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Layered ideas combine to make an unexpected reality. In life and in my dreams. Waking up and disentangling can be difficult. Melancholic friction. Vividly dreaming of R.
Bach cantata on the radio.
Yule arrives in minutes.
Amazing Spanish tomatoes. I won't bother to grow mine again. These are so full of flavor and juicy, too.
Lunch for today is a bit of toasted sourdough bread, drizzled with olive oil, a sprinkle of salt, a grind of pepper, and this lush tomato. 🍅
Flavor, not quantity 👍
It took a bit less than an hour to make this, but fresh food from fresh ingredients is a real joy to me. Hopefully my friend will feel better soon.
aka Clematis vitalba.
The whole plant has many traditional medicinal uses. It is still used in homeopathic medicine for things like pain relief.
I was just happy to see this growing over a wall in Glasgow, while being rained on. I felt right at home.
The morning sun fills the kitchen and dries the dishes. Sometimes I wish I had a dishwasher. But then I'd miss out on sights like this.
On a somewhat glum January afternoon the light at Blackpool beach inspired a sense of majesty.
It's amazing how restorative even a short trip to the seaside can be.
A UK government minister used this expression in parliament last week and I was mystified by what he was on about. This is what I found:
"In the UK, 4.1 million tonnes of food is wasted in the grocery retail supply chain each year. The wasted food is safe, in-date and edible, but isn’t used by major retailers for a variety of reasons, such as faulty packaging and over-ordering.
‘Social supermarkets’ reduce this food waste by selling this ‘waste’ stock at low prices to local people on low incomes who are struggling with food poverty."
Anyway this is my dinner today. Not knowing what you will be able to buy each week makes for some creative cooking!
I once had a sports car that was described as a 2+2. Fun but useless for any more luggage than a shopping bag
This 2+2 (2 eggs, 2 rashers back bacon) will be useful in providing half my daily protein. Fat kept to a minimum by choosing lean bacon and cooking without fat. Eggs cooked with some milk and canola oil. All in the nuke for just a few minutes at 75% power.
Happy Sunday everyone 👍🙏
Tēnā koutou Katoa,
Today is International Day of Multilingualism. The 27th March was chosen because 27th March 196 BC is the date mentioned on the multilingual Rosetta Stone (Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, demotic text, and Greek). By comparing the Greek date with the Egyptian text, it was eventually possible to decypher the whole stone.
Language is more than just words; it is the spirit of cultures. Learning new languages helps to communicate, as well as re-wire your brain, which is believed to help ward off cognitive decay.
Heoi anō tāku mō nāianei. Ka kite =]
Ciao, bis bald, a bientot, toodaloo =]
The sound of rattling milk bottles being delivered to the doorstep early each morning used to be part of the fabric of life in Britain. It's a service that has almost completely disappeared now. What fun it was to see this as I walked to my Monday gig.
After yesterday's egg débacle I've gone for a safer option. Hardy Scots should look away now in case the addition of honey and chia seeds to the porridge are offensive 😅
Along the towpath are these mile markers. This one is very worn. Most likely an original from the 18th century.
In the late 1800s London was served by up to 300 000 horses, producing an average of 2 000 000 kg of manure each day. This was referred to as the horse manure crisis. Consequently many houses had boot scrapers outside the front door. This one is a fine, elegant example.
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Fats Domino - Blueberry Hill
I last sang this with a friend in Amsterdam. Lots of Oranjeboom. It was a great weekend, what can be remembered, and we stayed in a houseboat. We went to the Rijksmuseum to see The Night Watch and weren't disappointed. We were picked up by some police who had us confused with someone else. Turned out we used to play football together when they had been stationed near our camp. So they let us go on our merry way. It's a funny old world.
To celebrate the end of the week this is puff pastry with apple, blueberries and flaked almonds. Greek yogurt dusted with cinnamon.
Walking to collect my mail, I spotted this under the castle lights.
The evenings are drawing in for sure.
Today is Beltane, an ancient festival that marks the beginning of summer, the peak of spring, and the return of fertility to the world.
These columbines flower from late spring to mid-summer, making a bridge between the seasons.
No longer a church, but it's a listed building, so not going anywhere. It has been used as a gym.
Morecambe has a lot of listed buildings. I'm not sure how one reconciles preserving the past when it impedes development for today.
My last visit to Kew was some years ago on a bit of a dark day.
Looking back is as important as noticing today.
Worn. Extended. Modified. Enhanced. Used. Hand-built. Sweat. Skill. Improvised. Adapted.
Some of the things i see around me.
Farfalle with my basil paste. More cheese, some ground black pepper (in remembrance of the Carbonari).
Roughly minced, so you can still see some basil leaves.
Quick and simple, but full of taste and color.
Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, Mercury, Neptune and Uranus were all visible at same time in a curved line across sky. Some people call that a celestial parade. I couldn't take a picture worth looking at but here's a picture of the moon instead.
It was also possible to see several satellites moving across the sky, too. In case you're in Maryland, that was me waving 👋