March 6, 2019 at 5:25 pm (destinations, Flowers, Food and Drink, Links, Places, Recommended)
Tags: Cee Neuner, Garden, indulgence, Redwood City, restaurants
For this week’s Fun Foto Challenge, PATTERNS, self is posting pictures from Lovejoy’s, an English-style tearoom tucked away in downtown Redwood City, CA, only a block from the library; and a picture of a plant with bright orange flowers that just began sprouting in her backyard. This winter saw heavy rain, hopefully in a month or so there will be tons of flowers blooming.
Tea at Lovejoy’s, downtown Redwood City, 1 March 2019
Adorable Porcelain Cup and Saucer, Perfect for Tea!
About to Bloom: 28 February 2019
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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February 27, 2019 at 8:57 pm (Food and Drink, Links, Places, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: California, Cambridge, Cee Neuner, indulgences, literary festivals, London, restaurants
Self missed last week’s Fun Foto Challenge. But this week, the Challenge is SMOOTH.
Here are: a sidewalk near Fleet Street, London (smooth sidewalk); a canal in Cambridge (smooth, tranquil boat ride); and sweet potato fries and an assortment of (smooth) dips!
London, Near Fleet Street: 20 November 2018
And here’s Cambridge University, during last November’s Cambridge Literary Festival:
Cambridge, England: 25 November 2018
And here’s a dish from Coupa Cafe, whose owner might be Venezuelan because there are a number of Venezuelan items on the menu:
Sweet Potato Fries w/ an Assortment of Dips: Coupa Cafe, Los Altos, CA
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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February 8, 2019 at 2:46 am (Conversations, destinations, Food and Drink, Lists, plans, Plays, Traveling, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: lunch, Mendocino, restaurants, Shakespeare, teaching
Drove up to Mendocino, which as the crow flies is only 200 miles from Redwood City, but always takes self at least FIVE HOURS.
On the way, she stopped by Yorkville Market and had lunch:
And then she mulled over the writing exercises she should start tomorrow with.
Should she have the students practice writing one very, very, very long, run-on sentence? With points to whoever can come up with the most run-on sentence?
Or, for fun, should she have them write a piece that’s all bad grammar and deliberately wrong spelling? Hamberder, anyone? Smocking guns?
Should she have them write a piece that’s all dialogue?
Should she ask them to capture every nuance of a piece of reality . . . in one sentence?
Should she have them practice writing a conversation that grows from an association of ideas (like a Harold Pinter play?)
Should she have them practice delaying the outcome for as long as possible?
She can’t decide. She’ll have to sleep on it.
BTW, this is one of the plays being presented by the Mendocino Theatre Company in 2019:
Mendocino Theatre Company, 2019 Season
Stay tuned.
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December 30, 2018 at 11:25 pm (destinations, Food and Drink, Links, Lists, Places, Sundays, Traveling)
Tags: Durham, England, London, Philadelphia, photography, restaurants
Showing the ways people move from one place to another on land: roads, walkways, stairs, elevators, escalators, railway tracks, ski lifts, runways, canals, locks, parking lots, driveways, tunnels.
The Black Sheep Pub & Restaurant, Downtown Philadelphia, 5 December 2018
Crossing Over the River Wear, Durham, 29 November 2018
Millenium Bridge, London, 22 November 2018
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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December 5, 2018 at 6:22 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Food and Drink, Links, Movies, Places, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: Cee Neuner, England, humor, indulgence, London, memories, museums, Oxford, restaurants
Self loves posting for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge. It gives her a chance to post photographs from her archives that might otherwise be overlooked. Such as the close-up of her bedside lamp at The Penn Club, where she stays whenever she is in London:
Room # 1, The Penn Club: Bedford Place, London
Or this tea-set:
London Review Cakeshop: Bury St., London
Or this amusing pair of socks:
Gift Shop, Ashmolean: Oxford, England
Thank you, Cee Neuner, for the prompt!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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July 19, 2018 at 6:22 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Family, Food and Drink, Lists, Places, Recommended)
Tags: art, desserts, exhibits, happiness, museums, praise, restaurants, San Francisco
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’:
Andrew and Jennie, 14 July 2018
There is a great, really great interactive portion at the end: Raise your arms, and YOU’RE the Magritte!
More later. Stay tuned!
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June 19, 2018 at 3:09 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Food and Drink, Links, Lists, plans, Recommended)
Tags: Anthony Bourdain, causes, Events, restaurants, San Francisco
In honor of World Refugee Day, June 20, San Francisco this week is hosting the Refugee Food Festival.
The festival kicks off today in one of Anthony Bourdain’s favorite San Francisco restaurants, the Hog Island Oyster Company in the Ferry Building.
The chef, Pa Wah, from Burma, “spent the majority of her life in the Mae La refugee camp in Thailand.”
The other participating chefs are from Bhutan, Iraq, Myanmar, Senegal, and Syria.
More information on the festival, here.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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June 18, 2018 at 5:55 pm (Food and Drink, Lists, Recommended)
Tags: causes, Events, Mondays, restaurants, San Francisco
In honor of World Refugee Day on 20 June (Ironically, the same day a judge will hear the case of the U.S. Dept of Justice against the State of California), this week (Tuesday, 19 June through Saturday, 23 June) San Francisco hosts the Refugee Food Festival.
Selected San Francisco restaurants will open their kitchens to refugee chefs.
- Tuesday, 19 June: Cuisine from Myanmar prepared by Pa Wah at the Hog Island Oyster Company in the Ferry Building
- Wednesday, 20 June: Cuisine from Iraq prepared by Muna Anaee at Tawla
- Thursday, 21 June: Cuisine from Bhutan prepared by Anu Mapchan at DOSA
- Friday, 22 June: Cuisine from Iraq (Part 2) prepared by Muna Anaee at Son’s Addition
- Saturday, 23 June: Cuisine from Senegal prepared by Vito at Jardiniere
For more information: refugeefoodfestival.com
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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October 31, 2017 at 11:27 am (Artists and Writers, destinations, Food and Drink, Plays, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: art, British Museum, desserts, England, exhibits, indulgences, London, museums, performances, postaday, postaweek, praise, restaurants, Wordpress
So many grrreat examples of ROUNDED, everywhere self looks.
First, this from the Scythian Exhibit at the British Museum (The special exhibit is 16.50 GBP, but the rest of the museum is free. This beauty is just standing in the lobby, next to a concession stand):
The Scythians, self learned from the exhibit, were nomads who roamed the wild Russian steppes. Everything of value to them was either made of fur or minted of gold. There are the most intricate golden belt buckles, as well as gold appliqués on thick fur coats.
Moving on:
Last night, self watched a play at The Gielgud: The Ferryman. The play was three hours and 15 minutes, one proper intermission, and a three-minute break to allow the audience to get up and stretch. During the first intermission, they sold Haagen Dasz caramel salt ice cream bars in the stalls (3 GBP)
Searing. The women actors were amazing. As was a live baby, who got onstage to get a diaper change and whose part was very nicely done (Baby never cried)
Display Window, Caffé Concerto, Across from the Gielgud on Shaftesbury Ave.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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October 14, 2017 at 5:53 am (Artists and Writers, Dearest Mum, destinations, Family, Food and Drink, Links, Pianos, Places, postaday, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: art, Bath, England, Fridays, memories, museums, New York, Paris, postaday, postaweek, restaurants, Wordpress
Very interesting challenge from The Daily Post this week!
SCALE
Photography ” . . . is all about perspective, where and how you place other objects in the frame . . . ” — Erica V., The Daily Post
Here are some examples of SCALE: (1) at the Louvre, in front of the Mona Lisa (2) in Bath’s Royal Crescent, the entrance to Royal Crescent # 1 and (3) in New York’s Russian Tea Room, next to Carnegie Hall. Self’s first trip to New York City was with Dearest Mum, who once played at Carnegie Hall. This September, she took Dearest Mum, who’s now past 80, for lunch at the Russian Tea Room. We had the best time.
The Louvre, May 2017
Royal Crescent No. 1 (Royal Crescent Museum), Bath
The Russian Tea Room, 57th St., New York City (Next to Carnegie Hall): Dearest Mum took self here, her first time in New York City, decades ago. The place hasn’t changed a bit.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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