YES I HAVE A DISTINCT CRAVING FOR CHINESE TAKEAWAY. My local does a "one container" cheap meal deal for £4.20... hang on I tell a lie: inflation! £4.70 now. Yes yous diasporian English-speakers from Down Under, Across the Pond etc can laugh at those prices but that is cheap for this country, believe me. Australian takeaways, so I have heard many times, are aparently the best in the entire world¬!
Well one of my gremlins got ever so excited today as I peered down at her. I think it was Bashful. She peered back up all expectantly as if I was about to shower her with free gifts of cigarettes and cream cakes and things. Instead I gave her a sprig of saggy old broccoli from the side of the fridge. She sniffed it and glared back up at me "just you wait, matey - I was expecting a Marlboro Light at the bare minimum... I'll make you suffer for this!!" Bashful is a right gremlin as she keeps biting me! Yes! Every time I leave a hand in unawares I feel hamster-gremlin teeth closing around it. Fortunately she does not bite right in and draw blood. I suppose this is my fault for leaving them chicken bones: it's left them with a taste for fresh meat.
There is scant other news... I had all manner of ideas of what to post but have brought none out with me so this will have to do for Friday... apart from the following amazing Sun features!
The first news I heard (on BBC radio actually) was that Princess Diana was not only alive after the dreadful car crash that killed her but conscious and calling out: "Oh my God! Oh my God!" which fairly sickened me as I was one of those people affected by her death. Never thought I would be. If they'd done a survey before she died: "Would you cry if Princess Diana suddenly died in a car crash?" I'd have vehemently claimed: No! Which is one big reason why I don't trust questionnaires and surveys. People's self-reports on their behaviour or would-do behaviour are unreliable. We can only observe what actually happens to get a true impression of the human psyche's intricacies...
Anyway THIS is what I was seeking: Heavy Petting; Thank goodness it's not raining cats and dogs when they're as big as this..!
Hampshire police are now advertising on the rear of buses. Alas, their planning didn't consider the position of the exhaust pipe on the male "member". (No wonder that lady police constable has a smile on her face..!)
And have a look at Dear Deidre's Photo Casebook (bet they don't print anything like this in American dailies!!)
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Well to be frank the bits in pink obviously will take you to a match but The Sun's own e-edition is crap at matching printed stories to their online counterparts... so if you want to see the policeman with a rude exhaustpipe on the back of a bus, look at page 41 in today's edition, Friday 26 October 2007!
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Video of the day:
4-year-old Chinese Little Boy Rides Enormous Beluga Whale!
That is cheap for a takeaway.
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Do you know wvery hamster in the world can claim descent somhow from the same one in Palestine in the 1930s.
Strange, but true.
Oh Gleds i like chinese food we have a good eat in or take away chines the meals are reasonable priced. combination omelet about $13, per serve, I think the special fried lice about $6... take care.
ReplyDeleteIngsoc: I know what you mean you're dead right about SYRIAN (GOLDEN) HAMSTERS but mine come from MONGOLIA (hence the Russian name Roborovski)... they were discovered in the early 20th century but not brought to Europe till the early 80s when London zoo set up a display of them.. the current lot in pet shops stem from a "batch" introduced into Britain from Germany in around 1990...
ReplyDeleteI heard they sent out an expedition to Aleppo which is where the 1st golden hamsters were found... and discovered "only" 90 burrows... captured another batch of hamsters (which are now endangered species in the wild) to re-introduce to the diminishing-quality petshop genepool!
Jeanette: Hang on $6 Aus = well £1=$2.50, right? so just over £2 yes that is good!! (And I bet not as cardboardy as our local's, which I have to say is swimming in delicious fat!!)
Howdy Gled! Thanks for all the moving good wishes over at my blog! The next few months will be a bit hectic for us, but that's life. I will indeed miss Suzanne a lot, but we're making plans for her to eventually come over as well, at least for a prolonged holiday. I wish you a lovely weekend!
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I read your blog everyday with anticipation and you never let me down, day in day out, your writing is superb. I can't understand why you don't have a regular spot in one of the daily newspapers. I hope your book is finished soon, do you have a publisher yet?
ReplyDeleteAustralian do the best chinese take aways, but England ROCKS for indian.
ReplyDeleteFinally saw your comment on my fledgling blog. Love your blog! I don't know how you're able to post so much, it's hard enough for me 5 days a week :) On to your other blogs so i can waste more time at work...
ReplyDeleteI read about Princess Diana alledgedly being alive when her car crashed as well. If it was true (even if it wasn't) shame on the paparazzi for even wanting to exploit the situation.
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Nicole: yes; best of luck with getting all the final arrangements arranged!
ReplyDeleteLoretta: No I am not showing it to any publishers/agents/type people till I've finished at least draft 1... I can do without the extra pressure!
Vi Vi: Don't you find the nonspicy items on the British Chinese menu are all like sloppy cardboard flavour?
Ironjack: how do I post so much?... erm... I dunno either bc I always feel like I'm running out of things to say!
ReplyDeleteEileen: the paps aparently said "please let us do our job"...
My favourite takeaway is fish 'n' chips...can't beat it, especially if it's a good takeaway that uses fresh fish and ours does. Then I like Chinese...pizza..nuh, you can keep it!
ReplyDeleteTiramisu...I won't buy it because I make a really good one from a Tuscan recipe. It's yum, even if I do say so myself!
Have a good weekend and I hope the short days and long nights don't become too much to cope with.
Cheers!
The little boy with the large whale is a terrific video. How special. Lucky kid.
ReplyDeleteYes, human emotion is difficult to predict. We think we know how we might react in a given situation. Only when the occasion presents itself can we know for sure.
Puss-in-Boots: Thanks! I just get pressed in by the night, that's all...
ReplyDeleteBrotherDave: I had seen the pictures in the newspaper... never saw the vid till yesterday... you're right about predicting human behaviour that is why I always think surveys of "what would you do" questions are a load of rubbish!
The title had me worried for a minute there! Poor little Bashful - I can imagine her glaring at you! That is awful to think that Diana was alive and crying out in distress like that . But I wish they'd let all this go - it's not going to bring her back, is it?
ReplyDeleteI know and it's going to bring scant truth up too!
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