Lemon Cake

Ingredients

6oz Margarine

6oz Caster Sugar

8oz Self-Raising Flour

3 Large Eggs

Tablespoon of Vanilla Extract

Instructions

If possible, it is best to use a stand mixer, like a KitchenAid.

Mix the margarine and sugar together first, then gradually sift in the flour and pre-mixed eggs at the same time, slowly. Finally, add the vanilla extract. Give it a really good mix to whip air into the mixture.

You'll know the consistency is right when the mixture makes a satisfying "shlop, shlop" noise in the mixer. If you need to tweak it, add a little more flour if too wet, or a dribble of milk if too dry.

Preheat the oven to 180°C or 360F (fan assisted), pour the batter into a rectangular loaf tin (I like to use a loaf tin liner for easy removal) and put it in the oven for approx 60-70 mins.

The cake should be golden brown and split on the top when ready, but always test it before removing. Use a knife to pierce the full depth of the cake from top to bottom, and if it comes out clean, it's good to go.

Let it cool for 30-45 minutes, then remove from the tin. Whilst it is still warm, slowly pour the juice and rind of two large lemons over the top and finish with a sprinkle of granulated sugar.

Notes

This is a proper cake. No cooking oil, no mix packets, no Betty Whatsherface cobblers. If the king popped in for a cup of tea tomorrow and I fed him a slice of this, he'd award me an MBE.

Chocolate Fork Biscuits

Ingredients

150g (6oz) of Softened Butter

75g (3oz) of Caster Sugar

200g (7oz) Self-Raising Flour

2 Tbs (heaped) of Cocoa Powder

Instructions

Preheat oven to 160°C or 320F (fan assisted).

Mix the butter and sugar in a large bowl and gradually sift in the flour and cocoa powder. Mix with your hands to form a dough. Roll into balls a little smaller than a plum, flatten a little, and place on a baking tray covered with grease-proof paper. Leave enough room for them to spread.

Dip a fork into some water to prevent it from sticking, then use it to press the biscuits down to leave ridges in the top. They should be circa 15mm or half an inch thick.

Bake for approx 20 minutes.

Let them cool a little to firm up, then slide them off onto a wire rack using a spatula. They will turn firm and crumbly as they cool completely.

Notes

These are fucking delicious. I would cut you for the last one.

Quote by reader909

I un-hid my wall, and you can have a look to see if you get an error when looking at my profile and scrolling down to the status wall part.

Thanks!

So, your profile page immediately redirects to the maintenance page for me, without having to scroll down to the wall section. I've tried reloading it a bunch of times and recording the traffic with the network panel, but it doesn't show anything that jumps out.

The only thing I noted was a 204 No Content error, which was logged. This status code indicates a request succeeded, but the server intentionally returns no message body. The server has successfully processed the requested resource and isn’t returning any content because there’s nothing meaningful to send back.

Don't know if any of that is relevant to the redirection issue, but I don't think there's anything more that can be done from a user perspective. Over to Griffers and the Scooby Gang, I'm afraid. Sorry.

Could be something posted on your wall causing the error.

Maybe someone posted an image or a GIF file which is trying to load an external script for resizing?

Did you ever take a look at your profile using your browser's developer tools? They will show you exactly what is being loaded, from where, if anything is failing to load, and they should list any page errors.

I can take a look for you if you want to re-enable the offending profile section.

Also, you could try clearing your browser cache and cookies. Corrupted browser data can sometimes cause a 500 Internal Server Error.

Quote by LYFBUZ

What I want is two medium pizzas, one pepperoni, one with 5 or 6 toppings with garlic dipping sauce. But I will actually hit up a food truck I can walk to that serves Filipino food and is much healthier. And has awesome, outstanding flavour.

Any pineapple on that pizza?

You get in from work after a long day, and you can't be bothered cooking. There's a selection of takeaway menus stuck on the refrigerator door with a magnet. Pizza, Chinese, Indian, Thai, Burgers, Fried Chicken, etc.

What's your favourite and what would your go-to takeaway order be?

I'm partial to Chinese food myself. A special fried rice is always a good start. If I'm feeling fruity, probably a Hong Kong-Style Sweet & Sour Chicken. If something more savoury, then maybe a Chicken Chow Mein or a Beef in Black Bean Sauce.

Quote by AvidlyCurious

Hi

So good to see you around!

Hi AC!

Thanks for the info.

Only one of my albums has those three dots and it's not the one I was looking to delete - not sure why.

Re: the users able to see the private albums - I think when the site migrated to Lush 2.0 a few years ago, these lists got wiped out. That would explain why none of my private albums list anybody. I'll have to re-invite them and see what happens.

Cheers! 😘

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Sorry, I don't have an answer. Just wanted to pop in and say "Hi there". Long time no see. 😊

Hey, monkey-man! 😘

Seeker4: "Ape actually..."

I've been out of the loop for a while when it comes to site functionality, but for the life of me, I can't seem to work out how to:

• Delete an existing profile album

• View/Amend the list of users able to view an existing private album

Would one of you lovely people point me in the right direction, s'il vous plaît?

Merci!

Bear in mind that Lush 2.0 isn't just a redesign of the site, it is a completely new platform. Slapping a new theme on the old Lush would have kept the people happy who wanted to keep things the way they were but wouldn't have addressed any of the major issues that were impacting the day-to-day running.

Gav was retiring from active development and support of the site and he had been the sole programmer of Lush for a decade. With hundreds of thousands of registered members and tens of millions of views each year, it was a priority to ensure that the site was scalable going forward, made use of new web technologies to maximise reliability and performance, was mobile responsive so that the user experience is consistent from one device to the next, etc.

The core functionality of the old site is present and most of those features that were not part of the migration are either already on the development roadmap or in the suggestions pile for review. I have personally made in the range of 15-20 suggestions myself, from better visual separation between forum posts to mailbox UI improvements.

This stuff takes time to code/design. So, it's not that no one is listening to members' opinions, it's that hundreds of people posting their gripes in forum threads, many of which have already been mentioned at least once, just muddies the waters making it difficult to identify what actually needs prioritising.

Give the new development team a chance to get their teeth into things.

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FYI, the upgrade is underway at Storiesspace. I tried going in early this morning and got a really nice splash page about the upgrade. So if you want a hint of the future (and a chance to read some good non-erotic fiction), pop by once it's back up.

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I don't know what it is about the burr or the brogue (forgive me, UK readers, I know how ignorant I sound now), but something about a woman rolling those vowels and blending those pronunciations really does it for me.

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Problem: It happens every stinking time. I get a few minutes to read on a story on my cellphone, then get interrupted. Then my phone goes to sleep. Then I open it back up - and reopen the app/story that I was reading. Most of the time I can do that. Then I either get close to the end of the story I had been signed in and reading, or finish it because I was past that point where I was blocked if I wasn’t signed in AND I’M FORCED to login again. I can’t Score or Comment without being signed in. DAMN!

Quote by akeyesx
But, that’s not the worst of it. I go through the login (again, though the first time during this ‘wake up’ of the phone) AND NOW I CANNOT RESUME READING WHERE I WAS!!! While I may be able to ‘go back’ to the page/place I was when I was forced to leave and sign in again, when I do ‘go back’ to the place I was, I am once again not signed in. Not only that, but I cannot ‘save the location/page’ to come back to. So once I leave that page/place I have no way back

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Solution: Allow ‘go back’ to remember that login just completed so you can return to where you left for Scoring or Comments.
Please!!! Thanks!

Quote by Godsangel
I can't on my tablet. I see the cut and paste. But I am on my tablet and I don't understand the cute and paste feature.

I might if I keep playing at it. Thanks. I didn't see any instructions for them anywhere.

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D-oh! A (nearly) perfect solution! Thanks Ms. Skald. I'll do that now.

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one of my fav. starts to one of mine.

Beside us raced the hurricane. 140 mph of sheer twisted speed, barely able to keep up with the rented Corvette we’d picked up in Toledo, let alone my amphetamine fueled brain. Under the dashboard was enough acid and ecstasy to turn an entire nation of jihad spouting Islamists into black-eyed love monkeys. Wrapped up in tinfoil and enough duct tape to open our own OSH to keep those drug sniffing bastard Nazis commonly known as german shepherds at bay. Not even my sharp nosed companion could spot the scent over the stink of dog sweat and urine that permeated the vinyl seats of the rental car, neither as strong as the stench of desolation that had driven spikes into our brains via our nostrils.

Quote by naughtyannie
But recently I noticed a Mod was appointed who’d only had a Lush account for less than a month, and hadn’t got any stories online. In a case like that, it would be great to know a bit more about them.

Frank knew he'd made a mistake the second he saw the little gold swastikas dangling from the girl's nipple piercings.

So there I was with barbeque sauce smeared all over my titties.

The panic began to set in when Charles saw his wife's car pull into the driveway. If she found the babysitter's thong before he did all hell would break loose.

Quote by WannabeWordsmith
Weird indeed. You seem to have troubleshot (troubleshooted?) everything I'd have tried.

The only possible reasons I can think of for a network-enabled device on DHCP being inaccessible is because the router is supplying an IP address to either the phone or your PC that are on different subnets/VLANs. Quite why a router would do that out of the box is unclear but maybe it sees the two devices as different classifications and 'conveniently' subnets them for you?

Bottom line as you know: if your VoIP phone and PC are assigned the same subnet it should be pingable and web-accessible on port 80.

Random long shots, none of which I expect to bear fruit:

* Does the phone config software work over port 80 or a custom port? Can the web interface port be changed? I guess if you can't access it, then that's going to be tough!
* Is that port being blocked for whatever reason by your PC's local firewall? (the Windows firewall is a pain in the arse in this regard. Sometimes it even swallows pings for no reason).
* Is the gateway IP on the phone being overridden somehow? Perhaps it's still picking up the old gateway IP from the previous router (or it's been set at some point) and the lease on the new one isn't being released/renewed properly.
* Can you directly connect your PC to the phone in any way using a crossover cable and static IPs? At least that should allow you to get at it. If that works, try using the MAC Binding feature of the router to temporarily deliver the same pair of static IPs to both devices. If it works on static IPs then there's some crazy DHCP issue at play.

I notice that the 'Vac' model of that router has dedicated VoIP functionality so all I can think of is that they're doing some device-level filtering in the 'ac' model to convince you to use their own VoIP provisioning. Sneaky if so.

Quote by Dee50
This issue has been resolved now. Thanks for all your help

Quote by Dee50
Thankyou. The same friend did the same to one of his other friend's page.