Six sides to every lie I say

[venta]

I had a baby's head for dinner!

Well, OK, I'm in Reading so it wasn't called a baby's head, it was called an individual steak and kidney pudding. But I grew up in that north and I know a babby's 'eid when I see one.

The Three Tuns in Reading: steak and kidney pud, chips with black pepper all over them, and mushy peas, £6.50. Not a bad price for quite a plateful. I didn't have the mushy peas, you can take this being northern thing too far.

Ideally I'd have spent this afternoon in a comfortable, suet-filled coma but actually I've spent it moving furniture around. For a company with not that many employees we seem to have a hell of a lot of desks.

Comments

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

I saw Goblin Meat Puddings in tins recently and very nearly bought one, but I bet they won't taste as nice as I remember!

[venta.livejournal.com]

Funny you should say that! I was somewhere the other day which was selling them 2 for a quid (in small microwaveable pots, no less)!

I bought two, and I bet you're right :)

[ailbhe]

I could use some company in Reading sometime. Just sayin'.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ah! Up til now I had no idea where you were, geographically. I don't live in Reading, but I work there (on the university campus at Whiteknights).

Whereabouts are you?

[ailbhe]

Near Reading West Station.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I don't really know that bit, but it's not a million miles away and I have a pushbike to get me about. I'm (almost) always in Reading on weekdays, travelling in and out via the main station. I'd feel somewhat impolite inviting myself round to visit you, but if you'd like to meet up sometime (or would like to be visited), drop me an email (venta at livejournal will work).

[uitlander]

Ah. Two of my universes have just found an interconnecting wormhole. They have a habit of doing that. You both have a grumblesmurf and beckyl in common as well.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

I look forward to hearing your review!

[shui-long.livejournal.com]

Have you moved? I thought your office was somewhere around Green Park/Verizon (or Reading International Business Park if it's being posh).
Forbury Road/Kings Road probably isn't an improvement over the A33, but you might be able to cut through some more pleasant areas like Erleigh Road. It's uphill, though...

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, yes, and yes :)

(That is: I have moved, I was formerly on Green Park, I do now cycle through pleasant residential bits instead of slogging down the A33, and it is up a bastard hill.)