As planned we all convened at the Cliftonville, walked into town, bought fish and chips and took them to the pier.
Cromer waterfront, as seen from the pier
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Cromer Is SO Bracing - Pier Review
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- Friday, 27 Feb ruary 2009 - 23:11 UTC
Pier Group, earlier today (with chips)
Graham Steel invites Kristi Vogel to sample his mushy peas
John Gilbey celebrates a Cromer ChipTomorrow the
fun and gamesserious hard work starts in earnest.Last updated: Friday, 27 Feb 2009 - 23:11 UTC
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Cromer is not bracing at present.
Mercifully, not. It’s been a lovely early spring day. Keep it up, weather!
I wish I could be there. But then I wouldn’t be here, and The Beast would have to hassle someone else.
I have had a peer at your photos and I am not in them. That could be because I wasn’t there. I am now in Cromer but worried to see that:
serious hard work starts in earnest.
I thought it was starting in Cromer?
Cromer is not very bracing – but I certainly feel braced after a post-breakfast stroll into town, along the sea shore etc… There is a pale yellow orb which appears fleetingly in the sky from time to time. This seems to be unusual for the time of year, given the interest it is generating locally…
The chips were, indeed, excellent!
We now await the arrival of Big G himself… So if you are reading this, Henry…..
So if you are reading this, Henry…..
Stop reading and start walking over here!
I’m here now. So let’s get to work .
Excellent photos …had I been there I would have been curled up in a ball on the bench there sipping Beechams through a straw and feebly clutching my throat.
We’re thinking of you!
Mushy peas! I’m jealous.
That’s the first time Mr G S of Glasgow has eaten Mushy Peaz™ in ages. Not bad actually. The only other option as a side dish was Curry Sauce™. Tempting-ish, but Peaz it was.
awwww, looks very nice indeed. Hope you have a fun productive time :)
Well, we did get a lot done, and I am currently in a state of post-conference exhaustion. And I only had six delegates. I can hardly imagine what organizers of proper conferences feel like.
I too would have selected the peas over the curry sauce. Long experience has taught me to go for the identifiable, even if virulent green in colour, every time, when the other option is the indeterminable.
I can hardly imagine what organizers of proper conferences feel like.
Well, I’m only guessing here, but I think that the AAAS president probably doesn’t invite all the conference delegates round to his house for lunch? So it may be a bit easier.
Mushy peas! I’m jealous
Oh, dear … mushy peas are the legume equivalent of hominy. I try to avoid foods treated with lye, a category which includes mushy peas, grits, and gefilte fish.
The fish and chips were excellent, as was the English breakfast at the Cliftonville!
Mushy peas do not use lye. They sometimes use sodium bicarbonate as a softener not sodium hydroxide (lye).
Good to know, Brian, but I still don’t think I’ll eat them. ;-)
@ Frank
Well, I’m only guessing here, but I think that the AAAS president probably doesn’t invite all the conference delegates round to his house for lunch? So it may be a bit easier.
You might have a point there. I hadn’t thought of that. But when you’d all gone it really did feel like the circus had left town.
@ Kristi
Good to know, Brian, but I still don’t think I’ll eat them
It took me a long time for me to conquer the fact that mushy peas look so unappetizing. Once surmounted I found them very good indeed.
As promised, a photograph of Smaug the Magnificent, my extended cab Ford F250 pickup truck with a V10 engine. Used only for pulling the horse trailer, and for hauling large objects. Gets about 12 mpg, without a headwind.
@Henry
Wait till the green food colouring that makes them so day-glo is banned (tartazine). Then they will be a grey colour closer in appearance to pease pudding (hot or cold but not 3 days old).
@ Kristi – shiny!
@ Brian – that’s why I get so irritable and hyperactive after
bathing ineating mushy peas, then. Now all becomes clear.