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Archive for February 11th, 2016

A birthday burger.

Posted by Big John on February 11, 2016

Today is my 77th birthday, and as usual the ‘old trouble and strife’ insisted on dragging me down to the pub for a birthday lunch, or perhaps I should say that it was more like we leaned on each other as we limped along towards the local hostelry.

So what did I select for my lunch ? .. steak ? .. fish ? .. pasta ? .. curry ? .. chicken ? .. or .. one of those giant steaming platters of ‘Gawd’ knows what ?

No! .. I chose a ‘once a year’ .. cheese and bacon burger which came with all those ‘extras’ which I did not order. Most enjoyable !

So now I’m looking forward to this evening, when the menu might be just a little more…

… ‘Cordon Bleu’ 🙂

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