Friday Night Dinner: Oystermen
The Oystermen is a restaurant not far from Covent Garden. We've been before, but many years ago, probably pre-pandemic. As the name suggests they specialise in oysters and henceforth we had plenty of them.
For our starter we picked a raw Jersey rock oyster each, which were fresh and delicious. However, this spot also does cooked oysters, which is more unusual, so we also enjoyed a couple of seaweed oysters which were served with a seaweed butter, and two tempura oysters.
As our arrival drink we fancied a cocktail, and we're quite keen on Martinis. We decided to have a Martini with an oyster in it, because, you know… when at an oyster restaurant! It worked even better after we added a drop of the leftover oyster juice to our cocktail. The Oyster garnish took the place of the more usual olive and added a similar salty, briny tang. Definitely one to try if you get the opportunity.
For our mains my wife ordered a mackerel, which came with a horseradish sauce. I ordered the Gurnard, curried, with a few chilli flakes. We also chose to have some fries on the side. These were crispy, with a lightly spiced coating which worked well with both main courses. We also ordered a glass of Chardonnay each.
We still fancied a digestif. My wife had a glass of the Sazerac Straight Rye, which in my opinion could have done with a bit of ice. I selected a Somerset cider brandy, which I had never had before.
We really enjoyed our time at the Oystermen. The food is excellent, the ambience is great, and on top of that they play recordings of the shipping forecast in the toilets, which are located downstairs. I think we'll be back at some point.
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TIL that Kingfishers can hover just like hummingbird. I'll hopefully have some reasonable shots after I've gone through my nearly thousand shots today...
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I think this was my favourite photo of the set that I took. It's not at maximum coverage, but it does have a sun spot group (4508) just on the cusp of the terminator.
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No totality here in London, but still had a great evening out in the local park and taking some snaps.
I did have a nice Solar Filter that I made for my lens, and had many conversations with people from different backgrounds. Kids loves to look through my filter after I was done (ran out of battery power).
More photos later...
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Fixed issue #2267: Application slow when debugger is not listening on…
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Is there somebody who runs PHP on native windows (with Xdebug) and can run a simple script for me?
It must be in a file (`test.php`):
```
<?php
echo microtime(true), "\n";
xdebug_connect_to_client();
echo microtime(true), "\n";
```And run like:
php -dxdebug.log_level=11 -dxdebug.log=c:\temp\xdebug-i.log -dxdebug.client_host=localhost -dxdebug.client_port=9111 -dxdebug.mode=debug c:\temp\test.php
With the port 9111 not open.
Would love to see the output and log file (in a DM).
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