LynnS

Well f*** me! Is that ever delicious. Mrs. Cooterian gets the Golden Apron for that recipe!

You have to see it Melifeather. It is so funny. Ted Lasso on Apple TV. I don't want to give anything away. A big part of the experience is the element of surprise.

Don't forget to say F*** me! I'll have to do a batch with almond extract and one with coconut extract since my sister is allergic to almond. Now she knows I have the recipe, she's on my case. I made her a batch of ginger cookies today. So store tomorrow for ingredients.

Well, f*** me! and thanks for the recipe. I got the big mixer out today for making molasses-ginger cookies tomorrow. But damn, I'll give Ted Lasso cookies a try as well.

Oh, I should have been paying closer attention.

Oh, I see. If it had been thrown overboard, you could surmise that it was a hairnet of poison and dissolving it in the sea was an effective way to get rid of it. So potentially, Sansa still has a hairnet of poisons she can use? Now that she has evolved from the caged songbird to the mockingbird; who knows what Littlefinger's apprentice will do. But I think it more likely that Olenna and Littlefinger cooked this up together and part of the bargain was that Littlefinger gets Sansa. So potentially, Olenna knows where Sansa is and who's she's pretending to be. Fiddling with the hairnet may have been a subtle push, for Sansa to use the escape route, being made available to her, when the time came to run.

If the question is: could she have been the poisoner; how does she get the poison? To make this work; the hairnet would have to be all strangler crystals and I suppose they would have to be inactive in their crystal form but fragile to handle? Or Olenna wold have had to pass the crystal on to Sansa by dropping it into her hair to be retrieved. There doesn't seem to be anything that points to a conversation about it. Would Sansa be psychologically capable of carrying this out either consciously or unconsiously? I suppose so, but it's a stretch. Whatever happed to the hairnet? I forget. Did Littlefinger toss it overboard?

@Frey family reunion How would Olenna or Sansa know which crystal in the hairnet was the strangler? Assuming that there was only one and you can't tell the difference between the poison crystal and amethyst?

Yes, it's interesting. I haven't thought of those passages in quite that way before. I'm not sure how you get around the notion that she was unaware of what she was doing. But the idea that memory suppression is at play is not out of the question. We've seen that with Bran and possibly Ned. We've also seen Sansa go into a fugue state at the Eyrie. I can stay open about this one.

I want that recipe! The biscuit scenes were just hilarious. Great acting all around. The soccer player from Mexico killed me.

It's been 2 years since thew masks came off and we were allowed to leave our houses again. The Cdn healthcare system is overburdened and understaffed. So I would like to have them back again.

I missed the part about the senate and protesters forming government. Yes, that is amusing. However the Brown Nosing thread keeps dropping off the board; so I had to give you something to talk about.

So am I. This was the largest peaceful protest that I've ever witnessed. I watched the live feeds; followed the reporters accounts and interviews with protesters and it wasn't anything like it was being portrayed by the government or the CBC. Trudeau's response was certainly instructive, both illegal and immoral. What burned me the most was the freezing of people's bank accounts; the illegal use of GoFundMe donors list and the subsequent doxing of those people. They weren't far-right Americans but ordinary Canadians.

This is an interesting interpretation. I've been intrigued by this passage for a while: Followed by: This certainly puts me in mind of her next destination... an actual castle in the sky. I don't know if this supports your premise; that she knew more about what would happen than she lets on; but it's her dream-like state is a flag of sorts to me. Yes, this one seems have one or two of those dried red swimming things poking around. Nice OP FFR. Thanks for putting it up.

Merry Christmas, Festivus, Winter Solstice or Hogswatch Day - whatever you celebrate, I hope it's a good one. For some foot the ball hilarity, check out Ted Lasso series on Apple TV.

Two wrongs don't make a right. I blame Hamas for visiting this war on Palestine. They broke the ceasefire. They always do once they have regrouped and re-armed. Does Hamas care about dead babies, Palestinian and otherwise? No they don't. For those of us who are not in the direct line of fire; it's incumbent on us to bear witness both in Palestine and Isreal. I can't see anything getting better for Palestinians until Hamas is removed.

I didn't make anybody do anything. There is no reason for me to disbelieve Warren. He said he thought he could view it and maintain a certain level of calm. But he came out and started weeping and couldn't stop. That would be me. I've given you a source which seemed to be your initial complaint. You haven't provided anything reliable to counter it. Just apparently that didn't happen.

I would be traumatized.

I listened to the Kinsellacast podcast that was posted today. Warren Kinsella is one of the Canadian journalists who viewed the raw footage made available to journalists and governments. I won't post the link here; but you can find him on google. He documents what he saw. I'll stand by what I said previously.

We can't turn a blind eye to the beheading of infants and burning people alive. It simply isn't justifiable and the fact that Hamas says it will do it again; means that yes, Isreal must remove Hamas immediately and with all possible means. Isreal has a right to exist and Palestinians have a right to be free of Hamas. We can't become catatonic or respond with learned helplessness. We shouldn't accept someone expressing hatred of others while expecting tolerance for themselves.

I never imagined that I would witness something so monstrous in my lifetime and I thought 9/11 was horrific. The crimes committed by Hamas go well beyond that by any standard of morality. A line was crossed that should never have been crossed and Isreal has no choice but to remove Hamas from Palestine by every means. I'm appalled by the rise of anti-semitism on display around the world. Apparently we didn't learn anything from WWII.

Yes, Derfel Cardan is a secondary character and he mostly observes what is happening. He is the only character that I actually like. So if he is the narrator; then a lot of the story is missing in the show.

It's a difficult mindset to change and it will take time. Nothing can happen until Hamas is removed. But this is the only way forward.

@Melifeather I've watched ep 8 now and I can't say that I like it all that much. There are no characters that appeal to me. However, I think people have to make up their own minds about it and I don't want to put anyone off watching it. I think the books are probably better than this rendition of it. I have been listening to The Last Kingdom audiobook and I like it much more. I still prefer Mary Stewart's books on Merlin for an historical novel of Arthurian tales.

Well, yes of course I'm in for a good story. I imagine there is a lot of internal dialogue that doesn't translate to screen. I was a bit turned off in episode 5 when Mordred was formally recognized as high king. But I did not like watching the human sacrifice scene. I really can do without that stuff.