Pop star Jamelia lost the plot, and was reduced to swigging Amaretto out of the bottle and (in a novel Bake Off twist) trimming her layer cake with scissors.
All three are expected to be put to international tender as part of an asset-stripping drive aimed at trimming the twice-bailout country's monumental debt load.
When it comes to saving money, we all know that the more you can do early, the smoother the ride George Osborne With Osborne eager to enact tough measures as early as possible, the new chief secretary to the Treasury, Greg Hands, has started to ask departments whether they can find ways of trimming their 2015-16 plans to fast-track the three-year squeeze.
Roux also calls for "baby salad onions" athough, in retrospect, after trimming 20 of them, I begin to suspect he really means baby onions of the sort sold for pickling.
Roll out again and lay in the bottom of your pie dish, trimming to fit.
At least 107,000 families will be cut off payments with the effect of trimming some fat, as payments will now cut out around $94,000 in income.
Politicians will be loth to do any such trimming when America's vulnerabilities, in almost every region of social policy, have been so ruthlessly exposed.
Blue Circle sold off its interests in trimming turf in the 1990s and is currently subject to an agreed bid from Lafarge, a large and focused French cement maker.
Neither is trimming the deficit is a priority.
Mr Miliband expressed outrage at an announcement that the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition would be trimming the highest rate of income tax from 50% to 45%.
Having trailed some radical moves, such as turning Deutsche into a standalone investment bank like Goldman Sachs, they ended up only tinkering exiting a few countries, trimming the investment bank, spinning off Postbank, its retail unit in Germany.
