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13 Romantic quotes for valentines everywhere.

• I love you - those three words have my life in them. Alexandrea to Nicholas III
• A simple I love you means more than money. Frank Sinatra
• One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life, that word is Love. Socrates
• Love asks me no questions and gives me endless support. William Shakespeare
• A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. Ingrid Bergman
• True love doesn’t have a happy ending: True love doesn’t have an ending. Anonymous
• Love is a fruit in season at all times and within the reach of every hand. Mother Teresa
• The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. W. Somerset Maugham
• The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman’s heart. Josiah G. Holland
• Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. Peter Ustinov
• The courses of true love never did run smooth. William Shakespeare
• The best feelings are those that have no words to describe them. Michelle Hammersley
• To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with. Mark Twain

13 reasons Scouser hasn’t done a Thursday 13 for months.

1. Work, lots of new things happening, release of new games consoles means new products, which in turn means lots of extra work
2. Illness, since June I have had a major flu virus at least 3 times.
3. Christmas, we went away for Christmas & I didn’t really have time to access a net terminal.
4. Designing sites for a couple of bands.
5. Spam - Using textpattern I found I became a major target for the comment spammers.
6. Re-design this site, new theme and transport it over to wordpress.
7. Configure my new server, learn how to use it and then test it with some unimportant stuff prior to transferring everything over.
8. Transporting all my sites from my old server to my new one.
9. Blogshares. I spent far too much time playing at this. I feel now that I have over $1.4 trillion the fascination has worn off
10. Family and other real life matters.
11. Lack of imagination and planning. I blame this on work.
12. World Domination plans keep getting in the way. Every time I wanted to post a TT something happened around the world that needed my attention. You just can’t get good reliable henchmen nowadays.
13. And finally just plain laziness.

Scouser’s Thursday 13 this week consists of 13 ingredients for Chicken with Yellow bean sauce.

1. 450g / 1lb Skinless, bonless chicken breasts.
2. 1 Egg white, beaten.
3. 1 tbsp cornflour (cornstarch).
4. 1 tbsp rice wine vinegar.
5. 1 tbsp light soy sauce.
6. 1 tsp caster (superfine) sugar.
7. 3 tbsp vegetable oil.
8. 1 Garlic clove, crushed.
9. 1 cm / 1/2 inch piece fresh root ginger, grated.
10. 1 green bell pepper, seeded & diced.
11. 2 large mushrooms, sliced.
12. 3 tbsp yellow bean sauce.
13. Yellow or green (bell) pepper strips to garnish.

Trim any fat from the chicken. Cut the meat into 2.5 cm / 1 inch cubes.

Mix the egg white and cornflour (cornstarch) in a shallow bowl. Add the chicken and turn in the mixture to coat. Leave to stand for 20 mins.

Mix the vinegar, soy sauce & sugar in a bowl.

Remove the chicken from the egg white mixture.

Heat the oil in a preheated wok, add the chicken and stir fry for 3 - 4 mins until golden brown. Remove the chicken from the wok with a slotted spoon, set asside & keep warm.

Add the garlic, ginger, (bell) pepper & mushrooms to the wok and stir fry for 1 - 2 mins.

Add the yellow bean sauce and cook for 1 min, stir in the vinegar mixture and return the chicken to the wok. Cook for 1 - 2 mins and serve hot, garnished with (bell) pepper strips.

1. Desktop PC
2. Playstation 2
3. Nintendo DS
4. Nintendo GBA
5. Scientific Calculator
6. External DVD writer
7. Television
8. Happy face mug (empty)
9. Headphones
10. Telephone
11. Alarm Clock
12. Writing Pad
13. Spindle of recordable DVDs

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