Vegetarian? “I make you chicken soup without chicken,” says restaurant manager
I had a stand-up row of the highest magnitude yesterday with the manager of restaurant called Hemingways in Skipton. It was my second and last visit to the venue, which has an outdated appearance and seems predominantly frequented by the over-65s. But I was there because my parents, who are both well past the age of 65, and one of my sisters, who isn’t 65, wanted to eat there, remembering our first visit, about three months ago, when we had all enjoyed a lovely meal.
It’s always been about the oil
It’s taken the US Republicans long enough to get to the point of the entire Iraq War and subsequent illegal invasion and occupation, which was, of course, to secure the oil supplies by taking out Saddam Hussein. The undeniably despotic Hussein had threatened to switch to selling the limited amounts of oil he was allowed to trade in euros instead of US dollars. Had the rest of the Middle East followed his planned-for example, the US would by now be long embedded in the greatest economic depression in history. That is, if it hadn’t already blown itself up and become a post-nuclear anarchic hell-hole through widespread destitution exploding its many fault lines, including race and religion.
From the notebook 2: Dinosaurs
Diplodocus in the singular, but is it diplodoci in the plural? Or diplodocuses? Not that it would matter. You’re hardly likely to ever come across one, let alone a herd of them. And would baby dinosaurs have been kittens, puppies, chicks, or what?
