Yesterday's picnic was so good, we're here again, this time on "Lovers Beach". And sure enough, not long after we're dropped ashore and the boat leaves, the sky darkens and it pisses with rain. Sat on an icebox under an umbrella in the rain, looking along an otherwise paradisaic beach gets us talking about man versus wild, and what would Bear Grylls' advice be.Pavey ventured that he would tell us to hike into the forest behind us, retrieving wood for a fire, large leaves for shelter and juicy bugs for sustenance, while I reckoned it'd be safer to stay under the umbrella, eat the sandwiches from our picnic and wait for the boys to arrive in the boat. Pretty much what BG does off camera I bet.
We arrive back in civilization in time for lunch and a snooze. Lines that you would not expect to hear from Scott of the Antarctic.
Pavey's listening to an audio book, "Julie and Julia', the autobiography of a New Yorker who attempts to cook her way through Julia Childs' groundbreaking recipe book.
Having read "A Year of Living Biblically" myself, I realize these authors dispensed with all the hassle of coming up with a plot, and characters, and basically turned their blogs into books.
My initial suggestion, along the lines of ploughing through someone else's book and writing about your experience, was "Mr. & Mrs. Page bump 'n grind their way through the Kama Sutra". Her response is "we'd have to do it using fake names". I'm thinking we'd have to do it using stunt doubles. So, file that one under "potential, but strangely gruelling book ideas".
Much easier would be "Cooking My Way Through The Cheeky Chappie's Recipes: Can Jamie Oliver Really Write, Or Is He Just Another Cockney Wanker?".
