sunday sixbells

ionic

Ionic

rip henry

ennui

I posted this picture on Flickr in 2004, so we had him about 5 years . . . not bad for a wee fish.

rip jimmy

Jimmy Guiffre Three - Train & The River

first of the season, folks

Grillade

And the wee digicam never does get the colours right . . . :(

anyone with half a brain could invent a difference engine . . .

Babbage

Babbage: portrait and partial brain specimen, Science Museum London.

wot no yum yums?

 . . . (food) additives aren't just bad in a special, toxicological, narrow sense, but also because they are "facilitators": they allow us to produce rubbish food, preserve it, and make it more attractive, ultimately producing fat people with quintessentially English teeth. In those terms additives were always part of a bigger problem of cruddy lifestyles . . .

- Ben Goldacre, Guardian Bad Science

stygian

Feribot

When I'm taken over to the other side, this is how I jolly well hope it'll look.

backyard bollywood

East is East

sophistication upon sophistication

More culinary boasting fine cookery news: yesterday I created a most excellent thing: a lime version of the French/Italian classic Lemon Tart. It's a fruit custard set in a sweet pastry case: I simply substituted limes for lemons in the recipe and achieved an amazing transformation. Limes have a subtle perfume over and above their flavour and it came through in spades. Now I'm thinking: supposing next time I infused a little lemongrass and a kaffir lime leaf in the custard during cooking? A Thai Lime Tart . . . definitely worth a try. And the coulis? Who knows?

small mammal trapping: yellow-necked mouse

Mouse

More rodents, it seems.