Log Cabin Quilt Top
5 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.
I took this picture last year in the local park, just by the Thames. We go there far too seldom these days. I love being so close to the Thames and, not being in urban London, to have such true proximity with the river. We can actually see its wildlife from close. By this, I mean mostly its avian wildlife. The shores are full of swans, geese and ducks. They are fed by locals and tourists (the few tourists we have, thankfully our quiet little town/village has not been plagued by them yet) and therefore are not shy with humans. I love spending time there.
Petit billet de pure food porn, et non, ça n'a pour une fois rien à voir avec PS (quoique...). Toujours est-il que nous sommes récemment allés à Côte Brasserie, une chaîne de restaurants français comme il y en a partout en Angleterre. Et que l'on s'est payé la traite avec notamment un dessert bien décadent. Ma femme et moi avons pris un fondant au chocolat (avec crème glacée à côté en accompagnement). Je crois que même petit loup avait l'air de trouver ça appétissant, lui qui n'aime guère la nourriture solide pourtant. J'ai donc renoué avec le mélange de sucré chaud et de sucré froid qui fait un si bon mariage.
Sad news: the Italian food shop which I love so much is closing this weekend. My wife told me this yesterday after she walked pass it, there were signs about closing down discounts. So I made sure I went there today for one last visit and for a few purchases. I was devastated. The owners told me their greedy landlord had basically asked his pound of flesh and increased the rent, effectively forcing them to close within a week's notice. Infuriating. It was a short lived adventure, the shop having been here only since December 2015, but I had quickly grown fond of it, the friendly staff and their products. Many were a bit pricey, but never to the point of being out of my budget. I made some great discoveries there, which I will try to blog about in the upcoming weeks, as a sort of eulogy. And I could exercise my Italian a bit, which I did one last time. I am going to miss it.
On the wall of the café in the nearest John Lewis, there is a wallpaper with a number of writers' names, as if you were looking at a bookshelf where the works of an eclectic number of authors had been piled up. I don't know if it is the same wallpaper in every café of every John Lewis, one of my readers can tell me. In any case, I was happily surprised to see among them the name of Anthony Burgess. He is of course my favourite author. As 2017 is the 100th anniversary of his birth, I thought I needed to share this wallpaper as part of the commemoration.
Vous voyez sur cette photo la couverture la plus douce que notre fils a dans sa collection. Elle porte vraiment bien l'appellation de doudou et c'est peut-être sa préférée. En tout cas, il aime la mâcher et frotter ses joues dessus. C'est un cadeau qu'il a reçu à Noël de la mère de Chatouille Blonde. J'ai une autre raison moi d'aimer cette doudou en particulier, une raison qui échappe encore à petit loup, mais que je compte bien lui expliquer dès qu'il pourra comprendre. Quand on la plie, la couverture prend la forme et l'apparence d'un harfang des neiges, comme vous le voyez. Or, le harfang est bien entendu l'emblême aviaire du Québec. Ce sont donc ses racines québécoises que la couverture évoque.