Post-Whitby crash, part two.

Meh. Didn't sleep much last night, woke up this morning to find I've got some sort of hideous sore throat thing.

World no longer seems quite so fluffy, although it's been a good weekend.

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Sometimes there's just no alternative to sorting stuff out.

The universe will not do it for you.

Edit: And even if it could, that wouldn't always be a good thing.

136 views of Mount Fuji

The weekend was quite fun and involved a trip to see my family. It also involved a trip to Southampton Art Gallery, which was hosting the Japan: A Floating world in print exhibition at the time.

( Disclaimer: I'm no good whatsoever at describing art. For the most part, the remainder of this post doesn't even attempt to try. )

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Without contradicting the previous post...

The universe will not do it for you. But sometimes it may throw random good stuff in your direction. Or just find a sneaky way to usefully distract you for a bit.

Food, glorious food...

Today featured some unexpected cookery. Not exactly challenging stuff - a purchased pie, some greens, some mash - but quite nice. Now, if I could just get the timings right (and remember to warm the plates beforehand)...

Spinning out of this, a couple of questions for the readership -

1) What's the perfect mashed potato? What, in your opinion, needs to be added to make it a little bit special?

2) Which cookbooks are utterly wonderful things that need to be purchased?