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Dr Strangegoob Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Scoby

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 S.C.O.B.Y Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast This was a term I had never heard of until around 6 months ago when Kombucha had begun to be brewed in this house. It's a fairly simple process, breakfast tea is brewed for a couple of hours in a cauldron then allowed to cool. A small glob of bacterial yeast is placed in the batch once it has entirely cooled.  The cauldron is covered by a cloth and allowed to ferment for a number of weeks. Over this time a Scoby starts to form and the Kombucha gets stronger. Each layer of Scoby takes around 10 days to form on top of each other creating a 'Scoby hotel'. The batch of Kombucha gets replenished and filtered with juice in separate batches but the Scoby always grows.  After 4 months of this batch continuing to grow to around 10 Scoby layers we decided, let's find a way to eat this thing. Recipe for Scoby Calamari It's a recipe that has been referenced a couple of times before in obscure blog posts but not with great succe...
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Bix and Beans

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  Everyone loves a good corporate meme going viral. Just to update with the biggest news story of the week, the following tweet was posted this Tuesday from the official Weetabix twitter account: Many bored 20-somethings managing Twitter accounts from GCHQ to the NHS got on board to reply a topical reaction.  Quite understandably, the main reaction was disgust but I felt this combination deserved a chance. So I rushed off to the shops to see what the big fuss was about.   I didn't particularly want to spend £2.50 on some Weetabix I wasn't too fussed about when there was a perfectly good 80p version. Anyway, I heated the Heinz baked beans on the hob for about 5 minutes and placed the Bix in the bowls. I was subjecting my housemates to this but I only gave them one Bix each since I didn't want to be too cruel. The overall consensus was that it was fine. The concept is more horrifying than the actual flavour itself and the best way to eat it was to just forget about the Weet...
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Where exactly is Mrs Tweedy's farm?

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This question came about when re-watching the cult classic 'Chicken Run (2000)' last Sunday evening with my house. The short answer is Yorkshire but I had a feeling watching the film a more exact answer could be found knowing the detail Aardman studios put in to their productions, I decided to give this entirely pointless task of finding a fictional location from a 20 year old animated film a shot. Just to give a bit of context at first in case you haven't watched the film recently. This purely takes place on Mrs Tweedy's farm with the only other location being the 'Chicken paradise sanctuary' in the Epilogue. This other location appears to be a lake a likely short distance away from the farm but I will get to this at the end. The biggest clue to solving this question comes from one particular scene when the plane to escape the chicken coup is being built. As Ginger walks through barking orders to the other chickens to keep moving since time is running out, a si...
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