Souper

Colindale, London, England // 2.51 pm // Mostly sunny 10ºc / 50ºf

Scheduled day off today, so I did what I usually do on day off - cook. Although I started off the day by waiting for the guy from British Gas Homecare to come round and repressurise the boiler. He was schedule to come round between 8am and 1pm, and thankfully I only had to wait for an hour. He took 10 minutes or so to do the job. Turn's out there are two ways to repressurise our boiler - the way that it says in the manual, and that for some reason I couldn't manage. And the second way, which I just found about today, is as simple as turning a tap. Job done.

After that, and a shower, I headed to Asda to get ingredients for tonight's meal, Sichuan soup. On the way I spoke to my mum and John on the phone, and had a call from my Aunt Donna in Perth who was having problems with her internet connection.

Made some lunch when I got back to the flat, then made the Sichuan soup, which was actually quite quick and simple. I had a quick taste when it was done, and I'm actually amazed. It looks and tastes fantastic! Looking forward to having that later tonight. Before then I need to go to the radio station in Tower Hamlets and do the last rehearsal for Grooveline and finalise the plans for the relaunch.

Heard today that the TV channel Trouble is closing down at the end of the month. I remember when the channel launched in 1997, I believe out of the old TCC channel. I did watch Trouble for a while not long after it launched, but haven't done so for many years. Still, sad to see a channel disappear which, to an extent, I grew up with.