"Laura. I was in the playground and there was some writing on the slide. I think some bigger boys did it. Naughty boys. And there was a policeman so I told him and I said, 'Come with me, Mr Policeman,' and I showed him the slide and he said those boys were very naughty and he's going to find them and tell them off."
Hilarious! A 3-year-old crime fighter! Apparently, she took the Mr Policeman by the hand and showed him the graffiti and gave him a look that said 'So what are you going to do about it?' All the while, her mother hid behind the climbing frame and pretended she wasn't with her.
And now, for a little cheat. I have been writing my NaNoWriMo religiously since November 1st, hitting exactly or slightly over the 1,667 wordcount every day, which means I'm now at 13,605 words. With all this writing, I thought to myself, "Surely there's a way to double up here, hit two birds with one stone and all that?" So occasionally, during November, I may post something from my NaNoWriMo, if I'm feeling a little too lazy to write for both.
The following is a truffle story I wrote about the first time I ordered truffle butter for myself.
"I ordered my first two sticks of truffle butter online, one black, one white and they arrived a few days later. I immediately took them out of the box, peeled back the packet and smelled them. It was heavenly.
I was in work, where they had been delivered and an Italian customer came in. Him and I would discuss food every time he came in as I love cooking Italian food and had recently been to Rome and he loved food and cooking too. In my excitement, I grabbed the stick of black truffle butter when I saw him and showed him. I handed it over, telling him to peel open the pack and smell it and he mistook it for me giving him the butter! He took it, smelled it, wrapped it back up and put it in his bag.
A hot flush ran over my entire body. He was quite shy and I didn't know him very well, not enough to berate him jokingly and take it back off him. I needed the truffle butter that evening as I had a friend coming over for dinner and was planning to use it. I didn't know how to get it back though. I stood in horror as I watched him say something I couldn't hear, because the blood pumping in my ears was too loud. I realised he was thanking me for the butter.
“O god, o god, o god. Give me back my truffle butter!” I screamed at him, silently.
In blind panic, I said, “Let me just show you something on the butter, look,” gesturing toward his bag and, thankfully, he took it out, looking quizzically at the packaging. I, maybe too frantically, took the butter from him and scarpered back behind the till, grabbing one of the little takeaway pots we used for putting food in and cutting him off a small section of butter. I put the butter safely out of reach and offered him the cut off section attempting to look generous while he was probably wondering why I was being so odd. I then pretended something urgent was happening in the kitchen and ran off, clutching my truffle butter so hard, my knuckles had turned white.
That was the closest shave I've ever had, in terms of food."
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