Triple Nelson!!!333!!!

How I was talking about waymarks t'other day, significant numbers in book production?

Page 333. Just hit it. Always a major moment. I'm English, I'm a cricket fan, I can't help it: 111 is a hugely significant number, as is any multiple. 111 is a Nelson, because the admiral of that ilk had one eye and one arm and one ... well, whatever; Nelson is actually a madly unlucky score for the English, it's remarkable how many English batsmen get out on 111 or multiples thereof, but just take your feet off the floor and the moment will pass, we'll be on 334 before you know it and if we even get as far as 444 I'll be so close to the end it'll be a gallop.

Yay. I just love turning this particular page.

Cooking quandary

Well, I don't know. I'm sitting here torn on the horns of a dilemma.

See, I have fresh broad beans from my veg box this morning, which I have boiled lightly and double-podded (because the English are the only people of whom I know, who will eat the nasty thick grey outer skin of the broad bean and think that they ought to; and in this at least I am not English); and I have a shank of boiled ham to pick over, before the cats do; and I thought that broad beans and ham and pasta would go extremely well together, and I believe that I am right. The big question is, though, do I keep it that simple - the beans, the ham, the pasta, a splash of good olive oil, a scatter of parmesan? Or do I construct a sauce with cream and shallots and garlic - which I also have, and the shallots & garlic are home-grown - and the beans and the ham? And the cheese?

Simple, or fancy? If I had a paid account, I'd make a poll of it (tho' only on condition that I could ignore what you said, if your decision made me suddenly fancy the alternate).

Why am I not surprised?

So the UK Govt recently introduced this internet thing, whereby concerned citizens can post petitions on the Number Ten website, and supportive types can sign 'em, and the PM ('s dept) promises a response.

So of course some of the petitions posted are serious, and some are silly, and some may not be serious but are none the less a Good Thing.

Among - I think - the latter, is a petition urging that Terry Pratchett should be knighted for his services to literature. (This is not Serious because - in my estimation - all such honours are ridiculous; and because - in their estimation - hey, he's just a genre writer, y'know...?)

Anyway: there it is, and here is their response.

And, as you can see, they couldn't even take the trouble to spell his name correctly.

The truly sad thing, of course, is that neither did the original petitioner...

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