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Holy crap, no blogging for a couple of days and Hunter S. Thompson goes and kills himself! Okay, 1st things 1st and a belated happy birthday to Catherine. I hope that Clyde's was a ton of fun.
Not much blogging for the next little while, I suspect - We're getting back to life in the UK & Elisabeth doesn't have much interest in writing anything about the Paris trip, claiming that I sad it all. Consider this a call to start nagging her to post something.
So what did we do over the weekend you ask? Well, Friday night we had a very nice dinner with one of Elisabeth's co-workers & Saturday found us grotty from a late night out so we went to the mall and ate mall bagels and fake-shopped except that I ended up buying a tie so it wasn't fake at all.
On Sunday I woke and realized that Elisabeth had been quite crafty the night before & took advantage of my weakness for cider by getting me to agree, while I was enjoying the sweet, sweet apple nectar, to go out for a traditional English breakfast. 10 pounds later, having consumed one oily egg & some runny beans in tomato sauce, she learned why I tend to avoid this branch of European cuisine. Good coffee, though. We'll go back for that.
Other than that, Elisabeth caught up on her correspondances this weekend & I filled out job applications that are so obscenely obtuse, most people probably wouldn't beleive, for example, that to apply for a job that's really just a combination of date entry & schlepping boxes around, I've got to write a paragraph on examples of my skills & experience in: (1)Teamworking, (2)Leadership, (3)Building relationships, (4)Communicating, (5)Delivering a quality service, (6) Developing and applying expertise, (7) Thinking and decision making, plus (8)Additional information and 4(!!!) references; 2 character related and 2 work related. The only god thing about the application is that it came in an envelope stamped "On Her Majesty's Service."
...Must find work...
Bonus Monday morning filo recipe:
1 fried onion, 1 big package of spinache(blanched), ricotta cheese, feta cheese, grated jarlsberg cheese all wrapped in 5 layers of filo, each brushed with melted butter & cooked at 375 for 30 minutes.
Marmalades may get sent out this week.