The Verdict Sunday, 15 Oct 2006
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Yet another post today, oh dear I think I might be setting a dangerous precedent. As I said I was in the process of making cookies from a recipe provided by A Spoonful of Sugar. Apart from forgetting to put the sugar in until after I’d mixed the butter/eggs with the flour it was a very easy recipe and as Sugar suggests it does look like an inordantely large ammount of chocolate for the cookies, but it does work out alright in the end. Rather than chocolate chips I choose to use Green and Black’s chocolate and break it into chunks, so I subsituted the 300g of chcolate chips for 200g of milk chocolate broken into chunks and 100g of white chocolate also broken into chunks. But the first batch have been completed and like all cookies the truth is in the eating, specifically the eating while still semi-molten. I do believe they are rather divine and quite truely the ultimate chocolate chip cookie as Sugar suggests. The flatmate is also in agreement, as he might even attest to in person.
Photos to be posted soon.
A weekend of domesticity… Sunday, 15 Oct 2006
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… and a lot of posting!
Had a very domestic weekend. Have finally tackled the washing up backlog, its not that it builds up per se but more that we do the worst bits but then leave the ‘new’ stuff, but it has now all been done. I also cleaned the oven but that resulted in several panic attacks regarding wether or not I had sustained chemical burns due to the evil evil chemicals in Mr Muscle. I also cleaned the oven trays. I need to defrost the fridge and freezer but I think that will take a bit longer to muster the domsticity for. I have been meaning to get round to baking cookies for ages, I’ve finally found what looks like could be a very good recipe by cooking blogger A Spoonful of Sugar. I’m in the process of making them and will review the recipe once they’ve been consumed.
Home at last Sunday, 15 Oct 2006
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I’ve been out this evening visiting friends in Islington. Now it takes about 25 mins on the tube, and 45 if I walk to Whitechapel and take the bus. It has taken me just over two hours to get back this evening! I endevoured to go to Bank and take the #25, which required getting the #43 from Angel. I waited for over 15 mins (it supposedly comes every 8-12 mins at night time), and eventually decided to jump on the #38 as I could get off at Holborn and get the #25. When I got to Holborn I waited for about 20 mins for the first #25, there was a #8 at one point but I thought the #25 wouldn’t be too long behind (how wrong I was). Another #8 passed and didn’t stop as it was so packed, then by the time a #25 turned up it was so packed that you couldn’t even try and get on if you wanted to. I waited for another 10 mins and then decided to start walking, I got almost to St. Paul’s tube before the first bus arrived, which was a #8 so I had a bit more of a walk once I got off the bus also.
I should have gone with my senses and walked all the way from Angel to Stepney.
I am a wholehearted supporter of public transport and do believe it has been seriously underfunded in the last few decades so generally support what Ken has been doing in London. But it seems really silly that it took over two hours at night to travel what during the day is 25 minutes by tube and ~45 mins by one bus route. Indeed there is a bus route as I have said that runs from Whitechapel to Paddington ( the #205) which goes via Angel, and it does seem to be quite a sensible route (essentially the Hammersmith and City line) so it seems strange that it doesn’t run at night. Maybe there isn’t enough demand, but I’ve been near that route a few times at night recently but my journeys have required at least 2 buses.
At least I finished my book!
Digital music is timetravel Saturday, 14 Oct 2006
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Isn’t it wonderful having all your music on your computer. Playing iTunes on random it landed on ‘Improv‘ by JJ72. A song, and album, that I haven’t listened to for a very long time perhaps verging on about 5 years. It is an album that is linked with a very dark time for me and its interesting what memories it has invoked and the feelings that it still musters. The chorus of ‘Algeria’ is particularly interesting, sung in a very angry loud and passionate voice it is a philosophy of oblivion:
Spring dies summer arrives,
Summer dies autumn arrives,
Autumn dies winter arrives,
Forever and ever,
Ever and ever,
And a time around 5 to 6 years ago oblivion was a very intriguing and sometimes attractive concept, not in self-destructive way as such; and to be honest is concept that does still crop up from time to time.
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A strange set of oddities Tuesday, 10 Oct 2006
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I’ve recently been getting the same strange spam comment, which as its spam obviously doesn’t make sense. Think I might change the settings, not that there’s anybody reading to comment anyways. Anyhow the spam comment is rather short and from ’somebody’ calling themselves Autophytes and they say «aside from it’s usual meaning, it is a verb meaning to Autophytes pickaninny, child.» (no i’m not going French in my punctuation use but just wanted to use something that was quotation but not proper quotation if you get my drift). This is completely nonsensical gibberish: an autophyte is a plant that can produce its own food, it is a noun and a classification noun and ‘to autophyte’ as the spammer suggests is not even a worthy concept like some nouns which Americans have turned into verbs such as to interview or to advocate. We could perhaps accept the concept of to autophyte as the action of and organism creating food. But why have they given two words for child, both child itself and pickaninny which is a pidgin term for child? Unless they are trying to suggest canibalism, or that thing some hamsters do of eating their own children which i suppose is technically producing your own food.
Anyways, back to the real world. Another wierd thing I was thinking of was the taste of lemsip – it really is vile. I haven’t had it for ages but i’ve sort of got the beginings of a cold (yes, please bring out the violins) so decided to have a proper lemsip drink (not one of their branded pills or powders). It really is one of the most disgusting tastes I have ever experienced, and its gets worse as it gets colder!
Back to the proper proper world of what’s happening. I had a job interview today, but won’t say anything in case i jynx it. Other than that nothing really happening at the moment except having dodgy sleep patterns and not eating properly.
