"Even if you're not planning on passing through Hethersett any time soon you may well want to make a detour to Janey's Village Cafe. The food is great and the prices are incredibly reasonable, what impressed me most though was the excellent service and friendly welcome. It was nice to see how well they're doing, it's clearly a popular breakfast destination and it's easy to see why. 8.5/10."
Too many calories for me to undertake a fry up survey. So how about cheese scones? This all started with a visit to the Courtyard Cafe at Wymondham. Actually make that 20 visits or more. That's 20 cheese scones or more. So we start with the Courtyard Cheese scones which are cheesy with those irresistible crunchy bits of cheese. They are fluffy and a definite nine out of 10. Then there are the John Lewis cheese scones which I tried on Saturday and they were horrid. They tasted like a plain scone with some horrible black bits on top which just passed as cheese, but it was a close thing. Definitely a two out of 10.
I will take my survey to the ends of the earth (well within 10 miles of Hethersett anyway).
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Don't ever try telling me that test cricket is boring after getting up early yesterday morning to see England hold on for a draw against Australia. With two overs (12 balls) to go the last two England batsmen were at the wicket with 11 Australians surrounding them and sledging which is the polite term for winding them up verbally.
Somehow the England batsmen managed to play out the last 12 balls. It was an honourable draw and very exciting. I am a cricket purist and much prefer the five day game to the bish bash limited over game. Mind you it has to be said that England only achieved the draw due to some wet weather restricting play during the day.
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On Saturday night we watched the new Ant and Dec game show Limitless Win which was hugely contrived and which you needed a degree in confusion to enjoy. At least a married couple won a considerable amount of money. Sadly, despite all the cash involved, I can't see this surviving more than one season as it's just confusing as though they are making the rules up as they go along.
Turned over to catch the last few seconds of Michael MacIntyre's Wheel where the aforesaid host was going potty because somebody had just won £33,000 whilst on ITV a couple had just won £500,000. Having said that I have a sneaking like of The Wheel despite the fact that it's basically rubbish.
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Latest monumental quote. This was King's Lynn Football Club's assistant manager Hugo Langton talking to Radio Norfolk. about the postponement of his team's game through a waterlogged pitch:
"We can't control what comes out of the sky. We can only control what we can control." Mastermind level that.
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Walking update. Nine days into the year I have completed 41.66 miles and that's an average of 4.63 miles per day. If I keep that up for the entire year I will complete 1,690 miles which would easily top my target of 1,500. Wouldn't it be wonderful to do 2,000, but that might be being a touch ambitious. I am 50% towards my target of raising £500 for the East Anglian Air Ambulance and there's still well over 11 months to go.
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Last night I was Fat Elvis!