gathering it all together
Dinner tonight was freshly-made tagliatelle egg pasta with a sauce made from white wine, dolcelatte and brie, with mushrooms – all served with a walnut salad. Absolutely gorgeous.
I used Pouilly Fumé, as the only bottle of white wine in the house – and glugged about one third of a bottle into a pan, added a small clove of crushed garlic, …
I don’t know – you wait for months for a Doctor to arrive and then two come along at once, but neither one takes you anywhere that you want to go!
Perhaps Dr Who isn’t suited to that format,
I had made a dozen mince pies. I took great care with them, to make them as good as possible under the circumstances. But tragedy befell! …
Set of photographs of the dogs at the beach on Dec 25th, 2008. The deep/dark colours are due to my forgetting that I had a polariser fitted. In most cases, I don’t mind at all. There’s something deep and rich and lovely about these images – they remind me in some ways of oil paintings… like they already have the patina of age, somehow – just vague memories already.
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Oh, poor Mr L!
The Safest Pair of Hands in Scotland just made a Special Delivery to our house. A Special Delivery from Santa, or one of his elves, it would seem – because the parcel is marked “Do not open until Xmas.”
It is addressed to me.
So, it would seem that we may not do Christmas, but Santa does.
I have a fair notion of what the parcel may contain, as I recognise a blue bag from Midlothian when I see it…