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Giant from planet Zyr
Jun. 2nd, 2011 12:28 pm1. I have been feeling... disengaged lately. Flat and sluggish and blah. It's probably from my cold. Maybe a list will get me back on track.
2.My mother went to a quilting camp last weekend. While there, talk apparently turned to her meat-free sausage rolls (so meat-free they don't even include bacon) and she promised to give copies of the recipe to all interested parties. She finished telling me this by saying, 'And you're so much faster at typing than I am.' Which is true.
3. So I typed this recipe for her, so while it's fresh, ( you can all have it too )
4. May I say, they really are quite good. The raw filling looks like grey gloop, but is more or less indistinguishable from normal sausage rolls when cooked, but not as greasy. I mean, you wouldn't want them every day, but as a party nibble, they're fab.
5. Today I read a couple of articles about the 'last name effect'. Apparently, if your last name begins with a letter early in the alphabet, you deliberate longer over shopping choices; if your last name is towards the end of the alphabet, you shop more quickly. People with last names in the middle of the alphabet (like me) are somewhere in the middle. But! The effect is only linked to childhood last names, so if you changed your last name as an adult from Zebedee to Arbuthnot, you'd still tend towards speedy purchasing decisions. So there you go. Make of that what you will.
6. I'm not really happy with my Monday and Tuesday photos. I actually forgot both days until quite late at night; part of the previously mentioned sluggishness, I think. So yesterday, I thought I'd make an effort and stop somewhere scenic on my way home. And it was beautiful. Officially the first day of winter, but really a lovely late autumn day, crisp and still, and I was looking down a hill at a lake surrounded by golden-red trees, with the sea in the distance. Oh, it was lovely. Then I turned my camera on and the screen said MEMORY CARD ERROR and wouldn't let me take a photo. So that was the end of that.
7. MasterChef hasn't been gripping me at all this year, which is sad. Still, last night someone made wasabi and lemon myrtle spring rolls, so that's a taste sensation to think about. Then reject.
8. It's inspired a poll, though.
[Poll #1748047]
9. I am currently harbouring ill-will towards cold people at work who insist on having the heating turned way up. I tend the other way, but I'd be happy to strike a deal whereby the heating is permanently left at a mutually agreed level and cold people could, you know, put on a spencer, as opposed to the current arrangement whereby they can turn the heating up as high as they like. Yesterday morning the temperature had barely managed to get above zero, but inside was tropical. I hate it. I'm all hot and bothered and it makes my nose block up (admittedly, that will stop when my cold clears up). My colleague Brian is retiring at the end of the year and the office manager has suggested that she might move out of her lonely, sweltering office and sit at his desk. 'Would you like that?' she asked. Well, no, not if she controls the thermostat.
10. Finally, I've lost my good gloves. Has anyone seen them?
2.My mother went to a quilting camp last weekend. While there, talk apparently turned to her meat-free sausage rolls (so meat-free they don't even include bacon) and she promised to give copies of the recipe to all interested parties. She finished telling me this by saying, 'And you're so much faster at typing than I am.' Which is true.
3. So I typed this recipe for her, so while it's fresh, ( you can all have it too )
4. May I say, they really are quite good. The raw filling looks like grey gloop, but is more or less indistinguishable from normal sausage rolls when cooked, but not as greasy. I mean, you wouldn't want them every day, but as a party nibble, they're fab.
5. Today I read a couple of articles about the 'last name effect'. Apparently, if your last name begins with a letter early in the alphabet, you deliberate longer over shopping choices; if your last name is towards the end of the alphabet, you shop more quickly. People with last names in the middle of the alphabet (like me) are somewhere in the middle. But! The effect is only linked to childhood last names, so if you changed your last name as an adult from Zebedee to Arbuthnot, you'd still tend towards speedy purchasing decisions. So there you go. Make of that what you will.
6. I'm not really happy with my Monday and Tuesday photos. I actually forgot both days until quite late at night; part of the previously mentioned sluggishness, I think. So yesterday, I thought I'd make an effort and stop somewhere scenic on my way home. And it was beautiful. Officially the first day of winter, but really a lovely late autumn day, crisp and still, and I was looking down a hill at a lake surrounded by golden-red trees, with the sea in the distance. Oh, it was lovely. Then I turned my camera on and the screen said MEMORY CARD ERROR and wouldn't let me take a photo. So that was the end of that.
7. MasterChef hasn't been gripping me at all this year, which is sad. Still, last night someone made wasabi and lemon myrtle spring rolls, so that's a taste sensation to think about. Then reject.
8. It's inspired a poll, though.
[Poll #1748047]
9. I am currently harbouring ill-will towards cold people at work who insist on having the heating turned way up. I tend the other way, but I'd be happy to strike a deal whereby the heating is permanently left at a mutually agreed level and cold people could, you know, put on a spencer, as opposed to the current arrangement whereby they can turn the heating up as high as they like. Yesterday morning the temperature had barely managed to get above zero, but inside was tropical. I hate it. I'm all hot and bothered and it makes my nose block up (admittedly, that will stop when my cold clears up). My colleague Brian is retiring at the end of the year and the office manager has suggested that she might move out of her lonely, sweltering office and sit at his desk. 'Would you like that?' she asked. Well, no, not if she controls the thermostat.
10. Finally, I've lost my good gloves. Has anyone seen them?