Editor's Blog - Saturday, 16th August
| Author: Ken The Editor | Published: 16th August 2008 21:05 |
It's Saturday evening and once again I am sat patiently listening to Starpoint Radio waiting to hear Claire Simon's dulcet tones drifting over the airwaves. For those of you not familiar with the lovely Claire, here she is...
I have spent the day working on the September Gaz. By the time I had pulled all the various inputs together I ended up with 47 pages worth. I had suggested to the Committee that we might produce a larger edition this month, but they wanted to stick with 40 pages - so I had to lose 7 pages. That is actually a quarter of the true content, as there are 12 pages of ads in each edition.
So, what got the chop? The main casualties were: a 3-page article on what Bromley Council are planning to do with waste collection and recycling (that can wait for next month - the speed at which the Council moves another month won't make any difference!); the 2-page All Our Yesterdays feature from the September 1948 edition of the Petts Wood Advertiser (that just got binned - shame!); and a 1-page article on who to contact to get graffiti removed (and, no, it's not Simon Fawthrop!). With some bits and pieces of pruning elsewhere and a lot of fiddling around, I just about managed to get it down to 40 pages - I just hope and pray that nothing else arrives in the next 16 hours before the cut-off.
Paul the painter finished the bungalow on Friday and it looks pretty damn good...
And I know you are all itching to see how the bit that I painted, the garden bench, turned out...
Looks good, doesn't it?
In between sorting out the Gaz today, I had a bash at making a Lime Soufflé. I had made the lemon version in one of my cookery lessons and an orange version a few weeks back, both of which came out OK and got She Who Must Be Fed's seal of approval, so I thought that I would try it with limes. It all seemed to go pretty well and by tea-time had set a treat, so I served it up with some chocolate ice-cream. I thought it tasted OK, but from the look on She Who Must Be Fed's face I could tell it was not going down at all well. "How's the Lime Soufflé?" I asked all innocent-like. "It tastes like furniture polish!" was the response, "but the ice-cream's nice". So, she ate the ice-cream and left the soufflé. At least the foxes liked it! Perhaps I'll stick to cakes in future.
Toodle pip.
PS The lovely Claire is now on Starpoint and has just said hello to me and dedicated my all time favourite track of hers - her cover of Ain't No Sunshine, which you can hear on her MySpace site. Thanks, Hon, you've just done me a power of good after a pretty crappy sort of day!
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