Livejournal, alive-oh!

[steepholm]

Well, I'm out of hospital! There were many good things about the place, including excellent wifi for the most part, but for reasons I can't even guess at I was quite unable to post to, or read, Livejournal for the week of my stay, which was very frustrating!

Not that I'd been planning to squick you out with surgical details, but it would have been nice to keep in touch and all. I did make a couple of Dreamwidth entries, though, here and here.

Tl;dr version is that the surgery went well, and I was well served in convalescence by having politics, the Euros and Wimbledon all happening at the same time, besides the antics of a family of fledgling kestrels just outside my window. I'm now staying with friends in Portsmouth for a few days, before my eventual return to Bristol, where ashkitty has kindly been sitting Jessie for me.

And now, I have a week's worth of posts to catch up on...

Comments

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

Depends who is cooking it. I've had lots of wonderful eggplant dishes in the US. I think the larger eggplants (the ones that are actually egg-shaped and not more like zucchini/courgettes) are more apt to be woody and dull than the Asian ones, but if you know how to buy them they're fine.

[aryky.livejournal.com]

It seems quite plausible to me that it's not a pure issue of location but more an issue of Americans having some tendency to prefer larger foods even when they're less tasty! The kind of epitome of eggplant that I experienced was these tiny Balinese eggplants that were maybe the size of oranges but were. . . I had them 4.5 years ago. I still want them. Right now. It seemed lilely even at the time that they were so good because they were so small.

Glad to hear a good kind is available in the US, at least.