Neil Gits Bacon Up His Nose

Up until quite recently I would make a cooked breakfast every Saturday & Sunday without fail – sausages, bacon, mushrooms, tomatoes and the occasional fried or scrambled egg – the whole weekend revolved around them ! Then in the last couple of years, as I started doing more & more ambitious football trips around the country, I trimmed them down because I was eating McDonalds McMuffins en route to matches and then always a cheeseburger at half-time, so switched to doing either sausages or bacon with either tomatoes or mushrooms in the evening once home – a very, VERY late breakfast !!

At the end of last season, I had virtually phased my legendary grills right out as more and more often I was picking up tasty treats before during and after the games and getting home just too late. So having discovered that one of my local cafes in town do a superb Full English for under £6, I now go there if I feel the urge. But a few weeks ago , I treated myself to some real good quality sossies, got the grill fired up again and it made a nice change – but I was stuffed !! I’d got used to having about four “mini meals” a day on Saturday & Sunday, so I guess that I will have to confine those big platefuls to memory for a while …

What happens next ? In these recent warm summer weekends, with the windows wide open, the wonderful smell of bacon cooking comes wafting into my house, the neighbours are knocking up bacon rolls or doing their own fry ups – torture !! I’ve not done as many footy trips as usual so far this season and am finding out what goes on all around my house when I am normally on the road – BBQs, family roasts, late morning brekfasts and other home cooked delights being created all round “Old Gits HQ” … and never an invitation to join !!

I’ve just opened the window today and am hoping I won’t get distracted and have to dash off down to the cafe ! If you are reading this before the Saturday ‘Repeat Play’ at 5pm you’ll know I managed to resist any latest food seduction … now let’s talk music :

The Tunes – Monday 16th September

Jackson Sisters – I Believe In Miracles
Real Thing – Whenever You Want My Love
Lukas Setto – Nobody But You
Mystic Merlin – Just Can’t Give You Up
Mystic Merlin – 60 Thrills A Minute
David Ruffin – Heavy Love
Whispers – I’m Gonna Make You My Wife
Dee C Lee – How To Love
Beggar & Co – Somebody Help Me Out
Gwen McCrae – Doin’ It
Maze – Joy & Pain (Full Live Version)
MFSB – Touch Me In The Morning
Suffiano ft Tashan – She walks This Earth
Jones Girls – This Feeling’s Killing Me
Cameo – Attack Me With Your Love
Slave – Steal Your Heart Away
Incognito – Always There
Gwen Guthrie – Just For You
Al Green – Let’s Stay Together (Groovefunkel Late Nite Lounge Mix)
Randy Hall – Again & Again
Michael Jackson – It’s The Falling In Love
Stephanie Mills – Medicine Song
Earth, Wind & Fire – Fantasy (Funky Purrfection Version)

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