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quinaraI came back to uni on the train today, which was an interesting experience, but mainly an exercise in working out how many bags etc. I could attach to myself and remain mobile. The total was one hiking rucksack (full of clothes and sundries), one laptop (in satchel-case), one viola (in case), one mini wheelie suitcase (containing a large handbag, folder, extension lead and sundry plugs) and one bag full of books (balanced on the wheelie suitcase). Not too shabby, I think.
Sainsbury's was a trove of delights as usual - they're peddling these ready meals that I think are supposed to be slightly more 'real' (about 50p more and they come in a round see-through plastic tray), so I got a 'Meatballs with chargrillled pepper and tomato sauce' pasta one as a treat. It's OK, but I had to add a load of chilli powder because the 'mildly spiced' tomato sauce measured about a 0.1 on the spicy scale. The meatballs are good. Tropicana also has two new flavours - Orange & Lime and Orange & Passionfruit, both of which, being orange-based, are 60p cheaper than the non-orange-based juices (until now Apple, Pear & Passionfruit was a favourite). So that's a win. I've opened the Orange & Lime and the lime isn't really coming out, though what it does taste like is actually biting into an orange and going through the pith to get to the juice, which is nice. And 6 packs of Coke are on 2 for £4! Hooray!
Due to Christmas and the sales I am now in possession of two shiny new bags - one, the aforementioned handbag, is sort of like a bowling bag with shoulder straps in floral leather (maybe florals are going out - Topshop seems to be doing floral printed jeans now and I believe these may well be the straw that breaks the camel's back - but I don't care) and one a big envelopey evening bag, also leather, with sepia newspaper print (I loves newspaper print). I also have a cropped motorbike jacket made out of BLACK VELOUR!! (Though this is still at home, alas.) Now I can pretend to be in the Ramones without trying and failing to pull off an actual leather motorbike jacket. Yay!
And I have to say that the more I watch the RSC film production of Hamlet (heh, my mum had got me the DVD as a surprise present, but had to tell me about it because I tried to give her the money and have her order it on her Amazon Prime account...) the more I really, really like it. It's not the stage version, but it has this wonderful sense of space around an actually quite intimate set, and the rhythm is still pretty much note-perfect. *basks* (Have yet to manage the whole thing in one go though. Three hours without an ersatz interval of Merry and Pippin wandering about is long.)
Sainsbury's was a trove of delights as usual - they're peddling these ready meals that I think are supposed to be slightly more 'real' (about 50p more and they come in a round see-through plastic tray), so I got a 'Meatballs with chargrillled pepper and tomato sauce' pasta one as a treat. It's OK, but I had to add a load of chilli powder because the 'mildly spiced' tomato sauce measured about a 0.1 on the spicy scale. The meatballs are good. Tropicana also has two new flavours - Orange & Lime and Orange & Passionfruit, both of which, being orange-based, are 60p cheaper than the non-orange-based juices (until now Apple, Pear & Passionfruit was a favourite). So that's a win. I've opened the Orange & Lime and the lime isn't really coming out, though what it does taste like is actually biting into an orange and going through the pith to get to the juice, which is nice. And 6 packs of Coke are on 2 for £4! Hooray!
Due to Christmas and the sales I am now in possession of two shiny new bags - one, the aforementioned handbag, is sort of like a bowling bag with shoulder straps in floral leather (maybe florals are going out - Topshop seems to be doing floral printed jeans now and I believe these may well be the straw that breaks the camel's back - but I don't care) and one a big envelopey evening bag, also leather, with sepia newspaper print (I loves newspaper print). I also have a cropped motorbike jacket made out of BLACK VELOUR!! (Though this is still at home, alas.) Now I can pretend to be in the Ramones without trying and failing to pull off an actual leather motorbike jacket. Yay!
And I have to say that the more I watch the RSC film production of Hamlet (heh, my mum had got me the DVD as a surprise present, but had to tell me about it because I tried to give her the money and have her order it on her Amazon Prime account...) the more I really, really like it. It's not the stage version, but it has this wonderful sense of space around an actually quite intimate set, and the rhythm is still pretty much note-perfect. *basks* (Have yet to manage the whole thing in one go though. Three hours without an ersatz interval of Merry and Pippin wandering about is long.)