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Post by OnlyMark on Sept 8, 2019 21:11:21 GMT 2
I will be returning from Spain to Africa in a couple of days. It is the end of my long hot summer. Funnily enough it will be coming to summer where I'm going. I'm lucky in that for the last few years I never experience a winter. The only time I wear long trousers and socks is when I'm flying. It has become my tradition that when everyone has left and I've locked up the house, I come down to the coast for a day or two to stock my belly up on English food. So it was a quite reasonable cod and proper chips tonight (with mushy peas) at a restaurant I used to go to but was taken over a year or so ago and I thought I'd give it a try. It was fine enough but I'm not totally convinced the fish was cod. I think it might have been a cheaper panga/basa type thing. It wasn't bad, just not quite right. The batter, the chips and the peas were good though.
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Post by tzarine on Sept 9, 2019 4:40:05 GMT 2
mark
you are making me hungry
watching the us open
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Post by Voy on Sept 11, 2019 2:39:04 GMT 2
I didn't make me happy leaving, but the annual reunion in Nantucket was really nice - this year only 11 of us - so actually more time with those who were there ( and my two bete noirs didn't come !)
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Post by tzarine on Sept 11, 2019 4:56:24 GMT 2
the audience reaction to my piece @ the open mike chatting w casey about pflugerville, texas & l.a.
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Post by slowcoach on Sept 12, 2019 22:45:15 GMT 2
I'm so happy today, I bought the most beautiful cobalt blue boots online and can hardly wait for them to arrive. The colour is called Antique-Cobalt. They're an ankle boot, soft leather, beautiful ruched upper, handmade in Portugal. And 41% off! I was very lucky, I bought the last pair in my size. I'll have to start singing the Elvis song, "Don't step on my Blue Blue Shoes/Boots"!
As a once upon a time potter making cobalt blue glazes was a simple matter of using cobalt oxide.
When I think of the chemicals we used and the careless ways we used them it is a wonder that I still live and breathe.
Metal oxides, cobalt, tin, manganese, copper, iron, lead, boron, others I can't recall, and wait for it Uranium (depleted).
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Post by slowcoach on Sept 12, 2019 22:56:05 GMT 2
It has become my tradition that when everyone has left and I've locked up the house, I come down to the coast for a day or two to stock my belly up on English food. So it was a quite reasonable cod and proper chips tonight (with mushy peas) at a restaurant I used to go to but was taken over a year or so ago and I thought I'd give it a try. I haven't had fish and chips for years. Since then I seem to have stopped eating seafood but I am not dogmatic and I would delight in such a feast.
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Post by tzarine on Sept 13, 2019 4:30:02 GMT 2
funny chat w b about a christmas carol
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Post by tzarine on Oct 14, 2019 16:37:11 GMT 2
seeing the wm forsythe company perform a chat w idris
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Post by sophie on Oct 14, 2019 17:27:41 GMT 2
Voting! My civic duty is done for this federal election.
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Post by tzarine on Oct 16, 2019 22:38:37 GMT 2
lovely chat w andre string beans in yuzu miso
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Post by Scrubb on Oct 17, 2019 0:39:28 GMT 2
Took my Dad out today. He had a list of chores, from dropping off drycleaning, taking shoes to the cobbler, getting his hearing aids looked at, to checking out a saw shop... I think he really just wanted to get out of their apartment and be out doing stuff. They have shuttles, and they can take the Accessible bus, but you can really only do one errand at a time with them.
We spent ~4.5 hours out and about. Didn't get everything done on his list, but quite a bit of it, and we had his favourite borscht for lunch. It was a good day for him - he was able to give me directions right to the saw shop (but couldn't tell me where it was, could only tell me where to drive), he remembered what he wanted at each place, etc. Stayed on the ball the whole time.
It makes me happy but is also bittersweet. That he can't just go do stuff on his own anymore; that he wanted to buy stuff for his router table that he's never used, and never will use... just to feel like he still might. I guess we could find something to use the router table for, and get him to do it.
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Post by tzarine on Oct 28, 2019 22:21:32 GMT 2
hugs, scrubb
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Post by tzarine on Jan 28, 2020 8:12:57 GMT 2
lunch made by tzar dinner made by tzarevich
a funny nostalgic photo from jeff
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Post by auntieannie on Jan 29, 2020 15:02:59 GMT 2
rain here, snow above!
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Post by Voy on Jan 29, 2020 15:55:04 GMT 2
played in the corn-hole tournament and we won both of our games - I have suddenly "got it" - and consistently hit the thing, with an amazing number of thru-the-holes ! Silly but fun
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Post by auntieannie on Jan 29, 2020 18:07:55 GMT 2
my printer got delivered. Now I just need to purchase a piece of furniture and my flat will be tidier and a better place to work from.
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Post by tzarine on Jan 29, 2020 22:19:53 GMT 2
free day @ the botanic garden free wine & beer & chocolate bc we happened to walk into a trade show there
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Post by sophie on Jan 30, 2020 7:44:39 GMT 2
We went out for quite a posh dinner at a seafood place in town. Tasty and enjoyable!
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Post by Netsuke on Jan 31, 2020 6:17:55 GMT 2
my printer got delivered. Now I just need to purchase a piece of furniture and my flat will be tidier and a better place to work from. Annie, my hotel in Singapore has "Swiss" style decor and I must say I liked it a lot. It was very light and airy giving the illusion of much more space than traditional, heavy wooden furniture. The desk which adjoined the wall, had a shaped, smoky glass top with black cylindrical legs and the most comfortable black chair ever. You could lean back practically all the way, in fact I thought at one time I would fall out of the thing, but no, it goes back so far and then stops. Very comfortable. Swiss ingenuity at its best!
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Post by Voy on Jan 31, 2020 16:55:16 GMT 2
yesterday I went to a "luncheon" in an amazing penthouse in Palm Beach (oooo lalala ) - that was for alumnae/i of the school I went to - other than the current headmaster I didn't know anyone, but what fun it was !
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 1, 2020 14:50:25 GMT 2
I found some kasha today!
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Post by Netsuke on Feb 1, 2020 15:33:02 GMT 2
I found some kasha today! I had to google "Katha" and read it is a term for the pseudocereal, buckwheat. So then I had to google buckwheat. And all the while running through my head was Buckbeak, Buckbeak. Buckbeak was a good hippogriff who always cleaned his feathers and was saved from execution by Hermione's Time-Turner.
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 1, 2020 16:03:40 GMT 2
hahaha! about buckbeak. lovely buckbeak.
However, why do you call buckwheat a "pseudo" cereal?
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Post by slowcoach on Feb 1, 2020 16:48:42 GMT 2
Because it is!
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 1, 2020 20:51:28 GMT 2
ah, yes. I really don't know how to express myself cogently. Thanks to you both, I clarified knowledge. thank you.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 6, 2020 21:12:55 GMT 2
a hug from t @ citarella
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Post by Netsuke on Feb 7, 2020 5:54:15 GMT 2
hahaha! about buckbeak. lovely buckbeak. However, why do you call buckwheat a "pseudo" cereal? That is just what I read, Annie. I have no idea the difference is between cereal and pseudocereal. TBH, I don't know what "pseudo" cereal is.
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 7, 2020 8:19:50 GMT 2
netsie, if I am not mistaken, buckwheat is considered a grass. However, its seeds decidedly look like the grains of a cereal. My understanding of the term pseudo is that it looks like something but isn't quite it.
for example: pseudo-culture = Forms of cultural expression specifically engineered for the material gain of some group or individual, especially when produced for mass consumption. Such cultural products fail to take account of the cultural differences of distinct communities and tend to erode further any remaining cultural identity.
And I guess skai is a type of pseudo-leather.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 11, 2020 2:21:38 GMT 2
kisses from dulce, tzarevich's crossing guard from elementary school got tix for rocio molina, goddess of flamenco funny chat w niece
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Post by tzarine on Feb 12, 2020 0:30:58 GMT 2
yukiko's reaction when i gave her some of tzarevich's old books & toys
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