12 Jan 09 Out Of Town
It’s the first time we’ve had the opportunity to get out of town for a weekend for a long time, and as we were looking forward to meeting up with our friends again anyway, it was good to get away.
No, we didn’t fly anywhere. It was only 100 miles, well that’s what the GPS said, but the odometer was around 93 when we turned up the drive.
Well it’s not really a drive, it’s across the field. It was dark so I was very careful in case there where any landmines. Not real landmines but enormous great holes to bottom out on. There weren’t though.
We got there in pretty good time, after stopping for some food and drink on the way.
I almost always forget something, and this time was no exception. I got out the camera, and I’d forgotten to put the SD card in the darn thing. (when I got back home, I found I’d left it on the living room table). So all the photos that I took, were with my Blackberry, which is ok in good light – for a cellphone at least.
It was quite dark, so we just enjoyed a snack, and a few beers, and turned in for the night.
The next day we took a short walk down to the Pee Dee River, which is about a mile away. It was a most pleasant afternoon, and it was good to be able to walk around in the countryside. Much as I enjoy living in Charleston, I always prefer the country to the city.
We got back home, and grilled out in the evening. Pork chops and a hearty salad went down a real treat after that walk.
Sunday, we went into Pamplico for brunch, and had some excellent ham and friend chicken, accompanied by cabbage, and beans. It was an ‘eat all you can’ buffet, so I did.
Slight panic on the way home. We were low on gas, and we seemed to drive for miles and miles before we found a gas station that was open, and in the process we took a wrong turning, but it didn’t really take us too far out of our way. Only downside was that it made us too late to get to the Amazon Grill in Goose Creek for the Lowcountry Bloggers meetup, before everyone else went home!
All in all, it was, of course, good to spend time with good friends, and it was good to take some real chill out time and relax. I actually didn’t sit at a computer all day on Saturday, which is a first for me for a long time!
Tags: beers, blackberry, cellphone, fly, food and drink, fried chicken, good time, gps, holes, landmines, living room, long time, odometer, pamplico, photos, sc, sd card, snack
01 Jul 08 Tastes Change
Mrs Thomas called me from the living room to the kitchen to tell me that dinner was ready.
She served up liver bacon and onion casserole. I sat there cutting this darn liver into smaller and smaller tiny pieces, along with the cabbage too, and hoping it would somehow melt and vanish.
Eventually Mr Thomas, who struck me at the time, as a very stern man, if one was to upset him, asked me in his thick Rhondda Valley accent, what was wrong with Mrs Thomas’ dinner.
I mumbled something about having a stomach ache, and he mumbled something about food going to waste. At that time I didn’t much care that it was going to waste; I was more concerned that I didn’t have to eat it.
Anyway, 35 or so years later, and this evening I was sitting down tucking into my dinner, and thinking how tastes change.
For dinner this evening, I made liver,bacon and onion casserole, with mash potatoes, and cabbage.
Suddenly my mind transported me back to sometime in the early 1970′s, and Mr & Mrs Thomas’ flat in Acton…
Tags: accent, bacon, early 1970, liver, living room, mash potatoes, mr thomas, mrs thomas, onion casserole, potatoes and cabbage, rhondda valley, stern man, stomach ache, tastes, tiny pieces
26 Jan 08 3BT
- It’s the start of a busy weekend. Plenty to do, and I like that!
- Sitting here at the laptop, in the living room, is much nearer the coffee pot than my usual location. Smell the coffee!
- Having a little Geek-A-Thon later this morning. The meeting of the minds? Perhaps, but an opportunity to at least swap some techie tales, and have a mutter about the continuing chaos in some quarters.
Tags: coffee pot, geek, laptop, living room, meeting of the minds, smell the coffee, thon, three beautiful things, Three Beautiful Things
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