Cold Comfort

[tyellas]

Eeeeeesh, time for another post, since my last one says "Christchurch Report". After yesterday's 6.3 quake repeat, my friends down there, cool and stoic previously, are now losing it, in tears, confronting more damage, etc. The latest may be the straw that breaks lots of backs.

I saw my Little Old Lady on Sunday; she's looking rosier, but isn't getting any of that lost lung capacity back. So she's rather trapped, at the moment. I lent her the DVD of Cold Comfort Farm, which I watched with a friend on Saturday night. Mmmmmm, Seth Starkadder. My friend was looking after her grandbaby, who took a dislike to me. Put in my arms for the obligatory visitor's cuddle, she looked at me aghast and began to wail. And didn't stop for two hours. I didn't know you weren't supposed to wear perfume around babies.

This week so far has been about freelancing and dealing with a sudden uptick in burlesque event developments. I also stopped by the art school to snap some shots of my flatmate's art installation, which is three and a half meters tall, two meters deep, and involves depictions of whale sharks and jellyfish. It looks great, but I have no idea where it's going after the show. And neither does he. If anybody with a very spacious house wants an art installation...

Comments

[maureenlycaon.livejournal.com]

I read about the aftershock and was saddened at how it's affected people emotionally.

Also my regrets about your LOL, though at least she feels a little better.

You may have noticed I'm becoming a bit of a foodie. I'm trying this recipe today in my crock-pot. :)

[tyellas.livejournal.com]

Looks tasty! How did it turn out?

[maureenlycaon.livejournal.com]

It should definitely have had less pepper in it. Next time I'll halve the amount. Also, I'd worried about using the usual concentrated beef broth that comes in cans without dilution, but it turned out that the result wasn't too strong after all -- at least to my palate. ;)

Using proper cipello onions and Yukon Gold miniature potatoes would have been nice, visually anyway, but those simply weren't available, so I just chopped regular ones up to suit. At some point I may actually spring for true cremoni mushrooms instead of the usual white button ones just to see how much difference there is, but the mushrooms were also good enough.

The gravy is thin, more so than canned beef stew. However, the beer makes for a wonderful strong taste! I'd recommend this recipe to anyone -- with tinkering to get it exactly to their tastes.

[raqs.livejournal.com]

I also am sorry for your Christchurch friends. Repeated (emotional) shocks are the toughest to withstand and I'm sure this is very tough. Somehow I feel worse for Christchurch than the towns in Japan; perhaps it was because of the time I spent watching the local news coverage, or perhaps it's just that the local news coverage was in English and I could follow it all.

All too bad.

I'm glad, though, that your LOL is perkier!

[tyellas.livejournal.com]

We aren't hearing about Japan aftershocks...are they happening?

[teaforme.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sorry to hear about Christchurch! I hadn't heard.

Good luck finding a home for the installation. :-)

[tyellas.livejournal.com]

Thanks! The art show is opening tonight. So this turns into a problem on Monday.