A: One of my last columns with a community newspaper inspired a reader to go hunting.
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Showing posts with label The Londoner. self-serve. Show all posts
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Family secret: Making something out of nothing is a Harrison trait
One day when I was a wee tad I watched my mother stretch a pound of lean ground beef into a mighty meatloaf for seven.
She added oatmeal and bread crumbs and a bunch of other stuff to a mixing bowl, stirred in the beef and for the umpteenth time created a hearty meal fit for a king, queen and their brood of five runny-nosed kids.
[She usually included a can of peas, a few potatoes and tall stack of sliced bread on a Melmac plate to round things out.]
So, after I read a short story about Tim Horton’s plans to introduce self-serve coffee machines to Canadians, I knew that with a bit of oatmeal etc. I had myself a new weekly column.
[Photo: faithful customer worries about prospect of pouring his own coffee in the near future]
First thing I did was come up with a scary title:
Unfair! Un-Canadian! Tim Horton’s will pass hard times onto its faithful customers
(Twelve words long. Geez, I’m half done already.)
Then I fiddled around with ideas for the beginning, middle and end of a stretched-out story and posted them at the fastest growing group blog in Canada - Four Mugs and a Crock.
Though the posts are just practice, by deadline I’m sure it will be a brilliant column, almost as good (I hope) as meatloaf for supper.
gah
She added oatmeal and bread crumbs and a bunch of other stuff to a mixing bowl, stirred in the beef and for the umpteenth time created a hearty meal fit for a king, queen and their brood of five runny-nosed kids.
[She usually included a can of peas, a few potatoes and tall stack of sliced bread on a Melmac plate to round things out.]
So, after I read a short story about Tim Horton’s plans to introduce self-serve coffee machines to Canadians, I knew that with a bit of oatmeal etc. I had myself a new weekly column.
[Photo: faithful customer worries about prospect of pouring his own coffee in the near future]
First thing I did was come up with a scary title:
Unfair! Un-Canadian! Tim Horton’s will pass hard times onto its faithful customers
(Twelve words long. Geez, I’m half done already.)
Then I fiddled around with ideas for the beginning, middle and end of a stretched-out story and posted them at the fastest growing group blog in Canada - Four Mugs and a Crock.
Though the posts are just practice, by deadline I’m sure it will be a brilliant column, almost as good (I hope) as meatloaf for supper.
gah
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