Working The Weekend

Posted on 2009/01/25 20:07:52 (January 2009).

[Sunday 25th January]
Spent most of the day at home working, again trying to get on top of the current crisis in my project at work. It became increasingly clear what a hot topic it was as just about every high up person involved in the project sent email about it at some point this weekend.

Fortunately Chie had already made plans to go and see a friend in the afternoon, so she didn't have to spend the whole day stuck indoors.

Around 5:30 I decided to pop out to do some shopping, having realised there were a couple of "local" supermarkets that would still be open. I ended up popping into the office on the way to do a bit more work though. I just couldn't seem to take my mind off it this weekend. I did manage to tear myself away from it after a bit an hour-and-a-half, and eventually got to the supermarket to buy a cabbage.

We used the leftover mashed potato and swede from Friday to make bubble and squeak, to which I also added some baked portabella mushrooms with cheese (which were rather nice) and some strange vegetarian sausages we'd picked up in Whole Foods Market (which weren't very nice).

Managed to avoid the temptation to do more work for the remainder of the evening, instead spending the time updating my blog and watching a program on BBC Four about Robert Burns.

Hi John...
What do you and Chie use to grill your okonomiyake on?
I can't find anywhere in UK that sells the the type of table top electric hot plate Miyuki uses in Japan..
I'm guessing you just use a frying pan or grill plate in the kitchen instead?

Posted by Jerry at 2009/01/28 21:15:30.

Yea we just use a frying pan.

I have seen those okonomiyaki hotplate things a couple of times in the UK but I think they've always been brought from Japan, and are therefore usually connected up to a big scary looking transformer!

Posted by John at 2009/01/29 07:43:41.

Ha ha.. Thanks John..
Yes.. being and electrician, I do actually have a couple of said 100V "trannies"..
I don't really fancy having one of those humming away atop my home made kotatsu!

Posted by Jerry at 2009/01/30 22:31:56.

Post a comment