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An Update From Plague Island
Sep. 26th, 2021 10:04 pmI was delighted to see the great British public responding to calls not to panic buy food or fuel with the calmness, restraint, and sense of perspective for which we are known. I jest, of course. Everyone has gone bugfuck crazy. It is hard to blame people, as Boris Johnson saying that he has the situation completely under control and there's no need to worry would be enough to have even the denizens of sensible nation reaching for their zombie killin' crossbows.
The thing about panic buying, of course, is that if you're in a position to kvetch about it first hand then you were also out there panic buying. Then again, given that the sum total of my shop was celeriac, kimchi, gochujang, and curry leaves that might just have been the most middle class panic shop in the history of the world. I also forgot eggs and bananas, which was what I'd originally gone out for.
I have been keeping up this cooking as a hobby thing, and have branched out into a teeny bit of baking. I actually spent this evening making a lemon drizzle cake for a friend's birthday - and not so long ago, coming from me, 'I'm baking a cake for your birthday' would have been more of a threat than a promise. I can now bake two (2) different cakes. One is that lemon drizzle cake, the other is a banana, peanut, chocolate lava cake that happened when I was trying to make banana bread and it went terribly, wonderfully awry. I know some of you guys are bakers, so if anyone has a super easy cake recipe for someone who doesn't have a stand mixer and whose scales are only kinda, sorta accurate I'd love to hear them?
I don't want to make a big thing about this, but I've been having a bit of a tough time with coming out of lockdown. I don't want to harsh my friends joy, because they're so happy to be getting back to normal, and that's wonderful...but I'm not good at normal life, I don't know how to do it, and I don't know how not to be scared and anxious all the time. Which is fine, lots of people feel this way, and we'll all have to handle re-entry at our own pace. But one of the ways that my anxiety has been manifesting has been drinking too much, so I'm going to do Sober October, which I'm mentioning really just so that I've said it somewhere to better hold myself to it.
Anyway, how are you? What's it like living in countries that haven't just applied economic sanctions to themselves for no reason?
The thing about panic buying, of course, is that if you're in a position to kvetch about it first hand then you were also out there panic buying. Then again, given that the sum total of my shop was celeriac, kimchi, gochujang, and curry leaves that might just have been the most middle class panic shop in the history of the world. I also forgot eggs and bananas, which was what I'd originally gone out for.
I have been keeping up this cooking as a hobby thing, and have branched out into a teeny bit of baking. I actually spent this evening making a lemon drizzle cake for a friend's birthday - and not so long ago, coming from me, 'I'm baking a cake for your birthday' would have been more of a threat than a promise. I can now bake two (2) different cakes. One is that lemon drizzle cake, the other is a banana, peanut, chocolate lava cake that happened when I was trying to make banana bread and it went terribly, wonderfully awry. I know some of you guys are bakers, so if anyone has a super easy cake recipe for someone who doesn't have a stand mixer and whose scales are only kinda, sorta accurate I'd love to hear them?
I don't want to make a big thing about this, but I've been having a bit of a tough time with coming out of lockdown. I don't want to harsh my friends joy, because they're so happy to be getting back to normal, and that's wonderful...but I'm not good at normal life, I don't know how to do it, and I don't know how not to be scared and anxious all the time. Which is fine, lots of people feel this way, and we'll all have to handle re-entry at our own pace. But one of the ways that my anxiety has been manifesting has been drinking too much, so I'm going to do Sober October, which I'm mentioning really just so that I've said it somewhere to better hold myself to it.
Anyway, how are you? What's it like living in countries that haven't just applied economic sanctions to themselves for no reason?