Tad late on the hamper recommend aren't we? :-) Tah; I'll see about one 4 New Year. I like crazy Chinese stuff. I loved 'The Water Margin' on the Beeb '76-78. Back when the TV licence was almost worth it. Have a great Yule and New Year both of you; I'll look forward to the year in review.
The F&F hampers are not cheap, and if you want a Christmas goose from them you do need to order WELL in advance, so I thought it would be better to give people ideas for next year.
Lorenzo is your man when it comes to C-Dramas; in fact I may get him to do a dedicated C-Drama recommendations/reviews post.
Merry Christmas to you both. I'm looking forward to next year's publications, and hopefully managing to join one of your Chatham House calls. Anyway, I've opened the family-size box of chocolate biscuits, so I must go and eat the whole thing before anybody notices. It's tradition.
Currently watching Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit with my toddler, which I believe is the film that gave Stinking Bishop its blast of fame. I'll stick to my more orthodox cheddar for now. Excellent film though. It's very much at my childish level.
Merry Christmas Helen. Our Christmas Eve tradition is sushi and shrimp. My wife and I were musing how we came to that, her mother hailing from German with all their traditions.
I recommending The Holdovers as a new holiday movie, hilarious and sad all at once. Not depressing in anyway, but the timing of things really makes it an enjoyable viewing.
Honoured to get a mention. I'm also a big fan of Forman's smoked salmon. It's a very interesting business, the last surviving Jewish smoke house in east London, an area which was once teeming with them. Well worth a visit.
They offered me one of their smokehouse tours last year but the date clashed with something else. I must do something about visiting, probably in the summer though.
Oh dear. I took it into my head to read *Romance of the Three Kingdoms*. I had to watch Youtube videos and make graphs of the relationships to keep all the characters straight.
You get through it, you get one of the most intricate intrigue dramas in history. I really enjoyed the cynicism and lack of anti-intellectualism of it--it's all about making noises in the west and attacking in the east. It's as if Superman, Achilles, Conan the Barbarian and Captain Kirk had been swapped out for Batman, Odysseus, Sherlock Holmes, and the Doctor (Who).
You'll also find something like 5% of all random Asian cultural productions are suddenly more understandable. I ran into an old Chinese silk paintings in an antique shop and was like "Holy crap, it's the Oath of the Peach Garden!"
The 2010 show is really good, though I was leery of committing the time to watch all 90 episodes. (I'm told the earlier 1994 version is more historically accurate.) But it's fun to watch another culture really pulling out all the stops in order to celebrate one of their core texts, kind of like the 4-hour Branagh Hamlet.
Happy holidays you bigoted homophobe/s
Tad late on the hamper recommend aren't we? :-) Tah; I'll see about one 4 New Year. I like crazy Chinese stuff. I loved 'The Water Margin' on the Beeb '76-78. Back when the TV licence was almost worth it. Have a great Yule and New Year both of you; I'll look forward to the year in review.
The F&F hampers are not cheap, and if you want a Christmas goose from them you do need to order WELL in advance, so I thought it would be better to give people ideas for next year.
Lorenzo is your man when it comes to C-Dramas; in fact I may get him to do a dedicated C-Drama recommendations/reviews post.
Merry Christmas to you both. I'm looking forward to next year's publications, and hopefully managing to join one of your Chatham House calls. Anyway, I've opened the family-size box of chocolate biscuits, so I must go and eat the whole thing before anybody notices. It's tradition.
We are somewhat savoury in our orientation, so it's been smoked salmon, salmon pâté, and ALL THE CHEESE including the well known Stinking Bishop.
Currently watching Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit with my toddler, which I believe is the film that gave Stinking Bishop its blast of fame. I'll stick to my more orthodox cheddar for now. Excellent film though. It's very much at my childish level.
Merry Christmas! Your gift of Mind Food is greatly appreciated.
Merry Christmas, Helen!
You too, Michael!
I was going to say those mince pies look good:) What is the mincemeat like?
Lots of distinct bits without producing excessive chewiness. Pastry beautifully short.
Merry Christmas to you, too .
Merry Christmas Helen. Our Christmas Eve tradition is sushi and shrimp. My wife and I were musing how we came to that, her mother hailing from German with all their traditions.
I recommending The Holdovers as a new holiday movie, hilarious and sad all at once. Not depressing in anyway, but the timing of things really makes it an enjoyable viewing.
Honoured to get a mention. I'm also a big fan of Forman's smoked salmon. It's a very interesting business, the last surviving Jewish smoke house in east London, an area which was once teeming with them. Well worth a visit.
They offered me one of their smokehouse tours last year but the date clashed with something else. I must do something about visiting, probably in the summer though.
Oh dear. I took it into my head to read *Romance of the Three Kingdoms*. I had to watch Youtube videos and make graphs of the relationships to keep all the characters straight.
You get through it, you get one of the most intricate intrigue dramas in history. I really enjoyed the cynicism and lack of anti-intellectualism of it--it's all about making noises in the west and attacking in the east. It's as if Superman, Achilles, Conan the Barbarian and Captain Kirk had been swapped out for Batman, Odysseus, Sherlock Holmes, and the Doctor (Who).
You'll also find something like 5% of all random Asian cultural productions are suddenly more understandable. I ran into an old Chinese silk paintings in an antique shop and was like "Holy crap, it's the Oath of the Peach Garden!"
The 2010 show is really good, though I was leery of committing the time to watch all 90 episodes. (I'm told the earlier 1994 version is more historically accurate.) But it's fun to watch another culture really pulling out all the stops in order to celebrate one of their core texts, kind of like the 4-hour Branagh Hamlet.