So the kid's bicycle arrives from Lazada.
What the fooker's failed to mention
was that you then need to go and buy half the Black & Decker back catalog just to put the fookin' thing together.![]()
So the kid's bicycle arrives from Lazada.
What the fooker's failed to mention
was that you then need to go and buy half the Black & Decker back catalog just to put the fookin' thing together.![]()
Fortunately MM is smarter than me, and after I wrote the shopping list for the local hardware store she said a bicycle shop will put it together for 200 baht.
A Motosai Taxi Expert At everything, 100.
will go with the bike shop.
Just as well it did not need coolant or the poor little tyke would be having a sook come Xmas day because it would still be in bits.
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Wankers, my expertise stops at pink and tubular.
Oi ... I didn't assemble it!
I'm not in the Kingdom ... don't arrive till after the New Year.
Fuckkeerr
Christmas Card List ...
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It's nice to see I have had a small cultural effect on the Thai Family ... all the wrapping plastic came off the bike.
At this time of year I think it's nice to spare a thought for those less fortunate than ourselves.
A time of plenty for some... but how about those unlucky enough to live in impoverished countries.
Norway must be one of the most gastronomically impoverished countries on the planet. Before I left last month I snapped a few Norwegian Christmas delicacies.
Pinnakjot (pronounced penushoot). Salty, dried mutton bones - traditional to bake and eat hot on Christmas Day.
Fenalaar. Dried and salted mutton leg. The same idea as a nice palma ham, but with that unmistakable taste of rancid sheep fat. Not cheap either at about 160 quid a leg.
And last but not least, Lutefisk.
Who wants freshly fried cod and chips when you can soak the cod in cold water for a few days. Once saturated, soak the cod in a sodium hydroxide solution for a couple more days to get a lovely jelly-like consistency, then to make it edible (because it is now caustic with a pH of 11-12) soak it in cold water for another few days. Yum...
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Uff Da!
That's why you need to get to know the locals they all hunt and fish and eat it fresh. I am part Norwegian and as a boy I spent two summers in Norway. The spreads they put on where pretty epic from what I remember.
Living in Seattle the Norwegian side of my family migrated here for the fishing. If you have ever watched that show "The Deadliest Catch" that's what my family did for a living. I grew up eating more Alaskan salmon, king crab and halibut that you could ever imagine.
Well I actually never stopped eating it.![]()
Seems more suitable here then in Mendip's Christmas return to 'ole country.
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Walked into my local Bottle Shop/Off License/Liquor Store
Ho Ho Ho
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What sign? Can't see any signs. I can just see Santa Claudia and a blank background.
They year is 1998, I'm seated in one of Gothenburgs better seafood restaurant and it is quite late in the evening.
The door opens an in comes a guy with wife and children in tow and it is evident from their dresses (sport jackets and pixie) where they come from - it is Ole Norman with family that has just entered the restaurant.
The family waits inside the door while Ole takes a few steps forward, looks around, and then with a loud voice asks: Har dere pizza? (do you serve pizza?)
So will there be a 24 hour truce?
Snub and Jack, AO and Momo, NPT and Sybill, Panama Hat and Huge Cow, Fishlocker and sobriety, Chitty and apostrophes, Dave and then/than, Dill, junior, Lulu and Luigietta's mother all playing football between the trenches?
(Ant and Smeg playing tennis.)
Lulu i've made my New Year resolution so yes.
So you've still got 9 days of urban guerrilla warfare to go.
Hopefully Dill will have calmed down by then and won't be eyeing up me legs like Keano on Alfie Haaland.
3 names, didn't want to over Reach myself.
A Greggs festive bake. A Xmas dinner in a pasty, not bad .
Manchester Cathedral with my youngest posing next to the new Ghandi statue.
Ghandis flip flip..
A few random funnies...
Have a Merry Christmas and a healthy,happy 2020
All the best everyone .
CCC
Could be worse...You could Be getting this for Xmas. ..
Good job they've inherited my sense of humour...
Wrapping finished till next year
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