... ouchouchouch...
So off we went up the Gloucester Rd, to find
Hobbies, the model shop at Horfield (just down from where I used to live). Heh. Everything
but Hornby. Ah well, at least we can cross them off the list.
The guys in there were very helpful though, told us that
Modelmania, up Clouds Hill Rd, carries Hornby (the shop is on the corner of St George's Park, on our route to the Reptile House - though I don't remember ever seeing it). We'll check it out, maybe the weekend after next.
Then we walked back down the Gloucester Rd, checking out all the charity shops - and
Area 51, which is now in a much better new store. (The website is still under construction - I volunteered to manage it for them. Not that I
need anything more to do, but I love the shop and would like to see their site reflect the quality of their merchandise. Will see if they contact me.) And they had a Dr Who figure pack of a small Dalek and a Cyberman, which I bought Kai for Yule.
But
AARRGGHHH!! Special Reserve is gone, departed, it is no more. It is a deceased shop. Which not only means I can't get Nappa cleared (unless/until I can find someone else to do it for me - or learn how to do it myself) but I have no back-up in case the computer has problems... Time to start searching for someone new to rely on...
No luck in any of the other shops, unusually, although I did manage to find a tube of prepared wasabi and a jar of pickled ginger, in a new Oriental minimart, for the next time I make sushi (Korean wasabi and Thai ginger. You'd think, in a multi-cultural city like Briz, I'd be able to find Japanese, wouldn't you? But not anywhere I've found yet). We dropped into the park at Zetland Rd for half an hour for Kai to play and me to sit down (aching feet and legs, hence the
ouch at the top), and much fun was had.
I also picked up a whole pile of ramen from the Chinese supermarket. They'd resupplied with duck flavour, my current favourite, and I made some up when we got back. Kai hovered, sniffing appreciatively, so I gave him some. [sigh] He liked it. Now I'll have to share. (No, I'm not really complaining, it's another foodstuff to add to the 'likes' list.)
[points left] There are a couple of new things in the infopane: a 'daily read',
This Blog will be Deleted by Tomorrow (dry, witty, thought-provoking and wide-ranging, great fun) and the
Astronomical Picture of the Day (link shamelessly stolen from the
Blue Tea blog) which has some fabulous photos. I made the
fuge mistake of starting to look through their archive - which goes back to 1995...
Also on
Blue Tea is a link to a page where you can hear
Saturn's Radio Emissions. Eerie and oddly moving. Reminded me of some of the soundtrack from
Forbidden Planet. Made Ken think of Lovecraft's 'flutings and pipings from the Old Ones' dimensions'. I'll have to take his word for that - I don't like Lovecraft, altogether too much hyperbole and biscuits for my taste. Amazing sounds, though.
[beg] No spoilers, but next week's
Spooks is an absolute
cracker, and the one after that looks to be even better, going by the trailer.
Right. Back to it...
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
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