Onion carbonara and other stories

the_mollusk

thanks HL, it'll just be £15 but it's pretty easy work and every little helps (assuming i get paid - i never believe it till i see it!) x

the_mollusk

beautiful poem by yeats (via cake, on hovel lady's diary) x

the_cake wrote: »

I WILL arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core

W B Yeats - The Lake Isle of Innisfree.

chevalier

Nice going on your to do list. 37degrees sounds a bit hot to me. Hope you are coping ok. Nice one about the potential savings at the market. I also found in the UK that market veg was much cheaper than in the supermarket. And most of it kept as long or longer than the supermarket stuff too.
chev

the_mollusk

yeah 37 degrees is pretty hot! i hated hot weather all my life till moving here and somehow now i'm coping with it surprisingly well! 37 was much too hot but i mainly stayed in my cool flat with the shutters closed and then ventured out for the long, warm evening, which i love

in the uk i never went to markets - there are so many good ones but i just never bothered, i'm so ashamed! maybe if/when i move back after my market experiences in bordeaux i'll be better at shopping around it's clear my priorities have changed now and i'm happy to spend more time shopping around for a bargain or for better quality food.

and whether worried about money or not, a market is infinitely more enjoyable than a supermarket.

the_mollusk

what a night. there was a huge, 4-hour long, violent and LOUD thunderstorm last night. usually i sleep right through them but last night i went to bed obsessing about my finances and consequently slept really lightly because i dreamt about them all night long (in addition to having a few really weird dreams where i thought i was in real danger like in some strange film...), so i kept waking up every half hour. incredibly, the lightning itself was bright enough to wake me up, let alone the huge cracks of thunder, i thought a building was falling down at one point!

i knitted most of yesterday evening but there's no way i'll finish my mum's scarf in time for her birthday tonight i'm going to some friends' for dinner and tomorrow evening i'll probably be up all night working on that job i have to do.

oh carp and i've just boiled some eggs for about an hour, completely forgot about them.

bad start to today!! <goes off grumbling and muttering>

the_mollusk

(hour-long-boiled eggs were fine in the end, made an egg mayo sandwich )

today ended up fairly productive although could have been much more so. far too addicted to this site, doing some boring stuff at work at the moment and i could make it go a lot quicker if i wasn't on here all the time! dinner was nice with friends, took a cheap (but nice) bottle of wine and got fed like royalty

doing more work tomorrow day and working on the little job in the evening, then i think i'll spend most of the weekend between the work (which is taking longer than i thought - i undercharged! ) and starting to remember how to put stuff on ebay for when i go back home and raid my mum's loft in just over a week!

Hovel_lady

Egg mayo sandwich, yum
I know exactly what you mean about being addicted to this site. Still, there are far worse things to be addicted to.

Glad dinner was nice with friends.
xx

the_mollusk

finally got the last of my three credit card statements for the month (as i've been so obsessed with my finances recently it's felt like a year since the last statement), totted it all up and my total debt has gone down by £215 since my lbm!!! can't remember the last time i saw a *decrease* in my balances! long may it continue!

Tete_en_l'Air

Hi Mollusk, the foodie title made me click on your thread and so glad I did - recipes... knitting... France... bovine dreams - love it all! (Oh and I've just noticed the cat in your avatar - even better haha!)

I've just come back from a week near Saintes and can attest to the heatwave - phewie! I was glad to get back to the rainy UK, for about half an hour.

Well done on seeing a decrease for the first time, must have been a great feeling! You sound really determined and enthusiastic and I look forward to hearing more about your adventures

the_mollusk

Tete_en_l'Air wrote: »

Hi Mollusk, the foodie title made me click on your thread and so glad I did - recipes... knitting... France... bovine dreams - love it all! (Oh and I've just noticed the cat in your avatar - even better haha!)

I've just come back from a week near Saintes and can attest to the heatwave - phewie! I was glad to get back to the rainy UK, for about half an hour.

Well done on seeing a decrease for the first time, must have been a great feeling! You sound really determined and enthusiastic and I look forward to hearing more about your adventures

hello! :wave: aw glad you like it! nothing much has happened lately so i've been a bit boring but hopefully it'll pick up again soon!

yay another knitter!! (i know there are loads around the forums but i haven't managed to join in on any knitting chats yet - tbh i dunno how people keep up with these forums, there's so much going on!) my mum isn't going to get the scarf for her birthday the (not really) funny thing is that i bought the yarn about 3 years ago and across several re-starts and pattern changes i've attempted to finish it in time for each successive birthday and christmas but it's STILL not going to be ready for her birthday next week! oh well, maybe christmas have you got any projects on the go at the moment?

saintes is very close! did you just come for a holiday? do you come over to france often? i'm in love with it here