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Oh it's Roquette lettuce.. let me see if it's called something different over there :P Arugula?

This one looks decent: link I haven't tried with feta before, might be awesome

KoB, a pizza with egg here is called an Aussie pizza :P I guess we just put egg on everything :D I've made something sort of similar to that where you use puff pastry, cook it a little bit so it puffs up, push down the middle and throw some bacon in and crack an egg on top then back into the oven until it's cooked to your liking. Re: runny yolk eggs.. I can't stand runny egg yolk so my no runny yolk burger preference may be more based on that than having it run down my arm. I just can't stand the texture or the taste and I feel like they're undercooked like that.

We do have Hawaiian pizza as well. I quite like pineapple on pizza too :) I was actually thinking about the beetroots in US thing. We do have beetroot salad here and it's on burgers but that's really all the uses I can think of it (sometimes the juice is used in baking) and for the most part they're not fresh beets, it's usually out of a can. I can eat it straight out of the can, and usually do :P As for eggs on burgers that's fairly common here, I prefer the eggs to be well done but by default it's usually a fried egg with runny yolk which I don't really understand.. who wants egg yolk running down their arms? Whenever I make burgers at home it has the meat, bacon, cheese, egg, beetroot (sometimes pineapple but by then it starts getting too big and hard to eat) lettuce tomato and sauce, usually ketchup. That's just a standard burger for us really. It's strange how it differs between country's. If you buy a burger with the lot here it usually comes with all of that and onion, if I'm really lucky it'll come with beetroot and pineapple but it's usually one or the other. ETA: I forgot to add something about the guy and his gold plated balls... why would you even contemplate that? And who the hell uses lead based paint in their bodies.. what an idiot.

My suggestion for those wanting to see the trailer(s) of the next episode and it's not shown locally, just check out the Doctor Who YouTube channel, it has all the trailers plus other stuff.Hopefully not geolocked, I can view it from Australia though. I liked this one, I much prefer Capaldi without a companion weighing him down. I'd love to see some more solo episodes with him. I thought it was odd that he mentioned how the Dalek's wouldn't be a hybrid with anyone, except that they did just that earlier in the show.

It's not the kind of weather I like either :P well, where I live isn't humid so that is a plus but it's cold (for me) in winter and hot in summer.. my bf is going to Wellington NZ in just over a week and it appears to have the perfect climate.. -1C/30F at it's coldest and average of around 22C/71F during summer.. sounds like bliss.. except for all those earthquakes they have. Lol I have considered doing something on my blog about the area I live in, a lot of people complain that there are no green areas and it's all houses on top of each other so I'd like to go around taking photos of the different suburbs and show that, maybe the backyards are smaller than old suburbs but there is plentiful parkland. Photos of my area behind a spoiler tag, I've done too many photos today :P

Are blizzards similar to concretes? I think we've had this discussion before though :D Concrete's being frozen custard with toppings mixed in. I'm not quite sure what the episodes would be about, basically just following someone around whatever area they want to buy in and they buy a house? Is it the house styles in Australia that make it less interesting? Right now a house about 5mins away from me is for sale and I've always been interested in it, until a few months ago it was painted purple on the outside but for some reason they then painted it black (whaat?) and well.. now I sort of want it: link I especially love that the top floor is basically all master bedroom! And the backyard is so pretty and getaway like.. too bad it's on a fairly main road. A lot of newer houses in my city are 'mcmansions' which, if anyone doesn't know, is big houses on small to medium sized blocks. There's a bunch of whingers on a local website that talk about how it's ruining the city and kids don't have backyards and concrete jungle wah wah wah.

Yes, I have had many a shake :P It's usually my go to drink anywhere I eat, if possible.. sometime highly disappointing, I need to learn my lesson on ordering chocolate shakes in Italian restaurants :D A lot of things are expensive here unfortunately. Although I've always felt that things were quite cheap in the US. Especially when our dollars were roughly the same. Today, for example, my bf and I went out to breakfast/brunch/early lunch and bought: fish and chips, an 'aussie' burger (burger with the lot which includes: meat, cheese, bacon, egg, onion, beetroot, lettuce, tomato, pineapple and sauce - what would this be called over there?) and 2x frappe and it came to $43AUD ($31USD) and that is just considered acceptable for a cafe breakfast here. What would the equivalent be over there? Good luck on the gift dare! :P

Yeah, I don't want a dessert that I can't even pick up either. I have no idea how people tackle them :P And yes, chocolate does go with everything! As far as exchange rates your card/bank usually takes care of it for you as well as charging a fee for conversion.. that is my experience anyway. I don't think we ever did reports like that, that I can recall. If anything, it would have been in our second language class about whatever country/language we were learning. I learnt Indonesian from year 2 to 8 so most of my 'other country' learning was about it.

Thickshakes aren't a thing there? Maybe your milkshakes are thickshakes by default.. or maybe you call a frappe a thickshake based on KoB's link? So, here we have all three and they're all different :P Milkshake - Milk, flavouring and some icecream (sometimes, depending on where you buy it) mixed in a milkshake maker or blender until frothy. thickshake - As above but lots more icecream. what McDonalds sell here as shakes (I assume they're universal? Maybe not) would be considered a thickshake.My test of a good thickshake is that if you stick a straw in the middle of the cup it doesn't slide over to the rim, the shake holds it up. frappe - These are generally milk, ice, flavouring and icecream all blended until smooth. Some places are crap at making them and you end up with chunks of ice but ideally it's ice and smooth. ^ My favourite frappe in the world. I had one today actually :P All images from my blog, which you can check out for more Australian food oddities (maybe :P) The price is $9 AUD which at one point in time would have been the equivalent of $9USD but recently our dollar has dropped, a lot. Even still things are generally more expensive here. Currently it would be $6.47USD. There is a pretty big variance in price for shakes, we are currently going through a 'freakshake' craze where they look impossible to drink: I haven't had one of these, and yes that is a full size brownie. This cafe is so popular (well it might be a bit less now) that people wait hours to get one and sometimes get turned away because they've sold out. Anyway, they can range from $5AUD/$3.60AUD to $12AUD/$8.63USD with the average around $4.70USD.. and now you know everything there is to know about shakes in Australia :P - I may happen to really like chocolate thickshakes, if you hadn't worked it out :D Lol Stewedsquash, nice one :)

Today I got overcharged on a chocolate thickshake (paid $9) and then 2 mins later I knocked it over and it was the worst day ever.

I was also wondering this. Is it a widely used term or just a Radwell thing? I liked the dinner of douches, who would want to be part of that family anyway. I totally would have taken the $50k and bailed. Chanel #3's family was pretty sad. I'd be interested in finding out more about her backstory other than she has a dick of a Dad. My money is on Pete as the killer now, his investigation just seemed that little bit creepy.

I have spent the last few weeks unsubscribing for mailing lists and stuff that I don't read anymore.. they just seem to keep coming. I never knew I was subscribed to so many things! lol KoB and we love the abuse you throw :P and your surveys, even if I never have an option to choose :D I'm thankful for you all too, it's the one place on the internet that I keep coming back to (and I haven't been in the mod area in a while.. maybe I should pop in and say hi to them) and feel I can freely say whatever I want and you're all ok with that. YAY for good internet haunts :)

If I were inclined to use Pumpkin in a dessert, I think this would be the one:

mhmm.. as if that would happen! I was pretty disappointed by that.

Only 1 more episode to go, how can it be? And we really think next episode won't be til Jan? Can Disney be so cruel? ( we all know they can) I liked the episode, I really wished there had been less Mabel dream world and more real world though. There is so much more to see I don't want to waste it on 'filler'.

We have pumpkin although it's usually just baked or roasted and that's really about it. I didn't even know sweet potato pie was a thing.. Maybe we're just not a pie country :) Speaking of neon green related aliens, I played a game called 'Lifeline' on iOS. It's a text based game where the character, Taylor, crash landed onto a moon and for some reason his communicator comes to you as texts and you help him through and provide decision making input along the way... and apparently let him die, he died in my game today. RIP Taylor.

I hope this is actually the trailer, not a huge amount of info around on this episode.

I thought "hmm, I wonder what lays these" and then I thought "I wonder if it's still on the sheet that I'm holding right now!" I looked my best but it could be possible I missed a gross black spider while looking at my black sheet with neon green eggs. The internet hasn't been overly helpful, it tells me it's insect eggs/butterfly eggs/spider eggs. I don't really want any of those hatching in my cupboard any time soon. And if you're interested, they look like this and in the end I flicked them off :P On the pumpkin pie side.. I have never had a single slice ever. I don't think I've ever seen a pumpkin pie sold here.

It feels like a trick. Just like last Christmas. I won't believe it until it's for certain and he's zooming around time and space again with someone new (Osgood!!!) Also, did anyone else find the slow mo, multiple angles death really strange? I really thought she was ready to go and didn't run and that actually the raven had spared her.. but no they were just doing a weird bit.

Earlier today I went to take a sip of water and noticed (fortunately before taking the sip) that a spider was hanging out on my cup and just now I went to bring in the washing and noticed 2 rows of 4 neon green eggs on my sheet. I guess the plus is I noticed them before they hatched into whatever they are.

I can't believe no one has mentioned Boone's lame "You know what it's made of? Boyfriend material" joke about the date shirt.. I admit, I laughed in it's stupidity.

"None because we don't do Thanksgiving here" :P But I actually chose "something with chocolate" I don't actually know what day Thanksgiving is but there's always a chance I'll be eating something with chocolate

:'( I don't know how they'll wrap this up in 2 episodes. At times like this, I like to let Giraffe do the talking for me:

Hope her assignment goes well! I donated blood today and, as expected, they had issues with my veins so I had to get stabbed twice. On the plus side they did get a bag out of me in 5mins 10sec when a worthy vein finally presented itself. I was hoping to hit less than 5mins but oh well. And in the end I got a mega delicious cookie and I wish I had taken 5 more if I'd known they were so good. As well as an assortment of other snacks. They claim it takes 640 calories to replenish the donation which is crazy because I doubt I had even eaten that many calories by the time of my appointment (10:45) And it was too hot. I have a rash coming up on my neck which I am guessing is heat related and endlessly annoying.