Yes, Married Friends, that first "date night" - getting it right isn't as easy as it sounds, is it, to put it mildly!!!!
One local couple here in Hampshire [source: Onion News] seem to have right-royally "screwed it up" - no pun intended !!!!!
Oops mistake number one there! And I don't know what the Clarksons had ordered off the restaurant menu for their first date-night - it isn't specified in the story, nor can you tell from the picture. However, judging by Mrs Clarkson's face, I'm guessing it wasn't "burritos", however - always a risky choice, where many a first date-night has gone horrible wrong from the word 'let's go for it!' !!!! [That's four words! - Ed].
Ordering burritos can be an "easy" choice (no pun intended!!!!) [That's enough 'unintentional' puns! - Ed], as suggested in the selection of the week's best Venn diagrams, as picked out for us this week by Steve, our American brother-in-law.
For me and my medium-to-long-suffering wife Lois, however, here in rural, semi-leafy Liphook, Hampshire, this selection of best diagrams brings its usual chorus of chuckles, followed by a brisk "
walk down memory lane", as we try to remember what we ordered on the approximately 50,000 occasions that we've "eaten out" together since we first "hooked up" over 55 years ago. I look back in my blog, but annoyingly I find that I haven't always given full details of the meals selected
[That's one thing to be thankful for, then, Colin! - Ed].
And here's this week's "Colin's Readers' Challenge". Check back in my blog - not just the English-language ones but the preceding ones, conveniently crafted in Danish and Hungarian, and see if YOU can come up with a full list of what we ordered, based on the pictorial evidence. A small cash prize is offered (amount to be specified later !!!!), closing date tomorrow haha, postcards only!!!!
two representative meals from my recent, as yet unpublished book
"Fifty Five Years of Blogging (And Counting!)": also featured in
my as yet also unpublished spin-off work, "Best Meals Out October 2013"
[Still loving those tomatoes, then, Colin, I see! - Ed
10:30 Out of the house at last, we start reminiscing about our 55 years of meals out, during our rain-affected morning walk today through nearby Radford Park today, but after all that, we're still only up to 1971, and we're not even married yet (!!!) - and, while we're busy stretching our memories to the limits this morning, the local birds are doing their best to distract us with their distractingly repetitive (!) birdsongs - at least according to our shiny-new bird-identifier app, merlin.
Try to keep it down next time, guys haha!!!!
What madness, isn't it !!!!! We've both gone slightly "
merlin-crazy" at the moment using this little app,, and today we even keep the app switched on all afternoon during "statutory nap time" in case anything out of the ordinary pops up (!), and then on into the evening. And during this evening's programme in this year's "
Springwatch" series on UK wildlife, the app even picks up the sound of a corncrake, a bird which is rarely seen or heard anywhere south of Scotland or Northern Ireland.
Another game-changing first for us to report !!!!
In tonight's programme, newly-bearded Welsh presenter "Iolo" Williams finds an old codger on Tory Island, just off County Donegal, who is hoping to hear his first corncrake for 60 years: he remembers hearing them as a boy on visits to his grandparents there, back in the 1960's.
Bingo! And now the corncrake is also recorded on my phone as a "Hampshire event", so that's a relief too - and definitely one for the record books, which is nice!
[Isn't that ever so slightly cheating, Colin? Just saying! - Ed]
Will this do?
[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzz!!!!!
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