My dr rdrz I daresay are already aware that 'Seldom performed Eugene O'Neill plays in obscure venues' are pretty much A Thing with partner and myself.

However, I am not sure that we shall be making the effort for a production of 3 short one-acters happening in a former East End music hall:
The same design team are transforming the bar area, re- ( Read more... )

Have been looking for Yogi Lemon Ginger Tea in several shops now and failing to find it: what I did find was Green Tea with Lemon and Ginger *NEW*.

DO.NOT.WANT

(Green Tea, for all your monkey hallucination requirements... and even not going that far, have found it perhaps a leeetle over-stimulating.)

I was worried that, as in the case of so many ( Read more... )

I hand round the usual virtual rich dark ginger cake (including virtual gluten-free version and any other suitable accommodations) and Madeira (Duke of Clarence Rich Malmsey - I think I have a case under the Trade Descriptions Act for the lack of dead duke in the bottle).

There is one rather obvious song I could post for today, but instead, I'm ( Read more... )

What drives writers to drink?

That would be (in the cases under consideration) male, American writers of a specific generation.

Also, hey, your chronology, it is weird, because even I, at my advanced years, do not think of these writers as 'of our age', even though some of them overlapped my lifespan: I think of them as established figures of ( Read more... )

Actually, yesterday was the day of retour, and the journey was not too bad: apart from getting to Prague Airport with far too much time to spare, and the flight to Heathrow being delayed by approx 30 minutes; with, on the upside, the taxi to the airport being a lot cheaper than anticipated, not just missing the Heathrow Express, and a short taxi- ( Read more... )

So the plan this morning was not to hike around wet streets in it, but to make good speed to various museums/galleries/churches where we could appreciate stuff under cover. We passed several groups who had clearly signed up for walking tours huddling in damp clusters being rained on and educated by their guides.

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Given that the general theme chez
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'[Our] unique biodegradable pyramidal infuser'.

Or, as we proles call it:

TEA BAG

Their green tea enhances metabolic rate and is thus great for weight loss!!!

No mention of the possibility of hallucinations, cf Sheridan Le Fanu, 'Green Tea', and Ruth Rendell, The Speaker of Mandarin, in which this property of leaves of Camellia sinensis that have ( Read more... )

Have a slice of rich dark ginger cake!

And a glass of madeira (Duke of Clarence Rich Malmsey - though it's never been the quite the same since they stopped drowning royal dukes in every barrel)!

(I may take something a little stronger myself...)

Cheers! Converse amiably amongst yourselves! Bop to the Bogglemen!

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Unsurprisingly, last night I had reached the stage of 'huddling with Jane Duncan and her friends'.

But, anyway, now here we are in Warsaw, after a reasonable sort of journey.

Tonight the place we eventually found to have dinner had pierogi like Granny used to make as its USP (though it does offer a number of other molto tipico dishes of the terroir ( Read more... )