Know What Would Be Great
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By Cecil King (Cecil George Charles King, 1881-1942) - Library and Archives Canada, Public Domain, Link
Rodney Sanches
2 August 2020
20 July 2020
Spicy Soup
This hot liquid is a sort of pho, ramen fusion and begins with scorching some sort of protein in sesame oil, water is in the kettle beside, boiling, while dried mushrooms, chilli flakes, soy sauce, sriracha sauce and maybe chipotle paste or umami sauce are added to the too hot pot. A sense of threat is required.
Something is included for crunch and is sliced and waiting to be added towards the end; celery, radish, something like that. Boiling water roars into the sticky mess, a package of ramen noodles tips in, maybe its dusty flavour packet too, if compatible. Sometimes an egg will make it in and it will need, right before serving, to be topped with burnt sesame seeds, Togarashi Seven Spice or seaweed flakes.
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12 June 2020
These Days
I have five things to do, that are too difficult to start. The more I think about them, they are all related and extend past me, but my current reflex is to hunker. When I feel like I have no spare time, forgetting the vancant silence of the morning, wrongness is my uncle.
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15 May 2020
Early One Morning
I have started to listen to the radio on my way home from the night shift. Radio 4 broadcasts the World Service over night and as they ease into regular chatter and news, the Shipping Forcast is presented. It is a good way ramp down to sleep and seed the mind for dreams of the sea.
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10 May 2020
Water Removed at What Cost?
The struggle to find a clothesline where one could be stationary and move wet clean cloth into the brisk air, was getting intense, but then, loe and behold, it was where I last saw it. The options reserved for the drying public on the United Kingdom, lack utility.
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