POOR OLD BABY ITCHY has been "furry boiled egging" galore. Rambling through her ultra narrow magic wand tube. You blow through the front. She panicks inside and scoots out quick in reverse, thereby pushing up all her fur, in "boiled egg with eyes" fashion. Poor Baby Itchy.
My stew came out all the more wonderful for its lack of nonEuropean ingredients. Okra, I've really discovered, just denigrates into a seed-filled slop at the bottom. Nasty business. Why they sell it as "suitable for stews and casseroles" in Sainsbury's I'll never know...
I did add (not in place of courgettes/zucchini but because it was languishing in my fridge and would only have gone off) a cucumber. It actually went very well in the soup. Like the onions, it just turns into background "thickener" and only little bits of peel were left over. It was still rather pleasant though.
I followed Ruth's advice and preboiled my potatoes first (they're always sliced small so the size wasn't stopping them from cooking).... Also I had no option but to do dumplings made iwth marge and not Atora. But they still came out pretty good.
And here's my message to my Japanese fans:
良い一日をすべての日本のファンのブログにします。なぜこんなに多くの人が東京から他の地域とここで私を介してきたさまよえるまるで見当がつかないが、楽しんで読んでくれるといいけど私のハムスターやヘロイン"印" ！
Now Debs has tagged me for "7 bizarre things of myself". I'm sure this is a turnaround of the 5- and 6 weird things tags that have been doing the rounds all this year. As I myself did the five weird things about six months ago!
Well anyway here we go:
1. I've been on heroin for 7 years now.
2. The 1st drug I ever took was caffeine in a cup of tea. Cannabis aside: I am living proof that supping tea (especially with sugar!) can and does lead to heroin addiction so all you tea-drinkers BE WARNED!!
3. Part of the long, long process of my addiction involved finding a mysteriously lost or flung out stash of 10g of heroin on the street! (That was about 7 and a half years ago.)
4. When I was 8 years old I once sneaked downstairs in the dead of night in rising panick as an evil burglar vehemently chiselled away at our front door!
It wasn't a burglar at all. Just my bored first hamster (imaginatively named "Hammy") vigorously gnawing at the bars because he was bored out of his head and we didn't realize hamsters need exercise wheels to stop them going stir-crazy!
5. I think the pop singer with the best voice is Barbra Streisand. But some of the material she's chosen to sing is execrable!
6. I have longed to speak (and read and write) Japanese since I was 16 or younger. And yet nearly 20 years later I have still not learned the language that far beyond "konichi-wa"! (My stately Japanese messages have to come courtesy of Google Translate, I'm afraid.)
7. I have never really wanted to be anything in this life but a writer. Hence those painful memoirs!
And I had a horrible nightmare last night about being trapped on a haunted damp-&-derelict runaway train full of baggage thieves. Nasty business!
And I tag:
Merle
Evil Spock
Jim D
Ivy
Bimbimbie
Molson
Vi Vi Voom
Nicole
Puss-in-Boots
Jeanette
Welshcakes Limoncello
Liz
Audrey
Akelamalu
M-filer
Wat
Marty ...
(ooer ~ this is turning into such a comprehensive list I'm starting to quiver and quake lest I leave someone out. I'm expert at doing things like that. So basically I tag everyone ~ har har har!!
Video of the Day:
Ebony Funky Dancer
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Wonderful pike etc photos from bottom of a French lake...
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Amazing Canadian Sketches
http://sixforfive.blogspot.com
Ha ha I had to laugh at the bit about drinking tea!
ReplyDeletesending you a trasnatlantic kiss in gratitude for you not tagging me. i have done this meme more times than i can remember and i might have gone berserk if you'd tagged me.
ReplyDeletetea you say? well i guess i will have to stick to chocolate then....
I've done this one before, so I'll sit it out.
ReplyDeleteOkra is lovely, but not overcooked, throw it in the end. Now I've never thought about throwing cucumber into a stew!
Seven weird things. I'm not sure how to define weird for this but here goes...
ReplyDelete1) I'm half French in ancestry, but I can't drink wine. It's the only alcoholic beverage that makes me ill. Beer is my poison of choice and I do like it.
2) I once loved everything to do with flying. I even sold a really nice car to buy a very old airplane. I flew the plane for a couple of years and then sold it. I haven't flown a plane since and for some strange reason I don't miss it.
3) I have never experience physical discomfort as much as when I hike up a really big mountain. There have been times I thought I'd just drop over dead. No matter how tough the mountain, I always want to go back.
4) In this day of jet travel, I have never left the North American continent. I even worked for a large multi-national company. Arizona was as far away as I got.
5) I went to Death Valley for a summer ride trip (automotive testing). It was 132 deg F. (56 deg. C). I loved it. I want to go back and spend some time exploring more of the valley.
6) Like you Gledwood, I find modern Japanese culture fascinating but I can't exactly explain why.
7) I could care less about a career. OK. Maybe that one is not so weird, but I was a career man for damn near 20 years. Maybe I just burnt out. Give me big mountains on which to punish myself on and I will be happy unless I grow bored with that as well.
Maybe nothing I listed is that weird. Can I help it if I'm boring?
1) I'm left-handed, but when playing cricket or soft-ball, will bat right-handed.
ReplyDelete2) I am almost phobic about touching birds. I like seeing them but panic if they get too close.
3) I can write cursive backwards in mirrored writing, like Leonardo Da Vinci used to do.
4) I like grilled cheese sandwiches with creamed corn and Vegemite.
5) I dislike shopping for shoes and clothing but love bags.
6) I hate people, but I love humanity.
7) I can't stand the Beatles.
Hi Gleds :)
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed reading your "7 bizarre things of myself". Tea eh. Love tea. Nah....always prefered o natural.
Haven`t been getting around the bloggy world much lately and miss visiting and reading your blog.
tea
xo
I always wanted to be a writer too....poetry. I've written poems since I was young - not very good though.
ReplyDeleteFor some reason I thought you'd been on heroin for much longer....don't know why I thought that. You'll be free of it one day, I know it.
Those pesky hamsters hey? I wondered why they gnaw on their bars...now I know!
Crazy time machines. A long time ago you saw a comment I made to Ingsoc and left a note on my abandoned bloggerblog (I prefer wordpress) and now all these hours later I come and see Bimbimie on your blog roll. I thought the bplace was bigger than that. Carzy damn time machines.
ReplyDeleteHi Gleds, Hahaha to the tea statement, I drink at least 5 cups a tea a day more if i have visitors and have done so for 50 odd years....We learn a lot about people doing memes , I did one a while back and might try this again a little later down the track a bit.. take good care,,
ReplyDeleteHi Gleds ~~ I have done this one before, but might do it again when I have some spare time. (Don't hold your breath.) Glad your stew was nice
ReplyDeleteI have never tried Okra, so I must.
Have you been doing any writing?
Look after youself Gleds. Warm regards,erle.
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ReplyDeleteGuilty:... well think about it. It's 100% true! And totally underpublicized. (Or not publicized at ALL!:) Because those EVIL teabag manufacturers want to HOOK our KIDS on HEROIN!!!
ReplyDeleteLime: re the tag no worries... my intuition served me right then. Chocolate I always prefer to drink rather than eat if ya know whatteye mean...
Vi Vi: cuccumber in stew~::~ not your 1st choice of ingredient but it does add to the background mush and leave little green tokens of rind where it's been and it's far better than throwing flagging cucumber in the bin... know whatteye mean??
Molson: thanxx 4 answering all that... yes Japan rules! Maybe it's bc it's the ONLY nonWestern country (apart from maybe HongKong and Singapore) to have the money to develop as far as we've done and we can see the fascinating differences?
Nicole: hate people but LOVE humanity..?? That is I think the opposite of any way I think I've heard that one put before... I think... how very odd!! (well I did ask for odd things...)
ReplyDeleteMargaritas: aww! thank you! take care! ;->...
Debs: no only 7 years fully addicted. Been taking it probably for 10 though it started off really cautiously... I had been taking drugs for 6 years longer than that though... it is a complicated story... hence my need to write it in memoirs to adequately explain!!
Pauls: what's the "bplace"~??
ReplyDeleteJeanette: I would be fascinated to know where the "meme" has gone... it would be like tracing gonorrhoea back through student dorms almost... (oo how rude of me hahar!! ;->...)
Merle: Okra is meant to be v good for stews/curry etc but it DOES leave a pretty sloppy mess with seeds. Maybe if you just top and tail and don't slice up it's better. Doesn't probably need slicing as small as I've tended to do ... many thanxx for the msg Merle good luck with that new PM!!
That was me just deleting my Japanese haikus things b4 that was all
ReplyDeleteYeeees!!!
ReplyDeleteThat is the true, authentic, spiritual, poetical and mysterious Romanian language I'm writing in :)
thank you
Oh Lord. Seven odd things about meeself?! I'll have to think of this a bit, since I dunno how odd I am. I'm weird, don't get me wrong, but I don't realize how weird sometimes.
ReplyDeleteJapanese seems hard to learn. Go for another major language that is easier. Oh, can I invite you to learn some Spanish matey?
Okra is sometimes used as a thickening agent in some Southern American cooking. I'm not sure how it ended up at the bottom. Maybe we use a different variety of okra.
ReplyDeleteCheers, Gleds.
Here we go, a bit late - sorry, Gleds!
ReplyDelete1. I always leave everything til the last minute - or the minute after that!
2. I spend more on make-up than on clothes.
3. I am nearly always cold.
4. I watch very little TV.
5. Prefer my dog to most people.
6. Hate mornings.
7. Don't drink wine - prefer g and t.