Henley

Sunday, 14 September 2008

Hello everyone!

It's good to be back here blogging whilst I can. Anyways, the picture below is of the piece of lamb i cooked, Gigot d'agneau de pre sale. LOL! Sounds very cool, but it's actually very simple to prepare. Anyways, it was not too bad, just that the smell of the lamb wasn't strong enough for me, and I added too much butter. It's still better than the veal in balsamic vinegar I cooked though.

Moving on, today, I had lunch at Jenny's place in Caversham (which is a pretty nice and apparently, a posh area). Her house is lovely! We had roasted beef and potatoes and some vege (yummy!), and a something "bomb" (hahah can't remember the name) for dessert. Unfortunately, I was too preoccupied with the food that I forgot to take some photos before we dig in. They're all very friendly and I truly appreciate the hospitality =)

Anyways, they have a very cute Labrador named Dickens:

After that fantastic lunch, we headed off to Henley to have a walk along the river Thames. Here, you can find lots of posh houses by the river bank. I would love to take a cruise from Reading to Henley in a few weeks time, when the leaves are all turning red and gold. Anyone up for it?

Dickens is a bit nervous about crossing wooden bridges with gaps where you can see the water below it. He tends to blunder along cutely.



Dickens fetching his.. uhg... toy.. from the river. He's very fond of the water for some reasons.



Notice the little "ladder" at the side, it's for fishes and eels to swim up against the current.

Good weather for an outing
Swans ( i think) swimming in formation lol


I shall try to get more artistic photos next time, since all of the ones I took were basically point and shoot lol. Hopefully, there shall be more stuff next week to blog about. And oh, proper work's gonna begin tomorrow, and I am looking forward to it, with a bit of trepidation.

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why they need to make that 'ladder' thingy to let fishes swim against the current? exercise? O_o

Wai Loon Kwan said...

ya lo ya lo.... y huh?

and your lamb chop made my stomach growling.. ugh...

Jun Xue said...

hahaahaha! No lar.. cuz the other parts of the weir is too steep for the fish to swim.. those fishes are not salmons.. can't jump up a small waterfall. Hence, the ladder thingy. haha!

Anonymous said...

How come no photos of your Jenny? Wanna hide your gf is it?

Dickens....got ask them whether they are readers of Charles Dickens books?

Jun Xue said...

what the hell mark.. she's our coursemate lar...SWT.

Nope didn't ask... lol Charles Dickens was what I thought of when I was told the name of the dog.

zoeydee said...

your gf Jenny? ;)

i love lamb!!

nylus said...

*gasp*

Jun Xue said...

Wth... she's just a friend. Sigh... Mark's just jealous. ahah

Yea I love lamb too!

plastic heart said...

You LOVE food.. always taking pictures of it.

Havent read your blog in a while ive been bust with postgrad

Jun Xue said...

ahahah well most Malaysians do that... take pictures of food and post them in their blog.

Oh, how's your postgrad going?

plastic heart said...

im doing a CPE. Its for people who have a first degree already but want to switch to law and become solicitors.
The Course doesnt seem hard but there are some really super smart nerds in the class. Once guy has an LLM already and another has a PHD!!! so I am the course dummy!!! LOL

cmeel said...

Nice lamb. That's of fine-dining standard!

Dickens' so adorable! ^_^

Samuel said...

haha... at first I look at your first two pics... only without reading the content..

I tot you cooked the dog.. OMG..

Jun Xue said...

Che: oohh i see I see... well, at least you can ask for their help when you need some!

Cmeel: Whoa! Didn't expect to see you here! ahhaha it looks very delicious.. but unfortunately..haha it still falls short of the standard fine dining lol! Yeah Dickens is really cute!

Sam:HAHAHAH! LOL! you sure love food don't you lol!

 
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