As some of my friends will know, I’m a big Jaws fan. Today marked it’s 40th birthday. 40 years! This is my Jaws t-shirt, taken from a poster in the film advertising Amity Island.
Monthly Archives: June 2015
The direction out
So my daughter had a bad cough last week, and naturally passed it on to me. I’ve been hacking away all week, which has made sleep difficult. I’ve always found the “3 days coming, 3 days here, 3 days going” heuristic good for colds, which made today they eye of the storm. I’ve not been able to do any running and this is a crucial week for half marathon training, so that’s the worst of it. Still, at least it’ll be gone in 4 days.
Home and Away
Our local footie/rugby club changing rooms, not the dodgy Ozzie soap
It’s Jurassic
Went to see Jurassic World tonight with daughter. Was good fun, if not brilliant. Was suitably warned about filming before entering
Lemon bee
“whisper words of wisdom, oh, lemon bee”
A bee on my lemon tree – the leaves are sticky and it seems to like them, so I wonder if there is some sugary substance in that secretion.
In French a bee is abeille, which doesn’t offer as many puns for “etre” as bee/be in English. Bees need to work on that.
Tent test
Will be going camping in the summer, so dug out an old tent that hasn’t been used for 10 years or so. After some testing managed to get it up. It was a lot bigger than I remembered. Perhaps I should leave it up as a kind of cheap summer house.
Penitence
After an indulgent and lazy week in Barcelona, did some penitence by means of a 10 mile run today. Was harder than last week’s one and was pretty wiped out for the rest of the day.
Lazy day bouquet
It rained all day, and as I’d been away all week I opted for a lazy day indoors. And in blip terms that means, photographing flowers in your house. This is a supermarket bunch, with one rose from my garden added for variety.
Coq au vin
Came back from Barcelona today. Cooked a coq au vin, and took the advice often given that you should use a good quality wine to cook with (to a brit, that always seems like a waste – I could be drinking it!). It was very nice, but right at the end realised I didn’t have any flour to create a thickener, so sauce was a bit thin. About two minutes after this photo I tipped half of it in my lap. How I laughed.
Royal Palace
Conference dinner tonight was at the royal palace. Fancy
