A Taste of Africa in Borough Market

Not a huge amount going on last week. Physio’s going fairly well, and training is heading back towards normal. Managing to stay upright on the bike too, despite the best efforts of one bus driver, although I can’t blame him as the brainless moped rider was the one who caused it all. It must be so hard for Londoners to actually look around themselves when they’re doing anything on the road.

Not sure if I mentioned this before, but I do the match ticket arrangements for the members of Spurs Australia, the Australian supporter’s club for Tottenham Hotspur FC. Well, with Spurs making the Final of the League Cup, you can imagine the sudden rush on tickets. With over 80,000 registered members (to THFC, not Australia) and only 31,000 tickets allocated to the club things have been rather interesting to say the least.

Anyway, I ended up attending a meeting on Thursday night with the Supporters Trust (a group that represents the voice of the supporters) and one of the club’s Executive Directors and the head of the ticketing department. This was basically a Q&A with the club’s hierarchy. A fantastic setup that I’ve never seen or heard of before where fans/supporters can actually discuss things with club executives. Brilliant! A very interesting night and being able to find out some information from behind the scenes was pretty cool.
In the end, the Supporters Trust have asked me if I would join their committee that is currently being put together to look after the supporter’s clubs specifically.

Saturday saw us make our way back to Borough Market again to check out parts that we hadn’t seen before as well as some of those that we had. Another interesting day at this market, whether it was having a laugh with one of the more interesting Big Issue sellers or trying the many samples on offer at the stalls, or discovering something completely new.
One of these new discoveries came in the way of what turned out to be an interesting dinner. The meat seller who also makes the ostrich burgers also sells several other meats from South Africa including; crocodile, springbok, zebra and wildebeest. They also sold kangaroo meat, so not all of their produce was from South Africa. We tried the wildebeest. He seems to be the one animal in all the African documentaries that all the other animals eat, so he couldn’t be too bad. No doubt you’ve seen the crocs nab them off the banks of the rivers, or lions have a good crack at them on the plains.
All up it was a superb meat too. Quite dark, very lean and didn’t take long to cook to a medium rare. Very nice taste too it as well! I highly recommend giving it a shot. Better than an eye fillet too.

Sunday started with a training run for just a few minutes short of 2hours. A few niggles, but nothing more, so things are getting better. After a casual day it was a nice chicken roast for dinner with Karyn n Marty, followed up with a blueberry pie that we picked up from Borough Market on the Saturday. Good food, wine n company. All Good.

Nice easy ride in this morning. Cruised through the fog. So cool. (literally!)