Although I enjoy cooking, and relish even more the eating, I have never been much good at it. I think I’m too impatient. Why measure out half a teaspoon of salt when you can just grab a pinch between thumb and forefinger?
There are also some recipes that one doesn’t need to look up, as the frequency of their creating has impinged the formula clearly on the brain. Such in my case is the recipe for muffins. And here lies the rub…
I think I will bake a cake, but first I’d better make some muffins. Oh dear! There’s now no time to bake a cake and the oven is being used for muffins.
I think I will make Dijon Kidneys with rice for dinner, but first I shall bake some muffins. Oh dear! There’s now no time to make something different for dinner, I will simply reheat something from the freezer.
I think I will make a delicious dessert. The photograph on the food page of the morning paper looks spectacular. Oh dear! I’m out of blueberries. I used them in the muffins.
Perhaps today I will try to make some rye bread for a change. Oh dear! There isn’t time. I spent the time in making muffins.
And so, dear Reader, having reached Flash Fiction Number 2500 I am going to try and make time to cook some different things. Now and again I might resort to making a muffin or two, but for the time being I want to try some different things.
Here then is the last batch of muffins. Don’t argue over them. Enjoy with my thanks for the company, and no doubt we will bump into each other
hither and yon
here and there
out and about
far and wide
back and forth
this way and that
Aww…I will miss you.
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Thank you Herb. It’s nice to be missed.
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Perhaps you could pop one in the post for me. Second class, by boat, will be fine, thanks!!
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If it’s a muffin you refer to then I promise you it will be poisoned – by someone else while in the boat.
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🙂!
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And I’m sure that your pen will soon yield more fun a day mischief!
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The problem is that I do want to do other things! However you have predicted correctly before!
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I shall remain watchful, but good luck with your future projects.
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Have a wonderful break – I do love blueberry muffins. We are buying them from our Farmer’s Market now and freezing them for winter, because they are so sweet.
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I had some lovely and prolific blueberries growing in pots. The goat got through the fence and ate the lot! Now I buy frozen ones (blueberries not goats!)
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Whatever it is you’re going to be doing next, please come back from time to time to report on it for your loyal fans.
I still can’t believe there’ll be no tangled web waiting in my inbox tomorrow morning.
With apologies to Douglas Adams: so long, and thanks for all the words and music,
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Thanks Yvonne. I’m not exactly disappearing off the map – yet!
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I hope you have a wonderful break Bruce and try different things. I’m going to be sad because most of the people I knew well here are all taking long breaks or have disappeared. I’m also going to miss your stories, but everyone needs time off. This was a great way to say farewell (for now). I do hope you’ll stick around, perhaps writing more serious content based on your life experiences once in a while. And yes, do drop in from time to time to say hello. Send an email whenever you feel like it too.
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I shall try to obey you every request thanks Nitin.
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Don’t disappear completely damn it! I think 3000 is a nice round number!
Muffins… when my wife was pregnant and couldn’t move around much at the end… I could only cook two things at that time… pizza out of a box and muffins…she didn’t complain but it did get old…day after day.
Do what you need to do Bruce…hope to see you some anyway.
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I will be hovering!
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Ok… good… I come back in a month…I wanna talk to you some.
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I look forward to it Max!
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We’ll miss you Bruce. Thanks for the many laughs and enjoy whatever takes your fancy.
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Thanks – I shall be hovering!
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Good
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This post reminded me when I asked Connie (the mother of my kids) who detests meals without salt, ‘How much salt should I put in this soup so you will like it? She said about three pinches between thumb and finger haha.
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Salt is something one uses in the kitchen only when no one is watching.
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I wanted to ask you given your teaching and drama backgroud if you had seen this video. I’m organising my menus and when I crossed this post, I thought I must send this to Bruce.
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He was a tiny bit too camp for me!!!! But interesting nonetheless thanks Matthew. He liked to be the performer in the “performance class”!
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I understand. You are welcome.
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I was trying to work out if you understood it was Satire. Here is another one of him playing a 16 year-old girl:
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No – I missed the satire!
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Now that I know, it is hilarious!! I had honestly thought the first time that it was a drama teacher with a carrot up his arse. The girl is very funny indeed!!
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Sorry, I had assumed you had understood that. lol I’m glad you liked it Bruce. How’s life treating you?
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There is another one of him as Samoan boy, if you are up for it:
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I was relaying to Connie your experiences about receiving the penultimate Tonsure in the West. She was fascinated being a Catholic and she enquired if you had written more stories and I told her that seemingly you haven’t. I hope is all well in the shire.
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I’ve written a few stories but I haven’t posted them – as I’m quietly building up a reserve of stories so that it doesn’t become a stress!
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A stress? Why’s that?
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You’re talking to a worrier. If I haven’t done a story for the day I stress over it for about 6 hours before anything happens!
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Same here, I know what you mean. I was working on my menus (because my blog choice is no longer supported by WordPress) for about 3 weeks and now I have just gotten back to writing again and I’m a little ahead, but not much. I wrote two today, so that is something. Sometimes it takes a a few hours like you to work out how I will approach it.
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Every Sunday night we watch a movie and last night – at your recommendation – we watched “Duel”. Excellent!
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Bruce, I am honoured you watched one of my recommendations. I’m glad you enjoyed it. It means a lot!
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I love muffins! I will miss them. But I understand the need to work on other recipes. Good luck! I look forward to seeing whatever you may pull out of the oven.
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Thanks Sarah. I’ve already jotted down a couple of little stories but not posted them. Old habits die hard! However I have been seized by an idea that I’m about to begin…
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Excellent! Always write to the market is what I say.
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Them are some good muffins.
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It’s easy to cook them for too long.
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Over easy.
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I have been down and out of late. (Perhaps someday I’ll write about it.) The last batch of muffins here makes me maudlin. My heart, however, says we shall meet again soon.
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Thanks Uma. I’ve already written 2 or 3 stories that I haven’t posted. I’m thinking of writing a “silly” sci-fi.
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Hear, hear!
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Damn – I meant to condole with your “down and out” and I was so full of myself. I shall be all ears once you might arrive at a telling point.
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I’ll be back.
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How the hell are you Bruce?
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I’m good Max thanks! And you?
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I’m doing well Bruce…I’ve missed talking to everyone on here but I got a lot accomplished. I’ve wrote around 50 posts in my downtime so I won’t have to worry about posts until October.
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It’s great to have a pile of stuff in waiting. I seem almost to be having a break altogether – I usually like to be 50/60 days ahead. So far I’ve got 6 stories in waiting.
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I’m now 57 posts ahead…I’ve never been that far before. 35 was my top before. Mine are easier than yours though.
I’m having a good time though
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I would find your postings impossible to create! We all live in a yellow submarine is about the limit of my Beatles education!
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I could not make up a story every day! Mine would be full of time machines…then I would end up copying Doctor Who.
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Time machines are so “yesterday” – at least the ones I own sitting in my garage are a bit dated.
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Damn they are out of style now! Just when I wanted one.
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