Small Life Hack

If you don't like the flavour of instant noodles or you feel like they're too salty, you can buy plain instant noodle nests and cuppa soup sachets. They come in a powder form. They also don't take much space in your cupboard. 

You have more choice of flavours and the price is less when you buy plain instant noodles and flavour sachets separately. 

You can get 5 sachets, that is 5 meals, and mix it with plain instant noodles nests. You can add real vegetables and small pastries and still get change from £1 for each meal. You would want to steam the vegetables separately in the microwave or in an clay pot in the oven though. 

I wonder if it would work with pasta? Can you cook pasta with dehydrated soup?

Greg Wallace

Recently for the last 3 days, the news a incessantly ranted about suspected inappropriate behaviour from presenter Greg Wallace. I don't watch master chef, it's not my cup of tea, excuse the pun. I just can't understand why it dominated the news so much. Do they know that NASA has recently discovered a hot Neptune type planet called TOI-3261 b, why aren't they mentioning things like that more often. It's like they want everyone to feel angry. 

Some people are going to be annoyed because they think he is just joking and trying to cheer everyone up. 

Others will think he is a creep that doesn't respect women. Both groups will feel angry. I think that is what the news crews want. They want everyone to have their own strong opinion and feel angry. Anger motivates people more than joy. 

Is this all a distraction? Is that what they want? Are they really trying to inform us? 

I don't know. 

What November 2024 Means To Me

This November I was acutely aware that my fellow Brits are becoming ignorant of their own culture and customs. It is something  we should be worried about in my view. Perhaps one day people will say we don't have a culture or customs that are unique to us. Some Brits even think the Christmas tree is an ancient pagan custom; they don't know that Queen victoria started putting trees in her palace to remind her of summer and the country copied her in the 1800s. Not ancient and not pagan. 

Every 5th of November at the nearest weekend, we celebrate Guy Fawkes. A lot of people in my country don't know it is a celebration of a cancelled civil war. In 1605 some Catholic activists tried to blow up King James, if they were successful, the whole country would have been dragged into a sectarian civil war. King James translated the Christian Bible from latin to English, they called it the King James Bible. I prefer the New King James Version, they changed the medieval pronouns to modern ones, it's a bit easier to read. On guy Fawkes we make a fire and set off fireworks, we eat snacks and drinks. Sometimes we throw a mannequin of Guy Fawkes into the fire. Other times we go to a professional fireworks display. 

Roughly in the middle of the month I had a very painful leg injury. I strained my Fibula bone, a bone I never knew existed. I thought the shin was one bone but it is actually two bones, tibula and fibula; the fibula is the smaller of the two bones and is used as and anchor to stabilise the ankle and lower leg. One fall can change your life so one should be careful and never take the working legs for granted. Take care of your feet and legs. It is very depressing to sit at home all day and wait for your leg to get better.