A brief update

Ive gone away to Monaco.

They keyboard is all in french AND the website I use is now desplaying everything in french - clever but unhelpful. So this will be dormant for 2 weeks or so.

Surfice to say im eating salads and cheeses and that sorta thing.

Tuesday!

Lunch to start again: Sausages, baked potato and Cauliflower cheese.

bottle of wine with anna

Gin and tonic with hannah

McDonalds Deli sandwich and sleep.

One from the archives for fun! 

Monday - No work though!

Started the day with lunch as is appropriate when one is a layabout. Cheese, bisuits, smoked salmon - basically the same as all the other times this week except the fridge is getting low on stock now.

Dinner was Veil, it was very tasty.

Tomorrow I have some plans which I'm doubtful of, I can say that here as I know for a fact only one of those people is likely to read this site, and I bet she won't.

People I haven't seen for a while but thought it would be amusing to "touch base" with again, see whats happening. Anyway if it does go quagmire i'm headed off to south of france of thursday and well out of reach of vengance. Muwuhahar!

Sunday!

Midday start: Smoked salmon, cheeses and hams with oatcakes and rice cakes.

supper: Pasta

Watched: Trainspotting and Blow.

Saturday

Woke up early and feeling a little out of sorts from the night before.

Bimbled up to Oxford, had a cornish pasty. Went to the Ashmoleian and wandered around it with Molly - Qudos on the badge making and cuniform inscription on clay they were doing for the 2-5 year olds (plus me and molly).

Met Jo, drove back to London, dinner at mine. Braised beef and vegetables with some poisonous Rioja.

Knackering day, early wake up and driving and the night before, calls for an early night - i'm crashing now.

Friday - Last day at work

Breakfast: Fried tomatoes with a friend egg and bacon.

Lunch: Cornish pasty and a bottle of ribena (plus a few wedges of 3day old sandwiches from the fridge).

Dinner: Turkey escalope with Ratatouille.

Then I went out: pint of fosters, bottle of wine, 2 snake bites: - small lamb doner, then a few chuncks of ham from the fridge.

Thursday

Breakfast: Fried egg and bacon with some mushrooms.

Lunch: well, a process of eating a few sandwiches from the fridge, left over from a meeting yesterday. However when I left the office I did take in a chinese chicken noodle portion, a little greasy but not bad.

Dinner: Guinea fowl with steamed potatoes, beans and purple sprouting broccoli.

I way well snack on cheese and biscuits tonight as its early yet... more on that later, maybe!

Robin - Added to the blogroll!

Robin AKA Mr. Astrophysics has started his own blog. It would appear his first proper posting is a homage to me, an apple crumble.

Immitation is a fine form of flatter indeed:

http://robinrob.blogspot.com/

keep up the good work!

Favourite word of today.

Whilst reading B3ta (on my links) today i read a short article which used the word "hippocrocopig" to describe a fat ugly person. This word is genius. If anyone spots any similar "words" let me know.

Wednesday - Budget Day.

Breakfast: Fried egg on slice of bread (not toast) with 2 rashers of bacon.

Lunch: Sandwiches and a glass of wine.

Dinner: a repetition of yesterday's stew all gone, very tasty.

Did you know? (rant)

Don't you find that atleast once a week someone will ask you one of those annoying 'did you know...' questions such as: "Did you know the doors that cover US nuclear silos weigh 748 tons and opens in 19 seconds."

They aren't really asking the question so much as showing off their 'knowledge' recently gleamed from a website of no academic pedigree. Also why would I know? why would I care? It seems more people know that there are hundreds if not thousands of different types of potato than something more mainstream.

Anyway my advice to annoying 'did you know' people is go learn joined up writing before telling, I'm sorry, asking me if I know that "screaming lord sutch was the longest serving party leader until he hung gimself". I'm not interested. Tell me something useful sure, and feel free to prefix with "d'ya know" but dont keep hammering yr silly little "fun facts" from the "bumper book of fun facts for dummies".

nuff said, grrr...

Tuesday

Breakfast: 3 fried mushrooms and a cup of tea.

Lunch: Fish and chips followed by some chicken and bacon potato skins covered in cheese with sweet potatoes. 2 large glasses of red.

Dinner: Beef stew with broccoli and steamed potatoes.

All very nice meals - I feel breakfast needs to up its ante in future, it's letting the side down.

Isn't it supposed to be the most important meal? However, isn't waking early and lazing around a while until one is properly awake before eating breakfast the same as getting up abruptly dashing down a cup of tea going to work and having an early lunch?
Answers on a postcard.

Patronising Quotation of the day/year (?)

"My dear young lady , there was a great deal of truth, I dare say, in what you said, and you were very pretty when you said it, which is much more important" - Oscar Wilde, Woman of no importance

Monday

Breakfast: Banana and a cup of tea.

of to work

Lunch: A cornish pasty, Duck and Hoi Sin wrap with a Ribena.

Dinner: Half a roast duck with roast potatoes and steamed parsnips and beans. (I first had a quarter of a duck but still felt peckish).

Post dinner snack: Ham, a few different cheeses on 4 ricecakes and a few oatcakes.

I seem to have eaten alot today, slow start though! Shows what you can do if you really want to pull your socks up and catch up.

Sunday

Late start: few cups of tea.

Made a quiche - ate some of it.

Dinner: Spaghetti.

Ate some more quiche while watching Poirot.

Idea:

Don't drink all Easter, can it be done?

This quiche was lovely - eaten on last monday and tuesday. 

This here apple crumble was consumed a few days ago. T'was mighty good. 

Saturday

Woke relatively early, especially considering the night before.

Used up 2 eggs, milk, an onion and the rest of my bacon making an omlette.

packed bags, defrosted fridge etc etc etc

Arrived in London in time to see England lose the rugby (again), steak for dinner.

St. Patrick's Day

Cup of tea for breakfast.

Lunch: Bacon cheese burger at the bar

Dinner: Caesar Salad in Wetherspoons (2 meal deal shared with a friend).

Guiness in moderation all day.

Penultimate day

Breakfast: 2 sauages in a roll with redonion and tomato sauce.

Lunch: quarter of a cheesecake

Dinner: Spaghetti (quantities now under control) with tomato, herb, bacon and onion sauce.

Films: Elf, Great Gatsby and Y tu Mamma Tambien

Wednesday

Late Breakfast: 3 sausages in a roll with red onions and tomato sauce.

Today I watched: Citizen Kane, Love Actually and Dirty Dancing

Yesterday I watched: American History X, Bridget Jones's Diary 2 and Enduring Love.

During the films I ate some clementines

A seriously large amount (minor measuring accident) of spaghetti carbonnara.

Tuesday, Late meals

Late Breakfast: yesterday's quiche and 3 sausages

Late Lunch: Two homemade beefburgers

Late Dinner: tomato and mozarella salad with olive oil and balsamic vinegar.

Essay finished.

Monday - Last week

Woke early, cup of tea.

Had a smoked salmon and cream cheese bagel on my way to lectures.

Got back and made quite a large (3 eggs) Quiche with sweet corn, red onions, peppers, bacon, cheese. AND a large apple crumble.

Half the Quiche is tomorrows lunch.

Dinner was spaghetti bolognese.

Wrote some essay, its not a very good essay...

Sunday!

Had no proper meals but:

Today I ate - 3 rice cakes, 2 small pieces of cheesecake and half a packet of crisps.

In the pub I drank 2 pints.

I feel I ate an unbalanced diet today.

Saturday

Wrote some of an essay.

Brunch: Small amount of scrambled egg

Dinner: Chicken Kiev and chips

3 bottles of white.

Friday

Woke up had some tea.

Had an apple a few hours later.

In the evening I made a turkey curry, I didn't eat a lot of it.

Went to the bar feeling a little drained. Had a bottle of wine then went to some parties. Felt full of energy when I eventually got home.

Thursday night!!

Had a steak (!) at El Mexicano then went to the font for cheap cocktails - had a few jugs. Wetherspoons for a bottle of wine (and free condiments for the next few weeks, you gotta love those sachets).

Kebab and home for more wine and a random conversation with some guy who was in my room about free-markets, the economy and the world... he was erring on the side of 'hippie' who was he and why was he in my room?

Thursday

Cup of tea!

Ricecake...

I have made another apple crumble, Its cooking!

wednesday, just

made some apple crumbe for molly's birthday... t'was lush.

baguette and cheese, pate..... lush... mid afternoon snack AND dinne. tasty!!!

night night

Tuesday

Lunch: Pork Pie - I bought this in woodstock outside Oxford. With some salads etc.

Went to Won Kei chinese restuarant for some pork and rice for a second lunch followed by a pint at the East India Club.

A couple of glasses of wine at a function, interesting speaker.

Dinner at the National Liberal Club. Cawl soup, Cottage pie, cheese and biscuits, coupld of bottles.

Back off to Brighton!

Monday

Almost forgot to post this due to the excitement of the shrunken heads (below).

Woke up at friend's, had some cups of tea.

Lunch: a BLT from sainsburys and then a cornish pasty a little later.

Dinner: Sumptuous chicken pie followed by apple crumble at The Trout Inn, Oxford.

Here you can see the wee head in comparison to a human skull. (After the shrinking process the small head was given a hair cut to make it look in proportion), 

To kill time between one friend and another in Oxford I went to the Pitt Rivers musem and saw, amongst other things, this wee shrunken head.

Sunday: The road to Oxford!

Woke up early.

Breakfast was more like lunch: Ham and cheese on ricecakes.

Lunch: Soup and then a little more ham and cheese (good ham, goood cheese).

Then I went meet Jo, had lemonade. Drove Dave, Jo and 2friends up to Oxford, spent night at dave's (Cup of tea).

Saturday London

Being in london i've just been snacking all day on hams and cheeses and biscuits, had some soup for lunch.

For dinner: Roast duck... good to be home.

Friday

Cup of tea in the morning - took water to my lecture.

Carbonnara on my return (egg, bacon, mascarpone) - tasty.

Now i'm probably going to go to a psychology lecture and then London for the weekend/monday/tuesday - go on, stalk me ya freak.

edit: friday dinner was trout, steamed potatoes etc.

Thursday

Pre-seminar: last slice of pie and tea.

Breakfast: 3 sausages and 2 rashers of bacon in a sandwich.

Lunch: toasted ham, cheese and mustard toasty.

Dinner: I made burgers and had a double and then a single burger, tasty. Dave seemed to like them too.

Then we started drinking while watching a film. 2 tins, 1/2 wine, some whisky then to the pub and 1 1/2 bottles of wine.

Wednesday's Pieday

Woke early to type up essay in for 9am.

Two sausages with some mustard in a piece of bread.

Got back and had a cup of tea.

Made apple pie number one - Had a small slice.

Made apple pie number two, while that was in the oven I made scrambled egg out of the remainder of the yolk (used to glaze the pie) and the whole of the white, some milk and butter - tasty snack.

Had a slice of pie number two - a significant improvement (photos below).

Had a ham, cheese and mustard (wholegrain) toasted sandwich.

And the pie interior... and it tastes sooo good! 

Second pie of the day! Glazed aswell... 

Apple pie upon exiting the oven! 

Apple Pie, before it went into the oven!