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Fish & Chips and Forgotten Titles

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Haddock Special at the Dolphin Fish Bar, Sutton on Sea

It is the 10th today and I seem to have only written 8 posts, despite cutting and pasting a poem and an article of medallions. Despite this sharp practice I just can’t keep up. Today I am going to post two shorter posts and try to keep up that way.

Today I have top make tomato soup for lunch. That involves a reasonably quick recipe, but it is still time. I have read and commented today, had breakfast and skimmed a number of subjects on Wiki. (This may be leading us to the exact source of my time leakage. After reading Billy Mann I ended up looking at hammer types and after reading Derrick Knight I ended up looking a Esmond Romilly  and various other things. There are 32 types of hammer listed on the internet. I have three sorts that aren’t on the list and know of at least one other. However, I do believe that as long as it is big enough you can get by with just one.

Haddock Special at the Fishpan, Scarborough

That will leave me with the afternoon and evening to achieve something but Julia will almost certainly expect to see me at some point and an epic nap is probably on the cards. I’m thinking of doing fish fingers for tea, with potato wedges and mushy peas à la Nottingham.  They eat their peas with mint sauce in Nottingham. I’m not sure why but any excuse for vinegar-based condiments is always welcome. It’s a cheap nutritious meal and I get the ones that are supposedly full of extra omega 3. I just checked it up and find that there is limited evidence that this actually does any good, but I’m a sucker for implications that stuff does you good whilst you are eating it. If they could grow potatoes which included omega 3, I could eat chips and feel I was becoming healthier.

Looking at the featured image I feel vaguely ashamed of my lack of culinary expertise.

Undoubtedly the worst fish I’ve had for years – look at the scale of the fish compared to the size of the fish and the portion of chips. Even then, they had to add insult to injury by doing something unspeakable to the peas.

A Diversion, an Early Start and Some Sarcasm

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On Mondays Julia works at the main site instead of being in the garden. This means driving through town rather than round the ring road. Really, I suppose, it ought to entail using  a bus but as it takes an hour longer, involves two buses and would mean getting up at 6.00 I have cynically suggested we should be selfish and use the car.

I haven’t flown at all in the last 32 years (and that was for work, not pleasure) and she has flown just once in that time. I think we can allow ourselves a few car trips.

As British Gas is digging up the road on our normal route we used a different route today, and allowed a little extra time as I suspected there would be other people doing the same thing. It appeared not to be the case and, after a swift and uneventful trip through the centre of town, I got her to work 20 minutes early.

When we start off at the normal time we have been anything from ten minutes early to twenty minutes late. I can’t wait to see how things progress.

Work is scheduled to end on 29th May.

Last time there was major work done round here they over-ran by two weeks on a six week project. If they do the same again, in percentage terms, they won’t finish until August.

My cup, as they say, runneth over…