Showing posts with label vegetables. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vegetables. Show all posts

Friday, 25 November 2011

Happy Thanksgiving

Yes, I know it was yesterday, but I was busy (though maybe I shouldn't worry: the number of visitors increased in my absence. There's a lesson for someone - me - in that).

In honour of the other America, the one which didn't just vote in Congress that pizza is a vegetable, here's a cranky old cynic offering his alternative Thanksgiving message:

Monday, 24 November 2008

On the road again…


Walking on Saturday was stunning - from Macclesfield's finest delicatessen where I bought hare and venison pie, up Shutlingsloe, across the moors to the Cat and Fiddle for a pint in front of a fire. I'll post some photos (of lichen and icicles) when I work out why my camera isn't showing up on my computer - I'm hoping it's just a low battery. 

The views were amazing - all the way to the Clees, the Breiddons, Cannock Chase, the Wirral and Caer Caradoc. 

I'll also post some photos of mathematical veg - I got this amazing fractal thing in my veg box the other day. Neal informs me it's a Chou Romanesco. Here's a photo of it by someone else: