And then on Saturday, the 1st May, I went to Clapham Common to meet with ex-volunteers from the Sept-Dec expedition last year.
We went to a pub called the Windmill and it had a big beer garden, which basically means that you can sit outside on picnic tables and enjoy the sunshine and fresh air. Again, the sun was shining, but this time the wind was waging against the sun and it was cold. We moved to sit on the Common (sort of like a park) and then gave up and went back to the pub and indoors, but I managed to get a couple of pictures of us looking like we're having fun. (And we were!)
This was also the day that Osama bin Laden got killed, which I found out the next day. Mixed reactions inked the newspapers. Many praised the accomplishment, claiming the world to now be a safer place. I don't know if this was the best thing to happen, much of the world is still violent and ugly, but I can see how it feels like a satisfying blow against the Al-Qaeda. Yeah, take that ya bastards.
But on the next day people abruptly stopped laughing for fear of retaliation. The Al Qaeda is scary like that.
On Tuesday I cooked for R and her family as a gesture of thanks for letting me stay in their nice house and eat their food. And in just over 2 hours I came up with:
Egg fried rice with sweet and sour fish and stir-fried sugar snap peas with prawns. Also made a mushroom and corn egg drop soup. I was nervous at first, my dinner guests were well travelled and had had plenty of good food from around the world, you see. But dinner was marked with plenty of "Mmmm"s accompanied by widened eyes and then clean plates.
That night was definitely one of my highlights. It makes me want to cook for the world.
I'm afraid Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason has just come on TV and it's making me want to sign off!
Will be back with more updates, of course.
We went to a pub called the Windmill and it had a big beer garden, which basically means that you can sit outside on picnic tables and enjoy the sunshine and fresh air. Again, the sun was shining, but this time the wind was waging against the sun and it was cold. We moved to sit on the Common (sort of like a park) and then gave up and went back to the pub and indoors, but I managed to get a couple of pictures of us looking like we're having fun. (And we were!)
This was also the day that Osama bin Laden got killed, which I found out the next day. Mixed reactions inked the newspapers. Many praised the accomplishment, claiming the world to now be a safer place. I don't know if this was the best thing to happen, much of the world is still violent and ugly, but I can see how it feels like a satisfying blow against the Al-Qaeda. Yeah, take that ya bastards.
But on the next day people abruptly stopped laughing for fear of retaliation. The Al Qaeda is scary like that.
On Tuesday I cooked for R and her family as a gesture of thanks for letting me stay in their nice house and eat their food. And in just over 2 hours I came up with:
Egg fried rice with sweet and sour fish and stir-fried sugar snap peas with prawns. Also made a mushroom and corn egg drop soup. I was nervous at first, my dinner guests were well travelled and had had plenty of good food from around the world, you see. But dinner was marked with plenty of "Mmmm"s accompanied by widened eyes and then clean plates.
That night was definitely one of my highlights. It makes me want to cook for the world.
I'm afraid Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason has just come on TV and it's making me want to sign off!
Will be back with more updates, of course.
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