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.
It happened today, my wife was doing a bit of washing up when she saw it: a grey squirrel, running on the top of the fence. It ran along it, from one back garden to another, then jumped on a tree behind our house, then back on a fence, then jumped on another tree, then it was gone out of sight. I managed to show it to our son, who caught merely a glimpse of it. I took this picture at the National Museum Cardiff and I am using it here because I could not take a picture of the squirrel we saw today. Sadly this photo is blurry and sadly, the squirrel we have as neighbour is a grey one, not a red one. Still, I think every neighbourhood needs a squirrel.
As we are less than a month away from Christmas now, I think it is fair game to start thinking about it. It's everywhere anyway. Which also means starting to stuff myself with seasonal food, such as these iced spiced buns from M&S. They are not quite the normal iced buns which you can find all year (and are delicious in their own right): they have more spice and some gooey stuff inside, and there is also a holly on top, made with icing and a cherry in lieu of their fruit. It's delicious. I haven't found them yet this year, but last year I stuffed myself with these buns and they were really yummy. Tis the season to be feasting, after all.
Je vais bloguer sur Noël de plus en plus ces temps-ci et je voudrais ce soir bloguer sur un livre que je n'ai aperçu qu'une seule fois, par hasard, à Olivieri: Un beau cadeau, publié par Série noire. Présenté comme "le Polar de l'Avent" parce qu'il se lit à la façon d'un calendrier de l'Avent. Je m'en veux encore de ne pas l'avoir acheté. Ce serait le livre parfait pour les Fêtes, d'autant plus que Noël et les romans policiers, pour moi, ça va ensemble. Alors trouver ce bouquin sera ma nouvelle quête littéraire, en espérant le lire l'année prochaine du premier jour de l'Avent jusqu'à Noël.
When I first met Mrs Vraie Fiction fifteen years ago, it was in the common kitchen of the
students residence. I was eating a mince pie. Since then, I eat a mince pie on the same date to celebrate our meeting anniversary. I blogged about it in 2008. And guess what I found
two days ago in the kitchen? Somebody wanted to make sure I would not miss it. The ironic thing is that neither of us like mince pies all that much, it just happened that this was the dessert I was trying at the time.