Hooray! Hooray! It's a holi-holiday!
Next Sunday I'll be taking my sons and heirs on a whirlwind tour of capital cities and theme parks, but in the meantime I'm enjoying a 'staycation' here in my beautiful home of Scarborough. A lovely quiet few days decompressing before it all goes crazy next week. Weather's looking good - warm but not too hot and a minimum of rain. So it's a perfect opportunity to digest my favourite things in the world: food and culture!
Why do people insist in blogging/tweeting/tumblring pictures of stuff they're eating? It's tedious and typical of the lack of imagination behind most people that when presented with the instant communication opportunities of social media that this is what they fall back on. In an attempt to get to the bottom of this I'm going to post pictures of my breakfast for the next five days!
It's usually toast or bagels for me - occasionally a Weetabix or two. In the past, when I've gone on holiday I've opted for the cooked breakfast as a treat, only to be too bloated by day three to persist with this 'luxury'. Nevertheless, even though I have perfect access to my own toaster this week I have resolved to have breakfast in a different location each day. Today it was the quaint Francis Tea Rooms on South Street just round the corner from my flat.
We've gone for the scrambled egg on toast here, with a lovely extra slice of toast. Always big chunky toast at Francis, fab if a bit expensive.
But that's not all. Not only will there be a different(ish) breakfast each day. I will also be spending each day dedicating myself to consuming tasty morsels from a different cultural medium each day. Today, I will be immersing myself exclusively in the world of comic books (plus ça change...). Tomorrow, it will be movies; Tuesday, it's audio and radio stuff; Wednesday will be books; and Thursday will be your friend and mine, telly stuff. It's my intention to let you know what I've been into in the following day's breakfast blog. I can tell you now that there will be a Doctor Who element to each day...
Yes, I know I always come up with these grand schemes and don't always complete (where's that novel you were writing, Vin? (it's still coming, I promise!)), but this is only five days so even I can't make a hash of it.
Can I?
More soonliest.
Mmm Francis Tea Rooms.
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