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🍏apple and a whole lemon and sultanas and walnuts. some water. blitzed for 40s.
deliciously tart. fully aerated from the blender giving a nice mouth feel.
anyone remember the juice bar at Harrods way back? this is better 😁
happy Sunday all 👍
This used to be a toy shop. In Lancaster are many old shop signs to be seen. You just have to look up.
This is currently a Chinese restaurant that is frequented by the Chinese community. My guess is that it must be good!
You can see the skeleton of Napoleon's horse, Marengo, at the National Army Museum in Chelsea.
Seeing a pair of these for £1 i suddenly had a rush of homemakerliness. English needs more compoundwords i think 😁
My mother called a couple days ago...my grandmother may be moved to a hospice...she's not taking her meds and is slowly on the decline...
And to make matters worse, my mother and sister drove down to St. Louis to visit, and nearly went to the airport during the storm that produced tornadoes and wind that damaged and closed said airport...had they decided to go there, who knows what might have happened...
Another trade word I like is 'Haberdasher', but I'll leave that for another day.
I saw this book today and know that I will have to let a book go before I acquire this one. Choices ... (My shelves are full).
Charles de Gaulle once said: "How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?". Obviously, he wasn't paying attention: they have many more than that. And so do the Brits. I think this could be an interesting read.
I found some nice peppers ths morning, so decided to add them to my soup. Nobody comlained, and nobody sent any back. I smiled, as some of the people had previously said how they won't eat anything with chili in it. They were the same people who had observed that the soup is sometimes bland. You have to be careful what you wish for when I'm in the kitchen!
Back to the kitchen and make the soup. Carrot and lentil. Add cumin and turmeric,
I should have doubled the amount of herbs and spices, but it came out ok. if a bit thin.
Will thicken with potatoes next time.
Three buddies on their way to play. It was an IMPORTANT conversation along the way. This was a SPLIT second before they tore off running for the playground.
Shot on the Xiaomi 13 Ultra SuperTele lens.
My friend is a committed Wiccan. He celebrates Yule. I've put this pentacle on my front door so he knows he will be welcome should he visit.
My fan is registering a high pollen count - that would explain why my eyes feel like they have been rubbed with sandpaper.
Any amount of pollen over 20 mg / cubic meter is considered high, especially if it is birch pollen. Strange, I never suffered from sensititivty to pollen until after the Gulf War.
I was taken to lunch today and had this delightful pale ale with my food. It's not too strong and had a really nice hoppy nose to it. It's a nice beer and well kept, too.
I've seen a few spiders today, here on Flickr and in the real world, too. This beauty was high on the wall, doing nobody any harm, so I left her there, to await the arrival of her lunch.
Sometimes called the Daddy Long Legs spider, she is also known as a Cellar Spider. They take on all sorts of bugs and wotnot, and will even go for (and kill) a redback spider. "Oh, but they are only in Australia." Not so - they made it as for as Preston, Lancashire in a container of vehcle parts from Australia. Who knows how many escaped into the wild before the pest man came to get them? I'll be keeping my cellar spiders close!
Read more, here:
everythingnothuman.com/uncategorized/cellar-spiders-your-...
I call this kūmara but you might know it as sweet potato. I don't usually peel them but couldn't resist showing off the amazing color of this one.
Rongomātāne is the Māori god of cultivated food (especially kūmara) and peace. Today I'm cooking kūmara and praying for an end to all conflicts, everywhere.
Down towards the bottom right of frame you can see the Orion constellation. Not being an astronomer, and having forgotten long ago my astral navigation lessons, that's the only one that i can name.
I took this with my phone, hand-held, last night. I am astonished by what the picture reveals that I missed at the time.
I feel inspired now to hunt down a night sky chart!
Light Pollution
I used to live in a country that is pretty dark at night. I miss being able to see the Milky Way with the naked eye. Apparently, 1/3 of the world's population can't see it, either. All down to light pollution. To quote the old ARP wardens from WW2 times: "Put that light out!" (Rant over =] )
Fish plate bolts lie beside the railway line close to some discarded sleepers.
Now. just consider for a moment how confusing that vocabulary is. "Don't bolt your food," we are told. And yet, I see no plates of fish before me. As for sleepers, do we mean spies waiting to be activated? Such a peculiar language.
Within an hour of napping and arranging in a vase, the yellow rosebuds opened to share their loveliness.
Add a few litres of chicken and veg stocks, bring to the boil for a minute or three, and simmer (check the temp. is 85 deg C - this is the recommended temperature for serving food for medically vulnerable and older people) ... blitz with the stick blender (most domestic stick blenders are only up for use for a minute or two at a time - it's worth spending a bit more money to get a commercial one that will take some abuse!). Finish with a good glug of balsamic or apple vinegar, and Greek yogurt.
Tomato cut in half, added some herbs, pepper and salt, and shavings of cheese. Roast for 5 mins.
Bacon, same herbs, nuked for 4 mins.
So simple even I can do it. It'll do.
By Salvador Dalí.
Made by Henry Kaston from gold, pearls, and rubies.
Under glass in a poorly lit case, hence the ridiculous edit.
In go the chopped apples, kale, lentils and n goes the lid while I go outside for smoko. Barista No 2 has made an espresso - consuming this while the veggies steam and wilt is better than using a kitchen timer.
Michael Miles hosted a game show on English TV until 1968. There were boxes that sometimes contained prizes and sometimes not. Contestants could open a box or accept a cash offer.
The crowd would go wild, shouting out "open the box!" and "take the money".
Honey Fungus
www.rhs.org.uk/disease/honey-fungus-managing-outbreaks
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armillaria
It looks pretty, but ... it is dangerous to trees and spreads through the soil, via root systems. It is the fungus' consumption of the roots that causes trees to die.
You will often see honey fungus on tree stumps, or trees in an advanced state of decay.
There are no licensed fungicides in the EU to deal with this fungus. If you have it, all you can do is remove any affected trees and burn them, and excavate the soil and infected root systems.
Some people eat honey fungus, but only after it has been properly prepared and cooked. Even then, it often causes gastric distress and upset. I'd say it is best avoided.
There I was looking for 305.8994. This library appears to use the Bliss classification system (BC2); anything but blissful if one is more used to Dewey Decimal. Now, which way is it to KVT?
If you are interested in different kinds of library classification schemes, just G--gle it and be ready for a deep dive into the rabbit hole =]