Thanks to Journeys with Jonbo for hosting the Cellpic Sunday challenge.
A few days ago, self met a friend for lunch at Mademoiselle Colette, a local patisserie. They offer salads and soup of the day, plus croissants and brioches. Not to mention the most delicious cakes!
Love the little Christmas trees. She just had to take a picture.
Challenge coming to you via Debbie Smyth’s fantastic blog, Travel with Intent.
Self and the managing editor of Miami University Press, Amy Toland, somehow manage to meet up in London every May/June (with the exception of the lockdown years: 2020 and 2021).
Look at our BIG BIG smiles! And why shouldn’t we be smiling? It was June, and we were standing in front of the London Review Cakeshop in Bloomsbury! YAY for the memories!
She went to the library and checked out a new book: Katherine Addison’s The Witness for the Dead (Surprisingly thin! The Goblin Emperor, which is the only other Katherine Addison book self has read, was a hefty tome)
She bought a few sundries from Bianchini’s in San Carlos and the bill came to $39 (She bought 13-gallon garbage bags, 10 0z. of Peet’s Dark Roast, a small container of cubed watermelon)
She is on p. 244 of Book # 12 of Elly Griffiths’ powerfully addictive Dr. Ruth Galloway mystery series (She keeps complaining about the plots, but is unable to stop reading). Detective Sergeant Tanya Fuller interviews a witness:
She shows Crissy a photograph of the pumpkin badge.
“Do you recognize this?”
“It’s a Hallowe’en thing, isn’t it? I don’t like Hallowe’en as a holiday. Why dwell on the darkness in life?”
Don’t ask me, thinks Tanya. You’re the one who was married to a serial killer.
— The Lantern Men, Book 12 of the Dr. Ruth Galloway mystery series
On election day, in full view of more than 700 foreign and local journalists, and millions of concerned citizens, Marcos’s men ripped up ballots, bought others and muzzled voters. As many as three million names were stricken off the voters’ list.
p. 16 features a description of self’s favorite Filipino dessert, halo-halo (Literal Translation: mix-mix):
This delicacy, served in a tall sundae glass, contains diced bananas, sweet mango, chickpeas, kidney beans, strands of macapuno (the succulent meat of a variety of coconut) — all of these in syrup — plus pinipig (kernels of crisp and delectable rice), mongo beans, corn, langka (jackfruit), sweet potato, jello, ube (purple yam preserves), and leche flan.
Nearly got hit by a red car in front of Hotel Indigo
Had a chocolate cookie with a marshmallow garnish in the Cathedral’s Undercroft Cafe
Saw the Durham Cathedral in LEGOs (It’s near the Gift Shop)
Saw a Pieta made of wood — amazing
Saw Hugh Easton’s RAF Memorial Window in the Durham Cathedral
Saw the Marks & Spencer Window at the Cathedral, which is in fact right next to the RAF Memorial Window, but did not cause her to say “Wowie”
Saw the relics of St. Cuthbert, including: his “pectoral cross” which was surprisingly small and delicate, a thing of amazing beauty (to imagine a 10th century man having a thing like that on his person, in the northern wilds, is pretty mind-blowing. It was gold and originally held a small ruby. And at the time St. Cuthbert was carrying that around, England was wild, and it was cold and dark, and there was no cathedral. Self is pretty sure he kept that cross well hidden) and the comb the monks used to brush St. Cuthbert’s hair and beard
Learned the name of the River which encircles Durham: the River Wear
Saw the grave of The Venerable Bede
Saw the Hellmouth (Sanctuary Ring) at Durham Cathedral: Anyone who grabbed onto that ring was guaranteed sanctuary for 37 days. Don’t ask self why 37.
Wondered why the Ladies’ Chapel, all the way at the back of the cathedral (almost a mile away from the pulpit, lol, wonder if they could even hear anything) was so cold. Much colder than any other part of the church (the parts with the men). Was it because proper ladies were expected to cover up in layers of material ???!!!
No pictures allowed inside the Cathedral.
Self did take a picture of her cookie.
The Undercroft Café, Durham Cathedral: Thursday, 29 November 2018
Another Cee Neuner Fun Foto Challenge! For the next few weeks, Cee asks us to take inspiration from a photograph. Here is the photograph for Week 3.
Self got to spend time in the City yesterday. She was with her niece Angela, who introduced self to the wonder of Tea Bear Café, whose walls were either real or synthetic wood. And self has no idea what the dice were meant to represent:
Saturday, 28 July 2018: Tea Bear Café, San Francisco Chinatown
And there’s an adorable picture of the bear in Tea Bear!
The Bear Has Its Close-up
And here’s the view just outside the café: Washington Park, where a Chinese dance performance was happening.