all our house-buying~ma Cashmere

Fred Pete - much pet ma (and a wave from 1/2 of the Philadelphia crew)... hope it all works out for Teddy!

Annotated bibilography to infinity and beyond!

I hope everything goes well with the house, Cash. Then we need pictures.

Also, transplant~ma to Teddy.

vw, you may just be reacting to the burning off of the stuff that accumated in the ducts over the summer. That will go away soon. If your landlord doesn't change your filter once a month, you should thwack him. (When I'm writing my energy use columns, I can't use the word "thwack.")

Once a month, really?

Scrambled eggs w/sweetcorn, pizza-flavoured crunchy anchovies, sliced Thai 'cherry' tomato and cashewnuts. With Tempura seaweed on the side.

Followed by dessert of peanut-butter-and-preserved-plum (not plum preserve) sandwich.

(...er, and a Kit Kat.)

...why yes, this is indeed cuisine from the school of What's In The Cupboard. And it was very nice, and reasonably nutritious, even!

I never cease to be impressed by Thailand's approach to Crunchy Snackfood. 'Cause in the UK, the humble potato has pretty much got it covered. Yes, you can buy cornchips, but they are vastly outnumbered by potato crisps. Yes, you can also, in some posh/healthy places, buy OtherRootVegetable crisps, or wheat-based crisps.

But what you CAN'T buy in your random corner shop is crunchy bags of crisps made from cuttlefish/pork/prawns/coconunt/fish/seaweed/bananas/tamarind.

The preserved plums, in particular, are almost too delicious to bear - the moist, sticky flesh, the tart, tangy combination of sweet/sour - ngah.

Ahem, anyway, sorry, you probably didn't need that particular snapshot from Fay's book of fusion cuisine, eh?

Meanwhile, however - Daisy, congratulations on Budapest! It's at least ten years since I was last there, but, gosh, it's one of the prettiest of cities! You'll love it!

Susan - nice one!

Stephanie - glad to hear your wee 'un is looking better. Hope she continues to improve.

Omnis - funny, the first F2F I attended involved Buffistas taking over a Hollywood bowling alley, many of us sporting tiaras and/or corsets and/or period costume. But I don't think it was as a dice-rolling alternative.

You should at least check them once a month. If the filter looks completely clean, which certainly happens, you can leave it for another month. Changing filters is the cheapest thing you can do to increase the life and efficiency of your HVAC system.

t /thus endeth the lesson

The preserved plums, in particular, are almost too delicious to bear - the moist, sticky flesh, the tart, tangy combination of sweet/sour - ngah.

Do you get the plain ones or the ones with the powdery spice on? We call those ones homoys and they've been one of my favourite treats since I was knee high to a grasshopper. Mmm, homoys.

Plain, this time. I'll get the powdered ones next time, eh?

Me: Yeah, I'm on that diet, too. The "I Will Eat Whatever I Need to Quell The Panic About Finishing The House and Moving" diet.

DH (popping a cookie in his mouth) Yeah, that's the one.

Oh! I know that one!

Had a lovely weekend- sj and TCG came over for dinner on Saturday and then yesterday, our plans for family visitation in CT fell through, leaving us with a lazy day of tv watching (me), brewing beer (Tom), making mac & cheese, and chilling out.

Had a lovely weekend- sj and TCG came over for dinner on Saturday and then yesterday, our plans for family visitation in CT fell through, leaving us with a lazy day of tv watching (me), brewing beer (Tom), making mac & cheese, and chilling out.

We had a great time! You're great cooks and we really appreciate the fresh herbs garden and the bottle of homemade beer.

Ginger, once I call my landlord, he comes about every 6 weeks to replace the filter. He's pretty good about it. And he buys me the hypo-allergenic filters, which is nice.