gominokouhai (![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small} gominokouhai) wrote,@ 2010-09-05 10:58 pm UTC |
| Entry tags: | edinburgh, food, incredibly obscure reference, local, personal life, photos, work, you had to be there |
This is the view from the Library at work:
This is the view on my way home:
I love this city.
Also! Now I've worked out how to get photos off this dog-awful phone camera[0] (I've only had it since 2008), a selection of other daguerrotypes are presented for your edification below the cut. Most of these were sent as text messages at some point.
The view from the same Library, but looking in the other direction.
Hogmanay last year
Amazing what you find in the gutter sometimes. Loved this. The oil was moving across the leaf and the patterns were changing all the time. Disappointed I didn't have a proper camera handy.
Vodka Martini constructed according to James Bond's exacting recipe, as specified in Casino Royale. It's pink. James Bond is, apparently, a big pansy.
(Or maybe I should be using Lillet Blanc, but Ian bloody Fleming never tells you that.)
Now this is more like it. The perfected sazerac.
I hate what the flash is doing to my hand here. I look like Lieutenant Commander Data.
I spotted the deliberate mistake in Tescos. The staff were less than gruntled, and wouldn't tell me what I'd won.
Mull on Christmas day. My proper camera battery had died again, but this was one of those shots I just had to take.
Once I'd got the hang of the austerity drive, I went through a phase of showin' off my excellent dinners to stormsearch. Here we have Hoad in the Tole and... carrots, for some reason. In the background there appears to be another batch of Yorkshire pudding batter. Perhaps I was experimenting.
Lamb and fennel dumplings (guo zie, I think) with egg fried rice
A ‘making of’ shot. Dumplings being steamed, egg fried rice being egg-fried, and two different types of experimental bread (Bovril and Marmite, as I recall). Also at the back left you can see how far I got into that bottle of Kina Lillet before giving up.
Steaaak, homemade chips and mushrooms. All from the vegbox except the steak, which was on Tescos' reduced shelf. Austerity drives: not all that bad.
Hoad in the Tole with roast mixed vegetables. I must still be experimenting with the batter recipe. This one's a bit puffy. Tasted good, though.
Sunset from work—the opposite side of the building to that which the fireworks come from.
Tattie scones in their natural habitat. Look at those eggs.
Hungry now.
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[0] Plug in the cable thingy, and penelope instantly pops up with a window telling me I've plugged in a medium with digital photos, and offers me a selection of various free photo-manipulation software packages I didn't know I had. Huh. That was straightforward. I love Ubuntu.