Wednesday; a happy day;

Early this morning the clouds sort of formed a heart, illuminated  by the sun.

Yesterday is mystery
Where it is Today
While we shrewdly speculate
Flutter both away
Emily Dickinson


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The Logan berries are ripening rapidly now. This means freezing and using.
I cooked jam today.  Using only half  sugar and not cooking them to death. Quite a nice job to see  the black berries turn into a wonderful dark raspberry red. Some for us and some to give away.


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For dinner  I made potato gnocchi; they turned out light as a feather.  Still had some  tomato sauce in the freezer . I thought I better use some of my broad leaved Basil  before the grasshoppers take it all.  I love Pesto, it just breathes  Mediterranean  cooking.

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A simple tasty dinner, no meat,  potato gnocchi,  tomato sauce and pesto plus  a mixed salad of  cucumbers, tomatoes, red capsicums,
red onions, garlic olive oil and a drop of white balsamic vinegar. 

BC's Birthday Lunch;

Here we are at  "Café 381" Michelin ***

The table is set, ready for the guests; in the middle a beautiful flower arrangement  made with double Alamanda blossoms, Ixora, blood grass and cats whiskers; that sounds so good and looks so pretty!!  Arranged  by Lilli.

The last touch....

Ready....It was delicious!

Sorry, I forgot to take a picture of the wines and Champagne,  they were also part of  this successful meal.

Dessert, light and delicious. 

Ricotta Cheesecake with berries and fruit coulis.

...and to finish  a strong, delicious coffee.

♥HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BILL♥

  

Saturday; Trivia Oddities;

The odd, fantasy, bizarre;  by Jacek Yerka;

I think it is wonderful to see paintings  that take you completely out of the ordinary everyday.

Here are a few trivia tidbits which we usually do not encounter in our every day life!

Did you know?

The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

 An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

 A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds

. Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian seal for that reason

I wish that my room had a floor

I don't care so much for a door

But this running around  without touching the ground

Is getting to be such a bore!

Gelett Burgess  The floorless room;

If this does not make your day, I do not know what will! 

Wednesday; A Satire; The News Paper Man;

Satire; The News Paper Man;

Waiting at death’s door,  the news paper man said:” the good news are, there is no hell; the bad news are there is no heaven”. 

A deep sigh and  he floats softly as an atom; finally settling in a sapling... 

100 years have passed just like that. The sapling grew and grew and grew  stretching its branches to the sky. 

Ready; the chainsaw made short work and the pulp mill was waiting.

In the morning, when  turning  the pages of a News Paper  one can hear faintly a sigh…and a hiss…bloody  hell!


© TS

Monday; Bookworm;

Lettah's Gift by Graham Lang.

A very tragic but still wonderful book to read. Sad though, to see a country, Zimbabwe and  its people  ruined by bad politics.
Last page;  And in this moment I see the smile beneath her veil, as warm and beautiful as it used to be.

Sepia Saturday; Happiness;

   I like this photo of my mother and her first Love. It was probably 1930.
   This is not my father. My mother and this man were not allowed to be together. So, my mother left and
   went to Switzerland where she met my father and they married later.
   Sometimes she went back to her hometown and on the photos one can see when she met H. again, that
   they  still had a soft spot for each other.
   I think it would have been nice for her to marry her first love. Alas I would not be here then!

Please visit Sepia Saturday to go back in time;

Sepia Saturday 69

Photo from my family archive.

Wednesday; fairy tales...

Jacek Yerka

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
— Albert Einstein

"Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."
— G.K. Chesterton

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library."
— Jorge Luis Borges