Vera

Question of the Day
Do you have some table items you only bring out when you entertain guests for dinner?

I picked up this question from dine. I like to use my precious things rather than save them for special. Otherwise why have them? If it has function, let it function. Some things though are too large for one or two person eating. I have a tin-lined copper couscoussier that is not suitable for cooking small amounts. It also looks amazing when you bring it out and put it on the table, gleaming and full of deliciousness.

Other than that there are platters, serving spoons and such that only come out when I'm feeding a few.

So, the Doctor ( spoilers )

Book meme via spiralsheep.

1. Almost everyone will recommend a book or two to read, but are there any you would tell people to avoid?

Kind of. If I understand what a person prefers to avoid and they would like to know, I will make un-recs. I'm falling about laughing at 'will recommend a book or two'.

2. If you take a book on holiday, are you more likely to take something you haven't read yet or an old favourite?

Thanks to the internet and e-books, I am never without many things to read at hand, new and old. But more on holiday reading below.

3. Do you read any genres by the season? Like horror around Halloween? Cozy mysteries in the winter? Romance in the summer?

Not by season, but if I am planning a trip somewhere new. I like to start reading fiction and non-fiction about that place and/or by local authors when I'm planning the trip and continue during the trip.

4. If you read a lot of fiction do you prefer an author who has a series with the same character(s), or do you prefer stand-alone stories?

No preference.

5. Is there a book that you wish you could read again, but experience it like it was the first time?

I regularly forget what happened in a story, so I kind of get that experience when I re-read, sometimes. I would love to read Lord of the Rings for the first time again. What magic it was for wee baby me, when all those things were new and not stalwarts of the genre I came to love.

Per previous post, I decided I needed something warm and fluffy to watch while I got on with knitting. I found a documentary called Wild Babies. Now, background, normally I avoid wildlife documentaries because you're never warned about that creature I am so phobic of I'm not writing its name and also general terrible but normal things that happen in 'the wild'. Surely, I thought, in a show called wild babies there would be none of that particular kind of invertebrate (baby squid a-ok) and surely, surely, there would be no screening of terrible things.

So, I pressed the go button. It had a good start! Many wee, fluffy adorable critters tumbled across the screen in the credits and the opening voice over.

Then the vo credit: Helena Bonham Carter.

Ummm... not an actor I associate with pleasant things but you never know.

Then a subtitle for where we were heading first: the Skeleton Coast.

...

Okay, noping out out out. You just can't trust nature documentarists. There'll be hungry birds diving on those wee baby turtles any minute.

On Masterchef Professionals this year there's a contestant who looks and sounds like an extra scruffy Dan Radcliff. His name is James and I've been amusing myself to pieces thinking about a marauders era Masterchef AU with the youngs as the chefs and the Hogwarts staff as the judges, guest chefs and critics.

Although, clearly Voldemort is Jay Rayner.

Anyway, work is organising an in-person half day in the next town over for the end of the month. What part of one in every one hundred people in our city have COVID are they missing? I still haven't seen a lot of my friends in person and you want me to take a risk on work people? Fuck that noise.

killabeez posted: K/S archive moving to AO3

Please read the post if you have works on K/S archive.

I am taking part in cookbook_challenge this year and here's my first post: Tomato and plum salad with nori and sesame

This is a great community and you should consider taking part or just partaking of the posts!

Wow, but it is harrowing to post in a community. If I make a html mistake in my own journal: whatevs! In another journal: calamity!

Guardian friends, I have finished. Credits have rolled on episode 40 and bless the translator. ( Read more... )

There are SPOILERS in the comments.