EDitorial ± 30-Sep-2006
Dolmio, August 2006
It's been staring me in the face from my "things to do this week" green index
card for a good long while. Enfin, it's Pipkins time for another end-of-month
Dolmio (Doings Of Last Month Innoparticular Order).
That is to say, an attempt to capture past(a) events before they
slip... my... mind.
August 2006 was spent:
- taking our own bags for life to the local Super U at Gemozac and admiring the end-of-aisle English selection: Branston, Dairy Milk, Heinz Beans, etc.
- relishing the alternative Aberystwyth adventures of Louie Knight in Malcolm Pryce's Last Tango in Aberystwyth
- watching les cyclistes whizz through Tesson in the race that Floyd Landis won in 2000
- singing along to Captain Abercromby and Zombie Hotel returning from a day out
- buying Tiffu pop-up ice-creams for the kids after a hard day sur la plage
- breakfasting on brioches and baguettes, and trying to avoid the end nibbled by the in-house mouse
- gawping at the marvellous mechanical Transbordeur near Rochefort
- switching the kids to rummy after being bored senseless playing Newmarket
- being careful to avoid the sizeable jellyfish washed up on the beach as the tide went out
- absorbed by a freebie Guardian puzzle magazine of Sudokus, Kakuro and Hanjie
- arbitrating in numerous Super Mario related fallings-out resulting from (a) 3 children, (b) 2 Nintendo DS consoles and (c) 1 small boy