I've been unable to log in here since the Portugal trip when my access went totally tits due to hacking etc - anyhow someone told me that my novel (see title of thread) has been enjoyed by some folks here - my fragile writer's ego needs a lift so can anyone set a link to the thread? I sorta scrolled through 12 pages but ...cheers - incidentally, the sequel is finished and will be uploaded in a few weeks.
I only remember this thread where you plugged it... http://www.not606.com/showthread.php/190853-Shameless-plug-O-
It was mentioned in another thread where a few were discussing books. As a consequence I bought and thoroughly enjoyed it. I recall describing the style as Ayn Rand meets Lewis Carroll. I'll see if I can find the other thread. I think it was one of Stans.
Cheers - our heads are in a very fragile place when we write, rewrite, edit, edit again (and then still find errors creep in) - it's like sitting at the Bridge (Humber) thinking, "All in all the water looks quite inviting I've never read Ayn Rand - the sequel opens with a famous Lewis Carrol quote
I am the guilty party for drawing the forum"s attention to this novel.The book is weird,the author is weird and he is not cool-FACT Think it was on a thread about a bloke called Jack...... who wrote a book about parts of Hull. But as I think I can legit claim 15% of the royalties I will gladly advise you to pre-order the sequel even though I have not seen it yet.
Seriously? I feel empowered. Stick a post on here when it's available. I'll look forward to it. Ayn Rand's a good wet weather book that was popular with students a few years back. I enjoyed the concepts, but at times she's a bit over wordy in her descriptions of people for me. Did you know Lewis Carroll used to live in Hull? His grandad worked in the Neptune Building on Whitefriargate as Chief tax collector, and he lived in what has now become pozition night club. Father, son and grandson all had the same name, so I doubt he got his imagination from them.
The Mayo rules: Mayo goes with tuna, egg and prawn to make sandwich filling. It can occasionally, but shouldn't, be found on jacket potatoes. It should NEVER be found on any of the following: Chips French Fries (there is a difference) Steak Warm Pasta Dishes Lasagne Pizza Sausages Bacon Burgers (Bacon Cheese or otherwise - I'll let a chicken burger slide, but only because it seems universally accepted) Infact, any meat whatsoever that isn't in a sandwich. Actually no. No meat based sandwiches either. Risotto Cheese Toasties Cheese on Toast Roast Dinners (have horseradish you ***) Chippy (same goes for 'curry sauce' - when have you ever had a curry that tastes like curry sauce? It's not curry flavour, it's orange and it's wrong) Sausage Rolls Pork Pies Scotch Eggs Any fish/Seafood dish I'm sure there's a million and one other foodstuffs that you shouldn't have mayo with. Tell you what else bugs me; when you cook a meal for a group of friends and before anybody has taken a bite, somebody reaches straight for the salt. At least decide that my seasoning skills are **** by sampling the dish before you ingest half of the North Sea with those potatoes. ****.
Well I don't eat them all at once, obviously. They're just examples of people I know (mostly my brother's missus) putting mayo on the wrong foods.
Fries and Scotch Eggs shouldn't be on that list(nor steak if you're having it with the fries). And you can't have seafood on there. How can you make marie rose for your prawns if you don't have a mayo base? (you haven't thought that one through) and tuna salad definitely needs mayo and in exception circumstances(ie you've run out of tartar), I'd also allow mayo with scampi.
And - if I recall correctly? - the White Rabbit is in St. Mary's church, Beverley. (A carving, I believe).
Well I kinda included prawns and tuna in the bit about sandwich fillings, as the same rules for salads apply. I don't eat salad anyway, but I left that out for obvious reasons. Steak with Mayo is sacrilege. It's like putting vinegar on spaghetti bolognese. It ruins the taste and is completely pointless. Peppercorn, Diane, White Whine or, in some circumstances, a mushroom sauce if the former sauces are not available. I feel I should add an IMO somewhere, but I get the overwhelming feeling that I'm doing the good people a service.
I'd agree with you about the steak if it's a proper one, with baked tattie, creamed corn etc, it should have a sauce(peppercorn is my preference), but if you have steak fries and a salad, you don't want a sauce on it and mayo should be perfectly acceptable in that instance. The worst one for me, is when someone goes into a Hull chippy and orders fish and chips with curry sauce. What the **** are they thinking?
Couldn't agree more. I can't fathom it. They then smother the plate in it. Salt and Vinegar, absolutley. Hell, if it's of good quality, a bit of gravy and peas too. But nothing more. Otherwise...well otherwise you're just sick!? I love a good steak; the best I ever had was at the Strip House in New York, on 13th Street (just next to Union Square Park). It cost a bomb, like $60, but it was a proper New York Strip and it was ****ing delicious. I've never tasted anything like it They also did a 42oz Porterhouse if I remember rightly, but I felt I wasn't ready. Also it was like $100. The Americans have many flaws, but my word, food isn't one of them. Is there anywhere good to get a steak in our fair City? I went to the Star at Sancton and it wasn't a bad effort. The Hotham Arms also do an alright fillet.
I had a look, Dutch - but I discovered a limit to how far I could look back in my posts (20 pages, I think?).
The Strip House in New York is brilliant, I must have been a dozen times(it's my mate in New York's favourite restaurant). There's not too many option round here, if you're not too fussy about the surroundings then there's Mustafa's(Anlaby Road) or The Lantern(Whitefriargate), I also had a decent steak and chips at The Wilson on the Marina. I assume you can get a decent one at 1884 Dock Street Kitchen, but I've not made it in there yet. According to Trip Advisor, the best steak and chips in Hull is at Brimble's Steakhouse on Prinny Ave, but I've never been there either.
If you like mayo then look out for Yorkshire Wold brand, never had any like it, simply the best! Sadly it is hard to find. Sometimes seen in Fields and other delis.
