Hello, me again
Sorry about that - Polly wanted me to see a Japanese Stab Binding she’s working on.
Anyway, as I was saying, it’s funny how things turn out sometimes. Even before I could nick cheese off a mousetrap mother was always banging on about me getting a trade so before you could say cheddar there I was - apprenticed to a book maker.
Not a book maker in the proper sense like the rest of the family with betting slips and odds and lots of dosh but a maker of books for goodness sake! How we laughed - well some of us did - and to be called Binder!! - well, that was really funny - Ho Ho Ho! Even better was to be ‘serving my time’ as an apprentice when nobody else at home was doing time when they jolly well should have been!
Anyway got out of there after a couple of years and took up fencing - without the posts and railings or the sword if you get me drift :) and promised myself that this Binder wouldn’t get in another bind over book binding ever but it was bound to happen of course……
To be fair, Polly tried her best to stop me but she loves cheese as much as I do and a whole round of blue stilton was just too much to resist. We got out just in time and kept running until we ended up here at Saintingunger.
Funny old place it is too - funny peculiar not funny haha as mum used to say before she got trod on in the choir stalls by the new lady vicar. Stilleto heels should be banned in church if you ask me.
But I digress. We checked out several rather nice properties at Saintingunger before dossing down where we are. Polly’s a bit fussy about these things but what really decided her was the Genius Double Chocolate Muffin wrapper.
It has been scrupulously licked clean of practically every last shred of muffin but Polly being Polly found the very last remaining hint of chocolate hidden deep in the grease of the bun case which had somehow escaped the meticulous attention of the muffin muncher.
Polly, I have to say, was completely in awe “the muffin was really, really good” she said “and I’ve cleaned out a muffin case or two in my time but whoever - or what ever did that - now that’s something else again - that takes class!!”
After this Polly wasn’t going anywhere and where Polly goes ………. well, when you’re onto a good thing one thing leads to another and I’ll tell you all about that next time.