STIRRING UP THE SEDIMENT! That's certainly what I've been doing lately. It is barely a quarter past four and pitch dark already. Now I have a phone I have a clock again. And alarm clock...
My phone really dosn't look like a telephone at all. To be honest, to me, it looks more like a drinks coaster crossed with a spectacle case for gnomes... clickonthis to view it, but bear in mind it's litup in that picture whereas normally it's shiny, sleek and goldrimmed black...
Many thanks for all the messages I got last night and today.
In reply to some of your queries: Gledeber was a mongrel. I unblocked the sink using citric acid crystals (citric acid + sodium bicarb is the best: it really foams up!)
And I'm powering ahead with my book despite the naysays from my "self".
You know if I'm going to publish my lifestory I have to get comfortable with my life. Now I know I'm a little more "candid" than the average Joe... but not perhaps THAT much ... I have to get used to all this sediment.
And if I feel that I'm exploiting my own suicidal attempts or speaking of them glibly or exposing them to ridicule; I'm only doing in miniature form what I'm going to have to do to make peace with my story having been told to the world when it has been... It's for this reason I'm not interested in smallscale selfpublishing or charity publishing or smallscale publishing. If I'm going to tell my story I want it to go to the entire world. Otherwise I shall have double-compromised. Telling the story was meant to mark a turning point. I think it's going to have to be a 2 volume book though. I don't know.
Well it's about 20 past 4 and dark and I'm tired. Everything is chaos as per usual. I wish I could sleep for ten years. But I can't.
I'm going to miserably pick over my carcasse of a lifestory manuscript now. Wish me luck, please. Take care. Bye.
Gleds
xx
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Right: 7:50pm and I'm making intellectual stew.
These were the ingredients.
One and a third pounds or about 300g neck of lamb chopped up with butcher's murder weapon cleaver thing. Fried in a bit of curry powder.
Half a tin of chopped tomatoes (usually it's a whole tin). A quarter of a tin of water to make up for the tomatoes missing. This forms the stew base.
One enormous onion. Fried after the lamb's done. (If you can't cook let me inform you you have to "seal in" any meat by frying first in a pan with spices. You can do this without spices but it's the very inverse-apex of vulgarity.
Oh yeah. One huge potato. Chopped pretty small. Chucked in slow cooker.
Chuck everything in slow cooker by the way.
One enormous carrot all sliced and chopped up and peeled obviously due to civil liberties restricting New Labour government's pesticides. (Had to get politics into a recipe somehow...)
About 30p 60c worth of okra. Topped and tailed and sliced.
About 30p 60c worth of mushrooms. Slice half. Cut the other half of each into two quarters.
Spices: about 4 teaspoons paprika. About a quarter teaspoon neat red chili powder. About a third teaspoon of ginger (which I slightly regretted at the time but I don't think it's too much). About 2 teaspoons dark soy sauce (darkens the mix if it does nothing else). A small teaspoon thyme. I do have mixed herbs but haven't a clue where they've gone. Two teaspoons gravy granules. These thicken it up. And about a teaspoon or two "Old Dr Brown's Jamaican Curry Powder" which is chock full of MSG (the key to good taste. Sorry I'm not that bourgeois. I love MSG.) No need at all to add salt as it's in everything else.
I was going to add broccoli but it's not very stew-like.
I once asked a stupid bourgeois yoga teacher for "some advice on things to add to a curry" (she was the same person who "didn't want supermarkets in London, at least not big new ones as they're frightfully inconvenient in added traffic" oh bugger off! Anyway so typical of this person who I did love (she moved in as one of seven into my old house. A certain other person didn't want her in but I thought she was fantastic despite her foibles. Anyway she went and recommended the two most non-Indian takeaway curry-ish of things: ie mushrooms which you NEVER get in Indian takeaway (and I never came across in India either) and BROCCOLI possibly the most nonsubcontinental of all vegetables.... well I digress...
Well I think I've mentioned everything that's gone into the pot. Because I have no proper lid and cannot even find a plate to fit I've had to shove a carrier bag over a small frying pan and make that do...
Righto and that's about it...
Video of the Day 1:
This is one of the best videos I've posted up here. Very watchable. Shows us why Princess Diana was such a "star" in the minds of the media...Diary of a Princess: Diana's Last Documentary ~ Landmines in Angola ...
Video of the Day 2:
Sinead O'Connor: Rebel Song Live
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Diary blog of an author:
http://jamieprose.blogspot.com
Really entertaining greetings card shop style baby photos...
http://aramateixenfiloaquestaagulla.blogspot.com
Luck.....*inserts clover*
ReplyDelete-Eileen
I agree. If you're going to write your life story, you must include everything you feel comfortable with. Carry on, Gleds.
ReplyDeletegood luck, it is getting dark very early as well.
ReplyDeleteEileen: ;->...
ReplyDeleteZennist/GGirl: That's true. There's nothing I'm excluding for myself. I'm only leaving out stuff (that hasn't much to do with the story) for other people's sakes. People who probably don't want to play too great a role in my book anyhow...
EmperorRopi: you're not THAT far south so I xpect it does...
That sounds an excellent stew to me. The world awaits your life story!
ReplyDeletePS: Like the phone!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE Sinead O'Connor..my fave song is Black Boys on Mopeds. With that knowledge you can sleep easy 2night...
ReplyDelete-eileen
i tagged you. How are you doing? Aside from being miserable about your book of course
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ReplyDeletegeesh, that typo was me...so tired.
ReplyDeleteYou sound like you could be a chef if not a writer.
I always fry the meat up and then chuck onion and garlic and other veggies in to fry a bit before I add the liquid. Really gets good flavor going.
Now I'm hungry. Although I shouldn't be...I just had leftover spaghetti.
I like it when it gets dark early...somehow I am comforted by it?????
Welshcakes: the stew is good... yeah and the phone is funky it doesn't look cheap and cheerful to me!!
ReplyDeleteEileen: ;->...
Naomi: I will come to your tag tonight I will I will
Debs: yes it has a what do you call it... wrapping up effect on the human psyche! As long as you're safe and inside and not stuck outside by a bus stop on the "it never appears" route right across town ...
You know, I would never add broccoli to a stew, it cooks too quickly and would just fall apart. It doesn't do well in that type or recipe. I think mushrooms are good though. Although, if you were to add the broccoli 10 minutes before the end it would be all right. Capsicum works well in stew, as does celery (but I chop that very fine and saute with the onion for flavour). I also like parsnip very much.
ReplyDeleteHi Gleds ~~ Sorry you are still feeling down. How near is the book to being finished. Half done two thirds
ReplyDeleteor near finished. Because once you get that under way, you should feel better. Try to push yourself to get it done. You sure set yourself a big task, but you may stop another messing up his/her life by writing it. Thanks for your comments. Take great care, your stew sounds yummy. I live slow cookers and am glad you have one.
Every good wish, my friend, Merle.
Oh Gleds without a proper lid the slow cooker won't work as it should. Maybe that's why the spuds are hard.
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