Hot, or not?

With William on a year long mission researching queueing procedures in the Congo, I felt obliged to visit Greggs for a sandwich, sausage roll and a Queue (it’s what he would have wanted).

If William has taught me one thing, it’s that Greggs is always an excellent choice for queueing, something exciting often happens – today was no exception.

I approached the counter and pretended to decide what I wanted. I already knew what I was going to have, but didn’t want them to know this, I decided on my order during the four hours building up to lunch. It’s a great way of passing time, during the first 30 minutes of work you think about where you will eat, the next 30 minutes is used to decide what type of bread you will have, try to spend an hour thinking about the fillings (you wouldn’t want to get this wrong), the next hour should be used to brainstorm side dishes (spider diagrams are very useful at this stage), then use 30 minutes to plan desserts and drinks. Any remaining time should be spent reviewing your list and planning your speech to save time when you get to the sandiwch artist.

Chicken club sandwich and a sausage roll please, no, I don’t need a bag – thanks though.

Whilst waiting for the Greggette to serve me I decided to do a bit of eavesdropping, this was made extremely difficult by the man who placed both hands on the pie window and shouted his demands:

“I want something hot, what’s HOT?”

The Greggette  started to list the hot options.

“Sausage Rolls, Steak Bakes, Chicken Bakes…….”

“Yes, yes, I’ll have those, give me those”

He seemed very excited, but who wouldn’t be, what a feast! He took his selection of meat treats and ran off into the sunset. The man made me wonder if I wanted something else, he had a wide selection, should I have more? Could I be so unadventurous?

Yes.

I asked for my sausage roll and took a walk.

I took one bite into my sausage roll I had a little surprise, it wasn’t hot at all. That guy must have been so disappointed, not me though, I still had my sandwich to look forward to.

Next time on WithWood:

A world with vision, a boots meal deal, a walk to the ocean, and hopefully…. the tale of the winning scratch card. 

Blogger’s Block

I have recently found writing extremely difficult, it’s not a good feeling. Not a good feeling at all.

There have been a number of blogworthy events recently, but for some reason I haven’t been able to find a way to blog them off. One such event was quite some time ago, I can’t remember all of the details, but I think you should be aware that it involved McDonalds, a young Scottish male, a burger, accusations of racism and a burger colliding with a McWorker’s  face. I’ll let you take a look at the aftermath, but feel that it’s too late to give the full story now.

It would have been a great tale to tell, but I must put it behind me and attempt to unblock my blog.

One of my problems with blogging is that I have started to take Leith for granted, I have explored all the streets possible in a one hour lunch break and eaten every type of baguette.  I think it might be time to find a new direction for WithWood, any input would be greatly appreciated.

I haven’t wanted to blog for the sake of blogging, but don’t want to stop either, especially after the unprecedented amount of support I have received – which I thank you all for.

I know I promised something special for my return to the blogoshpere, but will end my post for now. I feel that these few words have helped me a little, even if it was just to remember where all the letters live.

Hello, is it me you’re looking for?

Sorry I haven’t blogged one off in a while, I would say that I have been busy… But I haven’t, so I won’t.

I will be back in business very soon, just taken a bit of a holiday from blogging.