... ACTUALLY IT WAS PEACHY CAKE I was craving after, but it doesn't rhyme...
The cake in question was light orange (well, peachy colour), covered in peach-thick icing, peach slices atop in clock-shaped petalry, light peachy sponge and a literal inch thick of peachy icing through the middle that had me fantasizing about it for hours and hours and hours...
... until I get to the shop this morning and all SOLD OUT!
Leaving me with no option but to take my regular (by now) tomato bread and to wonder whether tirimasu would make a replacement on the sloppy-stuff scale of edible pleasure (probably not).
I accidentally rang a dealer who I hate earlier. I wish the person who gave the number had warned me which "Andy" it was. Ukk. Only consolation was the yummy (peach coloured) B he supplied mmmm it would have gone really well with peach cake, but hey...
If I was a rapper I was going to call myself Yummy B. But I would probably get banned by the BBC on that account...
Sorry I know I ought not to be rabbitting about these things. What can I do except tell the truth, no matter how ugly, shameful or etc it really is?
Also, another confession: I realized last night that I had not contributed a single word to my growing (cancer-style) memoirs for five days. Having had to scrap a chapter about my trip to Spain and Morocco (it's just a retelling of an old holiday "and then and then and then..."; contributes practically nothing to the book) I realized I may have to scrap my time at university as well.... Then I thought Hang on! This is my story. I'm not going off on too merry a tangent about courses, lectures, essays (though I do mention them). So what if other writers skate over their uni time. Mine is relevant because it's when I first DISCOVERED drugs of any type. And drugs are the whole crux of my story.
Then something came on the news today: that criminals who profit from their crimes by writing memoirs about them are to be sued by the government who will take all their money. SURELY they don't mean drug addicts like me? Whose only crime has been to use? Actually if they did try to silence memoirs like mine a claim could be made that they're silencing free speech. Not to mention preventing ordinary people like me from making my own contribution to the "Drugs Debate" the government so eagerly declared we should nationally engage in some time ago... Well the writing's getting easier now, as I did 2 pages this morning, which is about all I could manage in a DAY when I first began. Still, I don't think I can get this 1st draught finished by Xmas, which I really wanted to do earlier...
The Sun newspaper published an hilarious piece called "Britain's Rudest Place Names" on p43 today.... Titup Hall Drive... Hardon Road... etc. I'll leave the best ones there for you to clickonit&readhere!
Did you see my robos videos yesterday. I see why mothers of all species get so exhausted now... not just the running round changing nappies, wiping faces, pulling clothes on straight etc etc etc stuff... if you watch that first Robos Milking Film; they actually look like they're sucking the mother dry! The second video was even more hilarious, when she decides to get up and, unable to detach four or six babies from her teets, just clambers off letting them come unstuck and roll haplessly about in the sawdust...
My video of today comes courtesy Bimbimbie: It's Snowy the Famous Dancing Cockatoo!!
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Another thing from The Sun: "Planet of the Japes" - Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition winners. (Click again for a fantastic slideshow...) The great big fatty vole-in-a-pipe is my favourite...
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Inge Mobile Blog - Scandinavian graphic designer.
A bit like Nicole Mobile Blog - Nicole (another graphic designer) is currently moving from Amsterdam, Netherlands to Adelaide, Australia with boyf Vincent. Farewell Nicole and Vincent and good luck... I'm sure she will continue blogging from Down Under...
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American "fall" is so much more colourful than our British autumn... clickonthis&havealook... am I right?
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"Out the Corner of my Eye" ~ http://chunkyd200.blogspot.com ~ wonderful Queensland and sundry photos...
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Click here for quite a realistic picture of Baby Itchy Robo when her fur's fluffed up...
And another one...
... of Baby Itchy hanging off a bush!
Actually it's a harvest mouse. I'd love pet harvest mice! (Of the micromys minutus Euro-kind)...
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RIGHT; I have just trawled round Iceland, which is a supermarket for lowerclass and poor people (hence my favourite one!!); where I purchased warming Galaxy drinking chocolate (£1.50) (in preference to unheard-of brand that listed whey powder as chief ingredient) and nibbly strawberry cheesecakes (2 for £1) plus my normal crap. Now I just want to go home and hibernate. Except I can't as I'm supposed to be pinging up the road to such-&-such person's house I don't wanna go I'm too "SAD" as they always say when carbo-bingeing in winter months and excess sleeping (that's me!!) Ho-humm....
THANK YOU!!! I will keep on blogging! We're actually leaving Amsterdam on 6 November and will be in Kuala Lumpur for four days and arrive in Adelaide 11 November. We'll have a small laptop with us and I'm going to try and blog from Malaysia as well (If we can get internet from our hotel room). We're not too sad about leaving. It's getting colder here all the time and we're looking forward to more space, more sun and friendlier people!
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ReplyDeleteHey thanks for stopping by. Check out Girraween National Park if you are ever in QLD, amazing place, ants and all.
ReplyDeleteUgh, reading that made me feel ill thinking of food.
ReplyDeleteNo.
Wait.
I think it's got something to do with the cream tea I just had.
'scuse me, gotta go barf.
HASH: I would love to "drop by" Queensland... but don't think THAT's gonna happen for a while...(!!)
ReplyDeleteVI VI VOOM!: Go barf away... how can a cream tea make you that ill? Maybe the cream was contaminated...
Snowy shows great talent. I have a feeling that this creature plays in a band, and, as well, sings back-up.
ReplyDeleteV good dancing skills I havta say!
ReplyDeleteRomans spoke Latin and Romanian language has nothing in common with Rome. Roman language is not slavic, it is in the Latin language group, Hungarian is similar to Finnish a bit.
ReplyDeleteGlad to read you are writing, Sad to hear you have been ringing dealers!
ReplyDeleteI think the law about people not profitting from their misdeeds refers to dealers not users Gleds. x
o man did u have to describe that peach cake so well?! It sounds delicious. I desperately want a piece now.
ReplyDeleteHAHAHA! Slutshole Ln.! Briliant!
ReplyDeleteHiya Gledwood! Love your vid for the day! Just in time for my lunch!! ;-)
ReplyDeleteyes! it is definitely the vast out doors and this is only a small small part of a huge country.
ReplyDeleteall new for me
ok, now i want some peachy cake! right now!
ReplyDeleteas for our autumn vs yours i have never been to UK so i can't say, but i do know the colors are what makes me most love the fall. a bright blue sky with puffy white clouds and the range of leaf colros from deep red to blazing orange to golden yellow with a few evergreens toosed in......a lil slice of heaven.
I've never had peach cake before but it does sound yummy.
ReplyDeleteAutumn here in Kentucky hasn't been very colorful because there was a drought here this Summer.
Ropinator: + Hungarian's meant 2b v difficult (for other Europeans) to learn, too... am I right?
ReplyDeleteAkelamalu: yeah surely it only refers to serious criminals... I just thought to myself on hearing that news "oh here we go..! Something else to throw a spanner in the works of my life-plans..."
Naomi: I'm wondering what HAPPENED to that peach cake actually. All 8 or so £1.19 slices vanished in less than 12 hours... so either a ladies' teaparty purchased them all... or some exceedingly hungry mice broke in during the night!
Squamer: I couldn't stop laughing at that one... especially when I heard locals had repeatedly petitioned to get it changed and the local council obviously didn't give a ****!!
Tomcat: I still like that robovideo where she goes walkes and those squirming red babies come detached all across the floordust...
ReplyDeleteLebel: it's a well beautiful country as well...
Lime: probably they will start selling it online by teleport in a few years' time... (if only!)
Corky: Drought? I never had considered that but it would make sense, it would also explain why in America you seem to get scarlet "fall" trees... I've never seen trees go red here the way they do in pictures of America...
Evil Spock needs more shoutouts.
ReplyDeleteOh, and your avatar is adorable. I thought I mentioned that in a comment section somewhere . . .
Snowy is one seriously high stepping Cockatoo. I wonder how Snowy would get down to 'The Bird' by Morris Day and the Time?
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Hi Gleds ~~ I am like you at the computer class ~ I know some things well and some things not at all, so
ReplyDeletehope to learn. Vista is the latest program that started with Window, then Windows XP and now Vista. A few
people are not keen on it, but I have no problems. I hope you can convince
yourself to start writing again.
Take care, Regards, Merle.
Evil Spock/: That is the last thing I expected to hear from one as throoughly EVIL as you!!
ReplyDeleteMolson: I never seen a parrot (of any kind) dance, either...
Merle: Yes I started again yesterday... it's just harder now I've got used to an audience e.g here on this blog!
Mmmmmmm...cake! My favorite thing. I'm happy to hear such great progress is being made with the memoirs.
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