Laptop, teacake and hot water bottles.

The issue of maternity leave was sorted out by the time we arrived at Château Tomato. The baron himself was waiting in the garden, hidden behind a tree. We informed Tomato of our views on maternity leave. Tomato came out with a classic line. We all laughed heartily. Unfortunately I hadn't heard what the comment was and by now it was too late to say anything. I chuckled on with the others.

To annoy Toast I tried to start a conversation about the X-Factor. Rather irritatingly Tomato hadn't watched it. He was watching “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria” instead, claiming that the wife was watching it and he couldn't turn channels. A likely story. He is a big fan of the musicals I think. This is his favourite show on telly and also no one will let him forget that Andrew Lloyd Webber cd he bought.

I made an hilarious comment about Toasts hair which resembled a lions mane,comparing him to Dog the Bounty Hunter. I was the only one amused. My colleagues had no idea who Dog was as they are too stingy to buy satellite TV. The Bravo channel is a mystery to them.

http://www.dogthebountyhunter.com/

Whilst walking from the car to the carboot sale Tomato notoced my new Osiris trainers. This was the first time that I had worn them so they were slightly blinding. I started feeling a bit self concious and tried to walk in a manner that would hide the glare.

The first thing I saw at the boot-sale was a box of records. I leafed through them casually. The sour faced old lady running the stall shouted “NO, NO. NO!” and threw a pile of blue carpet tiles on top of the box. I retreated in an alarmed manner. She went casually back to unloading her car. What a start! The rest of the boot was full of absolute junk yet somehow was quite enjoyable.

I had a tip off that Morrisons had some tasty teacakes filled with fruit and cinnamon. I forced my unaware colleagues into going to Morrisons whilst trying to make it sound like their idea. Unbelievably the supermarket was shut when we arrived at 8:50. We took this in good grace and casually lent against the trolleys outside. Our fellow shoppers stood poised near the doors. As the supermarket opened Toast had a panic attack and leaped forward “come on or everyone will be there before us”. We casually strolled in and were first in the cafe queue somehow. I think this was due to Toasts lightening style speed reading of the menu. I caught a glimpse of the tea cake, 59p, a bargain!

I made sure that Toast and Tomato were ahead of me in the queue sure that the teacake would be met with some comments.

We each had separate number cards for the waiter to know which order belonged to whom. There is only space in the holder for one card. I placed mine and Tomato's at the base of the holder in plain view. For some unknown reason Toast took our cards and hid them in some foliage.

Sherlock Tomato soon noticed that I had a number which meant I must have ordered something. This intrigued my nosey breakfast chums. They were slightly perturbed as I had earlier said that I didn't eat anything during the day (this isn't a rule set in stone). Tomato got himself worked up about people putting reserves on Ebay auctions. Thankfully the breakfast arrived. Toast had a Flying something and Tomato had a flying something. My teacake was met with the expected laa-dee-daa gay comments. I was prepared for this and the laughter bounced off my shield of steel. There were four pieces of buttered teacake. I was only going to eat two and offer the rest to Canon and Ball. It was all too tasty and I scoffed the lot.

I went to the kiosk to have my £1 refunded. I handed over the ticket. The young lady informed me that I had to make a purchase before I got the refund. I told her I had a breakfast and left the receipt on the table. She said this was ok and went to refund my money. This becomes a bit blurred. I'm sure I put my hand in my pocket to give her a pound...surely I didn't? Anyway, in my pocket I found the receipt. As I pulled it out some change came flying out of my pocket. I gave her the receipt, grabbed my pound and scuttled about for my lost coins. Luckily Tomato was on hand to laugh at me.

It was only a matter of time before Toast bought a laptop. It's been eating away at him for a few years. I must say that he did very well with his choice. His purchase was overshadowed by Tomatos extravagant hot water bottle X 3 purchase. This man throws money about like a maniac.

All in all a jolly good day.

He never eats during the day!

The day got off to a good start, I was ready on time and Milk arrived on time! We zipped though to pick up Plum who was looking quite bouffant and eager for the B&B (Boot and Breakfast). The chattah was enjoyable until Milk mentioned some awful reality TV programme, to my delight Plum had missed it (his wife was in charge of the remote and wanted to view something else) and all talk of reality TV just fizzled out. The boot was feeble, bookwise there were the usual boxfulls of Ian Rankin, Dean R Koontz and romance novels. I didn't purchase anything, I didn't notice if Milk or Plum picked anything up but I think not.

Milk suggested breakfast at Morrisons which sounded like a capital idea, although he pointed out that he would only have tea as he no longer ate during the day! I think I started some argument with him over this which he won by announcing that eating in the morning gave him sever stomach ache in the afternoon.

Milk did indeed have tea... And a toasted tea-cake! Plum and I made fun of his "gay" breakfast but Plum ignored our goading with an air of superiority. To be honest the teacake looked tasty it was full of fruit and I wondered if it contained cinnamon. No cinnamon, said Milk. I missed the hullabaloo over the parking refund.

Off to the out of town shopping center we sped...
I was in a good mood and decided that if I could find a Laptop at about £350 I would buy it. I ended up going to £400 which was still pretty cheap and I have no complaints with it so far although I could tell that Milk & Plum thought I had lost my mind making such a hasty purchase without doing any research at all.

All in all a top day out.

Breakfast "Surprise"

The day got off to a good start,Milk and Toast had just had a rant about pregnant woman and maternity leave.

We arrived at the booty, but it got off to a rather bad start for Milk, when a disgruntled seller curtailed an exuberant Milk by slamming down a load of blue carpet tiles on top of a box of LP's which Milk was about to browse through.

" I am not selling until I have set up she growled" or words to that effect.

Milk came over to me and said" Did you hear that" f...ing.............

After quarter of an hour of browsing through a rather disappointing Bootsale.I bumped into Toast and passed the time of day with him, he was also finding his book buying disappointing and marred by inflated pricing, the days of the 25p books are few and far between.

We all met up and gradually slipped away back to the car, after a quick discussion regarding food intake, Milk said you two obviously want a Morrison's breakfast, I will just have a cup of tea.

In Morrisons Toast ordered a "flying Start" and I ordered a "flying Scotsman" now come to think about it I am not sure if that is what the are called, but I am sure Toast will correct me.

We sat at the table and the placing of the numerical identification lables
(1 to 3) seemed to cause a bit of a problem, I was 1 and Toast was 2, ahh Milk was 3, What did he order?

Soon the waiting was over, our breakfasts arrived, Toast received his manly "flying Start" and I received my hairy arsed "flying Scotsman" and Milk got his, yes wait for it " A Toasted Tea Cake"

Toastboy couldn't resist slagging off this purchase, but half way through the breakfast, I think he was secretly envious of the now rather appetizing looking toasted product, " Mmmmm is that cinnamon I am smelling" he asked

No, said Milk, Oh but it looks fruity, said Toastboy and that's bits of fruit in it, he should know him being a Toast connoisseur and all.

The breakfast was excellent, even Toastboy was delighted with the porkiness of his sausages, I am sure he said that they should not be called sausages but "Porkies"

Milk went to collect his carpark refund, I was close by and noticed that it did not go smoothly, a bit of confusion regarding till slips and numbers, Milk frantically going through his pockets, the contents falling on the floor, before finally producing the required evidence.

Shopping went very well, I went into purchase a hot water bottle, and came out with three, I could not resist the buy two get one free offer.
Toastboy went into browse, and came out with a laptop computer. He sat in the back of the car clinging to it, a price possession which took more than two years to finally purchase. I wish him good computing, and hours of surfing.

all in all a very good morning, and most enjoyable

The King of Suppers

Tomorrow is my last day at work for two weeks, hurrah! Usually I would have a chinese or chippy or something to celebrate. However I am going to Cereal K's wedding dance and hope to fill up on free bufet.
Therefore I decided to have a chippy tonight. This was my fist try of Deep Blue in Smalness. I walked in, there were two queues!! I joined the one nearest the price list. I fancied a king rib supper. It wasn't on the price list. I left. I looked across the road at the chinese. I didn't fancy chinese. Feeling that I was looking suspicious and paniced I got into the car and pretended to text someone on my mobile (texting makes you instantly un-suspisous). Inspiration! A red pudding supper, that's what I'd have! hurrah. I rejoined the queue behind two newcomers, bah!
Whilst waiting in the queue I noticed two king ribs in the little windows above the fryer.
"Can I help you"
"A king rib supper please"
*taps at till keypad*
"And what else was it?"
(I hadn't asked for anything else but maybe he didnt know what a supper was)
"errr chips"
Luckily I escaped with a king rib supper only and no extra portion of chips.
I am now wishing that I'd had beans on toast. I can feel the grease oozing out of my pores. I would have saved myself £3.30.

All the food was behind the shelves

Schedule

Regulation (EC) 852/2004

Premises Name:
Morrisons
Premises Address:

Dalmore Road
Alness
Type of Premises:
Supermarket
Date and time of Inspection:
04/04/06 1300hrs
Type of Inspection:
Food Hygiene
Areas Inspected:
All areas
Records/Documents examined:
Temperature , Training, Cleaning schedules
Samples Procured:
None

Note
This schedule only covers the areas inspected as they were found at the time of the inspection. It should not be inferred that all hazards and defects within the premises have been identified. The responsibility for complying with legislation lies with the proprietor and your own checks should be carried out as a matter of routine.

This schedule contains contraventions and recommendations. Contraventions are items that must be addressed to ensure your compliance with the above legislation. Recommendations are items I strongly recommend be adopted as good practice although they are not direct requirements in terms of the above regulations. All recommendations appear in italic type. When considering work to deal with contraventions there may be other ways of achieving compliance with the law than those I have suggested. Alternatives may be used provided they are of equivalent effect. If you are in doubt as to the acceptability of alternatives please contact me.

Please note that unless otherwise indicated, all references to regulations shall mean a regulation from Regulation (EC) 852/2004


CLEANING AND DISINFECTION

LEGAL REQUIREMENTS

The microwave situated in the café/staff canteen kitchen was not clean to its upper internal surface. (Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 Annex II Chapter V Para 1(a).)This area must be cleaned .


RECOMMENDATIONS

It was also noted that there was a build up of food debris behind some of the shelves in the café/staff canteen kitchen. I recommend that the cleaning schedule for this area be reviewed and amended as necessary to ensure that these areas that have been identified are cleaned on a more frequent basis to ensure build ups of dirt and debris do not occur in the future.


Generally however, I am pleased to report that overall, the standard of hygiene noted throughout the premises was satisfactory .