Whisky, clothes, a watch
chocolate and some other stuff.

Edit: I'd have liked a Private Eye subscription but I forgot to mention it
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 21:54, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

a good haul there!
Are you feeling better? How'd the christmas dinner turn out?
(berk, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 22:00, Reply)

Still feeling a bit feverish
but am better thanks! The Christmas dinner came out really well, everything was fine, nothing burnt and people enjoyed it. Had a good Christmas?
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 22:05, Reply)

not bad, although i've come down with a cold and am feeling a bit manky
It's been relatively quiet but what with doing 90% of the cooking i've been pretty busy. My beef wellington turned out extremely well though, and if you like pate I shall have to make you some of my chicken and mushroom one because it is fucking LUSH, better even than my duck and port one.
(berk, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 22:10, Reply)

Hope the cold clears up
and glad the cooking went so well. I will gladly hoover up any pate you make me, since I love the stuff and I'm sure you make it well!

Come Dine with Me is making me want to cook
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 22:16, Reply)

come dine with me
Is train crash tv at it's finest. The narrator in particular makes it for me, he's such a bitch. Clearly you can cook as you've made christmas dinner, do you enjoy it or just find it a chore?
(berk, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 22:25, Reply)

I got a tiny bit annoyed
because my dad kept wandering in and helping. Eventually we had harsh words over the right time to put the pigs in blankets in the oven. It wasn't enjoyable it was just something I did. I have no natural talent for cooking

My mother did note that it was the tidiest kitchen she had ever seen after a Christmas dinner was made. Everything got put away instantly or stacked in the dishwasher so I was pretty regimented.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 22:29, Reply)

i'm like that
But only because my kitchen is miniscule and if there's any amount of mess there's no actual room for cooking. And my mum and I were exactly the same as you and your dad, except about the roast potatoes. I hate it when people hover helpfully in the kitchen when i'm doing stuff.
(berk, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 22:36, Reply)

I just didn't want the mess at the end of it
I ceded to my dad on the issue since he can cook and I cannot
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 22:43, Reply)

but manifestly you CAN cook
I ended up banishing my mum, I could hear her impotently grumbling from the dining room, 'but it's my bloody kitchen'
(berk, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 22:48, Reply)

I can cook sort of
but it lacks flair and is pretty much just instructions followed
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 22:52, Reply)

flair comes with practice though.
And most people have to follow recipes at least vaguely.
(berk, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 22:54, Reply)

Does this mean you'll be off the Super-Noodles when you get back?
And you'll require no further, unsolicited, shopping and cooking suggestions from me?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 22:51, Reply)

I'll be on a diet
so no Supernoodles :( I still won't cook though it's such a boring activity
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 22:53, Reply)

How can you say that?

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 22:55, Reply)

It seems so pointless
making food that will be consumed in minutes. You might as well just eat what you need. It's such a transitory enjoyment
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 22:57, Reply)

you're essentially saying you'd rather live off astronaut food?
But both cooking and eating are such sensory pleasures, yeah I could just have pasta and sometimes that's all I can be arsed to do, but the sight, the taste, the texture, the smell of what you're making and eating beats necking vitamin pills any day of the week.
(berk, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 23:03, Reply)

I did use to want to be an astronaut
however this thread probably explains why I'm fat
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 23:33, Reply)

gonna side with you on this one
cooking is so very very boring
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 23:04, Reply)

No it isn't.
I once had a a tin of exploding alphabetti-spaghetti.

That could have spelt 'DISASTER'
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 23:14, Reply)

*groan*

(berk, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 23:17, Reply)

g M

+With pun based pleasure.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 23:18, Reply)

it's been a while, like
But even so, it'd take considerably more than a pun..
(berk, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 23:28, Reply)

Whatever!

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 23:29, Reply)

don't you 'whatever' me, you big tease.

(berk, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 23:34, Reply)

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 23:22, Reply)

Is that one of your photos?

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 23:23, Reply)

yeah
it's a rough idea for something I was doing. Also explains why I had turkey dinosaurs for tea the other day
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 23:24, Reply)

Sorry. I thought you were doing tourist information photos for
Italy....
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 23:29, Reply)

eh?

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 23:31, Reply)

The Dino looks like a slightly quiffy Italy.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 23:32, Reply)

if you squint a bit maybe?

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 23:35, Reply)

Or with a bite taken out of one side.
One of my lecturers describes Britain as looking like "a man sat on a pig". I can't see that, personally.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 23:36, Reply)

How can you possibly not see it?
Wales is the pigs head, East Anglia it's arse. Cornwall its front legs, Kent it's back legs. The North is the man's body, the borrom of Scotland his head and the top bit his hat.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 23:42, Reply)

yeah yeah
Any excuse
(berk, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 23:29, Reply)

they were surprisingly nice

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 23:34, Reply)

You could do a comic strip
of photographs of turkey dinosaurs telling short jokes to each other in alphabetti spaghetti.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 23:29, Reply)

yeah, I thought of that
but it takes some time. My favourite one is the one with "Ceci n'est pas une dinosaur". There's one with a dinosaur on a bicycle made of crisps drinking a milk bottle sweet. Really, though I need a mini studio to do these properly. And more alphabeti spaghetti
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 23:33, Reply)

Ah, one of the foods I've never eaten.
Still think there's about 30 kilos of smilie faces in my London freezer though.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 23:31, Reply)

I went round morrisons buying things
shaped like other things for this idea/project thing

now there is no room in the freezer for real food :(
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 23:34, Reply)

Just casting my eyes around my room, I can see
sugar and evil in the shape of cola bottles, and an instrument of torture disguised as a pair of 5 inch high heels.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 23:35, Reply)

hahahaha

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 23:37, Reply)

The shoes are fuckin' sexy though.

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 23:38, Reply)

You lost me after the 'cola bottles'

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 23:44, Reply)

You had me at "lost"

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 23:44, Reply)

speaking of which, is it wrong to buy a very beautiful pair of shoes
Which cost £60 I don't have, cannot afford and will very rarely if ever wear, purely on the basis of them being a work of art?
(berk, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 23:51, Reply)

Linky.
If not, describe. I will then evaluate.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 23:53, Reply)

can't link as i'm on my phone
But if you go to the topshop website, they're called jenna and they're scarlet suede.
(berk, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 23:54, Reply)

Get 'em.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 23:57, Reply)

Hmm, Topshop shoes are good...
Oooh, they are nice. Look comfy, too. Consider it, at least!
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 23:57, Reply)

i'm not a big shoe fanatic but they're so so pretty
I'll have to find a store that has them and try them on at least.
(berk, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 0:03, Reply)

Just looked at the Office sale
BIG MISTAKE.

Try them on, at least.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 0:06, Reply)

see, a lot of office stuff
Is very very pretty, but completely impractical for me. This is pretty much the only thing that keeps me from spending a lot of money there.
(berk, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 0:08, Reply)

Why are they impractical?
I used to wear heels the whole time, got out of the habit now so my feet kill any time I have to. Live pretty much in Docs now.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 0:13, Reply)

I have almost no occasion to ever wear any other shoes than trainers
And I can't really walk in heels. At least, if they're higher than 3 inches.
(berk, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 0:15, Reply)

They do lovely flats, too, though.

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 0:17, Reply)

still not as practical as trainers or converse
Given that I cycle in to work and constantly wear scruffy, baggy jeans though.
(berk, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 0:19, Reply)

You have an excellent point.
I exclusively wear dresses or skirts, so trainers would just look odd.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 0:26, Reply)

I'd probably buy them
but I'm a fool
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 0:05, Reply)

to be fair, if I was getting my next student loan installments
In a fortnight, I almost certainly would! As it is, i'll have to see how much pocket money my other nana gives me when I visit tomorrow.
(berk, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 0:11, Reply)

Haha I have no money
I am poor
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 0:19, Reply)

^ this
I just don't understand that. But then I love cooking..
(berk, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 22:58, Reply)