Notes from the Uk, part the third

[magid]

• The gap is very necessary to be minded; I don't they'd be allowed to have such uneven and wide gaps in the States (fear of litigation).
  
• coots, swans, a clutch of cute fuzzy off-white cygnets (one that kept on being reprimanded by its father)
  
• the glories of Foyle's though not theire prices (only kid books; I couldn't seem to focus on cookbooks or sf)
  
• Orange Kit Kats are quite lovely.
  
• I remembered to pronounce "aluminium" properly at the supermarket :-).
  
• King Harold's purported grave, which used to be inside
  
• one foot on either side of the meridian, marked by a mosaic at Waltham Abbey
  
• a knitted doll set of the last supper
  
• the oddities of year dating right after the switch to the Julian calendar (using fractions)
  
• The pew had flat leather pads hanging, presumably for kneeling during service, but all I could think of was yoga pillows.
  
• successful kosher cooking in a non-kosher kitchen: roasted potatoes'n'carrots'n'parsnips, and roasted salmon over spinach, topped with mango chutney. Hooray for lots of aluminium foil. (Plus, well, it's satisfying to cook for others.)
  
• free pubs! ('cause they don't like being enslaved :-)
  
• Lavender growing everywhere.
  
• weather even more variable than in MA

And probably more, once I can focus...

Comments

[powerfrau.livejournal.com]

Hey, Our weather hasn't been variable. It has pretty muched rained for several weeks and guess what? More rain coming!!! Ain't noreasters fun? What does that word actually mean?

minding the gap

[jaq.livejournal.com]

Most of the stations with 'mind the gap' have a gap because they have curved platforms; it being difficult for a straight (in sections) train to fit snugly against a curved platform. I don't think that excuses all of them though.