I hope everyone is having a good day
After taking care of a few chores, I walked down to Charlie's for coffee and a muffin. Hisham, the owner was in, so I offered to buy him lunch at the Tunisian stall in the market. He had to go and pray first, so I arranged to meet him in town later. We had a great lunch, and then I'd promised to show him a few places in the city centre, a shop where he can buy decent bread, a stall that sells a range of honey, and some shop units, as he is always looking for somewhere to expand his global empire
In the market, I bumped into an old friend, Deri, who I haven't seen in a couple of years. Deri looks straight off a
Scots Porridge Oats advert, but he's from Yorkshire, and a gentle soul (though a good amateur boxer in his day). Hisham was born in Morocco, but his family moved to Sicily when he was 3, and I remembered Deri's girlfriend is from Sicily. Small world, as it turns out Deri has been in Hisham's brother's restaurant in Palermo!
With the late lunch, I wasn't hungry later, so I've just had a bacon sandwich, and christened the mug I bought in town (got one for Wolfie's missus too, as we speak a similar language!
)
I also had a couple of pieces of Yorkshire Parkin (ginger cake), which I got off Our Cake Man in the market. He's only been called that since yesterday!
I usually buy 2 or 3 cakes from him on Thursdays, but when I asked Tool Man if he had any requests yesterday, he declared that he wasn't eating any sweet stuff as he had tooth ache (like I have now). I was sceptical, but he insisted that was the case, so after buying my coffee, I called by the cake stall. I always have this thing with the guy on the stall, where I say something bad about Tool Man, like calling him a stupid, fat lump. Then, as I'm leaving, I'll say, "Right, I'm going to tell him you've called him a 'Stupid, fat, lump'!" The bloke always implores me, "No, no, don't!" Me and Tool Man find this hilarious
So, yesterday, I just got the one cake, and told him it was because Tool Man said he wouldn't be having any. "As if I believe that rubbish."
"Oh yeah, he'll wolf that straight down!"
"Right, see you later. I'll tell him what you've been saying about him!"
True to form, Tool Man decided that Parkin might be OK for his teeth, and ate two thirds of the slab I'd bought
"Where did you get that that Parkin?"
"From the Cake Man"
"Which Cake Man?"
"The Cake Man inside."
"Our Cake Man?"
"Yes, the Cake Man we always get the cake from!"
"Our Cake Man, in there?"
"Yes, Our Cake Man!!"
So, now he's 'Our Cake Man'!
I had to ring Tool Man about something this morning, and there was a point where he said, "Well, you know I can be a bit of a stupid bugger!"
"Can you hear that?"
"What?"
"That's the sound of me not arguing with you!"
I now have toothache again myself!
Hardly surprising considering that my ex-dentist left a gaping great cavity where I formerly had a dental crown!
Newsflash: Cod Wars 2: I noticed that the young blonde lass wasn't working today
Of course, she could just have taken the day off
Great pic, and a grat-looking Lamb 
