Five leftovers make a post
Dec. 29th, 2024 06:09 pmI enjoy the cooking with leftovers which follows Christmas: I don't know why people talk as if it was a bad thing. I like the illusion that half the work has been done already; and I like the limitation it imposes (this is what there is - now turn it into a meal). I made the surplus pigs in blankets (actually, I regard that as tautology, but
durham_rambler requested them, and this is the season of surplus) into toad-in-the-hole (toads in blankets?) and tonight the last of the ham will go into a mushroom risotto. I have not curried anything (yet).
I can't see any end to the leftover washing up, though. Where did it all come from? (Guests arrive tomorrow, so it must be done).
I have tidied away the last days of the leftover calendar, and replaced it with the Angela Harding one which was my Christmas present from K. This feels premature, but we have enough plans for next week to justify it.
We continue to chew our way slowly through the crossword from the Saturday before Christmas: a minimalist grid into which only the consonants of the solution are to be entered. All of the across clues are the names of the composers, and not further defined. There are no black squares, so you could complete the puzzle by solving only the across or only the down clues; we have done some of each, but even this means that there are places where we have filled in an entire answer without actually knowing what it is. Clever, but not really satisfying.
Finally, a post left over from our visit to London: I threatened a post about the British Museum, and here it is. I knew that there had been many changes since I last visited the British Museum (when was that? probably before the British Library moved out in 1998) and was prepared for the unfamiliar; what I wasn't prepared for was how very familiar other things felt. But to start with the new, here's how the entrance hall looks now:
( More under the cut: )
And that really was all we had time - and energy - for. We didn't even investigate what looked like another, better, gift shop. Was that where they used to keep Magna Carta? No, looking now at the map, perhaps not. Anyway, it's in the British Library now...
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I can't see any end to the leftover washing up, though. Where did it all come from? (Guests arrive tomorrow, so it must be done).
I have tidied away the last days of the leftover calendar, and replaced it with the Angela Harding one which was my Christmas present from K. This feels premature, but we have enough plans for next week to justify it.
We continue to chew our way slowly through the crossword from the Saturday before Christmas: a minimalist grid into which only the consonants of the solution are to be entered. All of the across clues are the names of the composers, and not further defined. There are no black squares, so you could complete the puzzle by solving only the across or only the down clues; we have done some of each, but even this means that there are places where we have filled in an entire answer without actually knowing what it is. Clever, but not really satisfying.
Finally, a post left over from our visit to London: I threatened a post about the British Museum, and here it is. I knew that there had been many changes since I last visited the British Museum (when was that? probably before the British Library moved out in 1998) and was prepared for the unfamiliar; what I wasn't prepared for was how very familiar other things felt. But to start with the new, here's how the entrance hall looks now:
( More under the cut: )
And that really was all we had time - and energy - for. We didn't even investigate what looked like another, better, gift shop. Was that where they used to keep Magna Carta? No, looking now at the map, perhaps not. Anyway, it's in the British Library now...