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Scottish Sun
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
‘I need it' say shoppers as they rush to ASDA to grab popular snack scanning at just 68p
Shoppers are raving over a new Pot Noodle flavour that costs less than £1 HAPPY SHOPPING 'I need it' say shoppers as they rush to ASDA to grab popular snack scanning at just 68p Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) SHOPPERS are rushing to Asda after spotting a brand new flavour of Pot Noodle hitting the shelves – and it's only 68p. The Flame Grilled Steak flavour has sent fans into a frenzy, with many declaring, 'I need it!'. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 2 Shoppers are clearly eager to try it and see how it stacks up Credit: Newfoodsuk/Facebook The new snack has been spotted in Asda stores across the UK, and it's quickly becoming a must-have. A post in the popular Facebook group NewfoodsUK revealed the find, with the caption: 'New Flame Grilled Steak Pot Noodle spotted at Asda.' Fans wasted no time sharing their excitement. Wendy Whiley commented: 'Ooooft! I need it!' while Nigel Noble added: 'Yes just tried it and it tastes nice like flame grilled McCoys.' Others were quick to offer tips on how to enjoy it, with one user writing: 'Don't add the soy sauce, instead add some squirty mustard in it. Thank me later.' The new flavour joins a long list of Pot Noodle favourites including Chicken & Mushroom, Beef & Tomato, and even quirky ones like Sticky Rib. But it's the steak version that's winning hearts – and trolleys – this week. Kadii Allen tagged a mate saying: 'For next time we go to ASDA,' while Mathew Lundy reminisced: 'Brazilian BBQ steak used to be my favourite no longer seen – hopefully this one is banging.' Shoppers are clearly eager to try it and see how it stacks up. Christina Arrand wrote: 'Yes, I've ordered one in next week's shop,' showing how quickly it's been added to shopping lists. Sian Thomas also said: 'I baught a few of these in Asda the other day,' with fans wasting no time snapping them up. You've been making a pot noodle all wrong and this is why it's lacking flavour There's also a bit of friendly debate among long-time Pot Noodle lovers. Darren Ellison weighed in saying: 'But nothing beats Chicken and Mushroom.' And some shoppers, like Summer Santilli, are sticking to the classics. 'It's getting a bit silly now, these new flavours. I'm still in the 80s with Beef & Tomato lol,' she wrote. Asda appears to be the first major retailer to roll out the new snack, but it may well pop up in other supermarkets soon. At just 68p, it's a bargain snack that's easy to grab on the go or chuck in the cupboard for a quick meal. The excitement comes just a couple of months after Tesco added Pot Noodles to its £3.60 meal deal, letting customers pick one up as part of their lunch combo. But with a price this low at Asda, shoppers might not wait until lunchtime. It's not the first time Pot Noodle has sent snack fans wild. Previous limited edition flavours have come and gone – often leaving customers begging for them to return. Whether Flame Grilled Steak becomes a new classic remains to be seen, but early signs suggest it's off to a sizzling start.
The Irish Sun
07-05-2025
- Lifestyle
- The Irish Sun
Lidl is launching incredibly lifelike £17 buy that instantly transforms your home into a Mediterranean haven
SHOPPERS are running to Lidl to snap up a lifelike £17 plant that will give homes a major Mediterranean boost. So if you're looking to give your indoor space a cheap spruce up in time for summer, you've come to the right place. Advertisement 3 Lidl is offering a new item that will make your home decor pop Credit: Getty 3 The bargain retailer is selling a Olive Tree for £16.99 Credit: Lidl 3 Lidl is selling a range of lifelike garden buys Credit: Getty The supermarket is scanning an eye-catching olive tree for just £16.99. The potted item stands up at between 95 and 105cm. Bargain hunters are also sure to be hooked in by the supermarket's stunning There are two options of the Advertisement Read more They will be priced at just £9.99, which we think is a real steal. Not only do they look great, but they are sure to bring a sense of the Mediterranean into your garden too, leaving your eagle-eyed neighbours open-mouthed. So if you can't afford to jet abroad this summer, and want to transform your garden whilst staying on a budget, then this is just the thing for you. In addition to the Advertisement Most read in Fabulous DO OLIVE TREES GROW WELL IN THE UK? Yes, olive trees can grow well in the UK, but they need some care. Sunlight and shelter Olive trees do best in a sunny, sheltered location. They can tolerate intense sunlight and drought. However, they can struggle in extreme cold and high winds. Five Lidl rosés you need this summer, according to a wine expert - a £6.99 buy is as light & crispy as £22 Whispering Angel Watering Water potted olive trees regularly from mid-March to late October. Water until water comes out of the bottom of the pot. In hot, dry weather, you may need to water more. Reduce watering for younger trees, and stop watering established trees in the winter. Drainage Advertisement Ensure your tree has adequate drainage. Pruning Prune the tree back each year to encourage good leaf growth. Winter care Wrap your tree over winter to keep the harsh wind out. Give your tree some extra protection if there are intense cold snaps forecast. Fruiting Olive trees need at least three months a year of cold weather to flower and fruit. Temperatures below 10 degrees Celsius, along with a fluctuation in night and daytime temperatures initiate the fruiting process. BEST GARDEN BUYS Olive trees aren't the only way you can spruce up your garden - there are a range of "Plant picks" available from Lidl from tomorrow. Advertisement You can get hold of a To add a little pizazz to your dinner table, a If Lidl isn't your local and the little ones need entertaining, parents can pick up a Bayswood Insect Hous e for £8 from Tesco. The adorable bug house has different-sized holes to appeal to different insects and act as the perfect place for garden critters. Advertisement The little lamps light up when the sun sets and come in a pack of three. For those who want to "bring a touch of whimsy to their garden," Sainsbury's is selling a Metal Mushroom stake Light for a fiver. Top gardening trends of 2025 Gardening experts at Matrix planting It seems that a top planting trend for this year is going to be Matrix Planting. In essence, planting in groups or blocks to give an effect of being wild whilst actually being carefully managed. Selection of the plants is essential, to give year-round interest either with flowers, seed heads or frosted/snowy spent flower heads. Some recommend using plants that seed around, but this could make managing your matrix planting harder to keep under control. Chrysanthemum comeback I hope that the humble Chrysanthemum makes as much of a comeback this year as Dahlias have over recent years, because the simple single flowered types, such as 'Innocence' and 'Cottage Apricot' would be spectacular within a matrix scheme. The hardy varieties are so easy to grow in a sunny spot and give such a valuable burst of late summer and autumn colour that would lift any dull- looking border. Blended borders For some time now we have been promoting the growing of veg within ornamental borders and I think this could really take off this year. The choice of ornamental-looking varieties available in seed catalogues is phenomenal and, if managed correctly, visitors to your garden will not even realise that you have veg growing! Must-have tool My secret is out. I discovered the Hori Hori a couple of years ago and now it seems so is everyone else. It is such a well-made, adaptable tool that can be used as a trowel or weeding tool in the garden that and everyone I speak to who have used it absolutely would not now be without it. Enough said!
The Guardian
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Paul Kelly's Post at 40: the album in which a future star found his voice
In 1984, Paul Kelly packed up his few belongings, borrowed his father-in-law's Holden and made the 13-hour drive from Melbourne to Sydney. He had barely a dollar in his pocket and no place to lay his head. Don Walker, who was taking a breather from the music business after the breakup of Cold Chisel, offered him a temporary refuge in his Kings Cross double-storey terrace. He had a white grand piano in the front room. Not quite 30, Kelly wasn't even on his last chance. In industry terms, he was done. He'd made two failed records with his band the Dots, long since disavowed. Michael Gudinski dropped him from Mushroom and washed his hands. Still, the grand piano called. Inspired by a Lovin' Spoonful song, Never Going Back, and Robert Johnson's From Four Until Late, a sad goodbye-to-all-that song tumbled out on the keys. It was From St Kilda to Kings Cross. Kelly played it to Walker when he came home. 'You've got your own thing now,' Walker told him gruffly. For Kelly, it was a watershed. 'I'd found my own little patch of ground, was hoeing a row nobody else was,' he reflected in his memoir, How to Make Gravy. Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning The song would open his third album, Post, released 40 years ago this month. The album didn't chart. But it recouped its smell-of-an-oily-rag recording costs, paid off Kelly's debts and provided the launchpad for everything that followed. After dossing with Walker, Kelly moved in with Dragon's keyboard player, Paul Hewson. Hewson had songwriting fingerprints on that band's big early hits, April Sun in Cuba and the notorious Are You Old Enough? Hewson and Kelly swapped songs and stories. Both addicts, they occasionally went out and scored. Kelly was unsteady on his feet, but his confidence was growing. Guitarist Steve Connolly and drummer Michael Barclay soon followed him to Sydney. Barclay wouldn't end up playing drums on Post, though. The songs were spare and haunted, supported only by Barclay's high-harmony singing and Connolly's beautifully understated leads. Usually, he just added minor embellishments to the vocal melody. The trio gained a residency at the Strawberry Hills hotel in Surry Hills. The Sydney rock scene was obsessed with the ghost of Radio Birdman; all raised fists and leather jackets. Standing in front of such an audience with an acoustic guitar and no drummer took some nerve. Many of the songs on Post dealt with addiction and its consequences. On the first side were Incident on South Dowling, White Train and Blues for Skip, a lyrical description of writer's block featuring a shiver-inducing lead break from Connolly. The second side further blurred the line between art and autobiography. There was Adelaide, an ironic kiss-off to Kelly's old home town (which annoyed his family), and Standing on the Street of Early Sorrows, a song to an adolescent crush named Julie. There was also (You Can Put Your Shoes) Under My Bed, which rhymed 'spastic' and 'fantastic'. A music publisher in Nashville thought the song had potential, in the hands of the right country singer, if only Kelly could change that line. Sign up to Saved for Later Catch up on the fun stuff with Guardian Australia's culture and lifestyle rundown of pop culture, trends and tips after newsletter promotion He never did. Not because he thought it sounded any better back then than it does now – it just stuck. 'You get a lot of bad or boring rhymes pass through your mind while you're writing and you do your best to weed them out, but sometimes an awkward one muscles its way in, hunkers down under the song-skin and won't be removed for love or money,' he wrote in his memoir. And there was the final track, Little Decisions, a homily that celebrated the virtue of putting one foot in front of the other in hard times. Kelly's voice was simultaneously at its world-weariest and warmest: Work a little harder Keep your mind on death Get your things in order Take a deeper breath Shortly after recording was complete, Paul Hewson left Dragon, then at the height of their success courtesy of the album Body and the Beat and its massive single, Rain. He died of an overdose on 9 January 1985. Without a deal, Kelly began shopping Post around. Michelle Higgins, Gudinski's trusted PR at Mushroom, locked herself in the Sebel Townhouse on Mushroom's credit card until her boss re-signed him. Gudinski relented, releasing Post on a Mushroom subsidiary, White. The album's title alluded to the series of farewells embedded in the songs: to St Kilda, to Adelaide, to the Dots, to drugs (though that would take a while longer), to Kelly's first marriage, and to Hewson, to whom the album was dedicated. On release, Post was a stiff. Kelly's then-manager, Stuart Coupe, wrote in his book Shake Some Action that Gudinski's reticence seemed to have been vindicated: 'To all intents and purposes, Paul Kelly had delivered his third commercial dud.' But word spread, and better times were ahead. Connolly and Barclay would form the core of Kelly's new band, the Coloured Girls (later renamed the Messengers). With them, he would re-record full-band versions of four Post songs for his next album: the sprawling Gossip. That album would take Kelly from the margins to the mainstream. Post, though, was the essential backstory. It's the album on which Kelly found his voice – the one that established him as arguably the foremost Australian singer-songwriter of his generation.
Sydney Morning Herald
28-04-2025
- Sydney Morning Herald
Mushroom killer trial to make headlines
National The world's eyes are about to turn to the regional Victorian town of Morwell as accused Mushroom killer Erin Patterson's murder trial begins.
The Age
28-04-2025
- The Age
Mushroom killer trial to make headlines
National The world's eyes are about to turn to the regional Victorian town of Morwell as accused Mushroom killer Erin Patterson's murder trial begins.
