particularly on days with such glorious weather as today
Having known a really dull day today, with a bit of a limp attempt at drizzle in the afternoon, I was wondering if you were actually speaking about today, Wednesday - but, no, checking MeteoGroup's visible satellite maps shows it was indeed glorious from a smidge south of Leeds, even through most of Scotland. Bah! Ну Погоди!
a combination of snoring from Taneli and Wolfie woke me up at 5am
You aren't posting an audio link because:
(a) you're much too polite (b) you didn't think of recording it at the time
.. ? =:)
I've found Wetherspoons to be reliably poor for food. Their burgers are pretty bad, the chicken's often overcooked and left to dry, the steak & ale pie lacks meat (or anything much, really - it's impressively sized, until you realise it's mostly empty), and the roast chicken dinner.. wow, that was severely dry, eagerly soaking up all the supplied gravy, leaving it and me both needing more to drink. The pulled pork bun had.. well, yes, some pulled pork, though not a great deal, and smothered in a sweet gloop. That said, the aged Angus steak is usually pretty decent meat, and the chips seem to've improved a bit - still worse than anything you could do at home, but okay. The UK may have lost Little Chef, but its spirit lives on.
I forgot I had put my debit card behind the bar as collateral
D'oh! I almost did that a few months back, at one cider not-really-festival (c'mon, a cider festival with about six available? The one near the Shard a month or two later was a world apart, with some 70 beers and 30 ciders on gravity. But the food had run out before 7pm! Not a problem with the Barleywine & Old Ale festival next month - I know the place well, and they've still failed to turf me out =:), but thankfully remembered just after I'd set off down the street on my way back for the night. (It rather surprised me that they'd actually already run the charge for my tab, despite me not even being present, but I suppose it'd be run as a PIN-less transaction, similar to being taken remotely)
Was it you who pointed out this AMV for The Safety Dance? (The anime is Nichijou, FWIW. I still haven't actually watched any of it beyond the first couple minutes, but it looks as fun as it could be)
Oo, home-made sushi. =:9 I've found it difficult to get the kinds of fish I'm used to in the Bay, but then, good fishmongers (or specialists of any kind, thanks to the rise of supermarkets) are quite a rarity outside major cities. At least good salmon's easy to find, and so very well suited to sushi. ^_^ (I can recommend trying just marinating some fillets in a mix of rice vinegar (other types will do in a pinch), soy sauce, lots of chopped fresh dill, and a little sugar. Leave it for 1-2 days in the fridge, then slice, and eat. Really nice)
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Date: 2014-10-29 06:38 pm (UTC)Having known a really dull day today, with a bit of a limp attempt at drizzle in the afternoon, I was wondering if you were actually speaking about today, Wednesday - but, no, checking MeteoGroup's visible satellite maps shows it was indeed glorious from a smidge south of Leeds, even through most of Scotland. Bah! Ну Погоди!
a combination of snoring from Taneli and Wolfie woke me up at 5am
You aren't posting an audio link because:
(a) you're much too polite
(b) you didn't think of recording it at the time
.. ? =:)
I've found Wetherspoons to be reliably poor for food. Their burgers are pretty bad, the chicken's often overcooked and left to dry, the steak & ale pie lacks meat (or anything much, really - it's impressively sized, until you realise it's mostly empty), and the roast chicken dinner.. wow, that was severely dry, eagerly soaking up all the supplied gravy, leaving it and me both needing more to drink. The pulled pork bun had.. well, yes, some pulled pork, though not a great deal, and smothered in a sweet gloop. That said, the aged Angus steak is usually pretty decent meat, and the chips seem to've improved a bit - still worse than anything you could do at home, but okay. The UK may have lost Little Chef, but its spirit lives on.
I forgot I had put my debit card behind the bar as collateral
D'oh! I almost did that a few months back, at one cider not-really-festival (c'mon, a cider festival with about six available? The one near the Shard a month or two later was a world apart, with some 70 beers and 30 ciders on gravity. But the food had run out before 7pm! Not a problem with the Barleywine & Old Ale festival next month - I know the place well, and they've still failed to turf me out =:), but thankfully remembered just after I'd set off down the street on my way back for the night. (It rather surprised me that they'd actually already run the charge for my tab, despite me not even being present, but I suppose it'd be run as a PIN-less transaction, similar to being taken remotely)
Was it you who pointed out this AMV for The Safety Dance? (The anime is Nichijou, FWIW. I still haven't actually watched any of it beyond the first couple minutes, but it looks as fun as it could be)
Oo, home-made sushi. =:9 I've found it difficult to get the kinds of fish I'm used to in the Bay, but then, good fishmongers (or specialists of any kind, thanks to the rise of supermarkets) are quite a rarity outside major cities. At least good salmon's easy to find, and so very well suited to sushi. ^_^ (I can recommend trying just marinating some fillets in a mix of rice vinegar (other types will do in a pinch), soy sauce, lots of chopped fresh dill, and a little sugar. Leave it for 1-2 days in the fridge, then slice, and eat. Really nice)