{"id":15654,"date":"2007-11-19T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2007\/11\/19\/omelette-not-to-be\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:49:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:49:45","slug":"omelette-not-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2007\/11\/19\/omelette-not-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Omelette: Not to be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I awoke this morning feeling much-renewed after a weekend spent alternating between shivers and sweats. All the aches were gone, and I lay in bed for a while revelling in feeling <em>normal<\/em>. I looked forward to jumping out of bed, getting washed, getting back out into the world of the living, and doing my work. Most of all&#8230; I wanted an <em>omelette!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll chalk the latter up to my weekly call with my folks, in which my father often gives a description of whatever great meal he&#8217;s tackling next (he&#8217;s a wonderful cook). His verbal portrait of Saturday&#8217;s breakfast &#8212; particularly as it was contrasted with my usual breakfast of <em>nothing at all<\/em> &#8212; stuck in my head. So today, with my appetite returned, I wanted my omelette!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>After an hour of walking around town, and with noon approaching, it was clear I wasn&#8217;t going to get it. So I settled for the closest approximation and went to Snax, a little hole-in-the-wall place tucked behind Princes Street, bought two morning rolls with fried eggs in them, and ate them as I walked across the North Bridge.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Eating these rolls is tricky, because there&#8217;s always one bite that makes the yolk burst out the side of the thing. I forgot about that with the first one and got a mess all over my left hand, but with the second roll I slowed down and ate it while leaning on the stone wall outside the Scotsman Hotel, looking out over Princes Street Gardens, where the Christmas market is being built again. I managed a controlled detonation on the second sandwich.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;m realising as I write this that I&#8217;m falling into the trap I recently pointed out to a writer-friend: using lots of specific place-names that won&#8217;t mean anything to anyone who hasn&#8217;t been to the place I&#8217;m talking about.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I dropped by<a href=\"http:\/\/www.word-power.co.uk\/\">Word Power Bookshop<\/a> to re-stock them with my book, and spent the afternoon doing my weekly planning in a couple of local cafes. Even though the world through the windows was grey and rainy, I was very happy to see it from that perspective.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>p&gt;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1043\/omelette-not-to-be01.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I awoke this morning feeling much-renewed after a weekend spent alternating between shivers and sweats. All the aches were gone, and I lay in bed for a while revelling in feeling normal. I looked forward to jumping out of bed, getting washed, getting back out into the world of the living, and doing my work. 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