First things first...
Exciting news and the first official photograph of my new "grandbump" due in late April/Early May.
(...or maybe a lima bean...)
The new parents-to-be happy...excited...maybe a bit scared...a little overwhelmed...and (her) CRAVING PUMPKIN...lol Well, I don't know how much I can do about the other stuff...but I can definitely bake up something deliciously pumpkin! Too early to know whether it is a he bump or a she bump...but it will be loved no matter!
The week filled with "friends" travel...and those of us (back from the PA Gathering) but not on the Road are vicariously enjoying Lillian's travels in Russia.
And Tracy's trip to see Rosaline in Kenya
(postscript: ...and a somewhat scary update from her today as she is 3 miles from Westfield Mall in Nairobi...but flights are not cancelled as of yet...safe home Tracy!)
And Sharon who is cutting grapes in Italy
And Janine who is also on holiday in Italy by Lake Como
So the rest of us have or morning coffee and chat and are enjoying their beautiful photographs and hearing about their amazing adventures. And planning our own.
Paula has already started organizing a mini-gathering in New Orleans next April and Lillian will be one of our host at the Fourth DS Gathering in Colorado next October. Dave has already starting saving beer funds to join us. England's economy may tank. Oh and Dave...I finally screwed up the courage to try that Chip Butty on a Blaa. Very nice. (...could use bacon and cheese...) Recipe to follow.
That Adkin's Diet fellow would have fallen over dead...if he hadn't already been. Nothing like all your carbs for...oh...the week on one lovely roll!
The Fast Diet is going well. Actually look forward to my weigh-ins. That is something new!
And went Kindle (ing) this week on Amazon in their Free Classic Section...which (for me) is kind of like being turned loose in Barnes and Noble with an unlimited prepaid gift card. OMG...Frost and Keats and Emerson and Thoreau...Dickinson and Freud and Kant...Nietzsche and Karl Marx...and a short story by Kurt Vonnegut that through the years I must have missed...entitled 2BR02B which if you love Vonnegut you must stop right this very minute and find it and read it. It is THAT good.
So after an hour and 133 free items of Classic literature later (and I only made it through the first 100 pages of classic stuff out there...there's 300 pages of stuff left. It is amazing!
Yes. Needless to say the Kindle is growing on me :)
The Classic Read this week: Charles Baudelaires- Les Fleurs du Mal (...Flowers of Evil...) written in the original French (and transcribed as well) If you haven't given this book of poems a go...you've truly missed something amazing.
And a revisit to one of my all time favourite classics...Steinbeck's: Grapes of Wrath- which I now own (both in leather and digital).
And the Chip Butty?
And a Blaa.
When Dave returned home he was singing praises of this "Pub Treat" and the rest of us were somewhere between baffled and repulsed. It's definitely an English thing. Undaunted he continued. If we would only try one. So one non-fasting day I decided to take the plunge...and all in all it wasn't nearly as I thought. With a few strips of bacon and a bit of cheddar cheese it could be elevated to amazing.
Without further ado...
Chip Butty on a Blaa
(Note: A Waterford Blaa is a bit like our yeast roll)
Ingredients:
One Waterford Blaa (or large yeast roll split)
Chips are what we (In the States) refer to as French Fries
Our chips are called crisps over there.
Ketchup (or mayo..or malt vinegar)
Open roll...arrange a large layer of chips (fries) salt to taste and drizzle with ketchup (or alternative condiment).
And I am still thinking a bit of bacon and some cheddar would really dress it up, mate!
There...who said the internet isn't educational.
Have a wonderful weekend!