Yes, Friends, choose your pizza-supplier wisely! It may not be just the Chinese who are adding your preferences to their file on you !!!!
And if you want "chapter and verse", this morning's Onion News has more....
me and my wife Lois - a recent picture
It's the mention of "Hawaiian Pineapple Pizza" that is sending us into a kind of a nostalgic ecstasy. You see, that old classic has disappeared off menus "in these here parts", as people say "in these here parts" (!). Possibly the local county police or even the People's Republic of China no less, has decided it's too "dangerous" an option, "seditious" even? I wonder....!
In short, we're not sure - but if you know why, please drop me your "take" on this contentious issue - postcards only haha!!!!
Certainly, a Hawaiian is nowhere to be seen on the menu this afternoon, as we treat ourselves to a latish 1:30pm lunch at nearby Italian restaurant Adriano's today!!! And if you're good (!), I'll tell you later in this blog exactly why we're lunching so late today, so just mind your Ps and Qs, that's all !!!!! [I can't wait! - Ed]
And after demolishing "two soups", but before demolishing "two tiramisus", in the predictable absence of our Hawaiian "fave", Lois, who's feeling especially adventurous and capricious today, decides to plump for the Capriccioso - no pun intended!!!! - while I stick with the safe choice, the Margherita, which is always "yum", to put it mildly!
[Thanks for telling us! - Ed]
Lois is in a capricious mood today, so goes for the "Capriccioso", which is apt (!),
while I stick with the safe choice - the Margherita [not shown]
"But why are you and Lois lunching so late today?", I hear you cry!
Well, it's because, during an earlier, exciting, but uncomfortably late, 12 noon appointment, we've just been getting to know our new "foot-woman", Janice, who handles her patients (physically as well as commercially!!) in a conservatory in her back garden just a quarter of a mile away from Adriano's, which is super-convenient, to put it mildly!
Janice is just doing Lois today, but she'll be doing me later in the month - and nothing says you're old quite as much as having to pay somebody to cut and file your toenails and then massage your feet with an assortment of mysterious creams, that's what we always say!
However, we come away from this first appointment today feeling we've known Janice all our life, including her marital history and medical history etc, plus details about her family members, including her dear 91-year-old mum, which makes us feel really relaxed. Janice is a really lovely person, we can tell, and a good "find" for us. I think we've really struck lucky here, which is nice to know!
our feet - a part of us that so often gets overlooked
Yes our feet are so often overlooked, aren't they - literally in many cases (!). especially if you're tall (!), and yet they're so so so important!
Remember tall singer Bernard Bresslaw's famous "paean to feet" in his 1950's classic tear-jerker "You Need Feet"?
[That's one thing to be thankful for! - Ed]
15:00 Lois and I get home at last, feeling pleasantly full after our soup-pizza-tiramisu lunch, ready for a slightly delayed late afternoon in bed, but it's nice to put your feet up once in a while, isn't it!
[You lazy so-and-so's! - Ed]
21:00 And there's another chance to put our feet up again this evening, to watch another programme in veteran TV actress Penelope Keith's new series on "Saving Country Houses", which is also relaxing, strangely enough! Well, we both love work - we can watch people doing it all day haha!!!!
Since 1600, all the couples who've owned the house have had their portrait painted and hung in the hall. And recently it was the turn of the present owners to "bite the bullet", and have theirs done.
What a bore haha!!!
What madness!!!!
As regards many of those paintings in their hall, Edward and Heather aren't 100% sure who they're supposed to be. But there's one particular picture that they know a lot about, and that's the portrait of Rear Admiral Roland Mainwaring (1783-1862), because he took to keeping a diary every day of his life, including the day he died (!), as Edward's mother and his sister Fleur explain here:
But he had had "a good innings", living to the grand old age of 78 or so. As a 14-year-old midshipman he had fought the French at the Battle of the Nile in 1798, and after that, he enjoyed a long, distinguished career in the Navy.
I myself feel a slight connection with Roland, as I write a blog every day, which is, like, the 21st century equivalent of a diary of the kind Roland made sure to fill in, also on a daily basis.
But is it too late for me, now, to get a job as a Rear Admiral? I wonder....!
[That ship sailed a long time ago, Colin - no pun intended!!!!! - Ed]
Will this do?
[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzz!!!!
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