Log Cabin Quilt Top
3 months ago
Blogue d'un québécois expatrié en Angleterre. Comme toute forme d'autobiographie est constituée d'une large part de fiction, j'ai décidé de nommer le blogue Vraie Fiction.
The things you find sometimes when you tidy up. My father-in-law, who is South African, offered us a couple of years ago, after a trip back to his homeland with his English wife, a rather imposing bottle of Amarula. It is a liqueur from his country and I don't know anything about it apart from that. I also rarely drink liqueur, but I find it truly shameful nevertheless that we haven't tried this one yet. I think is because we found out my wife was pregnant shortly after we received it, and I did not want to drink it alone. It would not have been fair or advisable. Be that as it may, I really want to try it now.Not that I am particularly fond if liqueurs, but I love this bottle and its label, with the charging elephant. And I know one should not judge a drink by the label on its bottle, like one should not judge a book by its cover, nevertheless... It's one cool really label.
I took this picture last year. One of my colleagues had bought this for her son. Something struck me and being sort of academic about these kinds of things, I mentioned it right away: "This display is all wrong: elephants, giraffes and lions live in the savanna,
not the jungle, and tigers don't even live on the same continent!" I could have added that the elephant seemed to be an Asian one. Anyway, one of my colleague teased me about this and said: "I can imagine you refusing to buy your son such a set, because it's not accurate". I would, but would also tell him that these are not all jungle animals. Anyway, I thought that what he said was funny enough to be a great unknown line. Even though I am right.