Vanilla coffee.
Vanilla coffee.
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"Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal."
-Pi
After a sumptuous repast of beans on toast, I have retired to the computer and am finishing a bottle of Languedoc 2009 red wine. It is a nice soft wine from one of the, in UK terms, lesser known regions but, for the folk who live in that Southwest corner of La Belle France, I'm willing to bet that they are content with what they have.
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
Some rather cheaply made sangria....hitting the spot
Just fresh from the bath and drinking the rather drab but drinkable Frascati. I'm now off downstairs to kick Mrs Neely off of the comfy spot on the sofa and I'm going to finish the bottle with Annie Hall! I might also make light work of the rest of the French bread with a little butter and gorgonzola cheese too.
I can certainly get used to doing nothing much more than reading in the day and drinking at night - a novel a day is back to the old form when I used to be able to do just that and have fun - roll on the six weeks holidays and the end of horrid school teaching stuff and rotten university essays forever...ish.
Edit: Oh Brian, Pro Bono has not arrived yet but I am assured it will be here by Tuesday.
Even better if you drinking that with some nice Spanish lass...Some rather cheaply made sangria....hitting the spot
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Frozen grapes
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
A cup of recent home brew (tea) and 3 weeks old KitKat bar.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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about to start sipping a cup of green jasmine tea
"My warm hands have made the paper limp,
So that its feel reminds me of slept-in sheets: comfortable and safe"
"All these things I say... I say them because I want you to know, I don't ever want to regret afterwards that I didn't say enough, I would rather say too much." ~ Samuel Selvon
French roast coffee, creamer and sweetener. Mmmmm.
I like poetry,long walks on the beach and poking dead things with a stick.
Originally Posted by Neely
If you are a novel a day man, it shouldn't take you long to read Pro Bono Publico. I don't remember how many pages the paperback runs to but my hard cover copy has 201, so it should be more or less the same. If you think it's worth doing, perhaps you could do a write up on it in the review a book thread. It might stir up a bit of a hornets nest even though the events described ended in 1979 (I can see the Mods reaching for that padlock now) but one of the reasons I wrote it was as an attack on complacency.
Anyhow, I shall be very interested in what you think of the merger of fact and fiction in the novel.
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
Yes OK I'll do that. I'll be reading a lot slower next though because the nonsense stuff (work) starts up again, but I do have the extra days either side of the weekend.
Currently waiting for some bread to come out of the oven, going to have bread and butter with a light salad for tea.
Fresh ground "Jablum" Jamaican coffee that we brought back from our trip.
One Taquito and the remaining bits of frozen Oreida french fries.
I'm saving room for the Easter meal at my Brother in Law's, that should prove to be more wholesome and filling.
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I'm jealous about the coffee; I'm still hunting for decent coffee, considering some independent online suppliers.
I'm off out for another family meal today (not the mad ones) and I'm going to wash it down with a few pints of beer. I'm quite thristy for seeing as I haven't had any for two/three days. Going to enjoy it as it is the last supper before the return to nonsense land. Going to savour every bite and sip.
Matzoh, sunflower seeds, a slice of cheese.
“Oh crap”
-- Hellboy
just finished off a Nature Valley oats n' honey granola bar, and a glass of orange juice
"My warm hands have made the paper limp,
So that its feel reminds me of slept-in sheets: comfortable and safe"
"All these things I say... I say them because I want you to know, I don't ever want to regret afterwards that I didn't say enough, I would rather say too much." ~ Samuel Selvon
Eating a bag of McCoys Thai Sweet Chicken crisps and drinking a Carlsberg Special Brew Lager.
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
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