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!

[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.

[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 :)