shewhomust: (mamoulian)
I have broken my (prescription) reading glasses.
Yesterday I visited the optician and picked out a frame (my only requirement is that the reading glasses be as different as possible to any other glasses I own, to minimise the risk of wearing the weong glasses) and in a week's time I will have new ones. With luck they will work even better than the old ones, since my prescription has changed quite a bit. Meanwhile, I am squinting at things with my nose to the paper.


We - unintentionally - dined on vegetarian haggis.
I had included haddis in my cheese order, since these are the people (or the successirs of the people) from whom I have long bought my haggis. The delivery note says "not vegetarian", but I can see how expressing it like that could lead to errors. The worst thing about it, though, was not that it was vegetarian byt that it was tinned; also in a plastic 'stomach' as a result of which the texture was completely wrong. Which was disappointing.


Other endangered foodstuffs:
A Guardian article discusses seven of the UK’s most endangered foods, of which we frequently eat two, saddleback pork and beremeal. The illustration shows something unlike any bere bannock I have ever met...


Not the finger in the ear show
In 1982 the EFDSS made a half hour programme in the BBC's Open Door slot, about why you might like folk music better than you expect (the defensive note is theirs).



Some familiar faces and some unexpected fashion choices (Martin Simpson in a pink bow tie?)


One for my own benefit: Thank Goodness it's Folk
Sam Hindley and James Fagan on Sheffield Live - because I believe the latest show had lots of Les Barker, and I'd like to listen to it.
shewhomust: (Default)
Les Barker was beamed live to our living room on Friday, courtesy of Live to Your Living Room: a Zoom session is not a live concert, but it's as close as we're going to get just now - and you don't have to go out in the cold, and, as [personal profile] durham_rambler points out, the wine is better.

Les Barker, for those who haven't met him, reads his own poems, which are funny, and somewhere on the line between surreal and silly - though I was surprised at some hard-edged topical material, too: did he always do this, and I'd just forgotten? Anyway, I'm not going to talk about humour, but here are a few davourites, starting with Cosmo the Fairly Accurate Knife-Thrower:



Detritus was new to me:
Do not walk behind me for I may not lead
Do not walk in front for I may not follow
Go over there somewhere


For reference, two that weren't on Friday's programme: Guide Cats for the Blind with a video of many, many cat pictures, and a lovely reading of The Shipping Forecast (source of my header line, of course):

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