Peter and the Bike

Peter was riding over to the next town to pick up a couple of things yesterday afternoon when his bike’s chain broke and he went over the handlebars and came down in a friendly hedge. (“Friendly” only because it broke his fall and there were no nettles in it.)

He’s okay, thank heaven.  (“Shaken but not stirred,” he said when calling in.)  His injuries from that passage at arms were fortunately minor — though the spot where the point of his bike seat caught him just behind, uh, a region of vital interest to males generally, is apparently pretty sore.

You should see his poor fingers, though, from where he hit himself with the hammer while fixing the bike chain on his return home. Ooooooooh boy.  Peter will not be typing today, I think. Or maybe tomorrow.  Meanwhile, I think I get to make him chicken soup on general principles.

However, I’m out of matzoh meal for the requisite M-balls. Now I’m idly wondering whether it’s possible to produce a slightly similar effect with semolina, as I seem to have a lot of that on hand for some reason. The Austrians, after all, do a griessknoedel or soup dumpling based on semolina. Hmmm….

(OMG, look at all the links to dumpling recipes on this page. NOM NOM NOM!)

 

Tags: Peter+Morwood, soup, chicken, bicycle, chain, hammer, ouch, dumpling, griessknoedel, matzo

More tidying up of loose ends

Some of you constant readers may remember this message of last spring when I was in the process of getting rid of / cleaning out some old books.

The process got badly messed up by the numerous health problems of the later spring and the family losses of the summer and fall. As a result I still seem to have a lot of these books around, particularly copies of Rihannsu: Bloodwing Chronicles, The Empty Chair, Wizards at War, and some proofs and so forth which I think were put aside for people, but the sales were never finalized.

Can I ask those of you who who queried me about the availability of books (and/or I told that books had been set aside for them) but the sale was never completed, to get in touch with me here? And we'll get it all sorted out over the next couple of weeks.

Thanks!

Chapter 7 of "The Big Meow" goes free range

For those of you who’re not subscribers: the latest chapter has just gone online for the general readership over at the TBM site. Here’s the URL —

http://www.the-big-meow.com/Chapter-Seven-Gateway

All the chapters presently online are linked to from this page.

We also have new versions of the Mobipocket-format files available. The marvelous Linnette Stoney (who’s been converting the chapters to Palm– and Mobipocket-friendly format for us as they come out) has converted the files to add an image that will display in e-ink readers such as Kindle, Cybook and Sony Reader. You can find a .ZIP file containing chapters 1 through 7, as well as the cover image, here.

Chapter 8 will be posted to the subscribers' file area on August 20th. If you're interested in having access to it before the general readership does, you're most welcome to subscribe!

Tags: The+Big+Meow, Chapter+7, Mobimate, Palm, Kindle, Cybook, e-ink, Sony+Reader

Without any doubt whatever, the most horrible cake I have ever seen

Yeeeeuuurrrrrrrrgh. What was this cake designer thinking of???

If I found myself at a party where that was sitting on the buffet or whatever, I would seriously consider leaving.

(shudder)

(Whereas this one merely looks like it wants to land at Area 51 or something.)

Tags: cake, strange, repellent, bizarre, ick