Admin1’s delicious pork, spuds and cider concoction.
Admin1 is reading Extreme Prey by John Sandford, a splendid example of JS’ relentless A-Z plotting … a sort of literary version of motorik.
Category: food
Coffee of the Day: Kopi Luwak
Cat poo coffee: yums! Thx Gez xxx.
Admin1 is rewatching Game of Thrones.
Apple Pie Order
Apple pie recipe, using home-grown apples So good we made it twice.
Admin1 is reading Three Days and a Life by Pierre Lemaitre (a somewhat predictable tale of an unintended murder, but short and readable). Admin2 is reading From Darkest Skies by Sam Peters.
Cakes
Admin1 baked all these cakes to use up some leftover icing. Thx to Auds for the multiple sprinkles.
Admin1 is reading The Shadow District by Arnaldur Indridason — a multigenerational crime story, with added Icelandic folklore. Admin2 is reading Three Days and a Life by Pierre Lemaitre: guilt and shame upstaged and covered up by storms Lothar and Martin — for a good many years.
Khofi ya tsiku: Zambian: khofi pakhomo.
Happy Birthday Lee
A cake filled with love.
Admin1 is reading Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith. Admin2 is reading The Real-Town Murders by Adam Roberts: crime and conspiracy in a future where reality is optional for most.
Damn Fine Coffee
Admin1’s fancy coffee machine and fancy coffee in a fancy cup. Delicious. Thanks, Admin2!
Admin1 is reading The Night Crew by John Sandford (readable as always, with some good jokes. Q: What’s the difference between a rooster and a lawyer? A: A rooster clucks defiance. [Think about it…]).
Admin2 is reading The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland, which was probably more fun to write than it was to read. Or edit.
We scored 9 on the Guardian Weekend quiz.
Happy Birthday Chris
A coffee cake for a top-class human bean.
Admin2 is reading The Intrusions by Stav Sherez which was readable but somewhat implausible and formulaic.
Damn Fine Cherry Pie
…and damn fine coffee: Mystery Coffee Mark 7.
Admin1 is rewatching Cracker.
Happy Birthday Dave
And happy United Nations Day everyone.
Today was our warmest day this year 26.4 °C but we confidently expect tomorrow to be better. [Update: Yes! 31.1 °C]
Toad in the Hole
Admin1 is reading Want You Gone by Chris Brookmyre (the return of Parlabane, and terrific fun). Admin2 is reading The Secret of This Book by Brian Aldiss. The secret is that Brian had amassed a collection of odds and sods not previously published in book form and reckoned he could make them into a book.
Hot Noodly Appendage Buns
Happy EPaster everybody.
Admin1 is rereading The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell.
We scored, er, 6 on the Guardian Weekend quiz.
Happy Birthday Gez
White chocolate, strawberries and orange juice. Yums.
π Day
Here’s our pi day pie with a π decoration produced with a 3D printed pi cutter. The gravy is escaping to make a cross face.
Admin1 is reading Some Kind of Peace by Camilla Grebe and Åsa Träff, which featured a psychologist protagonist so annoying, feeble and lacking in insight that she deserved everything she got.
Happy Birthday Bobs
Admin1 is reading Jigsaw Man by Elena Forbes. Admin2 is reading The Dying Detective by Leif GW Persson; man on last legs solves last case, entertaining and touching.
Gourd Almighty
An enormous squash in the supermarket.
Admin1 is reading A Dance with Dragons 1: Dreams and Dust by George RR Martin. Admin2 is reading Commonwealth by Ann Patchett, a mundane family saga with a massive build-up to a minuscule reveal.
Wonderful Christmas Time
Happy xmas everybody! We had lovely food and lots of presents and watched Spooks: The Greater Good and The Golden Compass. Admin2 is reading Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood and we scored 9.5 on the Guardian Weekend quiz.
The Eaten Trifles
The fate of our cake.
Admin2 is reading State of Wonder by Ann Patchett, an evocative and adventuresome story set in the Amazon jungle. Admin1 is reading Behind God’s Back by Harri Nykänen
Our Thousandth Post
Admin1 baked a cake to celebrate and Admin2 iced it. And here is its exciting two-tone inside.
A sundog arrived to join the celebration. Some things are too wonderful to miss.
2 Cheeks of the Same Arse
A rude nectarine.
Admin2 is reading Books by Charlie Hill. “Read it and die,” according to the blurb. It was fun, but Admin2 survived.
Equinoctial Burger
If you don’t eat it, it will eat you.
Admin1 is watching Silent Witness (series 13-18) and reading Dead Beat by Val McDermid. Admin2 is reading The Gradual by Christopher Priest. Time and tide.
Unconsidered Trifle
We are watching Marcella and scored 9 on the Guardian Weekend quiz.
In the Soup
A tiny octopus in Little Tokyo.
We scored 11 on the Guardian Weekend quiz!
The Unlimited Cream Company
Cake, jelly, fruit, custard, cream, biscuits, sweets and booze. All the major food groups. Yums!
We are watching Vera series 5.
We scored 6 on the Guardian Weekend quiz.
Happy Birthday Chris
Something to celebrate on a sad day for the country.
Admin1 is reading Splinter the Silence by Val McDermid. Admin2 is reading Alex by Pierre Lemaitre; a nasty, twisty, tasty read.
Happy Birthday Gez
Admin1 is reading Chilled to the Bone by Quentin Bates (Icelandic crime. Not bad, but marred by weakish characterisation and an insistence on jump-cutting every page or so). By a strange temperature-related coincidence Admin2 is reading Burned by Thomas Enger.
We are watching The Night Manager and Admin1 is watching Game of Thrones, series 5.