Spam and other comfort food

Can we talk? About Spam? I'm not keen on it. Not this type of Spam .....



..... which I'm sure is lovely ..... especially deep fried in batter ..... mmmm, fritters .....



No, the other type of Spam. The bad Spam. Is it just me or is anyone else completely hacked off with the amount of Spam emails, particularly rude ones, that pop into their in-box on a regular basis?



I currently have 30 of these emails sitting in my bulk folder, and it seems that most of them should be directed at a man who either wants to increase the girth of one particular part of him, or is maybe having "timing issues" that need to be resolved.


And just what is it that Mr Hamid Essa wants to send me from his desk? A leg?? And if I accept something from his desk, won't I then have to send him something from mine - just to be polite? Mind you, I do have an inordinately large amount of paperclips accumulating ..... maybe he'd like some of those.


I usually just delete these spam mails, but it is frustrating when you think "Yay, I've got mail!" and it turns out that you haven't. Not the kind you want, anyway.



Moving on to the comfort food ..... I bought this book at the weekend ......

..... mmmm, mfort food ......

Anyone who has read this blog for a while will know that I don't won't can't cook, but for anyone new reading, have a little look at how the great muffin making debacle of 2007 turned out and you'll be up to speed.




So I think that secretly, the real reason I bought it is because the words and picture on the front cover are flocked .......

...... which I think is quite comforting in itself .....





And there are some lovely pictures to look at ......

So although I haven't made any New Year's resolutions, if I were to, it would be to make some a couple at lease one recipe from my new book.


RGH also bought one ......

But he can cook, so does he actually need it? I mean, do you really need a recipe for this .....

..... even I can manage a fry-up. Of sorts.

I'm hoping that he'll whip up this shortly ......

..... although I'd like a lot more gravy with mine, please.

And I'm quite envious of the old snap-shots in his book, such as this one ......

..... which spookily I'm sure I've seen before, and the girl on the second right looks just like one of my Aunts.

So, a foodie post from me today, with no knitted monkey content. But how about looking at some other people's instead?

If you haven't already seen these, why not check out Leanne's monkey, Mel, who is going to become the most sun-tanned monkey I've ever seen, Kaz has knitted a gorgeous pink monkey for her beautiful new niece (she's knitted lots of others too - her needles must be on fire!), and Tintock Tap made a rather handsome blue one for her son. I think I need to cast on a blue monkey now. Immediately.

And Jennifer, who hasn't got a blog, sent me some lovely pictures of "Travel Monkey", who went on a trip with her niece in America.

Here he is, somewhere in Virginia .....

..... and ordering fast food .....

Isn't it great to see so many monkeys made of knit bringing joy and happiness to the world? AND SLOWLY BUT SURELY TAKING IT OVER ...... MWAH HA HA HA HA HA HA ......