Trick or Treaters, f*ck off!
We won't be answering the door over the next day or two or having much in the way of lights on. I hate this time of year, with hooded thugees demanding treats with menaces. Well, they can S*d off! Actually in my village not too bad, but where mum and dad live their garage door got egged and floured by the local chav element once or twice. We thought about wiring the front door up to the mains in the absence of boiling oil :)
Little kids having a bit of fun and out under parental supervision we don't mind, its the teens you have to watch out for.
Still, we will be having a nice Halloween meal for 2 with some roast pork glazed with honey, chilli and fennel, and appropriately ghoulish vegetables. Washed down with some red wine (warms the blood :)) and perhaps some Halloween cake. The missus has a great Halloween recipie book I've cribbed this from.
Went shopping in Truro on Saturday, by the time I left at 11:15 realy busy. Lots of people, lots of christmas tat in the shops. I plan on either making or buying online most of my christmas presents this year. Got some beads and made earrings when I got home. Saw an excellent Haynes Manual on the Supermarine Spitfire in Waterstones, great modelling reference, on the Christmas list.
Sunday - cooking, eating, planning the model yacht I want to scratch build. Rained most of Sunday but managed to get out to the shed to start carving the keel piece. Basically I am going to make a 54 foot yawl, working to a scale of 1cm to one foot. Need to get accurate measurements for the beam, and height of deck from the keel. I am planning a plank-on-frame construction using wood strip. Need lots more measurements and information but started scouring the yachting journals. I am basing my model on Stormchild, from the novel by Bernard Cornwell, one of my favourite authors.
The end of BST was OK, put the clocks back when I got up. Half term at College so nice and quiet. I need to find my holiday card fast so I can book leave for a week today if I am to see my Mum this side of Christmas. Bermuda has good rum, so have asked Dad to bring back a bottle. Lambs Navy is OK but Captain Morgan is fit only for the Christmas pudding ...
They are back in the UK on Wednesday and Dad is going almost immediately off to Gibraltar on business. Depending on the weather, and me being able to book leave, mum will drive down at the weekend.
Leaflet inside the Military and Aviation Book Society newsletter for The Whisky Conniseur - some rather good stuff in there, very nice Whiskies and also varoius flavours of gin.
Little kids having a bit of fun and out under parental supervision we don't mind, its the teens you have to watch out for.
Still, we will be having a nice Halloween meal for 2 with some roast pork glazed with honey, chilli and fennel, and appropriately ghoulish vegetables. Washed down with some red wine (warms the blood :)) and perhaps some Halloween cake. The missus has a great Halloween recipie book I've cribbed this from.
Went shopping in Truro on Saturday, by the time I left at 11:15 realy busy. Lots of people, lots of christmas tat in the shops. I plan on either making or buying online most of my christmas presents this year. Got some beads and made earrings when I got home. Saw an excellent Haynes Manual on the Supermarine Spitfire in Waterstones, great modelling reference, on the Christmas list.
Sunday - cooking, eating, planning the model yacht I want to scratch build. Rained most of Sunday but managed to get out to the shed to start carving the keel piece. Basically I am going to make a 54 foot yawl, working to a scale of 1cm to one foot. Need to get accurate measurements for the beam, and height of deck from the keel. I am planning a plank-on-frame construction using wood strip. Need lots more measurements and information but started scouring the yachting journals. I am basing my model on Stormchild, from the novel by Bernard Cornwell, one of my favourite authors.
The end of BST was OK, put the clocks back when I got up. Half term at College so nice and quiet. I need to find my holiday card fast so I can book leave for a week today if I am to see my Mum this side of Christmas. Bermuda has good rum, so have asked Dad to bring back a bottle. Lambs Navy is OK but Captain Morgan is fit only for the Christmas pudding ...
They are back in the UK on Wednesday and Dad is going almost immediately off to Gibraltar on business. Depending on the weather, and me being able to book leave, mum will drive down at the weekend.
Leaflet inside the Military and Aviation Book Society newsletter for The Whisky Conniseur - some rather good stuff in there, very nice Whiskies and also varoius flavours of gin.