Blog 17 – call that a short break!
I’ll start (that’s the sixth attempt) by apologising to everyone for the gap between these etchings (that bit has taken me 5 minutes to type, just because I am not a natural multi-fingered, super swift key board operator? of the keyboard) but I took some time off blogging to live the life that is needed to write the blog in the first place!?! Understand? If you can you’re one up on me.
I don’t know how it works for you but I’ve noticed io put a lot of brackets in the writing of these blogs. I was (I think) taught that if you added to the sentence using brackets, the bit that’s bracketed should be able to be lifted out and that the sentence would still make sense. Does that make sense?
So don’t just sit there try it with the above paragraph, and in the meantime I’ll carry on.
It’s not easy typing all this (think of a word or two and insert after this bracketed section) ‘observations of mannerisms and habits of the nation’. Pompous.
Let it be known that yours truly is now and forever has been a two fingered typist, which makes me either incredible slow at completing my work, or if I charge ahead with the typing, incredibly slow going through the passages spell checking.
Other things delay my resolve to get cracking, I must have my mug of tea sitting beside me at my place of work. The tea must be Twining Everyday Tea in their very own bags (hardly Radley but hey at 1.5p a bag what do you expect), which must be cleaned of loose tea dust and inspected before popping into either my ‘Country Roses’ or Wedgewood ‘Autumn’ (thinks) mug. The mug must be warmed using near boiling water BEFORE the tea bag is added.
The water must be filtered either using an in-build filtration system which would have been added when the kitchen was refurbished (by those birdie kitchen designers and ‘approved’ installers) or using a portable 1.5litre water filtering jug, complete with the appropriate filtration cartridge. The system is to be supplied by Brita or is it Britas – who remembers ‘Mr. Britas in that tv show – name please – was it ‘the Britas Empire’ and the ever-suffering wife. She was brilliant and by far the best character in the program.
When all the above criteria have been fulfilled, I can start – just a quick sip to get me going. I just glanced out of the window and the day has dawned. The dark horizon (it’s a fence on the other side of the road) warms to a pale ashen hue as the sun in all its majesty continues it’s rise to glory. With each passing moment the signs of the day are beginning make themselves evident with the sound of rushing cars, buzzy motor bikes, chatty pedestrians, each rendering its own recognizable dawn chorus. I put the mug back on the tablemat, posh in our house, and go to complete the paragraph. Got to the stage where I’m thinking that I could do with a drink only to realise the mug is still full. Quick take a sip while you have the chance – Cold!
How come the tea is cold when at 6.30 I went through the (exhausting) ritual – liar – to make the perfect start to the day and find that at 7.30 (told you I was a slow typist) that the stuff, which burnt the roof of my mouth earlier, has gone cold. Now what do I do? I’m really thirsty but have a dilemma – do I stop typing?, get out of the chair? Walk all the way to the kitchen and brew myself another cup, come back to the laptop and continue with my typing OR do I drink cold tea. Cold tea can’t be all that bad – it earnt Tommy Lipton a few bob- but his tea doesn’t get served with added milk. Face it, it hardly contains anything added, which means the price of cans and bottles are what made him his fortune – well how much does it cost for 500mlof tap water and 2 drops of lemon, peach, or orange squash ?
It's such a difficult choice – I’ll have to think about it. Between times I’ll tell you about my latest fad.
Let me return you to the early days of Alan’s blogs, that’s right about 3 weeks ago, when the talk was of fairies at the bottom of the garden.
During our visit to Norway (more to come on that) I discovered a whole new world that needs, no, must be added to the kingdom at tbotg (work it out)
I’ll give you a one-word clue, then I’ll go and make (another) mug of tea –
TROLLS
The planning of the new dark kingdom (trolldom) in the shed at the bottom of the garden (look at the last 5 words carefully) starts tomorrow
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