‘Afternoon Snack’….. Swandro Virtual Lecture….
by Bernie Bell - 08:25 on 04 April 2024
Just tall enough to see the stove top
I watch my mother fry baloney in a cast iron pan.
Staticky pops and sizzles fill the kitchen
alongside the primitive aroma of meat in fire.
Jittery with hunger and excitement,
I ask Mom not to slit the slice
and giggle when the center puffs
like a little meat sombrero.
Nothing describes my childhood better
than a sandwich of fried baloney,
American cheese, yellow mustard
on Wonder bread given to me
by a loving mother.
Mine’s a bacon butty – white bread (which I don’t eat now) – bacon (which I don’t eat now) fried to a crisp – butter (which I don’t eat now) – and tomato ketchup which (HURRAH!) I still eat.
And the vital ingredient – my Mum making it for me.
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Swandro Virtual Lecture…
From the folks at the Swandro dig…
“We're pleased to invite you to attend a virtual lecture on Tuesday 9th April at 5.30pm by site directors Drs Julie Bond and Steve Dockrill, entitled 'Roundhouse to Longhouse: the story of Swandro'. Click here to register for this free event, and this will enable you to either watch live or to watch the recording at your leisure. Please note that you must register in advance in order to view the subsequent recording.
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In other news our 2024 excavation dates are confirmed as Monday 17th June to Friday 9th August, with visitors welcome from Wednesday 19th June to Tuesday 6th August. We will have the usual free site tours, no need to book just turn up, please visit our website for details.
If you are fit and healthy and want to help on the 2024 excavation we do have some spaces for volunteers, we are particularly pleased to have extra help when opening up or closing the site in the first and last weeks, when there's a lot of stone and sandbags to shift. Full details are on our website, please do read all the information before applying.
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