blog double whammied by japan..
Oh my god. I’m finally able to get back and use my blog.. I’ve been out of action for two completely seperate reasons - both of which the blame rests firmly at the door of Japan.
The first reason is that the fifth and last ever Sony Vaio that i will ever buy - totalled itself. Again. I am now on my 3rd hard drive this year as this Vaio attempts to beat my last one to claim the coveted “Shortest Life Span of any PC owned by Me Award”. I thought that last years Vaio that managed to stop working completely after just a year was a temporary blip but it looks like it is the continuation of a downward spiral in build quality that has this time resulted in me losing all my data twice in just over 6 months. Anyway - it has took me ages to get every thing back on its feet. It wouldn’t have taken so long if it were not for Japan dealing a much kinder but never the less devastating blow to my blogductivity. I will tell you more later in this post.
First the soup. Oddly enough it was whilst editing this short video that my laptop bluescreened and welcomed me back with the now familiar message “Operating system not found”…
As explained in my last post - I took Unazukin to our local Asda and then into the tinned food isle. I allowed her free reign to pick 5 ingredients with which to create an entirely original soup to be named in her honour. Below follows a ground breaking recipe that is set to change the way that the world looks at cuisine.
Unazukin soup
1 tin Marrowfat peas
1 tin peaches (in syrup)
1 tin mushrooms (creamed)
1 tin Tellytubby spaghetti (Thomas the Tank engine will do if you can’t get Tellytubby)
Sardines (tinned)
2 tsp chopped parsley
Place the ingredients into a pan, stir and then blitz with a hand mixer. Heat gently until it starts to boil and remove from heat. Ladle into bowl. Sprinkle chopped parsley. Enjoy.
The video recipe can be seen here.
Why doesn’t it show me eating it? Because it stank. I was retching as I was stirring it and the noxious scent wafted from out of the pan. I had planned on eating it but it really made me gag.. Sorry. But I’m no stuntman.
Anyway - the second reason that Japan has been lowering my productivity on all things blog based? I’ve just spend the last few weeks there. I received a mail from an Unazukin obsessive who claimed to have an Unazukin themed bar and invited me to come and stay. It seemed like a bit of an oddly generous thing to do but then who knows maybe she asked her Unazukin (probably as the option that she didnt want to take) and it told her to do it. Some sort of bizarre universal Unazukin conciousness, that I have aluded to before, is what probably told my Una to advise me to accept..
November 14th, 2006 at 2:40 pm
Hi there,
I was very pleased to see that your blog is back up and running. And what a corker, great video which had me in stitches, well inbetween holding back the most almighty wretch. However it seemed that I had been slapped in the face with a balloon filled with the aforementioned soup when, having teased us with the fact you had been to Japan, apparently on someone else’s expense (something all of us love to hear about), you then proceeded to inform us of nothing. I desperately looked for the “Next Page” button, but alas, I was left with a hot broth of sticky sardines and tellytubby bubbling on my face.
What happened?
Leo