Category: Other and blather

Portal (Galaxy Nexus panorama photo)

Posted on

Place Phillips, Montréal, Dec 2011. G discovers some kind of portal and leaps in. Brings back some killer Turkish delight. (I know. Wardrobe, not invisible portal. Leave me alone.)  We go out for hot chocolate at van Houtte, but find that only Starbucks is open. It’s exam time and the place is full of students (a few of whom are actually studying). We calculate that, thanks to G and the baby, whom I’ll tentatively call Woodstock for her fluffy yellow hair (I don’t call her that at home, don’t worry), the average age at our table is just about right for the scene.

Trying out the panorama feature on the Galaxy Nexus. I’ve resized it but haven’t tweaked curves or anything.

We didn’t shop at tthe Bay at all on this trip. Or is it thhe Bay? Tricksy sign.

January light

Posted on

The light in my parents’ kitchen in early January was incredible.

On another note, I made some neat rice pudding when we got home to England.

The light in my home: just another nail in the coffin of my budding food blogging career. That and my cooking. And my sense of presentation.

Use too many metaphors at once and you’re in danger of looking as though you’d put a dead tree in a coffin. Then you’d have to make a coffin for the tree(s) you made the coffin out of. At some point one of the coffins is going to have to be not made of wood or you’d get an infinite series of matryoshka coffins.

And that’s all I have to say about that. Except that I want to end that with a Lily Tomlin raspberry even though it’s really a Forrest Gump quote.