So yesterday, I was working in another town. Boy was it raining. As I drove back home, feeling a little grumbly (raining again, roads flooded again, bugger) I decided to call off at the food shop to get a few bits and some ready meals (TV Dinners to you, also found some curried haggis tho')
The landlady of the house I rent called me in a flat panic, 'you can't go home, the house is flooded and we don't have a key'
now read that again - 'you can't go home' not her call surely, 'the house is flooded' - well then i'd better go check it out myself and 'wee don't have a key' - that's right ,because you don't bloody live there, I do.
So I get to the end of the street, blocked off by police and fire crews, people in yellow hi vis mooching about. The river had breached it's banks due to the debris gates on the flood defences blocking up with debris (they haven't been cleaned out for months.)
The neighbour's have all lost their cars to flood damage - mine was elsewhere, no damage. My bike was on a peice of high ground, so the water only came up to the footrests - no damage, the flood waters didn't breach the threshold, so my house and guitars etc - all undamaged. The garden is washed away, there's several inches of silt left behind and it all stinks a bit.
So all's well that ends well you might say. Been up since 6 this morning, shovelling silt away, worked with the neighbours for a few hours last night doing the same, when they got the vodka bottle out, I made my excuses and left (for a meeting). I was expecting there to be drunks all over the place when I got back, but surprise, surprise, they just a one or two and quit drinking!
One guy was haranging the manager from teh council - 'and we're all gonna sue the council too'....council manager finally lost his patience and said 'good luck wi that, the council don't ay out on acts of God.' Ranty Man 'act of God my arse, I didn't see God in a hi viz jacket installing the flood defences!' Nice to see that humour prevails.
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Ok Step.. Ready for this? According to the Merriam Webster dictionary "haggis" is defined AS. " a traditionally Scottish dish that consists of the heart, liver , and lungs of a sheep or calf minced with suet, onions, seasonings and oatmeal boiled in the stomach of the animal". I love me some oatmeal, but I usually have it with just blueberries and brown sugar;) You?
Sounds like some kind of blood sausage or pudding...I'd probably go for it too. You know a cow is no uglier than a sheep...With that snotty nose and those dirty teats. One thing I hate is a snotty nose. I'll clean up a dirty teat.
Haggis dialogue...first time in my life and wonderful to hear two alkies discuss to be listened to by another. Would have made a great meeting subject. LOL ((((hugs)))) luvit!!
Thanks for queing the message Bill...glad you stayed above water.
OK back to the Scottish Diet - don't believe everything you hear about everything always being deep fried. (although I have had deep fried battered pizza offered me - I refused......but deep fried battered Mars Bar is quite a treat, couldn't eat more than a quarter though.)
Trad Scottish Breakfast - hotel style - porridge, with a choice of maple syrup, brown sugar, honey, salt. then eggs (fried, poached, scrambled or omlette) Crispy Bacon, Haggis, Black Pudding (a blood sausage), Fruit Pudding (slices of fried fruit cake), beef sausages, pork Lorne Sausage (slices of sausage meat, fried), mushrooms, tomatoes, beans, tattie scones. Big pot of tea Real trad scottish breakfast, porridge, with salt and a wee dram.
no seriously, there's some good food up here - cullen skink (a fish chowder), mince and tatties, haggis neeps and tatties, stovies, tattie scones, drop scones, clootie dumpling, something called raw beef ham - which is great flash fried or rolled up with bacon and stewed - dundee cake, black bun, cranachan (double cream, honey and oats, with raspberries), great beef and lamb, not too big on pork though, salmon, trout, all sorts of seafish and sea food, then there's the sweeties - tablet, macaroon bars, edinburgh rock, fudge..........
This is not a weightwatchers friendly country.
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Trad Scottish Breakfast - hotel style - porridge, with a choice of maple syrup, brown sugar, honey, salt. then eggs (fried, poached, scrambled or omlette) Crispy Bacon, Haggis, Black Pudding (a blood sausage), Fruit Pudding (slices of fried fruit cake), beef sausages, pork Lorne Sausage (slices of sausage meat, fried), mushrooms, tomatoes, beans, tattie scones. Big pot of tea
Ah man, there's a whole world of culinary treasures I'm missing out on! The only things I recognized on your suggestions of Scottish foods were bacon, eggs, and fresh seafood haha! I'm having yogurt with fruit and homemade raisin bread with green tea for breakfast... And I'm ok with it:)
