January light

The light in my parents’ kitchen in early January was incredible.

On another note, I made some neat rice pudding when we got home to England.

The light in my home: just another nail in the coffin of my budding food blogging career. That and my cooking. And my sense of presentation.

Use too many metaphors at once and you’re in danger of looking as though you’d put a dead tree in a coffin. Then you’d have to make a coffin for the tree(s) you made the coffin out of. At some point one of the coffins is going to have to be not made of wood or you’d get an infinite series of matryoshka coffins.

And that’s all I have to say about that. Except that I want to end that with a Lily Tomlin raspberry even though it’s really a Forrest Gump quote.

Striking in solidarity

Well, hardly anybody comes here, and I’m not in the US (but neither is the internet). I’ve installed the SOPA Strike plugin and beepily.com should be dark on Jan 18th, along with a lot of major sites on the web. Here’s hoping the people’s representatives in the land of the free vote against crippling the net for everyone. It’s a pretty sinister proposal.

Climate change casualties

OK, weather change casualties. Guest photographer: Mom!

It’s kind of disturbing, actually. Gruesome, even. I can’t stop laughing, but I’m still not sure I want G (who’s 3) to see this.

This one may be worse, what with the eyes lying there next to the nose.

Just had to share. Hope I didn’t give anyone nightmares.