Posts by Chris Waugh
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Hard News: My Food Bag: is it any good?, in reply to Islander,
Not eat Whittaker’s choc or
Oh surely not! I'm heart broken! That's my favouritest chocolate, especially considering I rely on care packages from my mum to get any.
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Islander,
Dont cars look kinda creepy under snow?
More frustrating than creepy. Gotta get the snow off before it freezes solid (not a problem this time, but December through to February its essential), and then when it thaws it leaves the car filthy - dusty climate + air pollution + precipitation = endless appreciation for my local carwash and its water blaster.
S'pose I could try and revive the spring thread. This was an especially welcome sight considering my neighbour two floors down was found dead last night. Didn't know him well, but did share a beer and a chat on a few occasions, interesting bloke, big heart. 55 is kinda young.
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Cos snow here this time of year is about as incongruous as your drought-not-breaking raindrops. 9am and it was already melting that fast....
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WTF? Central Wellington in this day and age?
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Crazy weather up here. Bad smog chased away by a sandstorm two weeks ago, raining mud last Tuesday, Sunday and Monday it was nice and warm, then a big snow last night. When she got up my wee one couldn't stop saying "xià dà xuě le" (big snow fell) or "xià bái xuě le" (white snow fell) - yes, at this stage her Chinese is much better than her English.
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Hard News: My Food Bag: is it any good?, in reply to BenWilson,
I bought a can to celebrate the first piece of software going live. That shit was narrsty.
It's surprisingly good in a Sichuan- or Chongqing-style hotpot, especially in a super-spicy broth. As is frozen tofu, though with that you've got to be careful. When you freeze tofu it turns into a kind of sponge. When you pick a piece of it out of a hotpot, you have to squeeze it out, lest you also get a mouthful of 100 degree hotpot broth.
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Norwester, but even so, getting warm enough for mass Tai Chi lessons on the square outside the library.
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Up Front: Card on the Table, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I'd be planning a coup to install a junta of market researchers.
Geez.... Here I was thinking the American mediocrely dubbed into Chinese wild-animal-attacks-people pron I had to sit through while waiting for dinner at a local restaurant was going to give me enough nightmares. Thank you, Mr Ranapia.
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Nowhere near as exciting as the fireworks, and it's still very early spring, but whatever...
Village market, 西五里营/Xīwǔlǐyíng.
The village 秧歌/yāngge troupe was out. That's my wife and wee one on the right. As soon as she hears that yāngge she starts dancing (the verb in this case is 扭秧歌/niǔ yāngge. Niǔ means twist or turn).
The wee one joined in the dancing.
