Olive's knitting, plus (unrelated) Protein Wisdom

Nick and Linda are writing and photographing from aboard NB Olive, and have been doing so since last March (here's their first post).

A good blog needs something distinctive to draw attention.  AllAboardOlive has very amusing writing, and each day there's a 3-point list highlighting:

• The weather
• The menu for dinner that day
• Linda's knitting.

Judging by the daily menu, I assume that Nick is a carnivore and Linda is a rabbit, but they seem to put up with their separate diets without coming to blows and both have a healthy diet. 

The only other person I know who puts his daily menu online when cruising is Jim Shead.  Jim only records his dining out, though, and he seems to eat anything. 

There's a running gag that every day something always gets in the way of Linda's knitting.  She gives a host of different excuses for not doing it. 

Nothing to do with the above, but it reminds me:  I recently came across some photos of the fellow who used to parade up and down Oxford Street thirty years ago, warning against the dangers of 'The Eight Passion Proteins'. 

Protein caused passion, ran his argument, and passion meant you never got your work done.  ... AND SITTING made it all worse.  I've still got his booklet somewhere.

Comments

[Tim Savage]

Just had a quick look at Stanley through the google search.I think I was right first time "NUTTER" God bless the great British eccentric/nutter.

[Tim Savage]

Yes,perhaps nutter was the wrong word,eccentric was the one I was looking for.will do the google bit when I have time.Good luck with the shoe boxes,they sound like a real treasure trove.

[Andrew Denny]

Wait, if you google for "eight passion proteins" you should find quite a bit about him. He was Stanley Green, and he died in 1993.

[Andrew Denny]

Tim, the 'nutter' was a harmless eccentric who became such a familiar figure that they had a half-page about him in the Evening Standard when he died about 1990.

I've got so many shoe boxes with so much junk in them, so I don't know how quickly I can find the booklet. But I'm sure it's a collector's item now. Along with the very first Starbucks menus I've got from 1986, ("second branch opening soon!"), and the unworn MSN 'beta tester' sweatshirt from 1995.

[Tim Savage]

Just got to ask,what was the nutter in the photo on about?I assume he couldn't get any sex so therfore no one else should or is he just barking mad?.Any chance of including the "booklet" or some of it just to see what thats about !!!