Comments | extemporanea: everything is contextual

extemporanea

everything is contextual

Nov 10, 2010 22:11

I am made very happy by the way in which pleasure in new experiences is an infinitely varied thing. We can go to the Roundhouse and spend vast amounts on upmarket ambience, attentive waiters and carefully-posed plates of nouvelle minimalism in delicate flavours, and have a marvellous time. Or we can go to the Whole Earth market this evening, and ( Read more... )

happy, food, sf, books

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Miles stringgeek November 10 2010, 20:19:39 UTC

I bought it and ate it up in just one night. I cried at the end, too. :(

Re: Miles extemporanea November 11 2010, 06:34:54 UTC

She's been threatening to do that for years, and I knew it was coming, with a sickening sinking in my stomach, when Miles and Mark started their discussion. Inevitable, and necessary, and still gut-wrenching. One really grows into these characters as family of one's own.

I'm still hoping she'll give us another one focused on Ivan, which she's also been threatening to do for a while.

Ivan vesta_aurelia November 12 2010, 02:29:03 UTC

she IS doing a book about Ivan:
http://vorkosigan.dreamwidth.org/21083.html

the drabbles at the end of CryoBurn *broke* me.

Re: Ivan extemporanea November 12 2010, 05:31:10 UTC

Hooray! I have a soft spot for Ivan. In his own way, given his own goals, he's absolutely as effective as Miles is.

The drabbles were incredibly powerful and heart-breaking, I completely agree.

ext_252688 November 10 2010, 23:28:37 UTC

"Continual interruptions are incredibly draining"
Yes. This is, to me, the hardest thing about parenting. Or perhaps just the hardest thing about parenting while trying to run a business. Probably that.

V jealous of your food haul. Creamy fudge and ruby grapefruit marmalade? YUM. Possibly not together. But yum.

extemporanea November 11 2010, 06:32:36 UTC

The thing I love about the market is that absolutely everyone has samples out in front of their stall, and enthusiastically presses you to try everything. Even the sausage man keeps a grill behind his 'fridge and gives out bits of cooked sausage on toothpicks. That's how I fell for the marmalade. It makes it fatally easily to buy an awful lot of food in the sure and certain knowledge that it's good.

extemporanea November 11 2010, 06:36:55 UTC

and, yes, my inability to handle interruptions is one reason why the parenting thing is probably not for me. It makes me insanely irritable, and I think even distressed students can handle having their heads bitten off more resiliently than small children can.

pumeza November 11 2010, 08:26:26 UTC

Where is this market? When? I want to go too...

extemporanea November 11 2010, 08:37:13 UTC

Earth Fair Food Market in Tokai; open on Wednesday evenings and Saturday mornings. They have a website and everything :>. http://www.earthfairmarket.co.za/. Of course, it would have helped you identify them if I hadn't erroneously labelled them the Whole Earth market in my post.

They have, if it helps, a kiddies' corner with face painting and stuff. Lovely vibe all round.

strawberryfrog November 11 2010, 09:59:07 UTC

Do they have ostrich eggs? Not that I would know what to do with a whole one, it just strokes me as odd that the only place that I know where you can buy one OTC is Borough Market, London.

Also, are they open in the week before Christmas?

extemporanea November 11 2010, 11:38:34 UTC

Not an ostrich egg sort of place, but an excellent place for jams and pickles and home-made sausage and really fancy mushrooms of types you don't find anywhere else. There's a very good chance they're open in the week before Christmas, it's maximum sellage time for markets, and their website does say "every Wednesday and Sunday". I'll ask if I go back in the next few weeks :>.