My genes have been so many people

[ashlyme]

 

This last weekend:

 

I caught up with an old friend I've not seen since Coventry Pride. Since then he has been on a cruise around Norway and acquired a new boyfriend. Back home we made gratin dauphinoise aux poireaux - a new recipe for us. It worked pretty well, though we agreed next time we'll cook it with Red Leicester instead of Gruyère: not only tastier but easier to find!

 

Yesterday B was under the weather: we curled up and watched several episodes of Brian Cox's SOLAR SYSTEM. I'd forgotten it was Remembrance Sunday until I went out into the back garden and heard the bagpiper strike up in the cemetery.

 

Recent books: Malcolm Yorke's MY EYES MINT GOLD might be the best biography of Mervyn Peake that I've read. Now on a slim book of tree and tree-lore called GREEN SHADE by a New Zealand classicist, E. F. Blaiklock. A signed copy of Jeff VanderMeer's new novel has just arrived - courtesy of a friend, so this'll be next. Fingers crossed it lives up to the Southern Reach trilogy.

 

Comments

[sovay]

I'd forgotten it was Remembrance Sunday until I went out into the back garden and heard the bagpiper strike up in the cemetery.

I love this sentence. I also like hearing that your life contains new recipes and new books! Both important things.

[ashlyme]

I thought at first it was one of the musicians I saw at the chapel back in October! Then again, somebody was playing a rather faltering organ out there this morning - and a bit later, I heard a bunch of schoolkids, so I'm not sure what was going on today

[sovay]

Then again, somebody was playing a rather faltering organ out there this morning - and a bit later, I heard a bunch of schoolkids, so I'm not sure what was going on today

I don't think we have observances around here. I used to see paper poppies. Not so much anymore and I don't know what it means.

[moon_custafer]

Malcolm Yorke's MY EYES MINT GOLD might be the best biography of Mervyn Peake that I've read.

The title alone sells it.