King Prawns and the neighbours

I recently got a gas fired grill to replace my old charcoal grill. It works really well and it saves all the hassle of trying to get the charcoal glowing. Plus once you’ve finished you just turn it off. I always thought charcoal cooked food is overrated. The results from gas jobby are great. My favourite dish at the moment is king prawns, then dipping them in a chili sauce. It tastes so good in fact that my neighbours have complained that my king pawns have been smoking out their living rooms every weekend for the past month. Well actually I suspect the belly pork has been the most offending dish. Loads of smoke when the fat drips on the flames.

The Germans mainly cook pork on the BBQ, which is fine. But in the supermarkets there are only 3 choices of marniate to choose from. The green one, the red one and the orange one. I prefer the orange one. The maniates are really salty. I try to marinate the steaks myself when I have time.

Vic’s Steak

Take some plain yogurt, add curry powder, honey and garlic. Leave steaks in the marinate over night. Slap on barbecue and guzzle loads of beer while cooking. Eat with greek salad and chips.

My top 25

Since getting my ipod last Christmas it’s has been keeping track of what I’ve been listening to. Here’s top 25. Make of it what you will

Into My Arms – Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Split Lips – Sons & Daughters
Return to Yesterday – The Lilac Time
Make Tonight Last - Redlands Palomino Co.
Green Eyeliner – Hot Puppies
Charlotte - Air Traffic
Dying on the Vine – The Jayhawks
Gilt Complex – Sons & Daughters
Bad Days - The Charlatans
Once More with Feeling – Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
Hollow Man – R.E.M.
Woodcat - Tunng
You Are What You Love – Jenny Lewis/Watson Twins
An Oak Tree – Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
I Got Drunk – Uncle Tupelo
The Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager – Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
Half Dead – The Mountain Goats
The Nest – Sons & Daughters
Rebel With A Ghost – Sons & Daughters
No Depression – Uncle Tupelo
Screen Door – Uncle Tupelo
Look Me Up – Georgie James
Take Me Home – Redlands Palomino Co.
Graveyard Shift – Uncle Tupelo
Wasted on You – Redlands Palomino Co.

If you’re really keen you can hear some of the music here
http://www.playlist.com/standalone/38067333/yes

The life and soul of the party?

Never been much of a sociable type.  In fact, I hate going to any kind of party of social gathering.   I think it’s mainly because I had such a bad time at school that I kind of learnt it’s not much fun interacting with other people.  I quite happy listening to music, playing with my kids or cooking dinner/drinking beer.  Why invite other people into my private utopia?  I think the housekeeper gets pissed off at me for being so rude sometimes.  (ie. Not turning up at house warming parties, weddings, funerals etc)   Ok, I do turn up at the odd event but my gut instinct is to think of a good excuse not to go and to start rifling through my CD collection.  Some may say “What a sad git?”,  to which I’d say don’t judge me by your fucking values.  I’m happy and live a fulfiling life,  I just I don’t need the company of others.

The contract and the chocolate addict

I just lost a contract to a competitor.   You would think that’s life, you can’t win them all.  Oh no, I take it all very personally.   I had sacrificed a visit to gym to visit this stupid bitch of a client.   We had a nice talk in English which was pretty awful because it took her twice as long for her to say what she wanted.   Anyway we tested all the students and wrote up a concept.   Then 4 weeks later she says they’ve chosen another offer.  I know we could do a better job than the other cowboys.  It’s just very frustrating that we weren’t able to convince the customer of this.   If the stupid fat bitch had organized a trial lesson as I suggested instead of sitting on her lard arse stuffing chocolates down her neck, we would have got the contract.  Fuck, bollocks, wank.

Why the Vicar?

People often ask me why I call myself the vicar. Well, actually nobody has ever asked me that question. So I’m not going to tell.

Life has been good recently. Just got two new cars. I really like the VW cars, great body and well styled. So I got myself a Ford Focus which looks like a VW and has the advantage of being a car which a customer of mine sells. Large discount and good service.

I also got a raspberry phone which let’s me read my emails on the go. A great bit of kit which is very addictive.

We’ve had the add the best 5 months of business since our language school began. Skillful use of internet marketing and a good salesperson has done wonders. I find it even more stressful running a successful business. For example, we were storming along and my business partner decided to change our phone system. We switched to our new phone provider but our business phone line and fax weren’t switched over. 2 weeks no phone or fax. “Fucking bollocks” was my mantra for 14 days. Luckily we got it going again after we got a engineer to check out our system. After plugging in a rather important socket it worked straight away. (Sigh). Lesson to learn from this. 1. Don’t work in partnership with knobs and 2. Don’t fuck around with something that’s working fine.

Anyway if all goes we’ll have paid off most of mortgage and then I’ll have to find something else to worry about. Talking of which death….

My father had his first heart attack when he was 56. Being a fat bastard like my dad I was thinking to myself that’s only 12 years away for me. So I took the rather drastic action of joining a gym. I’ve been going now for 12 weeks. 3/4 times a week and it’s actually fun. Haven’t lost any weight but I feel great. Lifted the housekeeper high in the air above my head today much to her amazement.