Tuesday, September 30, 2008
San Francisco Opera House
This is the world premier of "The Bonesestter's Daughter"
The vulture is so culture he can hardly walk!
I'm off!
Waiting for the silver bird!
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Big New Problem!
I guess this has become a food blog!
Friday, September 26, 2008
Cottage Pie like Mom used to make
For those who don't recognise it its a meat base with thyme, onions,
Marmite and stock. Topped with mashed potatoes baked and the top
broiled (grilled as they say in UK)
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Log gone
Log in!
winter too!
Monday, September 22, 2008
How much wood?
If a woodchuck could chuck wood?
FYI a woodchuck is a bird.
I had a "cord" of firewood delivered
today. I think it is some derivation of a cubic yard. Whatever it is,
after four hours carrying it through the house I still had about half
of it left.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Pad Kee Mao
ie the chef was drunk and threw everyhing in or it's what people eat
when they are drunk - like curry in England.
Pork tenderloin with chillis, garlic, Thai basil, onions, fresh rice
noodle and Chinese broccoli. Cooked, of course, in a wok. A very spicy
dish and a real favorite of mine.
Celadon Plates
Arises from the type of wood used in firing. Elephants like the ones
on the plate are sacred in Thailand.
Bronze Buddha cutlery
Thailand was called Siam until 1939 when it was changed to Thailand.
It became Saim again from 1945 to 1949
Wiki is not clear on why. Perhaps one of my, hitherto, mute readers
can enlighten us!
Friday, September 19, 2008
Good morning
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Just because you give me peanuts
Can you get any closer?
Lactation?
What do you think?
I think I'm
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Brasilian meal
Brasilian sausages (two types) with manioc flour, rice, black beans,
collard greens (for the Brits kind of cabbagy stuff with cale well
known to the yanks)
Antarctica
Arroz e feijao com linguiça, couve e farofa
The Future Generation
I love this bedtime meeting - discussing what a great day it's been
Did you ever see better looking grandchildren? Thanks so much to B and E for the photographs which did arrive in a brown envelope yesterday!Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Foriegn Lands and People
This picture on the progamme is one of my favourite. She is draped
like a cloth sculpture high on this wooden monolith. She was delivered
gracefully to and from this precarious location by male, muscular,
kinetic poetry accompanied by live piano music. The warm familiarity
of the music inspired confidence in the dancing
Culture Vulture Report
My kind of Ballet! a few people on stage, nobody wearing silly frilly things, nobody showing how they jump and spin in the air, live classical music.
The last thing I ever want at the ballet is hundreds of swans flitting around spinning in the air so you don't know where to look.
In this case, Colorado Ballet, dancing to piano music of Schuman - Scenes from Childhood, Dreaming and other well known pieces.
The dancers moved these large pillars around the stage which, at times, looked like a construction site. Two men carrying one high above themselves while women danced underneath seeming oblivious to the overhead danger.The first piece they danced had been to Bruch's Violin Concerto and was something of a disaster with failed lifts and generally leaden dancing.
The final piece, was danced to Chopin piano music and was a deliberate slapstick comedy. clever and creative but not enjoyable to me.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Casablanca! The good news!
Yes a Moroccan dinner before the culture vulture hits the Ballet.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
African Music
Mucho Marimba
Sunday, September 07, 2008
Only 72
Reminds me of j's LP record of David Frost talking about which Hilton
begat which Hilton - long before Paris was born. "and there was a
great flood of iced water" the significance of which was unclear to me
until I came to live here. I saw the play "Frost Nixon" on Broadway
and thought it was excellent. Interesting how people like David Frost
and The Beatles whom our parents assured us were, at best unimportant
and at worst evil, turned out so successful. What similarly mistaken
information have we passed on?
Saturday, September 06, 2008
Speaking of weather
Here's a bit of Hannah - who saoked me today.
Sorry Symposium
weather events.
Here is another bag for the collection.
Friday, September 05, 2008
Where's Big William?
Attending his favorite kind of event!
Which is?
A Breast Cancer Conference.
No I am not serious!
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
1948 Philadelphia Trolley Bus
Sanfrancisco. Only $1.50 per ride of several miles.
Monday, September 01, 2008
Incendio Arriba!
Was the call right after the fire alarm went off in our Hotel Casa Madrona
Bags just packed and about to leave - then the deafening noise and elevators closing off.
We walked downstairs into the street where the fire, fire trucks and police were very real.
It seems the fire began, as many do, in the kitchen exhaust ducts on the ground floor then spread upwards.
We watched the excitement and then followed little william's suggestion of hamburgers.
After all this we were finally allowed back to our smokey room to pick up our bags and leave.
The closest I have ever been to being in a fire and close enough!
Bags just packed and about to leave - then the deafening noise and elevators closing off.
We walked downstairs into the street where the fire, fire trucks and police were very real.
It seems the fire began, as many do, in the kitchen exhaust ducts on the ground floor then spread upwards.
We watched the excitement and then followed little william's suggestion of hamburgers.
After all this we were finally allowed back to our smokey room to pick up our bags and leave.
The closest I have ever been to being in a fire and close enough!
Finland?
What did Nero do?
Calling Fireman Sam
Fuego!
Fire!
Unexpected turn
