Saturday, 10 March 2007

shoestring budget

I have finally learnt how to save lots and lots and lots of money! The other day I asked for the menu, and due to me not really being able to speak in Spanish, instead in Spanglish, which is English with a Spanish flare or vice verca. I got an option of three local dishes, including starters, main and a free juice! The real word for menu is La Carta, and that has the "to be prepared" food, which is also three times the price! So my mistake was great! Obviously you can get very ill from the "menu", as you have no idea to how long it has been standing there....but my shoestring budget is obviously protecting me from many aliments!
So I thought I would share my knowledge last night, and went to a great restaurant...asked for the "menu" and guess what! It worked! Kept feeling air on my legs, finally looked under the table expecting to see something.....Under the table was the biggest, fattest, whitest, fluffiest rabbit you have ever seen. Legs stretched out and having a great snooze! She (like to think of all lovely animals as girls .....) eventually moved under my chair, only to make herself comfie and go back to sleep. Have decided that instead of just having chickens and ducks in my tent garden, I now want rabbits as well! Am also contemplating the idea of having a cow, but must research and see how one pasteurises milk, and whether goats milk is healthier! Bless the person who lets me have a tent garden!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

you'll be lucky to get a tent, we can sort you out a cardboard box though

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Anonymous said...

Marvellous. I hope the rabbit will not end up on the menu. In the news here, a little girl hatched two duck eggs which her mother bought from Waitrose to eat. Now they are two adored pets.

Anonymous said...

P.S. Special offer on tents at John Lewis - large three roomed tent (!) with two sleeping bags, ground sheets, foam rolls, camp stove, solar panel light and water buckets for £50! Smart too in navy blue.

Anonymous said...

The message about the special offer on tents at John Lewis was from me, I forgot to put my namein the little box. Just in case you thought John Lewis were taking a new form of advertising.