Posted in food on March 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
After being so very English and doing so very much gardening yesterday (or at least, so very much agitating around the subject of gardening–spent less than an hour actually working at it), it seemed right to watch a lot of Brideshead Revisited and to have a proper cream tea, today.
When I was in England nearly [...]
Posted in garden, gardening on March 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There is, after all, some hope. It may be chilly outside, but it is increasingly less so. It may be gray sometimes, but it is increasingly less so. And even if everything outside is still bare and gray… it’s Spring in the greenhouses.
And in more greenhouses.
And more.
(What are these?)
(Because gee golly there were a lot [...]
Posted in life on March 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This week, the idea of the Royal Warrant has captured my imagination. The queen of England or the Duke of Edinburgh or the Prince of Wales issue a warrant for an item when it has been consistently used over five years, and is of high quality and distinctly British (or something like that–possibly bribes are [...]
Posted in garden, gardening on March 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
While I was away on my “Spring break,” Spring seems to have sprung in my part of the world. The snow, which had been ever-present since before Thanksgiving, has melted. Daytime temperatures have been in the high forties or fifties, which for us Midwesterners is no-coat weather. Nighttime temperatures aren’t cold enough to frost. The [...]
Posted in life on March 14, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Candy protests, “that picture is not making me want to go there.” Being from Florida, she of course knows that it’s a picture taken from a causeway between two of the Florida Keys–U.S. Highway 1. She wants to know if I can get a palm tree in.
I live to serve, Candy.
That was the most overcast [...]
Posted in life on March 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Points if you know what this picture is of, and therefore where I must have been since Saturday, without clicking through to the caption on my Flickr page…
*yawn* Posting is such awfully hard work. I’ll resume when I’m back from vacation.
Posted in garden, gardening on March 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There is no joy in Snowville, mighty Winter won’t strike out.
Le sigh, le yearn, le ennui. It is still snow, snow, snow here. I should start some of these in pots indoors, though, so they bloom before July.
Posted in family, food on March 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Like so many people my age, my parents lived out their early years in the stultifying culinary atmosphere of the 1950s, and went away to college at just the time that pizza and Mexican restaurants were beginning to happen. As a result, they’re suckers for ethnic restaurants and my own childhood involved lots of them: [...]
Posted in life on March 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
If you’ll indulge me, this is a drive-by post. You’ll also indulge me for indulging myself in cat-blogging.
Pudding, the poor darling, is a Pirate Cat and derives much enjoyment in her quiet hours from wondering what kind of poem T. S. Eliot would have written about her if only he’d had the chance. She is [...]
Posted in food, life on March 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The mah jong party yesterday was lovely. I brought the game and some snacks, and the four of us met at the place with the squarest table (and it was very, very square.) The hostess of the square table entertained us with her collection of llamas (stuffed llamas–llama wall hangings–llama dish towels) and we played [...]
Posted in collections, transferware on March 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The World Market here is closing, and everything in the store is on clearance. Hmm. Though I’d altogether rather have it in town than not, it isn’t a place I go often, so I was more pleased than not to have such a consumer opportunity put in front of me.
Especially when I found the display [...]
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