Yippee!! My grandson has just phoned me to tell me that he has been selected to represent Norfolk at Rugby on Sunday in a game against Suffolk. We may look at flights to see if we can get home to watch him. What an achievement, I am so proud.
OK God, enough is enough ! It's been raining for a few days now and forecast to do so until Sunday. I didn't really mean it when I said Spain needs the rain....well I did, but could you see your way clear to exclude the CDS from my observations? I got up at five to write some of my latest novel, and sat mesmerised by the fantastic lightning display....thanks for that, I am suitably impressed by your power, now can we get back to boring old sunny days please???
More days than not I get up before my wife, but if she beats me to it I know when breakfast is almost ready, I can hear her scraping the toast, and the faint smell of burning reaches my delicate nostrils. Mind you her boiled eggs are brilliant. They are always a surprise, she has such a vast array of how to present them, some come out with the softness of a drain cover, occasionally they appear like a Norfolk stream, and on some occasions I have to use steak knives to cut them. We have no need to buy heavy door stops in our house.
My mother was a good cook, well I thought she was. As a young guy I had no one to compare her to until I had my first school dinner. I couldn't wait to get home to tell her that they did cabbage and sprouts that were green and not the blanched white type she cooked. Also they did Yorkshire puddings. She said indignantly that she did Yorkshire puddings every Sunday for us. I didn't know, I thought they were crispy biscuits.
She was a good Mum though in every way. I remember she was always telling me off about my weight. I came in after a night out, and she said "Look at your big stomach, what on earth would you say if that was on a woman?" I replied that, "Half an hour ago, it was".
I eventually went to my GP about my weight, He said to take more exercise and advised me to take a daily walk on an empty stomach. I didn't....I couldn't find anyone who would let me. He also told me to stop eating Big Macs as they were dangerous, I asked him why, and he said I could get the buttons stuck in my throat!
Everything I eat and drink has been proven by the medical profession to be a deadly poison, everything I don't eat or drink because I dislike them has been proved to be indespensable to a longer life....
I drink Green tea, my Mother reckoned that had it not been for tea the British would never have won both world wars.
The Japanese don't eat much fat. The French do. The Japanese don't drink much red wine, the French and Italians do. All of these countries experience less heart attacks than the British and the Yanks. It means only one thing.....It's speaking English that kills you !
Hope you have a good weekend, God bless.