An Amazon package (two pairs of silk toe socks suitable as liners) arrived later than expected and I went off to Queensway to find myself a Cantonese roast duck from Gold Mine. There was a very long queue but a Chinese briskness to getting people in and out, so it wasn’t more than a 20 […]
Bad daal
I tried making daal last night from a freshly bought bag. it was ordinary masoor daal, which shouldn’t take more than 1/2 an hour to cook, less if it’s presoaked, and follow my usual measurement of 1/4 to 1/3 daal to 2 1/2 cups water. This daal was soaked for 2 hours, needed at least […]
Night and day
Night and day is how i’ve been working, sadly, with all that was piled up over the past week or two when much time was spent packing. And now, back to work.
Flying away
I had a very vivid dream last night that the Gentleman Friend and I were in Somalia. It reminded me greatly of East Timor in the dream because of the low level of development, but it was definitely itself, with people we met and stayed with who were whole and vivid individuals with histories behind […]
Story of tonight
Last night we had the Gentleman Friend’s birthday celebration, with a coup scored many months ago: two tickets to Hamilton. He is an obsessive who knows most of the lyrics, so I was extremely pleased to got them, and quite good seats too – right in the middle and very near the front. I was […]
Boxes, boxes, boxes
Our boxes arrived yesterday, hurrah. Unopened, barely touched, as usual my fretting and fuming during the dispatch period was for nothing. Anyhow, we spent all of Monday first unpacking and then repacking our belongings, discarding things along the way where possible. One box which had been left here in London had contained a camel hair […]
Flying fox
I went for an unproductive yet reviving trip to the centre of town, hoping to try on some shoes and trousers before ordering them online, but didn’t find them. It was reviving as it was the first in a while I’d had time to myself, and a desi meal albeit South Indian (from Saravana Bhavan) […]
Blimp overhead
Yesterday was Friday and after lunch the Gentleman Friend and I went to Westminster. On the way out of the house I glanced at the news to see his press conference with Teresa May had begun and he claimed that the awful interview he’d given the previous night (of which audio recording was online), was […]
Bittersweet symphony
It was an immensely busy work day, and at around 6.30 the Gentleman Friend and I went out looking for somewhere to watch the semi-final match between England and Croatia. The reason for this unusual decision was two-fold: one, so that the GF could share in excitement from fellow Englishfolk – I find it hard […]
Barnsley’s finest
I have a huge amount of work to do, so of course the right thing to do was to suggest that the Gentleman Friend, who was planning to go out to dinner with a friend for the latter’s birthday, instead invite him over and I would make dinner for them. So he did, and instead […]