Fred Basset by Alex Graham for March 13, 2025

There are hard boiled eggs and there are cement eggs.

Well, Fred, I’m gonna go with ‘no’. However, you could alert her that whatever that is is boiling way over the top of the pot. She’s definitely going to have to do a ‘do over’ if that was supposed to be dinner.

It shouldn’t if you were watching it Fred, though the truism may only apply to humans…

Time to set off the PUP ALARM!!!!!!

A watched pot never boils, except for Fred.

I am worried that the water might have extinguished the flame, if cooking with gas, then filling the room with an explosive situation.

Fred a “Bark” or a “Howl” should work ;-)

This is your chance to do the Lassie bit, Fred!

Mrs Dear must be on the phone with Anne Partridge again.

Get to barking Fred!

I once left a pot of eggs I was hard boiling go too long and when the pot started to singe one of my dogs began barking hysterically in the kitchen and I found it in time.Start barking at it, Fred!

no, it isn’t… :{

Or a smothering one…

No, it’s not. Bark, Fred!

Yep, typical Brit cooking.