Hey all,
Apologies for the lack of blog this week. I'm actually on holiday in Norfolk near Great Yarmouth. It's been a strain and the weather has been pretty bad but worst of all nowhere has internet access! Honestly it's like being on the 80's all over again.
Food however has been pretty good with one exception. BBQ on the first day. There are 4 of us here and 2 of them are kids (7 year olds) so naturally I made 6 burgers of varying spiciness, 4 Beef Steaks, 4 Pork Steaks, 6 Cumberland Sausages, 4 Chicken Kebabs, Tomato Salad and of course the obligatory Potato Salad.....Needless to say 3 days later and there is still some left in the fridge.
Last night I made Britain's favourite home made caravan holiday park tucker Spaghetti Bolognaise. As passé as it is I still love a good old Spag Bol and I make it differently each time, which I suppose it's how it should be, after all the "Bolognaise" as it's referred to on these shores is actually known as "Ragu" in Italy and each region or even family has it's own version......but you all knew that right?
The let down on the food front however has been the take away curry we got on Tuesday. I was really craving one so headed off to the local village Tandoori and it was pretty poor. The sauces we're OK but the one chicken dish had about half a breasts worth of meat in it and the lamb dish had about two chops worth, they were more soup than curry.
That disappointment was soon in the past because after eating we went to a neighbouring holiday park to catch the talent competition and the cabaret...wooooooo
What a giggle that was !! The talent show was funny, it was all little kiddies so that made it bearable viewing. The winner was a little girl who got up on her own and sung a sing, I couldn't hear a word she sung but she was only about 4 or 5 and it was very brave of her to get up there.
Before that was the cabaret which was this group of young teenage kiddies who were collectively a singing and dancing troupe. The sound people completely buggered up the music meaning that there was loads of feedback and afterwards we were told that they'd been playing the backing music at the wrong speed so it was all out of key...Oops.
Heading back tomorrow via Ely to see my family there so should be out and about if anybody fancies a drink in town later on.
Anyway.......moving on I think it's all about Sven in the Park on 14th August. 12hr set (5pm - 5am) only slight problem is that it's in Livorno, Italy. Still I'll get some prices together and let people know if they happen to be interested in a little roadtrip.
Mind you I'm also wanting to head to Ibiza at the beginning of September too so could be an idea to save a bit of cash.
So that's about it, pretty much everything covered. Catch you laters.
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Thursday, 29 July 2010
Monday, 19 July 2010
Monday Monday....So good to me
Well apart from waking up and having to cancel my bank card it's been good.
The schools have broken up for end of term which of course means no maniacal women on the road in their ridiculously big 4x4's, (which was an absolutely necessary purchase after the birth of baby Horatio) doing their make-up and texting their therapists.
I mean how can a 43 year old first time mother possibly cope with with the lack of room provided by a BMW convertible, plus the fact that all the other ladies at the tennis club have them.
I'm joking of course, I really do love it when I almost get run off the road by a perma-tanned, pink terry towling clad psycho in a Range Rover sport trying to avoid a puddle, it's a hoot.
I just don't get this "Chelsea Tractor" thing. I mean my mum did perfectly OK with the 3 of us and a metallic blue MK II Ford Cortina with the black vinyl roof !! Oh actually the blue one was a MK III, the bright yellow one was the MK II.
Also I didn't see one "Baby on Board" dangly sign or the even wackier "Princess on Board" or perhaps even the stupendously amusing "Little Angel on Board" variety. What are they all about anyway?
Are we to assume that the average driver wakes up one morning and thinks "Ooooh it's a lovely day, had a great weekend too. What shall I do today?........I know I'll go out for a drive in my car and purposely crash into the back of someone.......Oh best not crash into that car as they have a baby on board, I'll have to choose one without one of those very informative dangly things."
I'd like to see other ones done in the same design. Things like "Chav in Training on board" or "Potential Thug on Board"....I think you get my drift :-)
So I'm grateful for school holidays that I didn't come across any of this and that makes me happy.
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTT.....I've just found out that schools don't infact break up until Thursday.............I'm a plum. I apologise for my previous rant although I'm not going to delete it because I think it's mildly amusing.
Well still it was a nice traffic free journey......... (DOH)
In other news my upcoming weekend plans have been scuppered by the closure of my local pub (RIP - Sad times) however I have already tendered my interest in taking it over and becoming a Restaurateur and Publican but to be honest the brewery that actually owns the pub (Enterprise Inns) are notoriously difficult to work with and because of the tied lease there is no real incentive to make a healthy business out of it.
I'd need them to allow me to at least earn what I do now to make it worthwhile and I cannot see that happening especially after reading that one of their pubs had a turnover of £500,000 and the tenants got a return on that of £15,000 !!! Absolutely outrageous profiteering. Not sure a village pub in a suburb of Reading is going to be able to make a turnover of £1m+ in a year.
Making people buy stock at over 60% more than other wholesalers and then increasing rents when profits are made is just completely unreasonable and cannot be an effective business model.
Seems to me and probably many others that the people running these business models have absolutely no interest in preserving the tradition that is the great British pub.
They are probably more interested in getting the places bulldozed and ready to be replaced by very expensive and incredibly mediocre blocks of flats that can then be sold to people without enough money to repay their mortgages.
Have a great day readers :-)
The schools have broken up for end of term which of course means no maniacal women on the road in their ridiculously big 4x4's, (which was an absolutely necessary purchase after the birth of baby Horatio) doing their make-up and texting their therapists.
I mean how can a 43 year old first time mother possibly cope with with the lack of room provided by a BMW convertible, plus the fact that all the other ladies at the tennis club have them.
I'm joking of course, I really do love it when I almost get run off the road by a perma-tanned, pink terry towling clad psycho in a Range Rover sport trying to avoid a puddle, it's a hoot.
I just don't get this "Chelsea Tractor" thing. I mean my mum did perfectly OK with the 3 of us and a metallic blue MK II Ford Cortina with the black vinyl roof !! Oh actually the blue one was a MK III, the bright yellow one was the MK II.
Also I didn't see one "Baby on Board" dangly sign or the even wackier "Princess on Board" or perhaps even the stupendously amusing "Little Angel on Board" variety. What are they all about anyway?
Are we to assume that the average driver wakes up one morning and thinks "Ooooh it's a lovely day, had a great weekend too. What shall I do today?........I know I'll go out for a drive in my car and purposely crash into the back of someone.......Oh best not crash into that car as they have a baby on board, I'll have to choose one without one of those very informative dangly things."
I'd like to see other ones done in the same design. Things like "Chav in Training on board" or "Potential Thug on Board"....I think you get my drift :-)
So I'm grateful for school holidays that I didn't come across any of this and that makes me happy.
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTT.....I've just found out that schools don't infact break up until Thursday.............I'm a plum. I apologise for my previous rant although I'm not going to delete it because I think it's mildly amusing.
Well still it was a nice traffic free journey......... (DOH)
In other news my upcoming weekend plans have been scuppered by the closure of my local pub (RIP - Sad times) however I have already tendered my interest in taking it over and becoming a Restaurateur and Publican but to be honest the brewery that actually owns the pub (Enterprise Inns) are notoriously difficult to work with and because of the tied lease there is no real incentive to make a healthy business out of it.
I'd need them to allow me to at least earn what I do now to make it worthwhile and I cannot see that happening especially after reading that one of their pubs had a turnover of £500,000 and the tenants got a return on that of £15,000 !!! Absolutely outrageous profiteering. Not sure a village pub in a suburb of Reading is going to be able to make a turnover of £1m+ in a year.
Making people buy stock at over 60% more than other wholesalers and then increasing rents when profits are made is just completely unreasonable and cannot be an effective business model.
Seems to me and probably many others that the people running these business models have absolutely no interest in preserving the tradition that is the great British pub.
They are probably more interested in getting the places bulldozed and ready to be replaced by very expensive and incredibly mediocre blocks of flats that can then be sold to people without enough money to repay their mortgages.
Have a great day readers :-)
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