A few things I miss...

*Proper* crunchy Buffalo chicken wings (New York Style) - with insane American Hot Sauce and salty creamy blue cheese dip...no-one in England can get it quite right (apart from Chillis - which was killed by the credit crunch)...


Waking up in Colin the Camper...


Cheeky lunchtime burgers at Smithy's...


Chilli Pepper Pete turning up to Laughton...


The view down the Thames on a summer day when stranded at Blackfriars station by First Capital Connect...


The route of the number 17 bus...


New Harry Potter books...


Being able to stand in the shed at the end of the strip at Santa Pod (and be almost choked to death by toxic fume - much better than it sounds)...


My Mavica MVC-CD500 (effortless quality)...


Our front garden, that one year (with the throw-and-grow) although it did take a lot of watering...


Widemouth Bay...


Living in the penthouse...


Breakfast in Mexico...


Wondering what would be in the window of the Porcupine Book Shop...


Holidaying in the Canary Islands...


Cheesesteak...


"All new" episodes of Star Trek...


My C500 running Windows Mobile (Smartphones didn't start with the iphone, here's to full internet, movies and apps way back in 2004, I wasn't even blogging back then)... ;)


My Nyko Airflow...


New Years Day at Hedley Wood...


All the evening papers except the Evening Standard (it's far too grown up)...


Fillet steak at the Arkle Manor (or anywhere else for that matter) I think my most recent one was before the wedding...!


James May's Lego House...

So I'm obviously in desperate need of a holiday and something nice to eat (just to start with)... ;)

"NY Boss" is over again this week...Smithys for Lunch

...and we had a number of matters to attend to, *but* work being as busy as it is at the moment, we took a long lunch to chew them over (ouch! :)...I opted for Smithy's (as the choice was, once again and graciously, mine)...after considering the menu for a while (and fighting off (successfully) my inner "Always-take-the-big-steak! You fool!" daemon) we both ended up going for "The Cheeseburger" (hang on, stay with me! It's in quotes and capitalised for a reason!) -

- now, you must forgive me for frothing slightly at the mouth, but this is the kind of burger you really only deserve in a dream...freshly minced steak of serious quality, cooked to pink perfection, oozing with juices, dripping with melted cheese, nestling comfortably in a heap of quality leaf and sliced red onion, topped off with thick sliced steak tomato and a generous swipe of a simple tomato relish on a warm toasted bun, so fluffy you would think it had just come out of the oven...mmmmm!

"Time based bulk"'s lunch of last friday *flickered* briefly, in a sort of wilted, pale version of a flashback through my mind as I stretched my mouth as wide as it could possibly go...to..just... (*strain*) ...take....the... (ah!) ...first...bite........*fade to (rather satisfied) black* :)