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At the back end of last year, five of us who knew each other at university got together for dinner for the first time in ages. We brought along our respective other halves, and had a jolly evening eating curry in a house in St John's Wood.
Four of the couples live in London(ish, if you count St Albans). The fifth has taken up residence in Munich and, recently, bought a holiday home in Austria. A general invitation was issued to visit them, which I mentally filed as the sort of polite thing people say.
However our Christmas card this year, and then a follow-up email, suggested we really should visit. ChrisC and I had said we were learning to ski (in the snow dome at Milton Keynes), would we like to visit before the end of the ski season and try some real snow?
We consulted air fares, compared calendars, and decided we would. ( An adventure! )
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Four of the couples live in London(ish, if you count St Albans). The fifth has taken up residence in Munich and, recently, bought a holiday home in Austria. A general invitation was issued to visit them, which I mentally filed as the sort of polite thing people say.
However our Christmas card this year, and then a follow-up email, suggested we really should visit. ChrisC and I had said we were learning to ski (in the snow dome at Milton Keynes), would we like to visit before the end of the ski season and try some real snow?
We consulted air fares, compared calendars, and decided we would. ( An adventure! )
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You just tell 'em lies, lies
Feb. 8th, 2013 02:07 pmToday, as per usual for a Friday, the degenerate end of the office hived off to the pub for lunch.
I ordered a burger. Please could I not have bacon[*] in it?
Sure, said the barman, the bacon wasn't compulsory. Did I want something else in it instead?
Like what?
"We...ll. Mushrooms?" he improvised. "Or an egg? Or black pudding?"
"Really?" I asked, bouncing gently up and down. "I could have black pudding in my burger?"
Apparently yes, if I wanted.
I wanted.
Black pudding in a cheese burger is awesome.
Accordingly, for being friendly and willing to improvise and serving Rebellion's Fat Cat[**], this week's Designated Hero of the Week is The Maiden Over.
[*] I don't dislike bacon. I just don't get as excited about it as everyone else. And I don't think it belongs in my burgers.
[**] Although it has just been demonstrated that a pint of Fat Cat has rendered one of my colleagues unable to count accurately up to 2.
I ordered a burger. Please could I not have bacon[*] in it?
Sure, said the barman, the bacon wasn't compulsory. Did I want something else in it instead?
Like what?
"We...ll. Mushrooms?" he improvised. "Or an egg? Or black pudding?"
"Really?" I asked, bouncing gently up and down. "I could have black pudding in my burger?"
Apparently yes, if I wanted.
I wanted.
Black pudding in a cheese burger is awesome.
Accordingly, for being friendly and willing to improvise and serving Rebellion's Fat Cat[**], this week's Designated Hero of the Week is The Maiden Over.
[*] I don't dislike bacon. I just don't get as excited about it as everyone else. And I don't think it belongs in my burgers.
[**] Although it has just been demonstrated that a pint of Fat Cat has rendered one of my colleagues unable to count accurately up to 2.
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No sleep til Hammersmith
Oct. 5th, 2007 09:46 amLast night, I left work and bowled down the M4 to see Bill Bailey in ( Hammersmith )
Where's the streetwise Hercules ?
May. 11th, 2007 03:11 pmI know we haven't had one for a while, but I've just spotted someone who should be Designated Hero of the Week:
Ms Paula Ceely
Who ? Well, according to the BBC she followed her sat nav's instructions and drove her car onto a railway line where it collided with a train.
Not very heroic, I hear you say. Arguably not very smart, either. Well, yes. But here's what she apparently said afterwards:
"I can't completely blame the sat nav because up until there, it did get me where I needed to go," she added.
"If maybe I had been more aware of the situation, I wouldn't have had the accident."
Now that is heroic. She hasn't threatened to sue the sat nav company. She hasn't railed at length about the lack of signs indicating the railway line. She hasn't called for the resignation of the cartographer/train driver/Prime Minister. She's actually (here's the scary bit) admitted that perhaps it might be her fault. When was the last time you heard someone in a news report attempting to take responsibility for their own actions like that ?
Ms Ceely, I salute you.
Ms Paula Ceely
Who ? Well, according to the BBC she followed her sat nav's instructions and drove her car onto a railway line where it collided with a train.
Not very heroic, I hear you say. Arguably not very smart, either. Well, yes. But here's what she apparently said afterwards:
"I can't completely blame the sat nav because up until there, it did get me where I needed to go," she added.
"If maybe I had been more aware of the situation, I wouldn't have had the accident."
Now that is heroic. She hasn't threatened to sue the sat nav company. She hasn't railed at length about the lack of signs indicating the railway line. She hasn't called for the resignation of the cartographer/train driver/Prime Minister. She's actually (here's the scary bit) admitted that perhaps it might be her fault. When was the last time you heard someone in a news report attempting to take responsibility for their own actions like that ?
Ms Ceely, I salute you.
