Nadine_2's New Writeups

September 1, 2009 (personal)

2009-09-01T07:04:42Z

Thankyou for the /msgs of support all. /huggles to you.

August 27, 2009 (event)

2009-08-27T19:59:22Z

I'm sat here at work, pondering.

I'm staring at a box.

I'm staring at this small box so intently that it's taken some of the customers here a few moments to attract my attention.

I would, if I may, like to describe this box to you.

It is not much of a box to look at, for there are many finer boxes in this land, more worthy of such rapt attention.

It is roughly an inch squared, and a deep blue-purple.
It is, by all accounts, not much of a looker.
It wouldn't, for example, get many wolf-whistles from builders as it walked down the street, clacking in black high-heels and laden with carrier bags.
Nor would it attract the lecherous stares from the dirty old man next door. But to me, it is the most important thing in the world right now.

Surely, you must be thinking, what is contained in this box, that warrants a portion of the nodegel devoted to it?

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July 12, 2009 (poetry)

2009-07-12T19:58:17Z

"Dan..."
"Hmmm"
"This had better be more to you than a one-night stand"
Her bare breasts were resting on my chest, our hearts beating fast; a steady beat that both soothing and exciting all at once
I knew at that moment how much she meant to me, my head finally realizing what my heart had known for months
I leaned in, a kiss, a whisper.

"It does"

July 2, 2009 (log)

2009-07-02T20:01:35Z

The last week for me has been a total bloody nightmare. Everything possible has seemed to go wrong, no matter how hard I've tried to make a reasonable shambles of it.

One of the guests who was staying a few days ago rang the head officeand complained of food poisoning, allegedly from the food that came from my kitchen. This is, excuse my language, complete and utter bollocks. Not only do I probe every single item of food that leaves the kitchen, but not one other person who also ate here felt any sort of bug, infection, or general illness of any sort after eating the shame meal. But still, the head of the food and beverage department has seen fit to place me on 'holiday' until it's been 'investigated' fully.

Personally, I think the guy got sunstroke...

On the upside, I has given me lots of free time to perfect my vegan burger recipe...

2) My…

June 18, 2009 (person)

2009-06-18T09:59:45Z

J
This is for you.
Thankyou.

Glancing around furtively, she proceeded along the corridor, pausing briefly to listen intently for the sounds of her pursuers. Her escape from the cell had been detected within minutes, and the guards were hot on her heels, but those few minutes had given her a reasonable head start on her captors. However, she was already lost in the network of tunnels that riddled the lower levels of the castle. In her desperation, she had resorted to choosing passageways at random in the hope that she might be able to find her way out to the higher levels by luck alone.

Ten minutes later, she was still hopelessly lost. She thought she had shaken off the guards, but the tunnel walls kept hiving her a false sense of distance, and she had nearly ran into one group, barely escaping their clutches. Years of malnutrition and lack of exercise cooped in her cell had reduced her fitness levels, and she was beginning to flag…

Lentil Kiev (recipe)

2009-06-17T10:47:15Z

A good way to tell how often I use a particular recipe is to look how dirty that particular page is. For example, the tarragon chicken recipe in Nigel Slater's Appetite is covered with fat that has sprayed out of the pan onto the page. The same is true of the following recipe, a slight variation from my mother's recipe book she compiled during her vegetarian days back-packing around the world. I quite regularly plunder it for recipes, especially as I'm weaning myself off meat in time for university, when meat will be something that happens to everyone else.
I've been cooking this dish since I was twelve, and it is still without a doubt my favourite comfort food; so much so I nearly always have at least three portions at any one time in the freezer, for those days when it all gets too much to deal with.
The end result is similar to the Kiev's bought frozen from your local supermarket, but shaped slightly like a scotch egg. I usually have mine with…