Smorgasbord Blogger Daily – Thursday 17th October – C.S. Boyack with Roberta Eaton Cheadle, Carol Taylor #Pumpkins and Jack Eason #Politicians

This series is an opportunity to showcase posts from around our community and the brilliant bloggers who share with us. It would be amazing if you would follow the links to the post I have highlighted and whilst visiting follow and support the blogger.

The first post that I recommend that you read is the interview on Lisa Burton Radio of Hugh Bigod one of the stars of Through the Nethergate by Roberta Eaton Cheadle.

Welcome to this week’s edition of Lisa Burton Radio. I’m your host, Lisa the robot girl, and today, my special guest is a cute black doggie with the awful name of Hugh Bigod. He’s here to talk to us about a problem he has. Probably something to do with that name. “Welcome to the show, Hugh.”

“A cute black doggie! How dare you refer to Hugh Bigod, the First Earl of Norfolk and the most evil man who ever lived in Norfolk as a cute black doggie? I am the most powerful ghost in Bungay, master to all the other ghosts. I choose to take the form of a huge black dog with red eyes as it strikes fear into the heart of my victims.”

“You’re telling me, you’re not actually a dog, but a ghostly apparition of a man named Hugh Bigod?”

“Yes, you imbecilic machine. After King Henry I of England died, I betrayed his successor, Stephen of Blois, usurper of the crown, and allowed him to be captured and imprisoned by dissidents. I then formed a huge gang of bandits who roamed the countryside, spreading terror, burning villages and torturing people and holding them to ransom.

Head over and discover more about Hugh Bigod and Through the Nethergate: https://coldhandboyack.wordpress.com/2019/10/17/through-the-nethergate-on-lisaburtonradio/

C. S. Boyack, Buy: https://www.amazon.com/C.-S.-Boyack/e/B00ILXBXUY – Goodreads: C.S. Boyack Goodreads Blog: http://coldhandboyack.wordpress.com

Please visit Amazon to view all of Craig’s books.

and Roberta Eaton Cheadle, Buy: https://www.amazon.com/Robbie-Cheadle/e/B01N9J62GQ Blog: https://robbiesinspiration.wordpress.com/ – Goodreads: Robbie Goodreads

The next post is from Esme’s Salon where Carol Taylor has been contributing a monthly A – Z Culinary alphabet, and today the featured letter is U…. from Ugli Fruit to Umani.

Welcome to this month’s installment of the Culinary Alphabet. The Culinary Alphabet, The letter U, yes we are on the letter U.

Halloween is nearly upon us, the trees are changing color and what glorious colors we are seeing around the world. I love the changes of the seasons and Autumn is one of my favorites. At this moment in time, it is 77 sleeps which sounds a lot. The reality is before we know it, it will be Christmas Eve.

Without further ado. lets look at the letter U – not so many this time although maybe as I write some more will spring to mind.

If you would like to know what Umani is.. head over and read the rest of this informative post: https://esmesalon.com/the-culinary-alphabet-the-letter-u/

About Esme

I grew up loving to bake and cook as I watched my Mom so lovingly prepare meal after meal for the family and all our friends. I live in Vancouver, Canada, for the past 20+ years, but originally from a then small village called Somerset West, just outside of Cape Town, in South Africa.

How did this blog come about?

Over the last number of years, I have been pouring my heart and soul into my blog, first The Recipe Hunter (Cook and Enjoy) and now I have upgraded to  EsmeSalon..

Carol is a contributor to the Phuket Island Writers Anthology:  https://www.amazon.com/Phuket-Island-Writers-Anthology-Stories-ebook/dp/B00RU5IYNS

You can find out more about Carol and catch up with her Food and Cookery Column HERE

Connect to Carol via her blog and enjoy posts on healthy eating, conservation, waste management, travel and amazing recipes: https://carolcooks2.com/

The final post today is from author Jack Eason who does have a reputation for telling it how it is.. and in this updated post particularly, he has a very forthright and accurate opinion of the state of our politics in the UK…. and I would say that there were few places in the world that the population has a differing view about their politicians. Of course it could be worse. It could be the portrait of a dictator on the walls of our government offices. However, as Jack says, surely there is a better way to get things done. Can we truly afford them any more?

Sometime during the last twenty years, the clear distinction between all political parties disappeared forever. At one time not so long ago you knew for certain that the Conservative/Republican party represented the privileged rich and big business while the Labour/Democrats worked to protect the rights and privileges of the ordinary working man and women – no longer.

Today’s crop of politicians, no matter which of the eighteen parties they belong to, can only be described at best as opportunistic chancers who entered politics to grow rich at the expense of the nation they purportedly represent. Here in the UK I defy anyone to show any appreciable difference between the Tories, Labour, Liberals, or any of the others, with the exception of the Brexit Party whose platform is all about getting the UK out of the EU.

If like me you believe that all politicians are pathologic liars and hypocrites, then, like me, you must be wondering can we as a nation truly afford them anymore. To illustrate my point, a previous Prime Minister paid a lot of lip service recently on the issue of tobacco. He declared that he was going to force the tobacco companies to either employ disgusting photographs of cancerous body organs like lungs etc on the packages, or force them to put out their product in plain packages with no company logo. To gain the bleeding heart vote he and his cronies had already acceded to the anti-smoking lobby by forcing retailers to hide all tobacco products, announcing that it was to discourage children from buying cigarettes. If you believe that you need your bumps felt. What a load of crap! Pull the other one; it’s got bells on it!
 

Do head over to Jack’s and I am sure he will be delighted to hear your views on politicians and also to offer any suggestions on how to improve things.. I left a couple: https://havewehadhelp.wordpress.com/2013/07/29/can-we-truly-afford-them-anymore/comment-page-1

Jack Eason, Buy: https://www.amazon.com/Jack-Eason/e/B003MEA7AY/ Blog: https://havewehadhelp.wordpress.com/ – Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4026249.Jack_Eason

To view all of Jack Eason’s book please visit his Amazon Page or his blog

Thank you for dropping in today and I hope you will head over to read the posts in full.. thanks Sally.