I'm just stoppin' in to say a quick pass-through hello-goodbye. Hope you all are having some good times and getting the things handled you want to be handling! (OK - I admit, coming from me, that sentence was a little {unintentionally} dicey.)
As for me, we're flyin' outta here on Friday, and my edits, so far, are right on schedule. Slow. But on schedule.
When I'm not writing and hugging on people I love that I haven't seen in a while, I'll be drinking with them in this pub called the George & Pilgrim...
...and, if the weather is warm enough, I'll be up here, sharing a bottle of white wine with my white wine friend who is my sister-in-law. This is her rooftop garden. (And if the weather isn't really warm enough, we'll wear blankets.)
This after a week in Wales where we've rented this converted barn and stable, which just happens to be twenty yards from an excellent, musty old pub, and only a ten minute walk from the hillside I talked about before. I'm going exploring again.
Exploring, writing, pubbing, coastal cliff-path walking, pubbing, hugging my daughters and other family, pubbing, writing, whatever. And maybe I'll even come back. (Maybe.)
The penalty: having to go to the dead zone from hell - the airport. I hate airports.
They suck. But there you go.
So, I hope you guys have a wonderful beginning of August - if you do something kinda crazy, please let us know - and freddie, isn't school about to start? Paca - how's the paper coming? Chris, have a great time in California! And all the rest of you lot, behave yourselves and be thinking about what piece you're gonna choose to do for the mid-August voice-a-thon, please!!! Whirl, you're on that one, right? ril, selfishly,I'll sure be glad when you're back from being gone.
EE, are you doing one? Please? (If you don't wanna write one, Sparky, I've got just the thing for you to read.)
We'll be back the evening of the eleventh. I may or may not be able to be on before then - so be good, you all. (Sure.)
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
We're leaving soon...
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Oh, that sounds so nice. Have a wonderful time, Robin!
Picture the scene in the George & Pilgrim...
Old Bob, the local horse castrator, turned on his bar stool, his sackcloth trousers rasping against the suede upholstery. A single dribble of Wobblethorpe's Old Grobbler dripped from his handlebar moustache and fell, along with his jaw, onto the starchy fabric of his tunic.
'Hi y'all,' said the woman in the doorway, her voice deep and gutsy as a buried hot-pot. 'Can I get a pint of bitter, please?'
A disturbed whimper rose from beside Bob's oak-bound feet. His faithful hound, Edmund, crept between the legs of the bar stool and curled up tight like a hedgehog.
'Welcome to England, ma'am' said the jolly fat bartender, setting aside an axe, 'if Bob's dog likes you then you're OK by me...'
Have fun!
Hi, and thanks. I can't wait to get there, to be honest.
And Whirl, you musta been in the place already, huh? What I like abou this pub in particular are the clientele - and sometimes even the non-clientele. One day, sitting at a table close to the open windows, we're sitting (and drinking - but not a pint of bitter, dammit, never a pint of bitter, yuk) and some zany guy with a feathered cap walks past, backs up, sticks his head all the way in the open window so that his chin is almost to our table, and grins, says something absolutely unintelligible, pulls his face back out, and walks on.
Damn, I love that place.
Go easy on the Old Grobbler but have a wonderful time!
Ah, that sounds wonderful, Robin. Have fun!
School starts the day after Labor Day. Can't wait . . .
Oh how I wish I was going to Wales this year. I had such a great holiday last summer near Porthmadog. Alas cashless after moving house earlier this year, I must forego the lovely beaches and mossy loveliness of Wales. But enjoy! Enjoy!
I'm with you - Bitter - urgh!
Your sis-in-law's deck is gorgeous! What a view. I'll think of you next time I have a chilled glass of white wine.
See you in August!
Thanks, guys!
Be back on in closer to the middle of the month, although I'm still hopeful of a surprise for you all before I get back.
We'll see....
Have fun Robin. If you run into to a girl named Susan who once was Richard Branson's personal assistant, tell her Dawg says howdy. Looking forward to your safe return.
That sounds like such a great holiday. I'm jealous.
We just got back in a few minutes ago.
Hope anyone reading has had a good start to their August!
Hooray!
Hey, my August's been just great.
After two weeks of uninterrupted sun in France, I arrive home to endure two weeks of almost continual rain in the UK.
Hey, I was right there in it with ya, Whirl.
Good times.
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