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!
Self had her first It’s It in decades.
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
Stay tuned.
Tomorrow is the last day of the SquareOdds Challenge. It has been so much fun. Thank you, Becky for dreaming up The Squares Challenge!
Here are some cheeky pictures from London:
p. 13: “the past comes rushing back . . . ”
p. 16 features a description of self’s favorite Filipino dessert, halo-halo (Literal Translation: mix-mix):
HUNGRY.
It’s a good day whenever self can participate in Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge. The week’s Fun Foto Challenge is 2 ITEMS OR THE NUMBER 2.
Here are a couple of pics with ‘2 Items.’
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Today, self:
No pictures allowed inside the Cathedral.
Self did take a picture of her cookie.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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:
And there’s an adorable picture of the bear in Tea Bear!
And here’s the view just outside the café: Washington Park, where a Chinese dance performance was happening.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Self has seen it three times.
The Magritte-themed food in the fifth floor café is so much fun:
In the adjoining sculpture garden, you can pose in front of this sign and you will look fabulous and so ‘San Francisco’:
There is a great, really great interactive portion at the end: Raise your arms, and YOU’RE the Magritte!
More later. Stay tuned!
Not real. Not real. Not real.
In celebration of food, community, and life, all the food pictures self can pull from her archives in 15 minutes:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Kanlaon 