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Manchester Blog Awards 2007

• Richard Fair
• 24 Jul 07, 05:01 PM

How on earth can someone forget how to use a potato peeler? Stupid or what. Next I’ll be telling you that someone once tried to open a tin of corned beef with their bare hands after the ‘key’ broke, only just managing to avoid severing a glove full of fingers. Or what about the guy who stuck a sink plunger to his fat skull pretending to be a Dalek and ended up wandering round with a massive love-bite on his forehead. I mean really, some people should never be left alone. But I get bored.

Admittedly I was still in middle school when I did the latter two, but the potato peeler incident happened on Monday. The youngest member of the family begged me to serve up ‘proper food’ for a change and so I decided to invest in a bag of Maris Piper. Perhaps I was holding the potato at the wrong angle or upside down but the blasted peeler seemed more interested in my skin rather than anything else. I just wanted to smash it all to bits.

Fortunately I’ve not been asked to comment on potato peelers, but I have been asked to judge this year’s Manchester Blog Awards. Nominations are now open so get along to for details. It’s not in my nature to take bribes, well perhaps just that once but I didn’t inhale, so don’t even think about it. It’s amazing to see how Manchester Bloggers have developed over the past twelve months so I’m expecting a much harder job this year.

Now, does anyone know how to use a coat hanger?