Friday, April 20, 2012

one of those knitters

It appears that I have become one of those knitters.

As best as I can tell, there are more or less three kinds of knitters.  I started out as the first, was comfortably one of the second, but seem to have become one of the third.

Sunday, April 15, 2012

samoussa love

Last night, G and I went to one of my two favourite restaurants ever (unfortunately, the other one is on the other side of the world, but then again, this one was on the other side of the world from me for a long time, and I've been to the other one more, so I guess it works out).  This is going to be a boring post.  It is going to involve me raving about how tasty my appetizer was.

Saturday, April 7, 2012

baguettes

I will start this post with the definition of the French word "baguette," from my "All-New Edition Larousse's French-English English-French Dictionary" (copyright 1996 - I've probably had it since about then - it's certainly not all-new now!).

baguette [bagεt] nf [pain (bread)] French stick. || [petit bâton] stick; ~ magique magic wand; ~ de tambour drumstick; mener qqn à la ~ to rule sb with a rod of iron. || [pour manger (for eating)] chopstick. || [chef d'orchestre (conductor)] baton

I have long been familiar with the bread definition, as are, I presume, most people in Western countries.  It is such a classic French thing - like croissants and berets and the Eiffel tower.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

kitty girl

Last night, talking to G's parents on the phone, the question of what my cats' names were came up.  They are apparently avid readers of my blog (I have blog readers!), and the question of whether or not we were still alive (yes) and had good things to eat (yes) came up as there hadn't been any pictures posted for a while.  So I thought I'd do a little post about the cats (since I've been thinking about doing a cat post for a while anyway, as it should be fairly easy, and avoids my having to actually come up with something semi-interesting to write about).