BAIBS Thursday 03/10/13

So I've just swept The Leopard car park. An arduous job. It's a big space and not keen on being swept. Still, why use a bin or an ash tray when there's a perfectly good car park available. I was hoping the sweeping would work off the pie. Not a chance.

Ah, the pie!

Last night I took part in the Man vs Pie challenge at The Yorkshire Pie House. 15 of us sat down with the aim of eating 2.4kg of pie in an hour. 15 of us failed. I'll be honest when I watched the competition a few weeks back I thought it could be done. I love their pies. It is the finest take away in Donny. But it only takes a few mouthfuls of the finest steak and potato pie to realise you won't do it all. What is more alarming is that as delicious as the first few mouthfuls are it doesn't take long til the taste turns your stomach. The pastry feels so dry and you struggle to swallow. After a while you cant even chew. No matter how much moving around you do, how much water you drink, how much you try to disguise the taste it just sits in your mouth almost inedible. And these are pies that I worship. I'm just hoping I'm not put off for too long. I managed 1.087kg of pie. 10th on the night, 15th overall. My boss Paul topped the leaderboard with an astonishing 2.378kg. We're both suffering today. It costs £20 to enter with all monies going to Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice. When you've finished you get to take what you haven't eaten home. I don't think there were many takers. I looked at my destroyed pie and the thought of taking it home made me feel ill. When my coffee and biscuits turned up during the show this morning I looked at the kit kats and thought I really don't want them. And I pigging love kit kats! So along with marathon radio shows that's another charitable event I wont be doing again.

I still wholeheartedly recommend The Yorkshire Pie House. Just have sensible portions.

That list of things I reeled off on Monday that I needed to do? I'm still nowhere near finishing the list and pie is preventing me from doing much today. So it's a lounge around til work tonight kinda day looking like Mr. Creosote.

Oh and apologies to Frederika Roberts for making her homesick with the Luxembourg blog.

Laters

SS

Playlist Thursday 03/10/13

The Mighty Ship - The Housemartins

Madness - Madness

Quiet Night In - All The Young

Mind - The Farm

Middle Sea - Yuck

Rebel Rebel - David Bowie

Losing My Religion - R.E.M.

Do It All Over Again - Spiritualized

Build - The Housemartins

Shadow - Gringo Star

Pride And Joy - Stevie Ray Vaughan

Giant Tortoise - Pond

Reputation - Section 60

Black And White Town - Doves

Dancing In The Dark - Big Daddy

The Electric Co. - U2

Under China - Auction For The Promise Club

Star - James

Take Her Back - The Pigeon Detectives

Halcyon - Ellie Goulding

Can Stand The Rain - The Talks

Moondance - Van Morrison

Cadillac Ranch - Bruce Springsteen

Here I Stand - Gimp Fist

Mirror Man - The Human League

The Bartender And The Thief - Stereophonics

Skinny Genes - Eliza Doolittle

Life In A Northern Town - Dream Academy

Roxanne - The Police

Your Body Is A Weapon - The Wombats

Everything - The Darlingtons

Everywhere - Fleetwood Mac

Signal 30 - Public Service Broadcasting

I Don't Feel Like Dancin' - Scissor Sisters

Sidewinder - Catfish And The Bottlemen

C'mon Everybody - Eddie Cochrane

Somethin' Else - Eddie Cochrane

Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochrane

Debaser - Pixies

Silent Sigh - Badly Drawn Boy

Birthday - The Sugarcubes

Egyptian Reggae - Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers