‘And Another Thing...’
Chicken in a Basket or Soup on the Floor Chicken in a Basket or Soup on the Floor
byVince Nolan
In a previous issue of this splendid publication my fellow columnist Michael James very Let me explain. Picture the scene kindly said some complementary things about at Nolan Towers. my writings. We do indeed seem to share a Man, the hunter, lot of and tastes. He recently returns fromexperiences a hard few hours wrote about the Capitol Cinema on Queen tracking down prey Street which I remember well. One of my first at Tesco (other supermarkets area 16-year-old, (I went to a Catholic dates as available). The School remember), was scheduled for the Current Mrs Nolan Capitol. welcomes the The Never To Become Mrs Nolan and arrival of I queued for more than an hour to see Jaws. Let me explain. Picture the scene at Nolan comesCbles and All very romantic. We were next to go in when prepares to store Towers. Man, the hunter, returns from a hard them away. Alas the manager came up to us and told us the few hours tracking down prey at Tesco (other and alack a cinema was full. That was the end of that. She supermarkets are available). The Current Mrs parCcularly lively married a mate of mine and I still haven’t seen cream of Nolan welcomes the arrival of comestibles and mushroom soup Jaws. I think I was the only person ever to be prepares to store them away. Alas and alack makes a break for Chicken in a Basket or Soup on the Floor traumatised it and lands on the from not having seen it. a particularly lively cream of mushroom soup floor, covering it, makes a break for it and lands on the floor, related matters, marine biologists have She,Inand the Let me expl units. All covering it, She, and the kitchen units. All was kitchen always wondered why sharks swim away after Picture the was not lost Dear not lost Dear Reader as the mushroom colour Reader chomping off swimmers’ feet. Turns out they at Nolan Tow as the Man, the hu mushroom colour worked rather well with our ice-blue wooden are lack toes intolerant. returns from worked rather well units thus introducing a whole new colour with our ice-blue We recently managed to take the high moral hard few ho tracking dow palette. My how we laughed, me and the Soup wooden units thus ground, introducing a a location we don’t often occupy. Like at Tesco (ot Dragon. supermarke whole new colour many of you, lockdown meant the weekly available). T paleJe. My how Staying with supermarkets, recent embarrassment of stealthily trying to put out Current Mrs we laughed, me examination of newly purchased asparagus recycling within earshot of our neighbours. welcomes t andthe the Soup Dragon. arrival of (I’ve been locked down too long) told me comesCbles that it came from Peru. Since it only cost £1, Staying with prepares to supermarkets, them away. I wondered about the economics of all this, recent and alack a never mind the green footprint, all 6,300 miles examinaCon of parCcularly newly purchased asparagus (I’ve been locked down too long) told me that it came from of it. Turns out Peru is the largest exporter of cream of mushroom fresh asparagus in the world selling 99% of makes a bre the crop into overseas markets. The moral it and lands of this tale seems to be don’t ask for fresh floor, coveri She, and the asparagus in a restaurant in Lima as the gales kitchen unit of laughter and price may upset you. was not lost 14 CARDIFF TIMES
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