Meine Liebe double drabble: A Job Well Done

More Whitehall AU, post Wieder it seems that the senior spymaster has someone new to pick on.


( Double drabble )

Random thing

For some reason prawns fried in a tiny bit of oil, with some dark soy sauce, sesame oil and oyster sauce taste vaguely gingery. I’ve no idea why.
Also not only did today's Japanese rice turn out nice and fluffy but it also didn’t need stupidly larger quantities of water added than you’d expect, which was a nice change from temperamental Basmati which seems to need more or less water depending on its mood or something.

And now, I have the urge to make large vol-au-vents to fill with some fishy sort of filling.

Two things

Erstens, there's a bottle of German rosé in my kitchen, as well as two bottles of some Californian red, which may eventually prompt me to take back my dire assessment of New World wine.

Zweitens, as Pavolvian reflexes go, what do you do if the dog that you’re trying to discourage going for the bone actually likes the electric shock it gets and doesn’t really want the bone at all? Ich will sagen what if it likes the pain? How do you get around that? Just give it the bone?
It’s like that joke about the masochist who says “Hit me!” to which the sadist replies “no”. Zunächst glaubte ich an einen Scherz but it does actually make sense when you think about it rationally.

Of course I could be tremendously, philosophically drunk right now sage und schreibe, so...