I am keeping a cold at bay and so I have a made a spicy curry for dinner to keep my airwaves clear. I only had wild rice in the cupboard and it took bloomin' ages to make it fluffy.
While it was fluffin' up, I had a chat with Stockings who is now a couple of days into her Nuffield group tour; they all get on a plane for Washington tomorrow. She had a few moments free before a night out at a Mexican restaurant. I felt a tiny bit jealous. Not about the Mexican; I can make my own fajitas thank you very much, I mean about the study tour.
We had a lot of fun when we did the Nuffield study tour in London, Paris and Belgium in, I think, 2005. We were in a restaurant in Notre Dame when Pope John Paul II died and we gave him a great send off.
I can remember that it took a while for our group to bond together. It was only when we got to France that we worked out whose company we enjoyed and we dropped the stuffy and pompous facades that we farmers put up when we are nervous and in a new crowd.
Of course some farmers drop these facades to reveal an equally stuffy and pompous personality behind.
Did I tell you that the strategic thinker, James "Pecker" Peck is doing a Nuffield Scholarship this year?
Love ya really, Pecker.
It seems like yesterday when I was sitting in London doing the same thing, which I suppose you could argue it was in Nuffield terms as it was last year. Id gladly go on the CSC to Washington, but might be homeless when I return. Ah the good old days. It funny I have the same thoughts on the "group", it was France before we really got to know each other and Belgium before we had the folk from the Southern Hemisphere convinced that SFP was acceptable in return for the amount of BS we have to put up with that they dont!