Our Phili-Pam

Pass the port, please.

Well, I confess, I used to call my hubby my super hero. Mind you, that was a few years ago now, but an actual Super Hero does put a different slant on things.

I think that there is little difference between super heroes and myths or legends or even tales of more realistic heroes. We dream of someone taking up our cause who is more effective than we can be. It's good against evil. British literature turned its back on fantastical characters... maybe as far back as the Protestants, removing iconography from the churches. Fantasy was still not favoured when I was a young adult and only the likes of Tolkien and Homer were tolerated. The way was softened by films like Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark but I think it wasn't until the advent of Harry Potter that fantasy and sci fi became cool for the 'cultured' to talk about, even if they frowned upon it. The movies are now so technically brilliant, that we really can believe in the impossible. For a while anyway. Curiously the 'cultured' still favour 'realism' or what I call 'miserable'. The British have a weakness for wallowing in bad times and pessimism. Be realistic but dare to dream too.

Hi all, I've had trouble today. I couldn't find the switch to the Henry vacuum. I searched high & low, high & low, up & down, up & down, round & round, round & round, but I couldn't find it. I used to have trouble like this before, but Pam always found it without any trouble. Anyway, it was where I left it.

In a far more sensible mood today, no probs with the vacuum this morning, I may pop for a Tesco breaky at the Arena. That sounds good already. In terms of value & quality, it would be on my radar for a Forum breaky, but, a big but, the tables are fixed in position, so banquet seating is a no no. Have a good day all.

Morning all, I feel like a sausage! It's ages since I've been to the Playwrights Cafe at the canal basin, so who knows. It's always been good quality food there.

I will say the obvious Phil, you don’t look like a sausage 😏

Hope you enjoy this photo, Anne. Well, I felt like a lemon last Thursday. To get there from Holbrooks, it's either the Stagecoach bus, the one with six horses, & get off by Leicester Row, or I board the No 13, & get off at Wickes & walk off the Radford Road. You get all the facts here, all of the facts!

Nice picture, Philip. My mum was in a care home for the last couple of years in her life just up from there in St Nicholas Street, and of course in my teens, before the new bit of the Radford Road was built, I used to walk down that way into town at lunchtime from Sandy Lane. The day my brothers and I cleared her room out, we went to a little cafe in that row you can see for a bite to eat before we went into town to do what was necessary. If you got on a canal boat from there you could pass not far from our house, across a little aquaduct that crosses the River Anker and finishes up where I sat yesterday. Fradley Junction (junction of Coventry Canal)

Hi Anne, I'll post a picture when I get home. I'm well sausaginated.

Ahoy there!

I believe that it's important to stay sausaginated in hot weather... or cold weather for that matter.

Would it be up to a Forum breaky? My sausage batch & a small latte, I had change from £5.

Lovely location but only you can comment on the superiority or not of the sausage. I'm always happy with a 'Spoons sausage bun. Tesco's hot counter is still my favourite source of sausagination. Their jumbo Cumberland ring in a still warm seedy panini with melting Country Life butter is the stuff of dreams.