You never know what kind of pancakes you’re going to get in this household. It all depends on the mood of the pancake maker. Some days, we get beautiful fluffy specimens, and other days… Well; let’s not talk about those too much. Today’s reward for getting out of my snuggle-buggle duvet-land was pretty good. When […]
The only way I can tolerate eating breakfast is to switch things around regularly. A 4 or 5 day stretch of cereal and milk can put me off the stuff for months. Even peanut butter on oatcakes is not immune to this quirk¹ of mine. And toast is particularly susceptible to this immense hatred of […]
An attempt to recreate the French Toast that my Grandma used to make for us when we were little kiddies. I’m pretty sure she didn’t use milk (almost everyone else in my family is lactose-intolerant), and it never took her very long to make. But I can’t remember how she made it at all, except […]
My dearest blog, My sincerest apologies for not staying in touch. Here’s a cute photo that the P-man took on the first day of 2009 to make up for things. The subject in view is a noren of one of the many images¹ from the collection of Ando/Utagawa Hiroshige‘s ukiyo-e for One Hundred Famous Views […]
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Have been uploading more photos of Alaska. This one reminded me of Scotland; to be more precise, the Isle of Skye but with more trees. There’s something about slightly damp (misty, if you want to be romantic about it) weather that brings out the drama of coastlines. Sure, the clear blues and greens of tropical […]
It’s the evening of the 3rd of November, 2008. And like every other night, I’ve been browsing several news sites and my 1000++ RSS items. And for the past year, all these websites have been peppered with articles about and references to the 2008 US Election. Without intending to, I have decided which candidate I […]
Oof! My plans for a quiet weekend sorting through the thousands of Alaska photos was scuppered by way too many good things happening. A normal blogger would probably devote several posts to these, but I’m lazy and will present them as a Top [relevant number] List. The start of our LA Phil Autumn/Winter season. It […]
We spent a glorious fortnight in the state of “gold stars on a field of blue” aka The Last Frontier aka The Land of the Midnight Sun aka Sarah Palin’s homeland aka Alaska. We saw way too many cool things and had way too much fun and took way too many photos. While my brain […]
Could not let 08-08-08 pass by without posting something, so here’s a little LaLaLand garden update. The brinjal/aubergine/eggplant has borne some beautiful fruit, of which this is one (the plant in its infancy). There are a couple of wee ones tucked away behind it, and a weird bendy one somewhere in the dense vegetation. The […]
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