Rather aware I haven’t written for a while – and simultaneously, have discovered a few more friends who have their own blogs. Andrew Philip, a poet and reporter for the Scottish Parliament, who was part of the same linguistics department as me a few years ago, has a fairly frequent looking kind of blog, with …
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B’stilla…but no fandango
Have just looked back at the last two posts, and funnily enough, they are both about food. Again. So I might as well have thirds, and write another post about food. Dan has put up a picture of Eric in Paris, but truly, we were there too…We had three and a bit days there before …
Recherche de biscuits perdu
I shall start this blog with a couple of literary references, neither as yet checked. My French is also not strong enough to be sure whether biscuits needs ‘perdu’ or ‘perdue’. Anyway, Proust wanted to do a bit of rediscovering of the past, and managed something like that through the (for him) evocative taste of …
Oor ain tatties
So, the soup making has abated a little, mostly through being away a bit. In the meantime, the seed potatoes passed on by Mum have actually been planted, and are starting to come up. Mum and Dad grew potatoes in pots last year, and we were with them one weekend when we earthed up a …
Like something almost being said
“The trees are coming into leaf // Like something almost being said”… …and I feel a need to quote Philip Larkin. Have been leaf watching every morning on the way to work, and now, thanks to clocks change on Sunday, even on the way home too. The wonders of evening daylight. For Fall in the …