A wet morning in prospect. This is fine, so to speak. Living as we do in a greenish and by and large pleasant land, rain comes with the territory. This morning I propose to stroll to a nearby market in search of a packet of mixed mushrooms needed to cook the curry for tonight’s tea. I don’t think they come in packets as such. It’ll be one of those small plastic trays with a protective film over it. You know the sort. Maybe that is a packet.
In an ideal world I’d have simply had to go to the bottom of the garden and pick some fresh grown fungi but we haven’t got any. So I won’t. Can’t. Wouldave shouldave. The main problem is that the shops tend not to stock much of a variety which is what is really needed to make my mushroom curry a success tonight. Apaz. See how it goze. I will report back.
In other news the snooker season is underway. This has brought great joy to THG although we didn’t stay up late to see who won the match last night. Talking of winter sport it doesn’t look as if the one day cricket final will go ahead. It was rained off yesterday and the weather looks similar today. This was to be the culmination of the summer of sport. Never mind. Another summer will inevitably wend itself this way. As sure as eggs is eggs, as ‘they’ say 🙂
Meanwhile there is some packing to be done. London and Berlin. Everybody talk about, pop muzik. Feels a little early in the season to be going to Berlin. Or late in the year. Call it what you like. I identify Berlin with freezing weather, snow covered streets, walls and military checkpoints. That’s what it looked like in the movies of my youth. I guess things have moved on since then. I know they have. The snow geese have arrived early this winter.
The pairing of London and Berlin does evoke memories of the cold war. I only found out in recent years that the “circus” of Smiley fame was Cambridge Circus which is very near to where trefbash is held. Something appropriate about a hedonistic party being held just down the road to where spies met and plotted. Were trefbash to have been held in the sixties I might have had the occasional spy drop in. Michael Caine at least if not Smiley himself. How cool would that have been 🙂Maybs.
We should have had a spy themed bash one year but probs not colourful enough. Everyone would have turned up in trenchcoats wearing a trilby. This year’s bash is going to be launched this week so keep your eyes out. Maybe even tomorrow evening. I’ll let you have a bit of notice. In fact this could be it!