It seems that our local hostelry is partaking in a “Burger Festival” where apparently burgers will be in “abundance” in the coming month !!!!!!
On seeing the new posters going up Nigel was well up for it, asking when we could book a table ….. that was until I pointed out to him that Skippy would be on the menu, and then ….. he very rapidly lost his appetite for eating at the table of a more exotic type nature …. and I have to admit, it turned my stomach a little queasy too!
If sunflower oil is made from sunflowers, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, what is baby oil made from?
Twinkie's are American comestibles or “vittles'” as they like to call them that we have only ever dreamt of tasting …. and had planned on sampling them profusely on our Holiday of a Lifetime Holiday to Last Vegas ….but now, we had an actual one in our kitchen, it was a profound moment of Hello Magazine type poignancy!
There was a hushed silence as Darrell cut the aforementioned Twinkie into three (very) equal pieces ……..
….. and much awe and wonder as we all gazed at the cross section of aforementioned, aforementioned Twinkie.
To be Frank (Earnest and Jeffrey!!!) ….. we had expected more cream filling….
…… but when Darrell 
….. followed by the scoring …..
Now, we have to be honest …. much as we enjoyed our first Twinkie and awarded it a most acceptable 8 out of 10 on our Richter Scale of noms ….. we have to admit that the filling, in our estimation isn’t a patch on the creamy filling in a British Tunnocks Tea Cake …..
So, we are planning on taking a couple of boxes over to Las Vegas for our hosts at the Luxor Hotel to compare and contrast! 
When I asked him what the word was he said “urniture”! He said he had seen it on a wall on his way to work and it had aroused his word curiosity.
So far this week we have had to make him take and put back five in exactly the same place as he has found them ….. what do we do with him? We need to find him a sensible “something” to collect!
….. he was so excited, that he could not resist the tiniest of nibbles in the corner, before bringing it to our testing table for our considered opinion!
The packaging certainly evoked the feeling of summer time and our seasonal pudding of 5 a day choice, strawberries and cream.
It promised much …. but would it deliver?
…… nom nom nom nom nom ….. it ticked all my boxes!
Now Darrell has composed himself ….
…. he would like to thank everyone ….
….. who took the time to wish him a Happy Birthday through Facebook
…. especially Lynda who called him handsome!
…. it was all soooooo totally, totally unexpected …… and per usual, for Darrell, very emotional …… XXXXX THANK YOU XXXXX
Firstly, Darrell was totally overcome in a Hello Magazine way by all the kind people who had left him a birthday message (of that, more tomorrow) ….
But there, discreetly nestled amongst all the messages was one from The Artist To The Stars …. John Lee Bird …… not only that …. he had only gone and captured Darrell in a totally unique piece of art ….
OMG ….. you’ll never know just how MAHOOOOOOOOOOSIVE this is and exactly what it means to Darrell (and us) ….. because the aforementioned Artist To The Stars John Lee Bird turns down more requests from very famous people to portray them than we have ever had Marmite on toast, in our entire lives!
So you can imagine the state Darrell was in, flux doesn’t even cover it …….. his eyes glazed over completely and he was rendered totally speechless for over an hour. Even more worrying was that he could only very occasionally take a gulp of breath, and went a very worrying shade of blue ……….. before finally taking in a almighty intake of air, thus resuming a more normal breathing pattern and skin hue …..
…… this was just TOO MAHOOOOOSIVE for Darrell to handle ………
….. WHAT A BIRTHDAY! When composure and normality reign once more over Castle Greysquirrell … Nigel and I will print off Darrell’s portrait and get it framed for him, but for the now we cannot get any where near it as Darrell will not leave the computer!!!!
Yesterday we had the most mahoooosive glitch in our blogging system and were forced to post, fascinating though was, one of Nigel’s ponderings …… when it was, of all days Darrell’s birthday!!! Totally, totally unbelievable!!! 
However, we are now able to share the joy with you …… all be it a day late ….
After he had opened his card from us …we let Darrell open what he thought were his main presents, some of his favourite facial wipes for his strict cleanse and tone routine, some Jammie Dodgers, his current biscuit of choice and some strawberry flavour pencils, especially chosen by Nigel as they are his confectionery of choice at the moment and on special offer at our village Tesco Express, what is he like?
Then, with all the unwrapping done, we dropped our birthday bombshell on Darrell ….. we told him that we had also secured him a ticket to see The Rolling Stones in Hyde Park! We knew how much he wanted to see them before they were really too old to play anymore….but the cost of a ticket was a little too prohibitive for him on his Confidential Shredder Operative wages! ….. Lets just say, at this Darrell released unbridled emotion, and leave it at that!
Once he had gained his composure, it was time to light the candle of birthday light on Darrell’s birthday cake and for him to make a wish ….. “I really don’t need a wish after all this” he sighed “I am so blessed in a Hello Magazine type way …. I shall make my wish for someone else ……” and then sniffed a little more and blew the candle out.
It really was a morning wrought with raw birthday emotion ….
…… but there was still more to come ……. to be continued……
….. call it instinct, but I had a strange Derek Acorah feeling that he was up to something ……
….. I am not proud of it, but I decided that I ought to follow and sneak up on him …. and see what held so much fascination for him in the shed, as I was sure it wasn’t plant pots and compost ……
…… Poor Nigel, when he saw me, he nearly jumped out of his skin ….. and his guilty little face said it all …
….. because, goodness knows where he had got them from or how he’d snook them past Darrell and I without rousing our suspicions, …. but not only had he procured a “no smoking” sign ……
…… but also an old road lamp ………….. Oh Nigel, …. what are we going to do with him ….. I fear a midnight knock on the door any day now, with Castle Greysquirrel being torn apart brick by brick by the Roadwork's Police trying to recover other similar stolen paraphernalia!!!!
