EatWithaLocal

What  a big goof to have the party chairman of  the British National Party Nick Griffin to be allowed some free prime time on "Question Time" this Thursday. He is a very well educated and a good forceful speaker. His  views are bigoted but I bet he will get a massive support in Britain after the show. The BBC know that it is wrong but more concerned about audiance ratings.
You never know your (bad) luck and he might even get to be the next Prine Minister.

Today I am not cooking myself as I am invited for a bbq at my sister's home about ten mins walk from my own.  Hope the weather stays fine.

Well, work decided to arrange a 'Charity' rounders match down the field by the offices... now my problem is, i can't do anything for fun, if its a competition, i have to try my absolute hardest and try and win.. my motto has always been..

'I don't play for fun, I play to win'

 - in the past I have even competed against children - and I mean 'children' and had to win.. thinking back I probably should have toned it down a bit..

so this works thing, I had a feeling I probably shouldn't go.. but I thought I would anyway.. and my boyfriend came along too as we were a couple of players short... Out comes the Red Wine before we start, didn't help to control the beast inside me... - to cut a long story short, the first SEVEN batting opportunities i had i scored SEVEN runs... I think dean did too!  At one point a man was running for my base, we slammed into each other, both fell flat and i still tried to dab him out.... though i missed the post and dabbed him somewhere else!

The umpire kept shouting 'Remember everyone, this game is for fun' ... yeah right!

One member of the opposition, must have been about 70 years old,  I bowled it , she misses it, backstop throws it to Dean who gets her out.. we were unstoppable. 

My colleague told me that I was at one point on every base and getting to the ball from the bowling spot before the fielder in the area the ball was going... i was  a little worried going into work monday morning. it was fine though, but the first thing someone said to me was... 'bloody hell girl you are competitive'

Didn't learn my lesson, saturday night I drank farrrr too much and still suffering, its 8.15pm and i am going to sleep now. 

good night 
 

well...... I don't think I succeeded last night in preparing a meal for one, I thought I would be all healthy and opted for a bowl of vegetable soup with a bit of bread. I was just wondering does anyone else do this...... as i was eating the soup before I'd actually finished I was thinking about what I was going to eat next because I was still hungry!!!! HOW GREEDY!!! please tell me other people do this!?!?

Anyway, so I ended up eating left overs untill I felt sick!! not a good look!.... and then to top it all off, my housemate decided it would be nice to make some cakes, So greedy me couldnt resist, and the very stuffed me made 12 dennis the menace tea cakes and me and him ate THEM ALL!!!

BAD NIGHT for food!!! ;) SOOOOoooooo gonna prepare a salad tonight and restrain myself!!! hee hee

till next time.......

......well I cooked  Fajita's on Friday for 'Fajita Friday' and like I said, I was going to make them spicy.......OH MY LORD were they spicy!!!!! Even Scott, who LOVES spicy food was struggling!! I was in 'trouble' for two days afterwards!!! sorry, not going to go into much detail about it, but lets just say I dont need to go on a diet for a while! :)

Enough about that anyway...... brings back to many bad memories, hee hee from now on any food I cook i'm going to stay away from (or at least put in less) Chillis!!!!!

Scott (my partner) is away all week, so you all know how it is, cooking for one is never the same. I know i'll be eating take outs and rubbish all week   
:( . Has anyone got any good recipes or any suggestions for nice food to cook for one??? would be much apprieciated!!!

cheers!!!! Martha xxxx

i am gutted, i just wrote a really long blog and i pressed enter and it crashed and it got lost... it was really funny too...... in fact it was the best blog in the world.... -- so now this is a tribute....

I was saying about the program i watched just now, it was about superhuman people.... it was about a man who used to tie rice sacks on his baby's arms and legs just days old to start training them, by the age of 4 they are doing 8 hrs a day weight training... he wants his girls to be the worlds strongest teenagers. - i thought it was borderline abuse..... he was living his dreams through them.. i mean there is nothing wrong with that to some extent but come on!!

(id written more about that topic and it was really funny - but remember this is just a tribute)

I was also talking about last night and the fun we had.. i went out last night with my 4 girl friends and we had a good laugh, by 9pm we were in Walkabout the australian bar and we were all up for it... dancing and taking photos but then we one at a time proceeded to dance over our bags in the middle of our circle..... started off dancing normally, and for some strange reason we started doing pressups over the bags.... now this is not the most attractive thing to start doing in a busy bar when the ashes were on... not female pressups either, these were 'proper' male pressups... not a good look.

You gotta love coming home on the late train singing welsh songs all the way home, i think it was because there were alot of english themed painted faces and white shirts that the welsh people all needed a sing song.

I hope you have enjoyed this tribute ( this is the third time ive written it - i am going to save this now if it doesnt work again i can just paste it) ..... this is not like the worlds greatest blog i did earlier.. that was much longer .. my first draft,, you gotta believe it , i wish you'd seen it, its just a matter of opinion. i couldnt remember the greatest blog in the world.... this was just a tribute.

hope you enjoyed and i hope this one goes through

All for now

G

 

Anyone coming to Cardiff to visit??? come and see me and my partner!!!! We live in the center (well a little walk away) and am SOOooosooo looking forward to hosting a little food party again!!!

We like spicy food and even managed to make a cooked dinner spicy once.....not sure it was my cup of tea but it was worth a try!!!

Cooked a mean spicy lasagne (think that might be my best meal, ask Vicki and I've cooked it for my Unc Gareth before!) the other day for six people and no-one got food poisoning!!! ;) JOKING!! but we all had a fab time....ill upload some photos when i get the chance!!!

Anyway, get in touch and get hosting....its a FAB way of meeting people, believe me!!
xxxx

Ive always wanted to do a blog but never really got into one.. maybe if i start an amazing one then this website will get 7 million hits..

I once tried to get hits on my youtube video as a competition... and i managed to get 85,000!.. though i did label it.. Hot, Wet Girl, Shower babe.. but it still won the competition.

at the moment, me and my boyfriend of 5 months, 1 day , 1 hr and 14 mins (not that im counting - only joking dean) is laughing hysterically at a Tourettes program, its called 'I swear i can't help it' , thought that was a good name.  It reminds me of my uncle gar when he comes down and we try and guess the headline in the newspaper - especially after a rugby match.. cant think of any right now... maybe Bread of henson?? (i dont think that was one actually)

Talking of hits, i hope this website goes global - it can happen, but thats a story for another chapter of this blog...

I'm off now

Hwyl

G

 

This is mostly a trial blog to see how the system works, and to get rid of the 'no blog' messages!

It's been very interesting putting this together, and I think that Vicki has got a great idea - I'm looking forward to welcoming our first visitor for a meal, and looking forward to finding an EatWithaLocal-er the next time we travel anywhere...

Although the main idea is about travellers getting to know new cultures, I think this could also be a great way for people to get to know other people in their own communities.

How often do you hear these days that people don't know the other people living on the same street as them?  But fifty years ago, they all knew each other.  Now, we spend too much time watching tv or videos to get to know the people next door.

EatWithaLocal could help change that.  You could look for EWaLers in your own community - and you know straight away that they are cheerful, positive people who like to make new friends.  What better?!

University students could look for EWaLers to help them become a real part of their new town - and they could even offer meals in return, too!  A great push in the direction of standing on their own two feet...;-)

I'm really looking forward to seeing all the other ideas that I hope will grow out of this community...:-)