Lo-fi songs are great
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ventaAs several people who read this could testify, one of my favouritest things in the world is miso soup. However, attempts to make it at home have failed utterly. One can buy packets of 'instant miso' or 'miso paste', which produce watery, bland, salty ick which does not really resemble my idea of miso soup at all.
So: what do I do ? I dare say the answer lies in the oriental supermarket near the station, but that place daunts me a little.
And on a related note, I did try using a packet of miso paste to make a base for some ramen this evening. Noodles, and vegetables and prawns and stuff, and some soup to slosh it about in. While I wouldn't describe it as an unqualified cooking disaster, it certainly wasn't all that nice.
Anyone want to offer me some handy advice, or recipes they can vouch for ? I'm wondering whether I want rice noodles rather than egg noodles, for a start - they certainly didn't seem to taste at all right.
Don't say I didn't warn you: this bit really isn't very interesting.
After the cooking, I fell over a pile of CDs into my room. Again. Desperation set in, and I worked out a way to fit another CD tower in my room - found one that would be ideal in Argos. 7:30pm - just time to get to Botley Rd and sort it all out before closing at 8. Checked the online map on Argos's site just to make sure I knew where it was: just past Abbey Rd.
Vrooom, to Botley Rd. Now, it turns out Abbey Rd is just past the station, where The White House is. And where a large thing like an Argos definitely isn't. So, I keep driving up Botley Rd, peering about, until i reach the ring road. Not so much as a hint of an Argos.
I pull over, get the store's number from directory enquiries. They don't answer.
Decide I must be mad, and drive back to Abbey Rd. Nope, there really isn't an Argos there. Sod 'em, I'll go to MFI.
MFI is large, deserted, and I wander undisturbed by staff (or, sadly, CD racks) through a barn-like spread of bathroom, bedroom, and study. Eventually, leaving, someone asks if they can help. No, they don't stock CD racks; Argos would. I explain. They give me directions - apprently it's behind Wickes.
Wickes is clearly signed. Behind it is a large, fenced off area full of empty boxes and cack. Then some trees. Despairing, I drive out past the entrance to Comet, and eventually locate, far beyond, in an unlit, dead-end of carpark: Argos!
Of course, it's now past 8, and the bloody thing's shut. It isn't visible from the road - there are buildings in the way - and there are no signs for it. Presumably most of their trade is from passing psychics.
No CD tower for me :( That's not a problem, really, I'll get one another time. The annoying thing is that the whole thing would have been avoidable if they'd put a correct map online, or bothered to put bloody signs up.
I came home and wrote their customer services a stroppy letter. And I grumbled to Frances when she came in (making sure I stood between her and the door, so she had to listen to the whole story). And now I've ranted here, so perhaps I've now got it all out of my system and no one else will have to listen to the sorry tale tomorrow :)
So: what do I do ? I dare say the answer lies in the oriental supermarket near the station, but that place daunts me a little.
And on a related note, I did try using a packet of miso paste to make a base for some ramen this evening. Noodles, and vegetables and prawns and stuff, and some soup to slosh it about in. While I wouldn't describe it as an unqualified cooking disaster, it certainly wasn't all that nice.
Anyone want to offer me some handy advice, or recipes they can vouch for ? I'm wondering whether I want rice noodles rather than egg noodles, for a start - they certainly didn't seem to taste at all right.
Don't say I didn't warn you: this bit really isn't very interesting.
After the cooking, I fell over a pile of CDs into my room. Again. Desperation set in, and I worked out a way to fit another CD tower in my room - found one that would be ideal in Argos. 7:30pm - just time to get to Botley Rd and sort it all out before closing at 8. Checked the online map on Argos's site just to make sure I knew where it was: just past Abbey Rd.
Vrooom, to Botley Rd. Now, it turns out Abbey Rd is just past the station, where The White House is. And where a large thing like an Argos definitely isn't. So, I keep driving up Botley Rd, peering about, until i reach the ring road. Not so much as a hint of an Argos.
I pull over, get the store's number from directory enquiries. They don't answer.
Decide I must be mad, and drive back to Abbey Rd. Nope, there really isn't an Argos there. Sod 'em, I'll go to MFI.
MFI is large, deserted, and I wander undisturbed by staff (or, sadly, CD racks) through a barn-like spread of bathroom, bedroom, and study. Eventually, leaving, someone asks if they can help. No, they don't stock CD racks; Argos would. I explain. They give me directions - apprently it's behind Wickes.
Wickes is clearly signed. Behind it is a large, fenced off area full of empty boxes and cack. Then some trees. Despairing, I drive out past the entrance to Comet, and eventually locate, far beyond, in an unlit, dead-end of carpark: Argos!
Of course, it's now past 8, and the bloody thing's shut. It isn't visible from the road - there are buildings in the way - and there are no signs for it. Presumably most of their trade is from passing psychics.
No CD tower for me :( That's not a problem, really, I'll get one another time. The annoying thing is that the whole thing would have been avoidable if they'd put a correct map online, or bothered to put bloody signs up.
I came home and wrote their customer services a stroppy letter. And I grumbled to Frances when she came in (making sure I stood between her and the door, so she had to listen to the whole story). And now I've ranted here, so perhaps I've now got it all out of my system and no one else will have to listen to the sorry tale tomorrow :)
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