CHANGE OF DATE FOR THE CAIRNS OPEN DAY!......Pizza Bites Are Shite…..From Orkney Archaeology Society……From Steve Drury……
by Bernie Bell - 07:15 on 01 July 2025
CHANGE OF DATE FOR THE CAIRNS OPEN DAY!....
https://archaeologyorkney.com/2025/06/30/cairns-open-day/
And on-going dig-diary……
https://archaeologyorkney.com/2025/06/30/cairns-d16-2025/
Another quernstone!
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Pizza Bites Are Shite…..
When ordering them, I mistakenly thought they were going to be little bits of pizza – they turned out to be little brown balls with a rock-hard covering of something pretending to be breadcrumbs.
The inner layer was meant to be cheese, tho’ it didn’t have the consistency of any cheese I’ve ever come across, and it tasted like the flavouring used on particularly vicious cheese & onion crisps.
The middle was some red stuff which tasted of nothing at all - I was thankful for small mercies.
I chawed my way through some of them, then gave up and they went out for the Crows and Seagulls - the Blackbirds would have none of it.
Pizza Bites are the most un-pleasant thing I’ve eaten for a long time, and made me realise how much our perception of what is food has degenerated – that stuff like that is considered to be food and is possibly even popular. People feed that crap to their children, then wonder why they’re bouncing off the walls!
Fifty – even forty – years ago, if a person was presented with those Pizza Bites as food – they’d raise a quizzical eyebrow.
It took me a long time to get rid of the taste – tho’ I can’t even describe what the taste was. It built up after I’d finished eating them too, and wouldn’t go away. Peppermint Creams helped, but not much.
My feeling was that I wished I could cough them up as a pellet, like an owl does. That my body would reject them - refuse to let that shit go through my system - wrap it up in a neat little pellet and eject it from my person.
But that didn’t happen. I had bad heart-burn instead. Something inside me knew there was something wrong with what I’d eaten.
I’ll stick to fish &chips – that’s real food. You know where you are with fish & chips.
A poem by Friend Wend.........
Small things
Sitting in a van
in the rain
watching the sea foam
through misting windows,
*
pulling open paper wrapping
the appetising smell
smacks us in the face
as waves slap on the beach
*
herring gull stands
sideways on, one eyed
one-legged, thinking
of chips, waiting
*
bite through the crispy fried
outer layer into hot soft potato
satisfied chewing and munching
snug in the dry warm cab
*
breathing, steaming, eating
staring into blurry horizon
through steady play of rain
splashing on the screen
*
tip tap tapping on the roof
trickling down the gulleys
mouths and fingers full of chips
delighting in this.
Wendy Alford October 2012
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Orkney Archaeology Festival 2025
“This will be a series of events in Orkney from 11th – 14th September. We intend to make this a regular annual event but this is our first so please be gentle with us!
This will be a collaboration between Orkney Archaeology Society, UHI Archaeology Institute, Historic Environment Scotland, Orkney Islands Council and other partners.
Watch this space – more details coming soon!”
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From Steve Drury…..
https://earthlogs.org/2025/06/28/the-worlds-oldest-crust-in-the-nuvvuagittuq-greenstone-belt-quebec/
I was going to type …’Not from British Rail’….. but that shows my age!...
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