanks Billy Knox, Poole Dorset.
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Delicious Tomato Chutney! |
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Thursday, 09 September 2010 09:09 |
Have to agree with you Mark, it's flipin' gorgeous.We are all eating it.
I love it with fresh bread and a nice Cheddar, Dad likes it in his
jacket potato, and mum on the side of her plate next to her chips. My
sister Susan has a really weird habit of eating hers sandwiched in
between two Cream Crackers with Philadelphia cream cheese on top.She's
always been a bit strange! Sorry Sue, love u really. Michael Green,
Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
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