Is it hometime yet?

[juliet]

Hurrah, off to Whitby tomorrow. Must pack tonight. And also make some form of sandwich-filling so I will have sandwiches for the train. I am slightly worried about the food thing, since this time we are staying in hotel (i.e. cannot cook large quantities of pasta for dinner every day), & experience last time indicated that Whitby is not the best of places for vegans. Still, at least you can cook noodles just by pouring boiling water on 'em (it's non-ideal, but it works), & we *should* have a kettle in the room. And there are always sandwiches.

Feeling underinspired today. Mind you, you too would feel underinspired if you were being asked to write a response to a consultation document on a review of charges for CITES [endangered species, roughly] permits. Especially as I know approximately 0 about the campaign of ours that this is relevant to. Hopefully when I actually read the consultation document (usually recommended before writing a response) things may become more clear.

Comments

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

You'll be fine, there's a very good chipper there which I read about a Guardian supplement once which informed me that Whitby was the Crouch End of the north. Well, enjoy it, ha ha, hahahaha, hahahahahahahaha!

[juliet]

Oh hush :-)

The chips are fine; but if I eat nothing but chips for 4 days I will get scurvy (or, at least, a mouthful of ulcers, TRUE FACT I have proven it before). Maybe they'll sell rocket in the supermarket, although I have FEAR that rocket is just posh southern food & all I will be able to get is iceberg lettuce which sucks. Mind you, salsa is actually surprisingly healthy, & you can get that anywhere thanks to the ubiquity of Doritos.

There was a decent curryhouse, as well. And spikeylady has offered to cook me dinner one night, so hopefully I will not *actually* starve/die of malnutrition. These smelly goffs may go for the consumptive look, but it's not for me :-)

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Dude that's so racialist, the Crouch End of the North will no doubt be drowning in rocket just as much as Holloway Road Waitrose :) Just go for curry every night, do it, do it, DO IT. Anyway the chip shop will sell you chips and beans if it is worth it's salt! Yum yum. Man o man I'm hungry now.

[juliet]

Mmm, curry. God, I'm hungry too now. But aha! I have bread & hummous. Lunchtime!

You're right, I had forgotten the beans axis there. And it is well known that beans on toast is a complete food (or something), so substituting chips for toast ought to work, no? Right, that's that sorted then, splendid.

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

You should SO listen to Starry. Instant noogdles with boiling water on them ugh ugh ugh ugh! Chips and curry PLUS PLUS! :)

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Chips and MUSHY PEAS! YES! But don't do an Alleged Peter Mandelson and mistake the lovely green goo for guacamole.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Anyway, who needs health? I thought you goffs were into looking all pale and consumptive?

[juliet]

a) mushy peas are repulsive.
b) I am not a goff. I merely have the misfortune to be going out with one :-) (anyway, didn't we establish in Saas Fee that I am very definitely an indiekid?)

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Eat curry. For every meal. I mean it.
Every other Whitby I've gone on fish and chips, hotel breakfasts, and bananas until the Sunday night when I cracked and bought mushy peas in the vain hope that if I can manage to eat enough of them before the texture of them makes me violently ill, some of the fibre will get through to my intestines and I won't spend the journey back feeling like somebody tied a knot in my guts. This has never, to date, worked. Last Whitby though, curry proved the perfect emergency non-bad food. It has beans in it, and peppers. And there's more than a 10% chance that it wasn't cooked using its own weight in lard.

[juliet]

Ah, now even in worst-case I won't be subsisting on chips, hotel breakfasts, & bananas. I shall be dragging kitty_goth to the supermarket on arrival & acquiring bread & decent stuff to put in sandwiches & greenery & raw-edible veg & non-banana-based fruit & suchlike. However, being recommended to eat curry is clearly A Good Thing :-) Mmm curry.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Whitby just sounds so rock and roll, dude :)

[juliet]

To be fair, I believe that everyone else happily subsists on chips, beer, & class As for the duration. Sadly, I am weak, & require my proper foodstuffs. (though I maintain rocket has some sort of chemical property, it always makes me really bouncy and hyper)

[simonb.livejournal.com]

Ah CITES (http://www.cites.org/) - Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. The database behind that is run by UNEP-WCMC (http://www.unep-wcmc.org/); sciolist is the database developer for it and muggins here is the admin for the box it runs on :)