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Monthly Archives: December 2013

2013 • Year of the Lentil

31 Tuesday Dec 2013

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Year of the lentil

It says in my diary
January 5th – lentil soup (for me)
He had roast beef and gravy

February 5th cheese and beetroot it says
Then in big letters SICK. And so the next day
Lentil soup. But the pain went away.

On March 5th I had ham and beans.
Tasty and okay it seems.
Pulses make for sweeter dreams.

April 5th — ill all night and in pain.
Next day it was – you guessed it – again.
So it went on every month looks the same!

By this time the lentil
was driving me mental
but most other foodstuffs seemed quite detrimental!

In September at last I went to see
What on earth the matter could be
With my poor right ribs, my back and me.

The gall of it all.
Gall stones – and not small.
It seems I could eat no fat at all

Like old Jack Spratt!
Well fancy that.
It was just that lentil soup has no fat!!

So for Christmas I made a fair fat free feast
Today it’s lentil soup but at least
That’s my choice! Hey the truth is — I LIKE LENTILS!

For fat substitute WHISKEY :)

For fat substitute WHISKEY 🙂

My fat free Christmas Cake

POSTCARD FROM NEW YORK 7 • Central Park

17 Tuesday Dec 2013

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Today I am signing off this Blog for Christmas. This coincides with photos of our last day in New York and a ride in Central Park. There is some pressure to stop these rides — New York being no place for a horse. I can see why… The traffic certainly is too heavy for a horse to negociate but that said our horse seemed only to want his mash and was a calm and well groomed animal. Maybe if they could figure out a way to keep the animals on a separate route…

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I can imagine no better way to spend a wet New York day when you are footsore from beating the streets.
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Postcard from New York 5 • INTREPID Sea, Air & Space Museum

10 Tuesday Dec 2013

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The INTREPID itself is as big as three football pitches and bristling with aircraft and spacecraft. Survivor of 2 kamase attacks in 1944, this incredible vessel deserves a day of anyone’s time.

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These days it is home to a concord, the Space Shuttle Enterprise, and some very hairy looking space rides that I declined to try, one of which turns it’s occupants upside down. Oooo-errr!OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Yes folks that’s a little port for the Consellation Urine 🙂
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This is a superb place to visit. We spent 5 hours. We visited all except the submarine OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA My one monor complaint was that there really weren’t enough places to sit and rest a while in this huge museum complex.
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Facilities include rest rooms, gift shops and a cafe — of which more on my Food for Thought for Friday Google Blog. If you go to New York and even if you don’t think you are fond of aircraft etc, I promise you, this place will impress you.

Postcard from New York 4 • A Birthday to remember

03 Tuesday Dec 2013

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On 5th November Noel’s 60th Birthday we went on by metro to the Statten Island Ferry and took a free boat ride:

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Via Bryant Park to Nat Sheraton’s Tobacco and Cigar Emporium
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There’s the pipe on the counter! After that we walked back past The Rockerfeller Centre and then out to dinner at Lattanzi . I reccommend it! and then on to The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway — superb!!! I have a poster signed by all the cast too 🙂

What a great birthday. Wonder what we’lldo on mine :/ Can’t top that!

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