Blog 32 – Rushing to Give a Sausage …
Just before New Year I met Mr Double Cream from Uxbridge lurking around the Party Packages in Waitrose, Beaconsfield. I was tossing up as to get a Bumper Pack of Cocktail Sausages or get the all inclusive Sausage Rolls and Chapatis as well, which he thought prudent. I was bemoaning the fact that I had eight house guests for the New Year and ‘Dear John’ Production Team cocktails ahead of me – and I was exhausted already, having spent two hours in Waitrose and not a mince pie in sight. They had sold out. “Do we need any more sausages at this point?” I asked Mr Double Cream.
He was non-committal. His answer to guests who come staggered and in droves, was to pop out for some ‘salad’.
Having said all this – and what a mouthful it has been – there are no more delightful guests than Mrs Carrie Oakey and Husb and daughter, Miss Nancy Oakey – so called as they are Karaoke aficionados. A bit like The Borrowers Afield family as they copy celebs’ musical perfs beautifully. Mr Justin Case’s answer to this is to clear the 1980’s Hostess (plate and meat warmer) my mother gave to us as a wedding present which sits in the new kitchen extension and turn it into a Music Centre – as he loves a good old knees up, mostly to the Four Seasons.
Whoops – there’s the theme for the Rhyme & Reason comp this year: Seasons. You see, I can’t help myself tripping up on the old metafiction.
Anyway, the Hostess cum Music Centre was transposed into a Production Centre when Master Brylcream and his lovely wife-to -be turned up with the Bull Rushes of the ‘Dear John’ film. The Oakey family and the production team watched 15 minutes from 15 hours’ worth of filming in the autumn on the Hostess Laptop Production Centre and I have to confess to a little more than a rush of adrenalin to my head.
Plenty of that coming up in the New Year with Creative Ink classes starting next Tuesday 10th (Get Inspired) and Thursday 12th (Get that Book). Both courses are running and some places still left but only one seat left on the Book Course.
Well, who needs a Hostess to serve up cocktail sausages? And how lucky am I to have such good friends to see in the New Year?
PS. Ms Paige Turner will be back with Porkie Pie competition next bi-month. She’s tired.
What? No porkie pie in here? I thought it might be that you can’t get sausage rolls and chapatis in the same pack. Mind you, I shop at Morrisons not Waitrose so maybe you can!
Happy New Year Jan – you are and will always be an INSPIRATION xx
I fear Ms Paige Turner has ‘Miss Remembered’ the thrilling conversation with Mr Double Cream from Uxbridge at the Festive Treats counter of Waitrose. The suggestion was not to offer guests eager for more cocktail sausages ‘salad’ but rather ‘some lard’ .
Happy New Year – and what a year it will be – a wedding, a Royal Jubilee and the Olympics – with a Dear John spectacular waiting to round off the year. More drama than a Christmas TV schedule!