Sunday, August 19, 2007
I'm still here
Wow, it's been a long while since my last post. I keep thinking "I should make another post" and "I really should get around to my blog" and suddenly it's been almost 2 months.
What's happened since then? Well some friends from my student days visited, Becca & I went to the Keswick Convention (photos will be added soon) and we had our anniversary. Also I have slowly started cycling again, and I found out I need another operation as the bit of bone grafted has grown a bit too much - see the diagram below. That operation will happen in October or November most likely, will involve a similar amount of time off work to the last one, but the recovery will be better, I won't have to wear a cast after it and there are much fewer potential complications, which is nice :)
I haven't had a bit of a rant for a while, so here goes. Desserts at restaurants are overpriced. I mean, you spend £8, £10 or whatever on a main course, which was quite a substantial amount of food that probably cost a bit to buy the ingredients for and took a bit of time to prepare and wotnot. Then along comes the dessert menu. Dessert is a little bit of an add-on extra to the main menu and probably doesn't take long to prepare. In addition, the portions are often fairly insubstantial. In my mind, a reasonable costs would be £1.50 or maybe £2.50 - I'm sure the ingredients for many of these don't cost more than 50p or £1. But what do they charge? £3.50 plus normally - where we went for our anniversary meal, the cheapest I think was £4.25. £8.50 for a small portion of something sweet for us both? I think not! We even saw the portions - they could've been eaten in 4 mouthfuls fairly easily. £1.06 for a mouthful?! It's a similar story in sandwich shops, and they sell slices of cake at anything from £1 to £2.50. The entire 8-slice cake probably cost as much as they are charging for 1 slice.
Anyhow, here is the top-quality medical diagram of my wrist showing what needs to be changed.
Wow, it's been a long while since my last post. I keep thinking "I should make another post" and "I really should get around to my blog" and suddenly it's been almost 2 months.
What's happened since then? Well some friends from my student days visited, Becca & I went to the Keswick Convention (photos will be added soon) and we had our anniversary. Also I have slowly started cycling again, and I found out I need another operation as the bit of bone grafted has grown a bit too much - see the diagram below. That operation will happen in October or November most likely, will involve a similar amount of time off work to the last one, but the recovery will be better, I won't have to wear a cast after it and there are much fewer potential complications, which is nice :)
I haven't had a bit of a rant for a while, so here goes. Desserts at restaurants are overpriced. I mean, you spend £8, £10 or whatever on a main course, which was quite a substantial amount of food that probably cost a bit to buy the ingredients for and took a bit of time to prepare and wotnot. Then along comes the dessert menu. Dessert is a little bit of an add-on extra to the main menu and probably doesn't take long to prepare. In addition, the portions are often fairly insubstantial. In my mind, a reasonable costs would be £1.50 or maybe £2.50 - I'm sure the ingredients for many of these don't cost more than 50p or £1. But what do they charge? £3.50 plus normally - where we went for our anniversary meal, the cheapest I think was £4.25. £8.50 for a small portion of something sweet for us both? I think not! We even saw the portions - they could've been eaten in 4 mouthfuls fairly easily. £1.06 for a mouthful?! It's a similar story in sandwich shops, and they sell slices of cake at anything from £1 to £2.50. The entire 8-slice cake probably cost as much as they are charging for 1 slice.
Anyhow, here is the top-quality medical diagram of my wrist showing what needs to be changed.
Labels: anniversary, dessert, Keswick, operation, restaurant