"YABBER-LINER" - ALL ABOARD

We're having an American guest at the weekend. He is coming from California as part of a barbershop chorus, to give a concert at the Royal Northern College of Music on Sunday.

So we're looking forward to meeting Mark. His party arrives at the airport on Saturday evening.

So I've got to go to the supermarket this morning, to buy some funny foodstuffs.

One of the gentlemen from the barbershop music you played on community radio?

No, not them.

An associated choir of my wife's lot, Cottontown Chorus of Bolton, have invited this group over from California to hold a joint concert.
Details on request.
This is a bit like the brass band world, or carp fishing....until you get involved, you have no idea just how much of it is going on. And it's surprising.

Do you think Bolton will be a bit of a culture shock after sunny California?

Madness takes many forms izzie. Only sanity is constant.

I'm not Izzie, as it's Izzie's thread, it's important to get your names right. Just don't call me RL.

I know the difference between Izzie and izzie izzie.

How did you go with Stendhal?

I'll be starting it soon, I'm ploughing through my old American Literature Professor's biography of his father. I should finish it soon, I started it more out of a sense of duty than anything else, but I'm actually quite enjoying it.

We have a little mud in Bama too. It's just red clay. And it doesn't come out of your clothes easily.

Lots of mentions of Toads in Holes lately - what is that exactly? Anyway...
Baseball tournament tonight. Tomorrow and Sunday too. So needless to say - busy weekend.

Hugs to you all. Hope you have a wonderful weekend and I will be popping in and out I am sure.
misxox

Toad in the hole is a poor man's roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. You mix up the batter as usual, but instead of making individual puddings you pour it into a big dish with sausages.

I presume you mean a biography of Stendhal's father.

To save you any further bother the man who knew best about his father, Stendhal himself, seems to have thought him something of a shitbag and a confounded nuisance. The detailed differences between any one and another of them being of little importance although possibly interesting to those who specialise in discovering how people get the way they are.

But it might be that he ladled it on a bit thick to bring comfort to other young men who had such type fathers. As sort of "you're not alone" gambit and it's best to learn to laugh.

He was on the retreat from Moscow you know. There's a bloke I want to hear a few words from. He's bound to have fewer illusions than an armchair turkey.



Great writers have the poshest ladles.

You presume wrongly, it's a biography of his own father, that's why I feel duty bound.

anyboody seen the captain aboot lately?

everything is turning green here in Kansas...

Manchester will put on its best show for the visitors, and the RNCM is second to none. Julliard and Berklee schools, eat your hearts out.

I got some bagels, and pancakes and maple syrup to go with the eggs and bacon.
Though maybe our guest would prefer porridge and black puddings for breakfast. We'll see.

I'm sorry. It sounds wonderful.

What about tripe and onions Mac? Or pig's trotters. That's more like Bolton. He's got pancakes and maple syrup galore in Cal. When in Rome and all that.

Oh--they calls porridge "grits". It has more hair on its balls you see.

Did you see what Corrie scriptwriters did to that visiting Yank?

A lot of Americans are conviced our food is horrible, tripe and onions and pigs trotters would be the icing on the cake.

It's a very touching and quite intimate portrayal of an ordinary man, an Irishman in London who served on the Atlantic and Arctic convoys during WW2 and devoted a lot of time to his garden. I don't normally read biographies but I'm quite enjoying this one. I learnt a few things about beekeeping to boot.

Hey Crew

Hoping all are well and good

Thinking of y’all – so lovely to see y’all chatting. Makes me smile.

Rugby thisavo... we may get a pummelling from Wales... but 'eh, I have my England flag on the chair and I will be cheering for our lads - all of them!

So hoping we get a score so I can yell out Try! and again... and again

<ok, my bad >

Thinking of those near and far, loving those who are held in my heart.

Y'all take care out there



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ps.., C'MON YE PADDIES!!!!!!

We all get passionate about the sports we love. What I've been saying about Watford doesn't bear repeating.