Yule Blog III

Starter:

Smoked salmon wrapped cheese on toast

Main:

Roast Pheasant, with roast potatoes, roast parsnips, brussels, carrot in honey and sesame seeds, bread sauce, stuffing with offal-based with cocoa powder gravy

Pudding:

Lemony things, bought reduced to clear.


I got most of this eaten before the Queen's Speech, then brought the food into the living room to watch the middle third of The Godfather. Doctor Who I watched live, then I scratched something from home made quiche, pickles and lettuce. I didn't finish The Godfather that night, and resumed on Boxing Day, followed by The Godfather Part II, which I also finished. At about nine, I thought sod it, and watched The Godfather Part III, expecting the worst.

I ventured out on Sunday, for a coffee with Gemma, and town was packed. I had an indulgence in Oxfam - a book on Schreber - and retired home to bed.

I've been out to drink, but nothing else, and have not spent money on food since Christmas Eve. I fear I will break this tomorrow and get some ground almonds, but not bad overall.

Bad Research Day

I've had those days in the library, when it appears that someone must be ahead of you, having taken out all the books you want.

I don't often have them at home. Somewhere along the line, I've lost a copy of Science Fition Studies - I suspect it went to work to be photocopied. Nine times out of ten that's the one I need - but today it was an Extrapolation from 1990 that I'm lacking. I have three of the four issues; I suspect I never have the fourth. Or, and cleary writing on Thom Disch is a gap in the critical market. Two or three articles, a PhD, but not much.

And where is my copy of that book by Clute? Uh, Strokes. I must have used it for something, and it didn't get put back. Later, found, on the shelf above my bed, spine turned in for extra invisibility.

I need to wrestle the early Extrapolations and JFAs into order. The office needs a major attack of tidying before the word is much older.

Oh look, two copies of The Black Angel, but I suspect each was a quid. Donate to Oxfam unless anyone here yells?

Resolutions Revisited

Well, it was my gaff, my rules, but...


( * Watch the rest of the Top 100 )

( * Read the Inspector Morse novels )

( * Watch my Hitchcock Boxsets )