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Food, glorious food...
May. 14th, 2007 11:07 pmToday 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?
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?
136 views of Mount Fuji
May. 14th, 2007 06:24 pmThe 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. )
( 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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May. 14th, 2007 03:14 pmSometimes 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.
The universe will not do it for you.
Edit: And even if it could, that wouldn't always be a good thing.
Another one of those days...
May. 10th, 2007 01:39 pmCan I go home now, please?
My brain hurts. I'm very, very tired. I'm mildly homicidal.
I have just enough time for lunch between meetings. Even Blair's resignation announcement has failed to brighten my day. This is not so good.
Hopefully I'll have a nice, quiet evening once I escape.
My brain hurts. I'm very, very tired. I'm mildly homicidal.
I have just enough time for lunch between meetings. Even Blair's resignation announcement has failed to brighten my day. This is not so good.
Hopefully I'll have a nice, quiet evening once I escape.
Note to self
May. 10th, 2007 12:29 am"Tension, apprehension,
And dissension have begun."
I really need to update my 2007 book listing - I'm not reading as much as usual this year, but there are a good three or four that aren't yet listed in that post. As some of you might guess from the quotation above, The Demolished Man is one of them.
And dissension have begun."
I really need to update my 2007 book listing - I'm not reading as much as usual this year, but there are a good three or four that aren't yet listed in that post. As some of you might guess from the quotation above, The Demolished Man is one of them.
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May. 7th, 2007 10:51 pmWell, ok, I'm physically in Coventry, but my brain's somewhere else entirely. Possibly ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
steve_winolj ate it.
Whitby was rather good, as previously noted. It was followed by two days at work, which didn't feel like real work, then by an absolutely lovely weekend and a quite calm bank holiday (I left the house during the day, but only to attack the garden with shears...). All of this was finished wth a quiet pint this evening.
Tomorrow's back to business as usual. Everything back to the way it was before Whitby[1]. Work. Routine. Daily grind. Watch me come crashing down as my current fluffy little cloud disperses...
Anyone got a spare parachute? This could be a rough landing. :-/
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[1] I'm hoping that this isn't actually true.
steve_winolj ate it.Whitby was rather good, as previously noted. It was followed by two days at work, which didn't feel like real work, then by an absolutely lovely weekend and a quite calm bank holiday (I left the house during the day, but only to attack the garden with shears...). All of this was finished wth a quiet pint this evening.
Tomorrow's back to business as usual. Everything back to the way it was before Whitby[1]. Work. Routine. Daily grind. Watch me come crashing down as my current fluffy little cloud disperses...
Anyone got a spare parachute? This could be a rough landing. :-/
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[1] I'm hoping that this isn't actually true.
Question for the locals...
May. 7th, 2007 04:14 pmhttp://www.coventry-refugee-centre.org/ seems to have vanished, but I hear that the refugee centre is still going. Anyone know if they're hidden elsewhere on the web, or are they only contactable by phone/letter/etc?
That other thing...
May. 5th, 2007 08:38 amOne thing I deliberately didn't mention in the Whitby posts... the sudden lack of hair. For years, I've been saying that I'd cut my hair short at 35. Which just happened to coincide with Whitby.
I'd initially planned to get a suitable haircut on the Friday or Saturday, midway through the 'main' event. That didn't quite work out - it seems that several Whitby hairdressers deliberately close over WGW - but on Monday it actually got the chop.
Walking back into the Elsinore afterwards was amusing. In fact, reactions from people were generally amusing - at Whitby, at work and in the pub last night. Heh.
Not sure if I'll keep it short in the long run. It probably won't stay in the current style, anyway. And it's causing a few fashion glitches - I need to think about which looks do/don't work with it.
Picture to follow. :)
I'd initially planned to get a suitable haircut on the Friday or Saturday, midway through the 'main' event. That didn't quite work out - it seems that several Whitby hairdressers deliberately close over WGW - but on Monday it actually got the chop.
Walking back into the Elsinore afterwards was amusing. In fact, reactions from people were generally amusing - at Whitby, at work and in the pub last night. Heh.
Not sure if I'll keep it short in the long run. It probably won't stay in the current style, anyway. And it's causing a few fashion glitches - I need to think about which looks do/don't work with it.
Picture to follow. :)
Thought for the day...
May. 4th, 2007 01:51 pmIf I can herd 'em that easily, are they really goths? :)
Whitby! Whitbeeeee!
May. 4th, 2007 08:00 amI promised a slightly longer post, didn't I? Guess this one is it, then...
Wine, wombles and song. A cast of thousands and an unlimited supply of sausages. Fire, mead, giant mutant ducks and strange happenings involving chocolate.
It wasn't a sensible Whitby.
I didn't see all the bands I planned to. Apologies for various things are also owed to a few people reading this - plus at least one or two who aren't.
But, damn, when it was good it was good. And that's almost entirely because of the people around me.
For the last few years I've fallen into a fairly predictable Whitby routine, but this weekend's shaken that up a bit. October's likely to be different again, as various people won't be there, but with luck it's still going to be good. I'm probably not drinking all that much, mind you...
I may also have been inducted into the Church of Alan. Ooops. Can't think how that happened.
Not many photos this time. Or at least very few that I'm planning to post, aside fromthedemoncrowley hefting his massive weapon, of course...
And that's about it, really. Not because there's nothing else to say, but because I'm unable to do justice to the various weird and wonderful moments with a few words on LJ.
[Still half-expecting a proper post-WGW 'crash and burn' to arrive in the next few days, mind you. Won't be complaining if it goes missing in the post, though. :)]
Edit - deliberately not mentioning The Other Thing. The one that happened fairly early on Monday. There'll be a post about that, too, but first I'd like to get to the pub tonight and catch up with the non-WGW Coventry crew... ;)
Wine, wombles and song. A cast of thousands and an unlimited supply of sausages. Fire, mead, giant mutant ducks and strange happenings involving chocolate.
It wasn't a sensible Whitby.
I didn't see all the bands I planned to. Apologies for various things are also owed to a few people reading this - plus at least one or two who aren't.
But, damn, when it was good it was good. And that's almost entirely because of the people around me.
For the last few years I've fallen into a fairly predictable Whitby routine, but this weekend's shaken that up a bit. October's likely to be different again, as various people won't be there, but with luck it's still going to be good. I'm probably not drinking all that much, mind you...
I may also have been inducted into the Church of Alan. Ooops. Can't think how that happened.
Not many photos this time. Or at least very few that I'm planning to post, aside from
thedemoncrowley hefting his massive weapon, of course...And that's about it, really. Not because there's nothing else to say, but because I'm unable to do justice to the various weird and wonderful moments with a few words on LJ.
[Still half-expecting a proper post-WGW 'crash and burn' to arrive in the next few days, mind you. Won't be complaining if it goes missing in the post, though. :)]
Edit - deliberately not mentioning The Other Thing. The one that happened fairly early on Monday. There'll be a post about that, too, but first I'd like to get to the pub tonight and catch up with the non-WGW Coventry crew... ;)
Aha. Found it!
May. 3rd, 2007 11:04 pmI was wondering just where I'd put that post-WGW crash. I haven't seen it since November and I was getting a little concerned that jambon_gris might have packed it by mistake when he moved out last month.
...ok, ok, it's not that bad. I've just gone from sharing a Whitby cottage to rattling around a house on my own, though. I'm craving company. I've already phoned a few of the usual suspects, just to see how they're doing now it's all over, but that's really just staving off the inevitable.
Plenty of things to do in the house, though, so it's not as if I should be bored into oblivion. And I could actually use some sleep... :)
jambon_gris might have packed it by mistake when he moved out last month....ok, ok, it's not that bad. I've just gone from sharing a Whitby cottage to rattling around a house on my own, though. I'm craving company. I've already phoned a few of the usual suspects, just to see how they're doing now it's all over, but that's really just staving off the inevitable.
Plenty of things to do in the house, though, so it's not as if I should be bored into oblivion. And I could actually use some sleep... :)
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May. 3rd, 2007 07:24 amOne nice thing about being back from Whitby is that I now get to catch up on webcomics. Some of which seem very appropriate.
Questionable Content, for example. :)
Questionable Content, for example. :)
