Well, the answer to the quiz in the last post was sweat and sour Beira prawns. Nice they were too, though of course they don't really eat such dishes in China.
Wonderful news. Whilst I was in dear old Blighty recently to attend the Duneditin 2008 blogging conference, I also met up with three Aussie friends in the oldest public house in Edinburgh (Quiz question - where was I? (see snap below for hint)). What excellent company they were, too.
From left to right: Jimbo, Caro and Jacko.
Well, after long discussions about old times, talk eventually turned to the whereabouts of Carslemane, who they all knew from their days in Fitzroy, Melbourne, when Carslemane was based there, working in an amusement park as The Demon Drinker from Downunder. And Caro and Jacko had news!
According to them, some time before they left on their travels to the northern hemisphere, they'd been crossing the outback in their Swagman motorhome, and had actually bumped into Carslemane. Carslemane was walking along a track about 1,000 kilometres east of Waly Waters, and they reported he looked OK, though a little hot, worn and tired. He also sported a scar on his face caused by a disagreement with a 'roo in a bar.
Caro and Jacko were only too delighted to top up Carslemane's supplies, including a slab of XXXX but Carslemane refused further help, apparently saying that "He had to do, what he had to do" and couldn't, therefore, take up their offer of a lift, even to the nearest pub. They left him, at his request, by the roadside, and as they pulled away, they saw in their rear mirror that he was, in their own words "Going strong towards the Top End".
Well I say, isn't that wonderful news? To think that, at this very moment, Carslemane is still probably somewhere in the outback, and still going strong.
MM III
8 comments:
Mingin'! Once I ate the dish, cooked the dish, vomited the bugger up and still there is no prize? Still, I await tomorrow's post with some anticipation! Hotboy
Mingin'! The Duddingston Inn, bar, howff? I definitely want a prize this time! Hotboy
I say!
Close, Hooters, but the name is incorrect.
MM III
Could it be the old Sheep's Heid in Duddingston? I used to go there on a Sunday. What else was there to do in Edinburgh in those days?
Mingin'! It's the Sheep's Heid in Duddingston! Is the prize a night's free beer? Don't give it to Onan since he doesn't drink! Hotboy
I say!
Well, to be precise, it's the Sheep Heid Inn, as can be seen here.
MM III
I think that means you get the prize Mingers. I don't need it with a house full of home brew.
Mingin'! Did they not used to have skittles in yon pub. I remember playing skittles there once. I don't know if we got chucked out. We did get chucked out of some skittles place in Costorphine? Do they have skittles in the bongo bongo? Hotboy
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