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Warmth.
Posted Feb 2, 2012
I feel very cheered up because I got to the fishmongers today and bought oysters..They are big and juicy...judging by the size of the shells. I think this time of year is supposedly when they are at their best...The guy said its usually saturday or especially sunday when they now sell out early.
Also I'm changing my mind about the new delicatessant coffee/teashop with the men with the funny aprons. They are getting really relaxed and chatty with me now, and let me do the re-fill wine thing they do from barrels. That's to go with the oysters.
Also got croissants from the bakery.
(I still have massive problems with my sense of taste...that's gone on for nearly a year now...like this depression..well that's the cause...always was in the past...Everyone seemed really friendly..)
Oh yeah another reason the deli is growing on me, is they had a chalk board out on the pavement, with a big arrow pointing into the cafe bit with 'Warmth' written on it...(it didn't get above freezing today). I love their humour
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Bloodless and fashionable
Posted Jan 29, 2012
I'm in a terrible mood. I got to the fishmongers by 10am and this very posh guy in front of me bought the last of the oysters..I tried a bit of banter with him and he just looked at me blankly and glazed.
Oysters used to be a thing only a few local eccentrics like me ate...but now these gentrified hoardes are moving in, fed on all those Rick Stein type programmes with a voracious appetite for doing the 'middle class, poncy thing'. I bet most of them don't even like oysters really...but it's the fashionable thing...
I can't taste my food again, and oysters are one of the few things I can taste with a big hit of tabasco and lemon juice...
And the fish and chip shop is being totally re-designed. The quality of the cod had better improve then to match the new 'look'.
I can accept change but I can't accept this bloodless thing of just doing things cos its fashionable.
At least the tennis is on and red blooded males are knocking seven metaphorical bells out of each other...
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Music
Posted Jan 29, 2012
I'm doing a music journal where I'll throw out favourite stuff as it comes along.
Just now Ravel's Balero
http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Bolero/2MjjJf?src=5
I'm a music fanatic but very fussy.
(Anyone else should they be so inclined can post theirs.)
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Oscar nominations
Posted Jan 24, 2012
Just come out.
I'm predicting The Artist for best film.
I might go to the bookies and put money on it.
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London types
Posted Jan 24, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb-fpQ59yco&feature=related
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Effers;England.
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