I’m sliding back into nights again and it feels that routine is returning like the ebb and flow of the sea.
At least after this run of shifts I have a longer break off than just two clear days , so the jet lag will be minimised somewhat and I can be free of groggy heads and disorientated waking.
Yesterday I cooked.
I’m still transfixed by Korean food so I cooked chicken, vegetables ( pat choi, baby sweet corn mange tout, with long slivers of carrot) with gochujang ( Korea’s ubiquitous red pepper paste) and added udon noodles with splashes of lemon and soy . I had already made shrimp, garlic and spring onion gyoza dumplings, so I gently fried them on one side then added a light chicken stock so that the other sides could steam through and boxed them with bokkeun kkae ( toasted sesame seeds) with an accompaniment box of
Kimchi ( fermented cabbage)
As I was turning a patient in bed, I think he got a whiff of a garlic dumpling I had just eaten and told me I smelt nice. I wish I’d kept him a spare one to eat.
As I was driving into work I listened to a little gem of a comedy on Radio 4 called Conversations From A Long Marriage .It’s essentially a two handed play between two sixty somethings who have been married for forty years and is written with skill and huge amounts of affection by Jan Etherington and played with the same skill and affection by the two leads Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam
It’s a wonderfully observed piece of radio theatre.
I love Roger Allam. I first saw him in the mid 1980s when he played Inspector Javert in the original production of Les Miserables and his deep chocolately voice boomed out the pivotal song Stars with an intensity that almost stole the show for me.
Anyhow if you get a chance to listen to Conversations From A Long Marriage please do so , you won’t be disappointed .
There is little else to report.
After nights Affable Despot Jason and I are off to the comedy nite in Theatre Clwyd, I’ve a film to watch at the Storyhouse and there’s choir and lunch out with a couple of friends , so there’s plenty to look forward to after nights.
It’s 3 am and the kimchi is working well…..fermented Korean cabbage may be tasty but it doesn’t half make you blow off with all of the might of the Queen Mary’s foghorn.
I’ve had to back into back into the doctor’s office and let rip a couple of times so far tonight….
There’s a pea souper on the starboard bow Captain
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