In the bleak midwinter

[flemmings]

1. Bleak midwinter still beats snow; there's also a Romantic melancholy in the grey and faded browns that emerge from the melting mounds

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[incandescens]

There is one bit in Rivers of London which I did notice at the time, and which has finally paid off - when they're hitting the Folly's libraries to research, and Peter mentions that he's looking in the English books while Nightingale's looking in the foreign languages - "and the other library I didn't know about then" (or similar quote). I have been wondering when that would pay off...

[flemmings]

It's reassuring in its way, after so many mangaka doing the precise reverse, that Aaronovitch clearly has this all worked out ahead of time. OTOH the throwaway in vol 1 finally being fired in vol 5 almost makes me nervous. What else am I supposed to keep in mind? Molly's taste for raw beef? Nightingale's four brothers? The artist in the coach house?

[mvrdrk]

What are your favorite party sandwiches? The only one I know of i cream cheese and cucumber, and I can never get the cucumber right. I'm glad you got out and were rewarded for acting like an extrovert!

[flemmings]

Chicken salad, ham salad, salmon pinwheels with or without cream cheese, thin-sliced ham and cheese, cucumber and mayonnaise with a touch of dijon: anything that's on crustless bread and cut daintily, basically.