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Post by karma on Feb 14, 2024 19:48:20 GMT
Strangely enough although I've had a vegetarian diet for 40 years (just over half my life) I can still taste the beef dripping on white bread toast.
Some 45 years ago I took one of my newly arrived financial consultant colleagues (from High Wycombe) for a day out in Cleckhuddersfax. We stopped for breakfast at Slaithwaite , out of Huddersfield.( pronounced slouwat, rhyming with howzat)) I introduced him to dripping on bread .With a little salt on it he at first looked horrified when I explained what it was but actually loved it and told everybody back in our office. If you've never tried it, don't knock it . Obviously I don't eat that now and my roast potatoes are cooked in a combination of rape seed oil and olive oil. Delicious.
Can you imagine walking down the street and the person walking in front has a portion of chips cooked in beef dripping you can't see them and you don't know what it is until the vinegar hits the hot π . Mouth watering?
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Post by davemorton on Feb 14, 2024 21:13:20 GMT
And I have spent every minute of my life with no sense of smell. You don't miss what you've never had, but regrets? Perhaps a few. One benefit, I never smoked. Tried it when I was 12, like everyone else, but it was a zero.
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Post by karma on Feb 14, 2024 21:27:45 GMT
And I have spent every minute of my life with no sense of smell. You don't miss what you've never had, but regrets? Perhaps a few. One benefit, I never smoked. Tried it when I was 12, like everyone else, but it was a zero. You have my sympathy as the sense of smell can be closely linked to the sense of taste and enjoyment of a meal. Visual, smell, taste I am severely colour blind but don't regard it as an impediment , though others look askance at my dress sense .Red and green . Hate it when one team has green shirts or stripes and the other red, possibly one reason I rarely watch sport on tv. At school when the optician came round with pages of different coloured 'dots' and asked me what number I could see , I just looked blank . π Fortunately I can follow the moving red cricket ball over the green grass π Seriously though Dave, can't imagine not being able to smell, especially vinegar hitting the hot π
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Post by davemorton on Feb 15, 2024 12:01:56 GMT
Visual, smell, taste....and texture - texture and juiciness are very important to my enjoyment of food. I am aware that taste is a crude instrument compared with smell, but it's all I have.
I have seen much disappointment because of colour blindness. When I started teaching, all those years ago, I knew so many boys (it doesn't affect girls) who had their hopes dashed at the final stage of the medical, having passed all the other qualification elements. The RAF was one closed avenue, and jobs in the electrical industry, where I guess the reason is colour-coded wiring, etc.
Why were boys not screened at 11? It would have cost nothing. Even the teaching staff could have done it. You can now do it yourself, online. My colour vision is normal, but the failure percentages are quite high. 20% or more, I guess.
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Post by newby on Feb 15, 2024 19:54:23 GMT
I can smell fish and chips alright and quite a lot of smells that I wish I couldn't. I don't know if my sense of smell isn't improving as I always had trouble smelling flowers, perfume etc but not now.
The one smell I wish I could cut out is the sudden whiff of cigarette smoke, especially outside. I haven't touched a cigarette for 40 odd years but if I get a whiff it still triggers a short lived craving, which I'm not sure I could resist, were a lighted cigarette offered to me.
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Post by karma on Feb 27, 2024 15:23:12 GMT
First full board meeting yesterday , bullet points
1) Nomination open for members to join Board as Member Nominated Directors open
2)Yorkshire sign Donovan Ferreira as an overseas player for T20 Blast.International Sth Afican (Pretoria) keeps wicket, bats, bowls , everything
3) YCCC in 'landmark partnership with 'Homeley' , homebuying platform, 2 year deal
4).Club has agreed settlement with Pavilion Physiotherapy Clinics ( Wayne Morton) . YCCC Paying damages AND legal costs, but no details apart from acknowledging Wayne Morton worked with the club for 38 years, thank him for his services to the club and wishes him and Pavilion well for the future
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Post by slowleftarmer on Feb 27, 2024 15:39:48 GMT
I assume Wayne is also under an NDA?
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Post by hawke on Feb 27, 2024 16:11:48 GMT
I assume Wayne is also under an NDA? donβt think so as he is talking about taking matters further
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Post by hawke on Feb 27, 2024 16:16:52 GMT
First full board meeting yesterday , bullet points 1) Nomination open for members to join Board as Member Nominated Directors open 2)Yorkshire sign Donovan Ferreira as an overseas player for T20 Blast.International Sth Afican (Pretoria) keeps wicket, bats, bowls , everything 3) YCCC in 'landmark partnership with 'Homeley' , homebuying platform, 2 year deal 4).Club has agreed settlement with Pavilion Physiotherapy Clinics ( Wayne Morton) . YCCC Paying damages AND legal costs, but no details apart from acknowledging Wayne Morton worked with the club for 38 years, thank him for his services to the club and wishes him and Pavilion well for the future letβs hope Donovan F is as successful with hat/tricks as his Scottish/SA rugby union compatriot!
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Post by newby on Feb 27, 2024 16:32:15 GMT
From what he's been through he might even get a book out of it. He's probably on quite good terms with this iteration of Yorkshire and wouldn't like to cause them any further damage. The initial Β£1M from CG will have had his name on it and the settlement was obviously a done deal just waiting until CG had the authority to authorise it.
I personally think the lawyers have had enough of a feed from this matter as it is and I hope he and others can just let the Dobell/Rafiq book just die on the shelves without giving it any added publicity. Provided there's no new libels in it of course.
I hope Wayne Morton and the other Pavilion staff are all in a good place now.
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Post by donnylad on Feb 27, 2024 19:48:07 GMT
Visual, smell, taste....and texture - texture and juiciness are very important to my enjoyment of food. I am aware that taste is a crude instrument compared with smell, but it's all I have. I have seen much disappointment because of colour blindness. When I started teaching, all those years ago, I knew so many boys (it doesn't affect girls) who had their hopes dashed at the final stage of the medical, having passed all the other qualification elements. The RAF was one closed avenue, and jobs in the electrical industry, where I guess the reason is colour-coded wiring, etc. Why were boys not screened at 11? It would have cost nothing. Even the teaching staff could have done it. You can now do it yourself, online. My colour vision is normal, but the failure percentages are quite high. 20% or more, I guess. At the establishment I worked in we did do a screening of sorts. Second year /(later) Year 8 - The eye and vision - eye structure and function, lenses, then the fun bit with the optician's eye test chart and the Ishihara colour vision chart. It is about 7 - 8% of boys who are colour blind but it does rule out a wide range of work. Always made sure that any boys who could not get the numbers correct were told to get their parents to take them to an optician to confirm the test. One of my pals at college was red-green blind and played a demon game of snooker. We did sort of/informal tests for low and high tone deafness with a signal generator and a loudspeaker in the sound unit we taught. I will always remember the lad who tried so hard to convince the class he could hear the sound at 30,000 Hz ... even when the generator was turned off!!!!!
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Post by newby on Feb 29, 2024 19:00:40 GMT
I naturally assumed football teams having a third and even a fourth strip was purely a money making wheeze. I still think it's a money making wheeze but it seems just having one away strip can lead to problems for those who suffer from colour blindness.
It's not just the red/green but can stretch to blue, brown, purple and yellow. It seems it's a bit of an art avoiding a colour clash in televised football matches.
Still not sure it's a good enough reason to play in pink like Leeds United did yesterday, and Leeds Rhino's do regularly.
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Post by karma on Feb 29, 2024 21:07:49 GMT
Being colour blind, I'm just glad that proper cricket is normally played in Whites or in the case of Dom Bess, muddy and whites. That apart , you don't often get 22 players on the pitch once the game is under way.
AGM - this has been announced for Saturday 27th April which is on the second day of the four day Headingley game v Derbyshire.
MEMBERS FORUM - the last one, postponed from last November , then likewise from the following December, is possibly going to take place in the first month of cricket , also April. A firm date will be announced when they get round to it, possibly on a different day of the Derbyshire game but more likely during the earlier 4-day game at Headingley, home to Leicestershire 5th -8th April. I'm not holding my breath.
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Post by karma on Mar 10, 2024 15:53:24 GMT
On YCCC's OS, Otis Gibson has been talking about preparation for the new season, starting with the Yorkshire's trip to Abu Dhabi. He and the squad fly out tomorrow (Monday) from Manchester and will train/play at the Sheik Zayed International Stadium Complex over following 10 days.
Teams involved : Yorkshire, Essex, Notts, Somerset, Warks and Team Abu Dhabi - initially in T20 competition:
Friday : Yorkshire v Somerset
Saturday: Yorkshire v Warwickshire
Sunday : Finals day - 5th v 6th, 3rd v 4th, 1st v 2nd
It is hoped that the T20 competition can be livestreamed
Wed/Thurs 20th/21st - 2-day red-ball game v Warwickshire , flying home immediately after game
Back to UK 3-day game v 'Universities' and 2-day game v Durham.
Gibson said "looking back to last year when we went to Capetown, one thing we realised is that we probably didn't do enough out there for one reason or another - there was a lot of weather out there for example"
" Then when we got to the first game against Leicester, especially on the last day when we were trying to bowl them out, we had guys who had bowled 30 overs and someone who was going to have to put in 35-40 overs in the match"
" Unfortunately the guys weren't at that place and we have to make sure that we don't make that mistake again"
" We're playing the same opposition in the first week of the season and we and we certainly don't want the same result as last year"
( Gibson also spoke about other things including , rotating the bowling from one match to the next, availability of Joe Root, availability of Captain Masood)
Comment: I thought one of the jobs of the coaching staff was to make sure that players were 'up to speed' for the time when the season starts proper be it batting , bowling, fielding whatever, including general levels of fitness for their tasks. I recall we lost the first game of last season at Headingley to Leicestershire because for whatever reason we didn't manage to bowl them out in the final innings. If we'd actually won that game our season might have evolved differently, we might even have had sufficient points for promotion (before the 48 point penalty deduction)
Is Gibson actually saying the team were undercooked in which case why and whose responsibility is that ?
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Post by newby on Mar 10, 2024 19:13:43 GMT
Did you get out of bed on the wrong side today Karma!
I take it as a positive that we have a coach who is able to look back, admit they may have made a mistake and have a plan to do things better.
Adam Lyth, lovely bloke, not a natural captain, over bowled Coad and Milnes, and probably Thompson as well in the first innings. 34 overs in the case of Coad, a lot for mid season never mind the first game. They had nothing left for the second innings. Lessons for everybody.
Here's hoping the Headingley wicket has a bit more in it for the bowlers this upcoming season.
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