HOW VULGAR! I have traipsed around every likely looking shop on/off/near/not near/etc the high street and FAILED to find any selling fresh broccoli ~ my staple green! I did find two demoralized trees outside one, after querying exact directions from the shopower who insisted said "rare delicacy" (well it is in my new manor!!) was there. And I'm not surprised they kept it in semi-hiding judging by the state of it. I've never seen "fresh" veg in such a wilting state. And on sale to eat tomorrow!! Not likely!!! Then I trundled and trawled and trudged and traipsed and trotted via many other shops until I finally found one selling it frozen at £1.19 for c340g. I said I would come back if I couldn't find any fresh. Well now I'm round the corner from my old house and did cave in and bought the pertest perkiest hardest greenest crunchiest broccoli in town... oh! the things you don't appreciate when they're on your own doorstep 24-7!Better news: I've found the local Chinese takeaway. And am about to give in to my craving for Chinese chicken curry mix vegetable fried rice... also I BOUGHT a mysterious sachet of Chinese curry powder from the local Chinese supermarket in my new manor... it's ultra mysterious... exactly the right colour... and pretty close in taste to the mysterious oriental curries of the east churned out up and down the country in Chinese curry sauce... yes! That curry sauce NOBODY seems able to replicate (no you do NOT use garam masala or anything like it: it's CHINESE CURRY and totally different... Liz gave me an exclamational link over a month ago but life was in chaos (when is it ever not) so I never CLICKEDONIT ~EEJUT ME!! I am determined to crack the mystery of Chinese curry sauce!!
Even better news MY POWER'S BACK ON! Thanks to a friendly phone call I found out the mysteriousness of the electrical mystery... basically what I'd pictured is NOT a fusebox as such, rather a row of trip-switches... mine are labelled things like "1. lights; 2. sockets; 3. heating; 4. shower" and it would be #2 that had gone down. The advice I was given was to unplug everything. Nearly everything was unplugged but not quite. Disappointingly nothing happened after this... My "sockets" switch was still resolutely DOWN... Then, continuing talking on the phone, I made one more attempt at pushing it up ~ and wow! ~ it stuck!!
And the cooker comes on! And the radio's playing! And the heater works now (even though it was listed separately it somehow managed to purloin power from the sockets ringmain/ hey ja like my electricianal language there? Ringmain?? As if I would know one of them if it tied me up in a knot at 4am in the morning....
Righto!¬ I'm back by my old house. One more case really to GO. Then I'm NOT COMING BACK AND GOOD RIDDANCE TO IT ALL. SUCH RUBBISH!!!!
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This is a beautiful photoblog. And as I told Samantha, I can't believe nobody else is reading it...
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you know, when i lived in a place where i couldn't get fresh broccoli i really thought i'd go insane.
ReplyDeleteFrozen doesn't really cut it, does it? Also the florets are too big (I like to cut mine into minibitesizedpieces prior to cooking) plus it takes acheingly EVEN MORE BLOODY TIME TO COOK AND I AM HUNGRY I WANT MY BLOODY FOOD NOW KNOW WHAT I MEAN....???!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!??!
ReplyDeleteEvery thing comes to he who waits dont they say..whoever they are???? Glad you got the fuses sorted out and that you found some crunchy green fresh brocc. You have inspired me Gleds to not be so b****y lazy and Ive put a post up special for you. God youve been busy and you still find time to post....hangs head in shame x Auds
ReplyDeleteME inspiring ANYONE not to be lazy?... c'mon I only act when forced into a corner and utterly no option in it!!!! You posted just for me? Really? I'm going there now...¬¬
ReplyDeleteCurry! I love all kinds. Thai is good but I never tried Chinese. (yet)
ReplyDeletehow awfull, no broccoli is really a nightmare, seriously, i love them and i can understand your frustration!!!
ReplyDeletei loved this post ;)!!!
Lol only you could leave a comment like that Gleds....cleaning finger nails with the cats claws, just picking myself off the floor...laughing that is!!
ReplyDeleteThat cat would just not leave me alone to read your blog that night...I had to scroll down the pages of course on her behalf but YES!! she was absolutely captivated lol
Hope your day was good :)
No broccoli????
ReplyDeleteWhat the hell is the world coming to?
I've got some in my fridge I can send to you hon!
You're right, frozen really doesn't cut it. I'm happy to hear that you've got power up again!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm off now to the hairdresser and to run a few errands.
Good luck with the last lot of moving and if you'd like a blog from Amsterdam, take a look at one that our friend Kees keeps. He started it when we left and it makes us miss everything less because we see familiar places and friends.
KEES
electricity is our friend.
ReplyDeleteAny chance of cultivating a vege garden on the roof? Maybe in the gutters to save carrying buckets of water up there ;)
ReplyDeleteExcellent-o Gleds, eventhough I don't understand why it stayed on that time :-)
ReplyDeleteHi Gleds ~~ Thank you for the quick flying Hello. I thought you would be
ReplyDeletetoo busy. I hope you got your last case all right and that you are feeling more comfortable at your new
abode. Hope you got the cooking oil.
Glad you finally found the broccoli
Take care, my friend, Love, Merle.
Yea! Glad things are smoothing out and the dust is settling. Life without electricity is a shuddering thought.
ReplyDeleteCook your broccoli, get your Chinese take-away, curl up with the robos. You're in your new abode!