Restoration
If you’ve visited the site at all in the last week or so, you’ve probably Adham’s (luffly) mug replaced with all sorts of odd (site) behaviour with the occasional “site down for maintenance” message thrown in for good measure. While odd behaviour around here in itself isn’t unusual, what was noteworthy was the sites’ server experienced a hard disk crash late last Friday evening, bringing the site down with it! Ahh the joys of running a website from ones laundry room on a computer built from spare parts. Needless to say, the laundry room saw more than it’s fair share of activity this past week and in the end I was able to restore the site. It’s almost a pitty really, I was actually starting to get comfortable in there. 
Pre-crash, I had written a small article regarding a book I’d purchased recently online. “Bob”, my ever enthusiastic co-worker had spotted it while googling HP recently (aww bless ‘im) and knowing my weakness for the subject, he ever so subtly prompted me to place an order for it and it’s a good thing I did.
The book, published in 1985, is entitled “The True Story of H.P. Sauce”. Like the book “The Road From Aston Cross” (published by HP Foods), the history of HP Sauce is documented in detail. There are also many illustrations and photographs of HP Sauce adverts etc going back many years. What really caught my eye however, is a songsheet entitled “LA SAUCE HP” on the first and last pages. Up until Adham submitted his enthusiastic rendition of “Brownsauce Obessession“, I’d never heard of, much less seen a song published about HP Sauce before. What’s also curious is – the song is in French. I have read that HP Sauce was exported to France at one time, though I’ve no idea if it still is. Perhaps the book will provide some insight into the origins of this song. It looks to be a good read – which I plan on doing a lot of this upcoming weekend!
