Saturday, January 30, 2010

Blessing or curse...

Playlist
Ayreon – Into the Electric Castle
Various – Gym MP3s
Steve Reich – Phases Disc 1
Various – A History of Jazz 1959-2003 Disc 1
John Adams –A Short Ride in a Fast Machine
The Hampton Quartet – What if Mozart Wrote “Roll Over Beethoven”?
Various Composers – Out of Russia
Various Composers – Classical Chill
Debussy – String Quartet in G Minor
Ravel – String Quartet in F

Up around seven and continued with the listing – nearly there now...

To the Gym around 9:30 for an hour...

I had created a playlist of 5 minute songs to help me get through it...

When I’m at the computer, time just disappears without my noticing but, in the gym, time drags like a very draggy thing which has got its claws into a big piece of purchase giving stuff and refuses to allow itself to be pulled into the future...

Back home for breakfast and updated this, then, more listing...

We had toyed with the idea of heading to Dunfermline to see Queen of the South play but this was scuppered by (a) Anne being too ill to leave the house and (b) the game being postponed due to a frozen pitch...

So, more listing...

Then, shopping for the ingredients for this weekend’s culinary experiment,
Jambalaya...







Very tasty and yet another success – and, to cheer Anne up, it was followed by a cheeky wee chocolate banana mousse a la three weeks ago...

My fourth dish already – see? Time flies except when you’re in the gym...

As Anne lay on the sofa, coughing and spluttering, we were entertained by this week’s “Glee” on tape, followed by the very interesting “The Virtual Revolution”, on the origins and future of the internet...



The main man in the collage above is the "inventor" of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee...

Also entertaining, for Meg the Black Cat too, was “Match of the Day”...



Highlight of the Day : Cooking...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I know, It's weird commenting old post but I'm curious about that book, cos the food looks really delicious ..Could you please tell me the name of that book? Thank you !

Cloudland Blue Quartet said...

Hi - no problem - just glad someone's actually taking an interest!!

The book is by Anne Sheasby and is called "Low Fat Fat Free 400 Best Ever Recipes", published by Hermes House, an imprint of Anness Publishing Ltd (c)1997 and 2009 - previously published as "Low Fat Low Cholestorol"...

There are two ISBN's on the back cover:-

ISBN-13:978-1-84309-544-6 and
ISBN-10:1-84309-544-0
and it was printed in China

I've had a look on the website (www.hermeshouse.com)and it doesn't seem to be available any longer but I think if you enlarge the pic on the blog entry, you should have the recipe for the Jambalaya at least...

Cheers