Monday, 28 February 2011

Wouldn't You Know It

It's always the way isn't it? You go looking for something and they've completely run out. At the Asian supermarket today, they had lots of this:


But where was the unpleasant pickle? None available. Couldn't be had for love nor money. Typical. Just typical.

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  1. Was there any Tickled Pheasant?

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  2. No - apparently there are plenty of pheasants availalbe, but you just can't get the staff any more, so no tickling.

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  3. No -- it was there. You missed it -- right behind the curmudgeonly cucumber.

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  4. Can't add anything to this, except thanks for the laugh.

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  5. Much is "pleasant" here in China, including a character in a children's cartoon, "Pleasant Goat." Such a fine quality for a superhero.

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  6. That cucumber was more than curmudgeonly, Chris; it was so ferocious that it bit me and I had to leave the shop (after buying and eating on the spot some rather delicious mushrooms - could that explain my perception of the cucumber's behaviour, I wonder [none of that is actually true, should anyone be wondering].)
    Thanks, Whispering - it just seemed to me that 'pleasant' would be a given, when offering food to the public to buy.
    I am a bit vague about your timetable, Polly, but it would be lovely to skype when you have a spare ten minutes - let me know when suits you (is David here or at his mother's bedside, by the way?)

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  7. I'll try to have a pleasant conversation with you tomorrow morning.

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  8. Peasants pretty thin on the ground - although a Yugoslav friend referred to the Farmers' Organic Market as the Peasant Market the other day

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