20 years of mince pies (an anniversary)

 I met my wife 20 years ago today, around this time in the evening. I lived and I was eating a mince pie. You can read more about it in this post. Because it is an important anniversary, every year since then, I eat a mince pie in the evening. At least one. Even though I don't like them all that much.

Crazy Bear Mask

For today's countdown to Halloween's post, I have decided to speak about a mask I stumbled upon last year during our grocery shopping at Tesco. You can see it here: the Crazy Bear Mask. A creepy teddy bear, with razor sharp teeth and bloodied buttons for eyes. I find it deliciously creepy. Generally speaking, I am not the biggest fan of modern horror, I prefer old fashioned Gothic imagery and disguises for Halloween, but this mask I really like for some reason. Maybe because it channels primal children fears? Be that as it may, Wolfie thought the mask was hilarious and he even tried to put it on.

Le chat qui a plusieurs noms

J'ai blogué ici sur cette tasse que j'ai achetée, avec en plus un petit chat noir en peluche pour l'Halloween. Or, il semblerait que, si la tasse indiffère petit loup jusqu'ici, il s'est pris d'une affection inattendue pour le chat. Je dis inattendue, car mon fils n'est pas très porté sur les peluches jusqu'ici. Il n'est pas très affectueux envers les toutous qu'il a, leur préférant ses tracteurs, voitures, trains et camions. Mais celui, pour une raison qui m'échappe encore, il l'aime beaucoup. L'ennui, c'est qu'aucun nom n'arrive jusqu'ici à lui "coller" à la peau. Mon fils l'appelle tantôt Gizmo, tantôt Dodo, à d'autres moments simplement "Cat". Il a même parfois utilisé "Dougie"(?). J'imagine qu'il est normal qu'un chat ait plusieurs noms, mais rarement du même propriétaire.

Witches Brew (and a cat)

For tonight's countdown to Halloween post, I present you my new favourite mug. Sometimes, I am a sucker for silly things. Anyway, we went to Tesco yesterday for food shopping and we spent a good deal of time in the Halloween section, where Wolfie and I had a ball. They were selling lots of things, including this Halloween mug, with this cute little plush black cat. The mug is nothing original, the image on it shows a graveyard with jack o'lanterns and it's written Witches Brew on it, as you can see. Wolfie wanted it for the cat (although he is not that much into soft toys) and I wanted it for the mug. So we got it. Now I drink every non alcoholic drink I can in this and Wolfie has a new cuddling toy. We need to give a name to this cat, by the way. Any suggestions, please put them in the comments.

Tesco calls them bagels...

This weekend, my wife and I went to shop in Tesco. In the bakery section, there were these so-called bagels. I could not believe it. They looked so surreal, I had to take a picture. My wife said I was embarrassing. I replied: "They are embarrassing to sell them." This is, I think, a great unknown line. Then, I published the picture on Facebook, because such travesty has to be named and shamed. I wrote: "Tesco calls them bagels. I call them cardboard doughnuts." This deserves to be another great unknown line. Anyway, as a guy from Montreal, who survived starvation thanks to quality bagels, these are a crime against gastronomy.

Another great unknown line (from myself again)

So let's try to make this a tradition, or at least a recurrent theme. Here is another great unknown line and its story:

Back in my days in Liverpool, I was back from Tesco with some grocery, among other things a few chocolate pies, which are totally decadent. I was about to store them when the phone rang. It was for one of my housemate. When I knocked at her door to give her the phone, I still had the pies in the hand, so I said:

"It's for you. The phone I mean, not the chocolate pie."

To which she replied, laughing:

"But I wanted both."

She kept on laughing and had to explain the joke to her friend. Now it's not as funny as the first great unknown line I put here, but it's still quite good.