Glee, dream cake and life skill.
1. I like the cheery girl in my favourite coffee shop. She is Canadian and has a funny munchkin voice that makes me smile every time I hear it. She acts as if she is delighted to dish out coffee and cakes to everyone, no matter how early the hour or foul the weather.
2. The chocolate brownie that I didn't eat at lunchtime. It tastes so much better in my imagination than it would have if I bought and eaten it. No really.
3. At the back of my mind is always the fear that should I be called upon to do first aid, I don't actually know how to do CPR -- not any more though. I've been on a course. They've even given me a special sheet to keep in my handbag in case the patient is not very hygienic. And they told that the chorus of Nellie the Elephant keeps you in rhythm and gives you the 15 compressions before you need to do two rescue breaths. But they said not to do it out loud because it offends by-standers.
2. The chocolate brownie that I didn't eat at lunchtime. It tastes so much better in my imagination than it would have if I bought and eaten it. No really.
3. At the back of my mind is always the fear that should I be called upon to do first aid, I don't actually know how to do CPR -- not any more though. I've been on a course. They've even given me a special sheet to keep in my handbag in case the patient is not very hygienic. And they told that the chorus of Nellie the Elephant keeps you in rhythm and gives you the 15 compressions before you need to do two rescue breaths. But they said not to do it out loud because it offends by-standers.
Nellie the Elephant?
ReplyDelete4. Really eating that brownie at afternoon tea. Because it really is as good on the tongue as in the imagination.
goat cheesecake with a nice port syrup. sounds kinda gross but tastes so good!
ReplyDeleteJoe -- you must know Nellie the Elephant: It's a song (in jig time, which is why you can count 15 chest compressions with it): http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/schools/4_11/potato/pdf/spring2004/pr10.pdf
ReplyDeleteChristine -- figs are good with goats cheese, too. Have you tried that yet?
Sorry, Nellie is not an American thing. Sounds fun though.
ReplyDeleteYou must have had the same tutor as me Clare!
ReplyDeleteFor info for people, the words go:
Nelly the Elephant packed her trunk
And said goodbye to the circus
Off she went with a trumpety trump
Trump Trump Trump.
At which point you stop doing compressions, although there are more words. And you definitely don't sing out loud while you are trying to resuc someone or, as Clare says, bystanders think you are a loon...