The weather's miserable. Sherlock said someone should find a way to make it colder out and then the rain would be snow and snow isn't as cold. Which...is not true, but I do see what he meant. You're not as cold when you're out in it. Although I can tell you that if you're standing in the snow and some bastard throws a bucket of cold water over you, you will be colder than if you were standing in the rain.
L made curry last night, and I had the leftovers for breakfast and lunch. He wouldn't kiss me for ages, even after I brushed my teeth. He told me to go and gargle with milk at one point, which led to some interesting discussion.
I like this sort of weather, really. It makes the inside seem warmer. Even the colours are warmer, all yellows and oranges, while everything outside is grey and blue.
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See it was like this
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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L made curry last night, and I had the leftovers for breakfast and lunch. He wouldn't kiss me for ages, even after I brushed my teeth. He told me to go and gargle with milk at one point, which led to some interesting discussion.
I like this sort of weather, really. It makes the inside seem warmer. Even the colours are warmer, all yellows and oranges, while everything outside is grey and blue.
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You get a picture for this one, because I'm not going to try to reproduce the line breaks and indents. Blogger always does funny things to my formatting.
See it was like this
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Or you could listen to Ferlinghetti read it:
65 comments:
curry for breakfast? Come on John no one but Dave Lister eats curry for breakfast ;-)
I like snow if I don't have to go out in it but rain is far more fun to play in I always think.
minty curry isn't a great improvement over curry, to be honest...
I will eat curry anytime.
L - you brought it on yourself... :)
Ok then John I'll add you to my list of known weird curry eaters ;-)
i refuse to let any form of curry near my mucous membranes - any of them - when it has the power to set fire to things.
Anonybob - one of my old flatmates always had curry on toast for breakfast if any survived the night before.
Delicious!
Ok then, maybe its perfectly normal among curry eaters to do weird things like have it for breakfast ;-)
curry + mucous membranes can lead to interesting stories for casualty doctors to tell so I've been told!
Exactly! I have no wish to become an amusing story passed down by generations of doctors.
Curry stories rate right alongside the 'I fell on the vegetable rack' stories but a little below the chocolate bar stories in the funny story league apparently ;-)
Some of the operators on treble nine do tell good stories about things they've been phoned about...
Curry's perfectly cromulent breakfast :-)
Lestrade - is there any curry that you *don't* think has the power to set fire to things?
Nameless - only curry with no actual heat in it.
The sort I make myself, Nameless. The sort with flavour, but no ability to cause abh.
Wagamama does a nice curry gravy that isn't too hot and is just lovely on toast for breakfast.
rsf
Oh, and that's a neat poem, John. I got a real kick out of the reading. Would have loved to see him in motion for it! The audience clearly was having a wonderful time.
Curry for breakfast is food of the gods the morning after the night before! Lovely endorphine rush to stave off the hangover :)
I find eating it cold makes it seem even hotter as well!
My Mom makes a thing she calls Curried Eggs on Toast. It's a comfort food to be certain, but it sounds like it's more Lestrade's sort of curry than John's. Lovely flavor but no real heat.
Poetry is awesome, too.
well, we're off out for breakfast (second breakfast for some people....) and currently, the skies are clear, the wind is blustery, and we're going to enjoy it until the rain returns later. And then we'll get home and make the pud - Stir up Sunday, people!!
Is it that time of year already? I suppose I'd better buy some ingredients soon.
Our main roads south are flooded again.
stir up Sunday other wise known as writing letters to santa day :-)
I hope you're all having fun whatever the weather is doing now.
We climbed the monument!
A monument you're supposed to climb Sherlock? it sounds like you had fun :-)
Yes there were loads and loads and loads of steps and at the top it was windy.
I bet it was windy if there were that many loads of steps, was there a really great view though?
did loads and loads and loads of steps mean you had to stop somewhere after for John and Lestrade to have some cake and get their energy back?
Yes we're having food now but mainly because Lestrade said he was gagging for a coffee and we're going to the church he likes too.
enjoy your food and have a great afternoon Sherlock :-)
What is Stir Up Sunday? I know what Pancake Tuesday is...
Sherlock, when you were at the top of the monument, was the wind strong enough for you to lean on?
rsf
Do they still give you a certificate when you climb all the way to the top of the Monument, Sherlock? I once climbed to the crown of the Statue of Liberty, but they don't give certificates for that, alas! (And they stopped letting people do it for a long time.)
It's the day you should make your Christmas pud, RSF.
They do but we didn't get one because I know I climbed it and I've got pictures.
Knowing you did it is best! (Pictures are good, too. And you don't have to wait in line for them. :))
Is the Christmas pud like the Christmas Cake that Titli's been posting about? Or is it the sort of dome shaped thing you see in movies that I think gets set on fire? (Yah, I'm a scandahoovian. Our dessert at Christmas is usually fattigmanbakkels or pie.)
Sherlock, what was the monument a monument for?
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There wasn't a queue but Lestrade said it's just another bit of paper to keep and it's a monument to the great fire of London and there are flames but not real ones and the best thing about Christmas pudding is the fire
That's certainly true about the bits of paper. I have pictures from climbing the Statue of Liberty, but since digital cameras didn't exist yet then, they are bits of paper, and I have absolutely no idea where they are.
Flaming foods are very exciting and dramatic, which is always fun. :)
It not good when it burns down all of your city then people wouldn't like you very much.
Very true. (Which is why, although flaming--not burning!--food is fun, only adults who know what they are doing and how to put it out if need be should do it. And I don't do it at all, despite the fun factor, because fire makes me nervous.)
I like it. You can get a job doing explosions like fireworks that would be fun.
It could be a lot of fun, yes! It needs a lot of knowledge of chemistry, and very good training in how to handle fireworks and explosives safely, and lots of careful planning, and all that would be interesting. And it would be a lovely seeing how happy it makes people, and just seeing how what you planned works out--and because it's fireworks it's also noisy and exciting, and that's good, too. :)
(I'm thinking especially of those people who put together the big fireworks displays all over the world--like the Macy's Fourth of July fireworks displays. People like that also get to travel, to put on those big shows!)
RSF it's known as Stir Up Sunday because the collect in the old prayer book for the Church of England begins "Stir up thy people." At least that was what I was always told.
Did you visit the church Sherlock?
I hope you all had fun either way :-)
There's a thought for a post J/L. If pandabob's written her letter to Santa, what would you ask for if you were to write to Santa?
SH, that's interesting! And even if it's folk etymology, it's a cool theory.
Sherlock, I put pieces of paper to commemorate things I've done into my paper journals. I put pictures and printouts there too, having had one too many computers crash on me, taking all my data with it. And I kind of like having those big journals there to run through and spark memories.
rsf
rsf--I've had hard drives crash (or fail) on me too, it's horrid. Paper backup doesn't make sense for my work, so instead I'm a backup maniac. I have, at all times, a constant Time Machine backup, a daily clone, and an offsite backup of everything. Every thing.
I think if it was something particularly special, we might have got the certificate. But he can do it anytime, and it cost £1.50... so if he ever desperately wants a cert., he can get one.
For really special events (special trips or events like, oh, say weddings--things like that :)) I create photo books, the ones you can make through most photo developing websites. You can make them in hard cover or soft cover and in several sizes, and it's a nice way to have anything you can photograph or scan in a permanent form--and they don't tend to get lost the way my photos normally do.
Doc, in all the time you had soldiers telling you things, did you ever once believe them when they started with "See, it was like this..."? Because if you did, I have a very nice bridge for sale...
Once, memorably, yes...never again!
Well, now that's not fair. You clearly have to tell the story!
I apologize. I've forgotten my manners. If it's not too much trouble, would you do your adoring readership the divine pleasure of relating to us what is surely an amusing anecdote? Please.
DW - he certainly doesn't now.
Especially once it gets down to ninjas and zombies, as Sherlock's stories often do...
DW - ha, second version of your request just sounds sarcastic to me; I'm not used to such exquisite manners. ;) I'll post about it, tonight or maybe tomorrow, since I'd meant to do Greg the Florist tonight.
...By 'do', I mean 'write about'.
...By 'do', I mean 'write about'.
My fingers were already writing the response and then I saw this... you know us all too well!
of course you do John, we believe you ;-)
L - I'm almost sorry I clarified now; I'm curious what you were going to say!
It doesn't have to be either/or, John :-p
(yay, greg the florist!)
DW - which bridge are you trying to sell?
It doesn't have to be either/or, John :-p
Indeed. You can do Greg the florist and me.
Oh, wait...sorry, I see what you mean now.
Yeah, you can do him, then write about it. Gotcha.
I assure you, you are my first choice. But I still have a post to write and my brain only wants sleep...
Aww, so sweet.
The post can wait. Sleep instead. No one will mind*
(*utterly untrue. You will be hunted down and chained to a laptop....mmm...you..chained...lap.. UH, I mean...yes. Dire consequences will befall you.)
The only one in a position to be chaining me to laps is you, and I think you've already heard this story... I'll type quickly.
Mmm. okay.
thinkg climbing those 311 steps to the top of Monument may have been enough to make me sleep like a baby tonight...
Yeah. It didn't seem like that much at the time, but...
speak for yourself!
Plus running all over London because nothing was ever quite far enough to be worth taking the tube/a taxi.... I'm too old for this :)
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