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A Bloom, A Book and Supper

All alone in the narrow wall border, a Fritillary bloom has appeared, much to our delight.

I’ve just finished reading a remarkable little book, ‘Grief is the Thing with Feathers’ by Max Porter. If any of you, dear Readers, have ever lost someone, this book will touch the raw grief and will hopefully also make you smile. I think it’s brilliant. The Guardian summary is exactly right.

A quick and easy supper was called for tonight, a delicious dish of comfort food – Macaroni Cheese to which I add little cherry tomatoes. It was good.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 18, 2021 in Food, nature, Photography, Postaday2021, Uncategorized

Tags: comfort food, Fritillaria Meleagris, Mac'n'cheese, Macaroni Cheese, Max Porter

Hitchhiker’s Guide, Rodriguez and Comfort Food

29 Mar

1 BBC Radio 4 has done it again! This morning it was a live version of Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy with the original cast from the BBC radio series. As a family, we loved this and played it in the car on the long journeys from Yorkshire to Cornwall to visit my parents, resulting in knowing much of it by heart!

Original cast – BBC’s photo

Stephen Moore, Susan Sheridan, Mark Wing-Davey, Simon Jones and Geoff McGivern at the BBC Radio Theatre, London, as part of Radio 4s Character Invasion Day as the original cast of Douglas Adams’s comic sci-fi Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe reunite

2 Serendipity struck happily again this week (love that word and all it means!) Several days ago, friends shared the music of Sixto Rodriguez with me and I loved it. Then, not knowing about that, another good friend lent us the dvd, Searching for Sugarman, about two fans’ search for Sixto after he disappeared from the music scene. I know my South African readers will know this story – just want everyone else to know too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKYEYNX-Eug

Sixto Rodriguez – Cold Fact

3 I felt in need of the Ultimate Comfort Food tonight so Macaroni Cheese it was. Totally scrumptious!

Macaroni Cheese

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 29, 2014 in Beauty, Food, music, photography, Postaday 2014

Tags: Cold Fact, comfort food, Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Macaroni Cheese, Rodriguez, Searching for Sugarman

Waterbirds, Comfort Food and A Present

17 Jan

1 After choir, I was catching a quiet moment by the side of the river when I saw a fat, gingery looking bird with enormous webbed feet perched on a rusty buoy. Though it had something of the Cormorant about it, I didn’t really recognise it and only discovered that it was a very young Cormorant when I checked it online.

Bird life on the Penryn River

Very fat young cormorant

2 There are times when only comfort food will do! My CF of choice this lunchtime was Semolina with Jam, proper nursery food and made in a moment and with Strawberry Freezer Jam at the ready in the freezer. I was enchanted by the ice-crystals on the jam so had to wait to have my pudding until I had taken this photo!

Ice crystals on my strawberry freezer jam

Semolina with a dollop of Strawberry Freezer Jam

3 Our Christmas present arrived form America this afternoon having had some contretemps with the Customs Office for some unfathomable reason. It is a beautiful bread basket with a clay insert which you heat in the oven and then it keeps the bread warm as long as necessary. It is both beautiful and useful thus satisfying the words of William Morris –