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Comment on The Chalet des Anglais by Owen

Owen — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:51:11 +0000

Heya Tom,

Wow – did you ever take a wrong turn to get there – we never went anywhere near sheer cliffs or scree slopes. Mind you, that might have had something to do with the fact that many walks were closed off to us, due to the Glacier water pocket.

The shower I think has been improved somewhat – there is now a shower head, and on/off valve – a large cistern has been rigged up which you pour your water into.

xx
O

Comment on Rylance is certainly not stupid by Tom

Tom — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:53:54 +0000

Hehe. At least you didn’t want to throttle him. Am I beginning to detect a pattern of unintended vocalisations?

Comment on Rylance is certainly not stupid by Rose Dixon

Rose Dixon — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:28:18 +0000

Yes, I agree. Though there was a point in the soliloquy when I said out loud, ‘just SHUT UP’ (not all that quitely) because I was so frustrated…. Elomire is a nice anagram, of course, but we weren’t so sure about Valere.

Comment on Fox gets it right apart from the headline. by Katherine

Katherine — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:16:37 +0000

It’s not called Faux News for nothing…

Comment on Viajante gets my thumbs up by Tom

Tom — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:29:56 +0000

Ah, I don’t know the chicken dish.

I think it was based on this http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofrito

The mini ones were lovely. You’ll have to come and try next time you are in town.

Comment on Why atheism is unappealing by Tom

Tom — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:15:37 +0000

Snigger.

And while thinking soberly, I realised what I’d say if challenged: I am fascinated to see how my godchildren and (extended) nieces and nephews will turn out.

Comment on Why atheism is unappealing by Katherine

Katherine — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:11:38 +0000

Silly answer; don’t wear the raincoat, then, it never suited you.

Sober answer: pause and look. Educate people in what a decent man’s face looks like when he’s pausing to enjoy the sight of children in a playground. The more anxiety culture we feed through fear or hesitation in being good, the worse it gets.

Comment on Viajante gets my thumbs up by Katherine

Katherine — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:07:21 +0000

Oh, yes, very lovely indeed. Thank you. And utterly different from my previous understanding of a sofrito, which is the name given to a Sephardi chicken dish made with cardamom, lemon juice, and saffron. it may be the method of cooking which puts the chicken dish under the heading of ‘sofrito’, though.

The dishes look compact with delight.

Comment on Why atheism is unappealing by Tom

Tom — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:37:45 +0000

I think our thirties (and forties so far) are full of shouting at the radio and saying “there’s nothing worth reading in the papers”. Maybe we have stopped being anyone’s target market, and are therefore not served effectively.

I think we probably should continue to be angry about sloppy journalism, including our personal version of it.

I could rant for days about the culture of anxiety. My personal anecdata: I feel genuinely as if I shouldn’t pause to watch kids playing in school playgrounds as I pass by, because people would automatically think I was dodgy.

Comment on Why atheism is unappealing by Amanda Flood

Amanda Flood — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:29:04 +0000

I am not a fan of the media by a very long way: to read it you’d think we were all everyman sharing the same experience and life can be sorted out in two soundbite columns by yet another white educated middle class Londoner looking for agreement in conformity – quite aside from the end-of-the-bell-curve events that get related on a daily basis, distorting out subconscious thinking towards fear and disaster as ‘normal’ and creating a culture of anxiety.

These days we all seem to be glib know-it-alls from our wide reading: unfortunately there can be a fairly large cost to our ability to assess the truth of our own personal experience and operate from our own instincts.

Yup it’s a rant, right now I find it hard to believe that people pay for this – clearing it out of me has really put me back in touch with myself. I expect I’ll stop being cross about it at some point :p

Your dinner really does sound good though! ))