A few words from my early days

With a new book on order: "Search for a Whisky Bothy" by Ralf Mitchell, a few words came to mind:

"Howf" .. "Bothy" .. "But 'n' Ben" .. I grew up using these words .. all used for a specific purpose but they do share a descriptive similarity.
Its easy to "Google" the words and get a fair explanation.

HOWF:  for me this was a small Fitters Workshop space, inside a large complex, used to store tools and some odd assortment of spare parts. This was at ICI Nobel division Ardeer.

BOTHY: was a small, stone and brick building, in the back garden of my Mom's eldest brother (uncle Tam) 

BUT 'N' BEN: a small cottage style building in Dumfries and Galloway in SW Scotland that we lived in for 3 years.  Picture of me on my fourth birthday, my dad standing in the doorway, worked at RAF station West Freugh near Stranraer:

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Container ships at a terminal in; Qingdao, China

Book on Order .. Ralfy .. UPDATE with REVIEW

A first book from; Ralf Mitchell, a retired Undertaker/Embalmer. Ralfy based mostly in Glasgow Scotland, now living on the; Isle of Mann.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOnpfc8uqEw&t=1s
Author's comment: "A humorous autobiography by a whisky reviewer with a youtube channel called 'ralfydotcom' travelling from early childhood memories to an adults apprenticship with scotch and Scotland. People and places are explored and whisky is sampled, and all for the sake of malt-moments." 

It's a couple of days after Xmas .. The book sits waiting for my son Andrew to pick up and read.
I finished reading it on Boxing day.. I've let it settle and now pen my review:
A doff O the Bunnet to Ralfy for having the courage to take this on and marketing it. No surprises in the story line, well animated characters, a comfortable read.. I do detect some literal E150 in a few stories and some chill filtering going on.. might just be my sensitivity. 

Eating porridge .. Chinese style

Hot porridge could help warm you and nourish your body in cold weather. In China, it's customary to eat red bean porridge on the first day of Major Snow and eight-treasure porridge on the eighth day of the last month of the lunar year. In addition, there are other varieties such as wheat porridge, sesame porridge, radish porridge, walnut porridge and tuckahoe porridge.

Walnut Tuckahoe Porridge, details: 

Ingredients: Walnuts, 20 grams, rice 100 grams,White Tuckahoe Powder 15 grams, Salt 3 Grams, Pepper Powder 1 grams.

Wash the rice, put into the pot with tuckahoe powder and walnut, add the water to the water, use the fire first, and use the small fire to gently cook the rice, add Soy Sauce, Salt & Pepper Powder, as appropriate then stir.