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High drama in Trumpton
May. 17th, 2011 03:12 pmIf anyone were to ask me if I'm superstitious I would say "Pfffft! Superstition is mere idiocy!" ...and yet the lone magpie that was wandering up and down my road as I wandered to the shops today still had me scouring the skies for a partner. (Tsk to a lifetime of conditioning).
Since I've been off work I've become ludicrously "local" and have started reading notices on lamp posts and the small ads in the post office. Right now there is a slightly comical cat drama being acted out in my road via the medium of lamp-post...
It started a few weeks ago when someone posted A4 pics of a long haired seal-point cat with the text "Is this your cat? This cat has been spotted in Godstone Road over the last few weeks and I am afraid it is missing from home. If you have any information, please phone Steve on xxxx" (In fairness I'm pretty sure I made a similar comment to G when I first spotted the cat, simply because it looks a bit unkempt for a pedigree.)
Today has seen the appearance of new posters on the lamp-posts, featuring a close-up mugshot of the cat's face with the text "I am not missing! I live in Godstone Road, but well-intentioned people keep cat-napping me in the belief that I am lost. This just stresses me out and delays me getting my daily medication" (Well it made me lol... though, admittedly, I don't get out much these days.)
Meanwhile if any of you English roses happen to be wondering what to buy for dinner tonight, I shall pass on the following seasonal recommendations for the month of May, courtesy of the Ashburton Cookery School...
Finally - a quick Q: do any of you use Google Chrome as your main browser? And if so, do you keep finding things that don't work in it? I'm finding that whenever I post blogs to LJ or Blogger I end up having to come out of Chrome and do it in Firefox or IE because the editing interface doesn't work properly in Chrome - especially things like image resizing or even basic rich text formatting. (It''s annoying because I rather like Chrome when it behaves.)
Since I've been off work I've become ludicrously "local" and have started reading notices on lamp posts and the small ads in the post office. Right now there is a slightly comical cat drama being acted out in my road via the medium of lamp-post...
It started a few weeks ago when someone posted A4 pics of a long haired seal-point cat with the text "Is this your cat? This cat has been spotted in Godstone Road over the last few weeks and I am afraid it is missing from home. If you have any information, please phone Steve on xxxx" (In fairness I'm pretty sure I made a similar comment to G when I first spotted the cat, simply because it looks a bit unkempt for a pedigree.)
Today has seen the appearance of new posters on the lamp-posts, featuring a close-up mugshot of the cat's face with the text "I am not missing! I live in Godstone Road, but well-intentioned people keep cat-napping me in the belief that I am lost. This just stresses me out and delays me getting my daily medication" (Well it made me lol... though, admittedly, I don't get out much these days.)
Meanwhile if any of you English roses happen to be wondering what to buy for dinner tonight, I shall pass on the following seasonal recommendations for the month of May, courtesy of the Ashburton Cookery School...
Fruit and vegetables:
Asparagus, Broad beans, Globe artichokes, Cornish early new potatoes,
New season carrots, Rhubarb, Samphire, Spinach
Fish:
Brown Crab, Lobster, Brill, Cod, Grey Mullet, Hake, John Dory, Lemon Sole,
Mackerel, Megrim Sole, Pilchards, Plaice, Pollack (line caught), Ray, Sardines
(We've been eating quite a bit of mackerel with rhubarb & asparagus this month, which has been totally delicious)
(We've been eating quite a bit of mackerel with rhubarb & asparagus this month, which has been totally delicious)
Finally - a quick Q: do any of you use Google Chrome as your main browser? And if so, do you keep finding things that don't work in it? I'm finding that whenever I post blogs to LJ or Blogger I end up having to come out of Chrome and do it in Firefox or IE because the editing interface doesn't work properly in Chrome - especially things like image resizing or even basic rich text formatting. (It''s annoying because I rather like Chrome when it behaves.)
