So I was on TSR again today and saw a quotation that said 'It is hard to find a black cat in a dark room, especially when it is not there.' I have been thinking about this all day and have come to this conclusion;
A person who owned a black cat had a power-cut and so their whole house was in darkness during the night. The streetlights have also gone out and they can't find the flashlight. They are trying to find their cat 'Mr. Tiddles' for argument's sake as Mr. Tiddles has to have his dinner. But Mr. Tiddles isn't in the house as he can't see to find his way home.
From that saying, we can understand we must have a flashlight that we can either find by keeping it in a draw where we know it is or get a glow-in-the-dark one like in Night at the Museum 2.
Lois is at the Trout Inn at Winchester... they serve really nice food there I'm guessing which makes me rather sad and home-sick :( I forgot to get more marshmallows at the shops so I'm rather depressed. Lois promised that she would bring me home a lump of trout in her handbag although I don't much fancy this idea as one wonders when she last turned her handbag out. I don't much fancy all those bits of fluff and flick that might accumulate on a rather old and stale piece of fish.
I remember when we were at school and she found a packet of Orbit chewing gum in her bag. The gum has gone gooey and fused with the paper, but this didn't deter her; instead she eat both the chewing gum and paper!
Anyway, if I have fish, I would rather have something that I know and trust like my beloved scampi bites (even though I am not 100% sure what they are....).
I have read that some large Japanese corporations are stock-piling giant supplies of fish in order to force the price up. Is Japanese scampi more genuine than British scampi? Anyways, I will always trust Captain Birdseye as he is a Captain so he must know what he is doing...
Does he go to work and sit in his office dressed up as a sailor? I'm guessing on dress-down Fridays he goes as a pirate. :)
EDIT: Just changed my mind on having scampi for din-dins as I forgot to order lemon to have with it *sob*.
I am going to have cheese on naan bread instead :D
Saturday, 10 November 2012
Friday, 9 November 2012
Cyntura's return
Hello again my little Cynturians ;)
Sorry I haven't been on but I have a million and one things to do... like my online Tescos order which consisted of several boxes of scampi bites :) I don't really know what scampi is.... :S But it is nice anyways. On Google, people tended to argue what it was really and I saw a site that said that 'what is scampi' was a top Google searching term in 2011... so why don't we know? It isn't as though it has to be a closely guarded secret of the government's and yet no-one truly knows the answer...
I also ordered some bananas, kiwis and potatoes. Was going to make scampi and jacket potato but worried that the microwave won't suffice.... I always think that jacket potatoes always look like potatoes with bomber jackets on :D Probably why they are called 'jacket' potato. Also going to have fruit salad but with only two fruits, I am tempted to call it a fruit medley.
Oh yeah! I also have like a gazzilion exams next week :( Lois came on TSR complaining about het psychology KAT (key assessment test) on Monday. I honestly don't have the time to feel sorry for her and reply to her numerous and never-ending stream of messages saying 'OMG!!!!!!! This uni gave be an interview!1!!!11111!!!!' ¬__¬
Might as well give you the rest of my shopping spree:
petit filous, naan bread, 4pack orange juice, bread , spaghetti, mushroom sauce, stir fry sauce, stir fry , coleslaw and a few other random bits ^__^ I think I have far too much sauce and not enough stir-fry though... I have my 5 a day covered though as I have far too much orange juice! Who needs fresh vegetables?
Going to go on TSR and get some inspiration for my work...
I prom that I will write more tomorrow :D
Reciprocal links: Web Directory Rental Properties Directory
Sorry I haven't been on but I have a million and one things to do... like my online Tescos order which consisted of several boxes of scampi bites :) I don't really know what scampi is.... :S But it is nice anyways. On Google, people tended to argue what it was really and I saw a site that said that 'what is scampi' was a top Google searching term in 2011... so why don't we know? It isn't as though it has to be a closely guarded secret of the government's and yet no-one truly knows the answer...
I also ordered some bananas, kiwis and potatoes. Was going to make scampi and jacket potato but worried that the microwave won't suffice.... I always think that jacket potatoes always look like potatoes with bomber jackets on :D Probably why they are called 'jacket' potato. Also going to have fruit salad but with only two fruits, I am tempted to call it a fruit medley.
Oh yeah! I also have like a gazzilion exams next week :( Lois came on TSR complaining about het psychology KAT (key assessment test) on Monday. I honestly don't have the time to feel sorry for her and reply to her numerous and never-ending stream of messages saying 'OMG!!!!!!! This uni gave be an interview!1!!!11111!!!!' ¬__¬
Might as well give you the rest of my shopping spree:
petit filous, naan bread, 4pack orange juice, bread , spaghetti, mushroom sauce, stir fry sauce, stir fry , coleslaw and a few other random bits ^__^ I think I have far too much sauce and not enough stir-fry though... I have my 5 a day covered though as I have far too much orange juice! Who needs fresh vegetables?
Going to go on TSR and get some inspiration for my work...
I prom that I will write more tomorrow :D
Reciprocal links: Web Directory Rental Properties Directory
Friday, 26 October 2012
No Weatherspoons for me! :D
Netizens, soz for the delay.
So luckily I will not be able to come home this weekend; our launderette is failing to work at the student accommodation as the buttons don't work and so going to a local laundrette to have the laundry done has eaten up all my train ticket money... oh deary me! At least I can dodge that day out with beetroot friend. She wasn't too happy about it.
The last few weeks have gone so fast! And faster than I thought as I have 9-5 days a lot :( Still got to see beetroot friend around Christmas so I'm dreading that, but at least I'm off the hook for now.
Planning to do something for Halloween; I never normally celebrate it but I expect everyone is going to do something here. I was thinking of ordering a 'Scream' mask online but then I realised that people here always look like that with the amount of time they spend up late at night when they should be sleeping. Therefore I'll stick to the safest plan of cooking chicken and possibly adding a pumpkin sauce... Might also buy some Mr Kipling Halloween cakes for afters. :D
So luckily I will not be able to come home this weekend; our launderette is failing to work at the student accommodation as the buttons don't work and so going to a local laundrette to have the laundry done has eaten up all my train ticket money... oh deary me! At least I can dodge that day out with beetroot friend. She wasn't too happy about it.
The last few weeks have gone so fast! And faster than I thought as I have 9-5 days a lot :( Still got to see beetroot friend around Christmas so I'm dreading that, but at least I'm off the hook for now.
Planning to do something for Halloween; I never normally celebrate it but I expect everyone is going to do something here. I was thinking of ordering a 'Scream' mask online but then I realised that people here always look like that with the amount of time they spend up late at night when they should be sleeping. Therefore I'll stick to the safest plan of cooking chicken and possibly adding a pumpkin sauce... Might also buy some Mr Kipling Halloween cakes for afters. :D
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Coming home on Saturday
So I am once again returning home on Saturday and I am meeting up with beetroot friend. Her real name is Lois by the way :p We were going to go to Jimmy Spice's to have a chilli eating competition but instead she decided on Weatherspoons because if I am honest, she is a complete and utter cheap skate. She even gets me to use my NUS card to get her discounts! Am actually dreading the prospect of meeting her because all she is going to do is keep going on about our old school and all the old friends who I have escaped from! And also chickens... she seems obsessed by the subject having asked me to take a photo of my chicken in the fridge.
I didn't, so instead I sent her this Google image. Didn't fool her so she kept harassing me about them. Sure taking an extra year in sixth form is driving her nutty; she'd fit in well in the biomed lab.
I am starting to get a bit tired of chicken now... so I was thinking of getting a turkey instead as they are starting to appear in the shops. Not quite sure how I will get it into the freezer, but perhaps if I cut it into small lumps it should fit in nicely. If not I will take up next door's offer on the baseball bat to shove it in. I just hope no-one opens the freezer door too late at night or else it will look like like a Saw movie.
I've got another 'friend'. She knows who she is, her name begins with 'T'. It is a shame that she works on Saturdays otherwise she could come to the dreaded meal with beetroot friend and keep her under control. That said, I usually usually get pleasure from hitting friend 'T' with my handbag. Don't know why if I'm honest, just makes me chuckle. Hahaha! :D I have a sneaking suspicion that if I pop home at the weekend, 'T' plans to put cakes through my letter box. I like to eat her cakes even though I hit her with my handbag. :) C'est la vie as the say!
I didn't, so instead I sent her this Google image. Didn't fool her so she kept harassing me about them. Sure taking an extra year in sixth form is driving her nutty; she'd fit in well in the biomed lab.I am starting to get a bit tired of chicken now... so I was thinking of getting a turkey instead as they are starting to appear in the shops. Not quite sure how I will get it into the freezer, but perhaps if I cut it into small lumps it should fit in nicely. If not I will take up next door's offer on the baseball bat to shove it in. I just hope no-one opens the freezer door too late at night or else it will look like like a Saw movie.
I've got another 'friend'. She knows who she is, her name begins with 'T'. It is a shame that she works on Saturdays otherwise she could come to the dreaded meal with beetroot friend and keep her under control. That said, I usually usually get pleasure from hitting friend 'T' with my handbag. Don't know why if I'm honest, just makes me chuckle. Hahaha! :D I have a sneaking suspicion that if I pop home at the weekend, 'T' plans to put cakes through my letter box. I like to eat her cakes even though I hit her with my handbag. :) C'est la vie as the say!
Monday, 22 October 2012
Online shopping
So yeah, my online shopping now has chicken fillets, not a whole chicken this time. At least they won't be useful as an effective hockey puc. I also went to the shops the other day, and bought a tin of sweetcorn but forgot the darn tin-opener. I tried to open it by throwing it at the wall but decided to stop when a big dent appeared both in the tin and the wall and the person next door was banging on the wall telling me to shut up or else they'd get their baseball bat. I said that this would be useful in helping to open the tin. They weren't amused. At least with online shopping you can't really forget openers as easily but why are there so many varieties when they all do the same thing? Why should I use a butterfly type over an electric one? There are also even also ones that lift the lid off in one go. Who needs all these types, unless of course you live at Downton Abbey.
Our lecturer told us that the brains we will be looking at in class are those of students who failed to do the work well.... I am now terrified. When I heard that university was a new experience, I hadn't realised that prodding around with an ex-student's brain would be one of them. Who needs the 31st of October and Fright Nights when you can just take a trip to our biomed labs?
I have so much work to do and have no inspiration. I went on TSR instead and spoke to beetroot friend. She told me to listen to music, which I hadn't thought of. I also didn't know what to write for my report but found out in a textbook from the library. I wonder if the library has any good textbooks for student cooking...
A Google search was no good; all the sites were the same. They kept being silly and saying things like Required: one student, big cooking pot, open fire, people to chase after student etc. I just wanted a basic chicken fillet recipe. One said pureed chicken is nice, so I'll give that a try. I have read somewhere that braised tripe is good, nutritious and cheap on a student budget particularly if braised with onions. I'm guessing it tastes like mince as it looks like it... Might give it a whirl.
Write more soon :)
Our lecturer told us that the brains we will be looking at in class are those of students who failed to do the work well.... I am now terrified. When I heard that university was a new experience, I hadn't realised that prodding around with an ex-student's brain would be one of them. Who needs the 31st of October and Fright Nights when you can just take a trip to our biomed labs?
I have so much work to do and have no inspiration. I went on TSR instead and spoke to beetroot friend. She told me to listen to music, which I hadn't thought of. I also didn't know what to write for my report but found out in a textbook from the library. I wonder if the library has any good textbooks for student cooking...
A Google search was no good; all the sites were the same. They kept being silly and saying things like Required: one student, big cooking pot, open fire, people to chase after student etc. I just wanted a basic chicken fillet recipe. One said pureed chicken is nice, so I'll give that a try. I have read somewhere that braised tripe is good, nutritious and cheap on a student budget particularly if braised with onions. I'm guessing it tastes like mince as it looks like it... Might give it a whirl.
Write more soon :)
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