They’ve just been in to fix my shower! Yay!
Tomorrow morning I’m having one of those long, warm, comfortable showers I’ve so sorely missed. Woot! I’m so happy!
I stopped procrastinating today (at least temporarily) and sent out an e-mail to my dissertation band. Hopefully they’ll get back to me soon, and hopefully they’ll all be available next Tuesday… I found out today that if I want to play at the Jamhouse I need to send in a video from a rehearsal by the 11th of February, which sucks as I doubt we’ll have anything ready by then, but we can give it a go… If we do well enough at the rehearsal, maybe we can squeeze in a short one before the 11th and film a song. Here’s to hoping!
We were divided into groups for Employability & Enterprise today. Mine seems okay. I notice that I miss my old group, though… Greg, Mat and Bren are all in a group together, and I can’t help but wish a little bit that their group had picked me, too… But Joe picked me. Joe is nice, and a good drummer, so at least I know I have decent musicians in my group. Keyboard-Mat is in my group too, and Eliza, who’s a singer as well and seems very friendly. She’s Polish. Then there’s a guitarist I’ve never met before called Mel, and a flute player named Jess, and a sound engineer named Chantal, which is cool, cause female sound engineers always seem to work extra hard as it’s such a male dominated field.
Anyway, we’re gonna do a school gig, and Mat has loads of contacts at schools around Walsall, so that’s all good. It’ll be all right, I should think.
Need to buy toothpaste and soap… and some other things. I have an urge to make veggie lasagna today, but it’s such a waste to make it for just one person… Maybe Abi will want some, or Annette, or, for that matter, all of them. I’ll figure it out. Will take the next shuttle bus to town and go shopping.
Mundane, boring blog. Oh, well…
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Sort of related to this, and to some stuff you were saying on PunditKitchen…
IME different nations make things that you would expect to be very similar differently, even things like $high_street_pizza_chain pizzas.
If I’m eating out, I do tend to go to $local_business rather than a branch of $national_franchise_chain as a rule though.
By this logic, it’s understandanle that British bacon maybe isn’t to your taste; one tip though, look for stuff that is actually British, like real Ayrshire bacon, rather than $Danish_or_Dutch_fishmeal_fed rubbish. When did you last see a pig going fishing!?
I actually only buy British meat products. I don’t trust imports, regardless of where I am in the world, not when it comes to meat.
The problem with the bacon is that it’s either too salty, or too smoked, or not enough of either, to my taste.
Likewise.
If you can find a real butcher or charcouterie (sp) rather than a supermarket (Hmm, nearly spelt that “spuermarket;” possible Fruedian slip?), they may have some milder cures and/or smokes without going unsmoked.
I only know of one butcher here… Bought steaks there last time I had Morten over, they were quite good. Didn’t notice what kind of bacon they had.
Could also try a different supermarket. Maybe see if Tesco have better bacon? Problem is, I keep getting lost trying to find it; it just moved and for the life of me I can never remember how to get there…
I’d think that anything Tesco have different from Asda will be “supermarket own brand” rather than brand name, and brand name is likely to be $Dutch/Danish fishmeal fed.
Indeed, but who knows? Maybe their own brand has a less cured but still smoked type?
In Norway I usually eat a kind of bacon called (in translation) Forest Bacon. It comes in thick, meaty slices, lightly smoked with a birchwood type flavour and not too salty. If I can find that, I always buy it.
Find a copy ot “Yellow Pages”, and look up “delicatessans” then; that’s your best chance of finding something birch smoked, and they’ll probably cut thick-sliced to order.
I tried Asda’s 21-day matured unsmoked bacon today, lightly cured. That one was perfectly edible, and given that I don’t eat bacon that often anyways, the slightly higher price doesn’t matter so much.
Høres ut som om du gjør det bra Maia! ^^ Når kommer du innom Norge igjen? Øl øl øl!
~ “Lille” Morten (You guys really need to come up with a better way of keeping us seperate :3)
Kommer hjem første uka i mars (28. februar – 6. mars). Vi skal nok få til noe øl da, tenker jeg!