[HPFGU-OTChatter] Breakfast and foot and mouth...

[Neil Ward]

Simon wrote:

<<Ah breakfast, that first meal of the day. I have got into the bad habit of
not having any and then just having a larger lunch to compensate. I really
do not cope well with eating early in the mornings, or maybe I should write
that I just do not cope with mornings.>>

I could have written that.  The difference would be that I consume a flagon
of very strong cafetiere coffee as soon as I get in the door of my office
and you probably infuse a strong cup of leaf tea at the earliest
opportunity.  A fry up is a rare luxury these days - always great in a local
caff after a night on the pi.... er, at a party, with some mates.  If I eat
anything, it's cereal or toast or something Continental.

<<I seem to have volunteered to cook pizzas for about 15 people next
Wednesday. How do I manage it?>>

You are destined to become a celebrity chef, Simon.

<<Have just been reading all the stuff ont eh foot and mouth outbreak. It
does not look good. I was not pleased when I noted that the major outbreak
of '67, I remember it so well being as I was 12 at the time, took 9 months
to be stopped. Going home will not be good if they are burning animals - I
live in a rural area.>>

It's horrible and it's having an impact everywhere.

Earlier this week I had to take two Americans and a Dutchman for lunch (for
some reason that sounds like it was a challenge someone had set me).  One of
them asked about foot and mouth and the risks and we discussed it for a
while.  I didn't twig at the time, but all three then ordered vegetarian
meals and said how nice they were.  These are people who, I imagine, would
normally go for something more carnivorous than linguine with roasted
vegenetables and pine nuts.

My other story sounds quite comical, but it's not.  The bloke who does my
accounts also does the accounts for a man who set up a business distributing
sausage skins (as Bill put it - "He's a sausage skin broker").  The earlier
BSE scare had really affected business for this man, as demand dropped off
dramatically.  The foot and mouth scare has finished him off.  Bill rang him
while he was at my office and he was, apparently, in tears: his business,
that once had a turnover of 625,000, is finished.

Apologies for being so morose...

Neil
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> Also I may have to become a vegetarian for a while. I am not sure I will
> cope! Or at least I will have to expand my limited vegetarian recipes
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