Alan Skeoch

Year: 2025

  • EPSODE 1,434: ARE FEMALES REALLY SMARTER THAN MALES?

    EPSODE 1,434:  ARE FEMALES REALLY SMARTER THAN MALES


    alan skeoch
    October 8, 2025

    WOMEN ARE SMARTER THAN MEN.  
    HarD to admit but I think it’s true. I base my conclusion on the card game called bridge which most of the women I know 
     play constantly.   Even in bed. Why? They like men but the sad fact is that  they outlive most men.
    So women socialize more … they are less lonely.

    And they are wiser than many men. Why do you think that women are so wise?  Simple.  One of calls in bridge is NO TRUMP!!! 

    alan
    oct. 8, 2025.




  • EPISODE 1,458: AVOCADO SUPREME RECIPE (AND SIDE COMMENTS)

    AVOCADO SUPREME RECIPE (AND SIDE COMMENTS)

    penny barr

    THIS recipe below is delicious.  I am fully aware it could be brutally  edited
    but that would destroy the character of Penny Barr who is willing to
    shop around just to save a nickel, dime or quarter while spending
    two or three dollars on gas.  while exiting her garage, Penny smashed her side mirror…add 
    $250 or so to the cost of this avocado supreme.

    Penny Barr has boundless enthusiasm for this avocado dessert.  Just a small point
    to underscore.  Be sure and cover the avocado with a dusting of cocoa.  Otherwise the 
    avocado green will turn to a disgusting black.

    Now read below for Penny’s Avocado Supreme recipe.

    alan skeoch






    RECIPE TESTING — MARJORIE SKEOCH

    Took a year to play around with this. I originally zested fresh limes and squeezed them but took too long and too hard! I make triple the recipe!  It makes 7-9 bigger servings.


    In a blender dump 3/4 c rolled oats.  Blend, scrape down, until fine.Then add 2 large or 3 smaller bananas, 3 ripe avocados (dark when ripe and when pinched they gives a bit). Fluids: Around 3/4 c real lime juice (I use No Frills no name).1/2 c milk. 6 generous TBSP Maple Syrup (Walmart cheapest dark $15.76), 3 + TBSP vanilla. Blend well (may have to stir and/or add more milk.

    Pour into small round glasses reserving maybe 1/2 to 3/4 c of  the mixture in the blender. Add to blender 1 TBSP cocoa powder… but mix in first with spoon so it does not spread all over the glass. If you think you don’t have enough add a bit of milk so it speads easily. Then spoon a bit over each portion in the glass covering the green totally, and cover with a small piece of plastic. (I wash my plastic and reuse… remember my name!) Refrigerate… they disappear fast so I have no idea how long they last. Al Skeoch had his first for dinner one night.. and then demanded an encore for lunch next day! I guarded the refrigerator all morning…

    When serving, add a dollop of yoghurt (I like Activia lemon flavoured) and a sprinkle of chopped walnuts toasted 5 minutes in a 350 oven.  I suggest you toast a huge number at a time…guarantee this recipe gets repeated ad infinitum.

    ORIGINAL RECIPE

    Avocado Chocolate Breakfast Trifle from Jamie Oliver


    My version to follow with way more limes and double sized! Oink.  KAthleen Hunter from NH Made these for me last June when I flew down to see her.  We went to Downsview CI together 1955-57.

  • EPISODE 1,416: LORD BYRON VISITS EYWOOD OCTOBER 25, 1812 — A COMPLICATED SCANDAL



    NOTE:  This episode describes one scandalous event that happened in 1812 at Eywood, the 1500 acre coutry estate owned by Lord and Lady
    Oxford.  It happened long before my grandfather, EdwardFreeman became head gardener at Eywood.  He would, however,have been
    told of the indiscretions of Lady Oxford.  Perhaps amused by the skuttlebut.  I decided to dig a little deeper into the story.  And that led
    to Lord Byron, one of England’s most famous poets.  The story is nasty and convoluted.  Disgusting? Amusing? Waste of time.?



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  • salute to PAUL CARON who died Friday August 15, 2025


    FOND MEMORIES OF PAUL CARON – September 1999.

    IT was a delightful summer afternoon when we pulled our rent a car
    up beside a roadside picnic bench in the south of France.  Paul and Denise Caron
    , Marjorie and AlanSkeoch had retired from the classroom.  Paul pulled the cork from a
    bottle ofFrench wine…Denise and Marjorie unwrapped cheese and warm baguettes. And we made a  toast to the staff and students of Parkdale collegiate
    backin Toronto.  We had retired and planned this celebration.   There was the smell of autumn in the air.  We bought the wine at a French gas station choosing upscale wine rather than the wine suggested by the owner. His
    garden hose wine was  little too cheap . …about a buck a bottle (used bottle) and cork it ourselves.  Not fitting our toast to Parkdale students and staff.  Denise and Marjorie had been Parkdalians as much as we had been..

    My favorite memory of Paul was at one of our rock and roll Parkdale assemblies in which Paul re -enacted a tune by Jerry Lee Lewis. 
      He added a twist.   He played the piano backwards…his hands behind his back.   Jumping as only jerry and Paul could do;
    The students went wild.  

    alan skeoch
     

  • open air concerts….start spreading the news…aug,1,8,15,,,benares, mississauga….SHE SANG ‘FEVER’.

    There are three more open air concerts scheduled…august 1,8 and 15, 

    Benares, mississauga starts at 7 pm, donations suggested $20.  “start spreading the news”  bring a chair. (alan skeoch)