tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post1395649206665113062..comments2024-03-29T07:54:24.161+00:00Comments on TONE DEAF: Only 300 days (approx.) to goRoderick Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-6472386109217596992014-07-30T11:44:06.604+01:002014-07-30T11:44:06.604+01:00Robbie - Kiwi Magic eh? It gets into your soul. ...Robbie - Kiwi Magic eh? It gets into your soul. And is also the name of a boat, KZ7, look it up ... Blonde Twohttp://twoblondeswalking.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-16536717280555160222014-07-28T07:13:40.721+01:002014-07-28T07:13:40.721+01:00Blonde Two: Staying at the most beautiful place in...Blonde Two: Staying at the most beautiful place in the world (Port Underwood, east coast of South Island, 25 km south of Picton) we were taken first to the adjacent mussel-beds where green tips were picked for our dinner's first course, thereafter we were given fishing lines to catch the main course: terakihi (later pan fried). After the meal we looked at stars through our host's telescope and watched as the relative rotation of earth gradually pushed Saturn off the viewing area of the lens. Before moving to NZ our host, an American subsequently NZ naturalised, designed F1 cars. Magic. eh?<br /><br />Ellena: No stabilisation necssary. The stuffing holds the mussel in the shell; heat from the grill "fixes" the stuffing.<br /><br />MikeM: See re-comment to Ellena.<br /><br />Hammer. Curious coincidence. JK, who owned our first apartment when we moved to the USA (3214 Annapolis Avenue, Dormont, Pittsburgh) gave me a ball-peen hammer to help me on my way through the New World. Long after I moved back to the UK I was part of a group of European journalists invited to a steel-works in Venezuela. We formed up with the US contingent in New York, one of which was - JK! I'd never realised he too was a magazine journalist.<br /><br />Proust. The long sentences are inescapable. Yet the vivid recognisable scenes are often created out of direct and comparatively simple language. My aim with these excerpts is to clear up one or two misconceptions, that's all.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-86684060829544110162014-07-27T15:41:19.514+01:002014-07-27T15:41:19.514+01:00Perhaps a pan with some shallow, oval concavities ...Perhaps a pan with some shallow, oval concavities in the bottom. A prototype could be fashioned from the pictured pan using a hammer (RR has one) and the proper anvil (some portion of an iron railing might suffice). The excerpt is brilliant. Hardship, intensified in the small hours, false promise, re-sentencing. mike Mnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-91796401754947612702014-07-27T13:24:50.678+01:002014-07-27T13:24:50.678+01:00Yammie! My mouth waters. Are they sitting on a bed...Yammie! My mouth waters. Are they sitting on a bed of salt? I place them on a bed of lentils to steady them. Let's invent a thin bean bag for the oven.Ellenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14965850008354379369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-74615104565030625582014-07-27T13:05:53.443+01:002014-07-27T13:05:53.443+01:00Never mind Proust - you paint a beautiful holiday ...Never mind Proust - you paint a beautiful holiday picture and I think I may tag along next time! On the subject of mussels, I won't be getting my annual taste of NZ green lipped ones this year, they are huge, I have many shells here to prove the fact.Blonde Twohttp://twoblondeswalking.comnoreply@blogger.com