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The week in review…
Changi Airport, Singapore
1. Bin end Sancerre-grab it while you can
2. The Honourable Schoolboy by John Le Carre-still good 5th time around.
3. A Passsion for Angling dvd-exquisite photography and a reminder of times gone by.
4. The kitchen garden; ready for business. Roll on the summer.
5. Chilli growing; forty five plants and growing…
6. www.planetrock.co.uk getting a month’s reprieve. There has to be a buyer out there.
7. Thick cut crusty bread with mature cheddar, homemade piccalilli and home grown lettuce-a sandwich sensation.
Heathrow Terminal 5
1. Drinking too much Sancerre!
2. Gary Moore dvd-agree with you on that one, bro!
3. Gas and car insurance bill on the same day-it’s not fair.
4. Buying niger seed because it is ‘guaranteed to attract goldfinches into your garden’-well, it doesn’t.
5. Leaking greenhouse-a job for the superglazer if he’s reading this!
6. Council tax rise-rip off council leaders who earn more than the Prime Minister. Make them and the police force more accountable for our money.
7. Trying to play snooker again after a twenty year lay off-I’ll stick to the day job!
8. Eating an aforementioned cheese sandwich after drinking too many pints in the local snooker hall-nice sarnie but not worth the hiccups and heartburn at 3am.
9. Having to remortgage my house to pay BMW for a faulty air-con unit. The receptionist said it was a lovely looking car-because that’s going to make me feel better.
10. Paying £25 for a pair of waterproof trousers to replace my lost ones only to find them today after cleaning the garage out.
So financialy things are somewhat bleak at me.com this month. I shall postpone buying the canon lens I don’t need for another month-or maybe not! What’s your British Airways vs Any other business, anywhere, ever?
Phew !
sounds like a hell of a week
I nearly suffered a wallet attack just reading it.
Paul Gilbert DVD
Weather turning
11 Thousand notes DVD
Eating fish
Sold a book this weekend
Gary Moore DVD
Messing about with clocks
Year end coming up
etc etc
I could go on but better not
Le Carre’s hard to beat !
March 31, 2008 @ 10:25 am
Miles,
I am sure that those Goldfinches will find you. Are they on a flightpath where they might spot the seeds?
Bet you are glad a new month is starting
Elsie
March 31, 2008 @ 12:18 pm
Smiles
Weather warming, lovely sunshine
walks
Birds singing and nesting in garden
Great family and friends get-togethers
Frowns
Cats visiting my garden
Ageing - aches & pains creeping up
Not being able to re-stock my wardrobe - nothing suitable out there
March 31, 2008 @ 12:35 pm
Rod and Elsie,
Great lists, sounds like we are all enjoying the sunshine!
Elsie, regarding the finches; literally five minutes after posting this I went downstairs, looked out of the kitchen window and saw one on the feeder!
Miles
March 31, 2008 @ 5:18 pm
Miles,
I knew the Goldfinch would find you. Wait when his mates follow! For the first time ever I saw a long tailed tit in our garden. Things are a-changing.
Good luck with your kitchen garden this year.
An old (age) friend told me the other day that they used to harvest the dandelion leaves and nettles which her mother would cook as a vegetable and put it through a mincer, will you believe?
Very nutricious and I suspect that the minced veg. doubled up as a sauce?
Elsie
March 31, 2008 @ 6:51 pm
Elsie,
Dandelion has long been used in French salads and I use nettles a lot around this time of year. Nettles are packed with nutrients and make excellent soups and bright green purees. Always make sure you pick the small, young leaves though.
I look forward to an invasion of finches!
Miles
March 31, 2008 @ 8:56 pm
hmmm A list is pretty tough when liquored up.
Good things:
My 9 year old daughter being determined to make a perfect omelet, and succeeding.
Spring finally showing it’s face in New York.
Opening season for trout beginning next week.
Crappy things:
Meeting the singularly most obnoxious person I have ever come across this afternoon.
Forgetting about the beautiful Italian sausages I bought 2 weeks ago from the pork store in the back of the fridge.
Debilitating aches and pains from old injuries that are seriously becoming irritating. I’m only 40 for Christ’s sake.
Typing drunk and having to spell retype every other word.
Thinking of tomorrow’s hangover - or looking for to a great bloody and wondering if I have a problem.
Good Thing:
Finding this blog. Thanks for the effort Miles.
April 1, 2008 @ 1:50 am
Elise - Dandelion is very trendy in NYC right now. Even to the point of dandelion Eau - de - Vie. It’s awful by the way.
April 1, 2008 @ 1:52 am
Dave,
A great list! Great to hear your daughter is already into cooking-you’ve trained her well
I shall be meeting with an obnoxious person this morning who shall have to explain what he has done to my kitchen (at work) whilst I have been away. He may find me equally obnoxious!
Don’t worry about being drunk-how do you think I do this blog?! Good luck with the hangover!
Miles
ps just googled why NYC is called ‘The Big Apple’ didn’t realise it came from jazz musicians-is that correct?
April 1, 2008 @ 5:54 am