Persistent

I Aintn't Ded

Just in case you was wonderin!

Catching Up

Jason Thompson sausages are lovely

I'm getting an ice cream bike like this one

Danielle from work got married, no pics as she is shy...well maybe later

HRH the Earl of Wessex is going to Rebecca's shop for a nose about and......

last night I went to see

A band which involves Frank Bertorelli bouncing around like he was in a bouncing festival.
Well worth it for happy music and great feats of bouncing.

OK, so he's not bouncing in this one...

Ahh..Bouncing Frank

What is he doing to that poor guitarist?

Frank Bouncearelli

We'll always have Popcorn

I have a mature palette....knife

What have you got (apart from photographs) that you have had for years?

I thought about this today. I don’t have any childhood teddy bears or books, they all went with one of my parents many loft clear outs.

I don’t have things like the key ring from my first car, or any keepsakes from former lovers. I don’t have any of my old guitars, or the microphones that I used.

I have lost more decent sets of screwdrivers and spanners by loaning them out than I will ever care to admit.

I seem to have lost my first wedding ring, and with the exception of my current wedding ring most other jewellery that I have been given over the years.

When I really think about it the only thing that I seem to have had for a long time is a palette knife that I bought when I was doing my city & guilds bakery course back in the early 80’s.

How strange that this one item seems to have attached itself to me when everything else has gone, 6 inches of flat shiny steel and a wooden handle, and for the last 20 years it has not seen the dangerous side of a cake.

I have used it to spread potato over a Shepherd’s pie, fill small holes in the wall with polyfilla, flip eggs, pancakes or potato cakes and it is very good for removing candle wax from table tops.

It truly is a useful little item, but not one that I really planned to have with me all this time, and yet because it is the one thing that has been with me through the whole of my adult life I often look at it in wonder when I remove it from the drawer (before using it to separate the pages of a wet book or something similar) and I think that this little item has been with me for so long.

It is the one thing that I own that I actually get sentimental about, it is 28 years old now and still as functional as it ever was, probably more functional and diverse than it was ever planned to be.

I was recently asked for an idea for a wedding present, I couldn’t think at the time but in future if asked or if in the situation I will say to buy the happy couple a good quality carving knife.

A real high quality knife.

One of these knifes that costs a lot of money..

They may not get it at first, but after 20 years when they have used it to cut their first carpet to size, slice up old curtains and perhaps even used it to carve some meat they will one day hold it and realise that this is an item that has been with them for many years, and it is still as functional as it ever was.

Items like this used to be given as presents, and they were often so good that they were passed down through generations. A much nicer idea than a microwave or a dvd player or a set of bedside lamps.

As with everyone else, I am not sure what my future holds, but I think that with the aid of my trusty palette knife I can face it head on and if nothing else I can smooth the way forward.

Ain't Complainin

From the last blog you know that Budget let me hire a car that had no tax.
It is so easy to complain about bad things and so it should be just as easy to applaud good service when it happens.
I talked to the nice lady from Budget in Belfast this morning. She saw the picture and fully agreed to let me have my £18 back for my extra insurance that would have been void and she will look into why the car does not have a tax disc on it.
I didn't want a full refund, I hired a car for a day, I should pay.
No fuss
No problems

:-)