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Let's start somewhere near the beginning - I have a niece. A very nice niece. Allowing for doting uncle syndrome she is a delightful young miss, just recently turned 18. She has two brothers, so I also have two nephews. The eldest has a birthday round about now and as has been traditional we go out for a meal.
The good news is that the birthday boy changed his mind on the venue and we went to the same place we went last month for my niece's birthday - did I mention the pink lemonade with vanilla ice-cream float? If not, I should have - wonderful drink!
So we were all sat, drinks ordered, food ordered ... I had debated going for the ribs, but opted instead for the duck pie. Which, as it happens, was seriously nice.
My niece ordered the ribs.
My elfin, pixie-like, petite, appetite-like-a-sparrow niece ordered the ribs. Well, ok, that's not a prob ....
HOLY SHIT!!!!!!
The plate was put down in front of her and the ribs were wider than her head. I kid you not, they had to be a good 12" wide. I stared at them and could only think (apprentice fat bastard-in-training that I am) 'thank god I did not order that I would never finish them'.
The rest of us set to, munching and nibbling, having gustatory fun with our own meals whilst keeping an eye on her, wondering at what point she'd give up.
"We can always get a doggie bag"
"Don't want one!", was the trenchant reply
She finished them. All of them. Admittedly after the rest of us had finished, but she polished them off all by herself. That was 12 or so ribs.
Where is my niece, what pod monster has replaced her?!
Oh, and the chips. She finished most of those too (I had some).
Let's start somewhere near the beginning - I have a niece. A very nice niece. Allowing for doting uncle syndrome she is a delightful young miss, just recently turned 18. She has two brothers, so I also have two nephews. The eldest has a birthday round about now and as has been traditional we go out for a meal.
The good news is that the birthday boy changed his mind on the venue and we went to the same place we went last month for my niece's birthday - did I mention the pink lemonade with vanilla ice-cream float? If not, I should have - wonderful drink!
So we were all sat, drinks ordered, food ordered ... I had debated going for the ribs, but opted instead for the duck pie. Which, as it happens, was seriously nice.
My niece ordered the ribs.
My elfin, pixie-like, petite, appetite-like-a-sparrow niece ordered the ribs. Well, ok, that's not a prob ....
HOLY SHIT!!!!!!
The plate was put down in front of her and the ribs were wider than her head. I kid you not, they had to be a good 12" wide. I stared at them and could only think (apprentice fat bastard-in-training that I am) 'thank god I did not order that I would never finish them'.
The rest of us set to, munching and nibbling, having gustatory fun with our own meals whilst keeping an eye on her, wondering at what point she'd give up.
"We can always get a doggie bag"
"Don't want one!", was the trenchant reply
She finished them. All of them. Admittedly after the rest of us had finished, but she polished them off all by herself. That was 12 or so ribs.
Where is my niece, what pod monster has replaced her?!
Oh, and the chips. She finished most of those too (I had some).
Fun times ahead - with possibilities!!!
Two things happening now, and in the near future. First thing is that my author friend Julian Miles and I will be at Wyntercon again this year - in fact next weekend, 10th and 11th September, in Eastbourne: https://www.wyntercon.org/ If you can make it please do stop by and say hello. If you give your deviantART account name you'll get a free book! Second thing is about another friend, this one a bit more remote to me, seeing as how he lives in the US. Johnny Ortega (of The Plot Hole fame on YouTube) is in the film-making business and is now at the point where he really needs to upgrade his equipment and more importantly have somethignsecure he can store, and carry, it around in! He has a fund raiser active with various levels of perks (including some great t-shirt designs and the option of being in one of his productions!_ No pressure to conribute, but if you can pass the word around, that'd be great - thanks:
Cake Wars ...
By popular request - ok, so just Shalen asked - how Cake Wars came to be! I debated long and hard about calling it Cake Wars IV: A New Gateau but didn't think I could keep the theme going, so it's plain old cake wars!
The setting is a (wait for it ...) coffee shop. Yes, I know, such a shock, me being in a coffee shop! My habits had changed a little in the past few months; I used to walk back along the pedestrian precinct in town to swing by a coffee shop, but that shop had closed down. I still walked past it on the way in and it sat empty for quite a while. Then, one day, it looked like it was re-emerging from it's somnulent state. A few
A small frisson ...
There I was, sitting in a coffee shop (yes, I know, a rare thing, but I do from time to time ...) when the opening of the door caught my peripheral vision so I turned my head a bit and saw a gentleman in a blue uniform enter (and no, NOT the police finally catching up with me ..!) and it became very obvious he was Royal Navy, much like his colleague who I then saw hard on his heels. My first thought was "they must have badly mis-parked their ship", even if we were within a long stone's throw from the sea). A thought that was quickly dashed as they walked past to the counter and their shoulder patches saying, "bomb disposal" became visible.
How bizarre ...
Fire up deviantART in Chromium and it hangs on 'waiting for google-analytics.com'. Do the same in Opera and it goes through without worry.
Is that a rat I smell or just a case of the bizarre?
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Tee hee hee, well I completed my apprentice 'Fat Bastard' training some years ago and am fully qualified! Can't believe Pete hasn't heard of The Far Side, I love it 