solaas says:
They have good displays at the museum in Ueno.
giving_ground says:
yeah, we went there
giving_ground says:
was really good
solaas says:
The one thing I really missed, was in the section of good from the
"keyhole" tombs. I wish they had done a display, or at least a
drawing, on the interior layout of the tombs.
giving_ground says:
yeah
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The Uncommon Reader (Alan Bennett) is an absolutely lovely little book. It made me smile a lot. (It also reminded me of the existence of the book Howard's End by EM Forster and that particular passage about Beethoven's Fifth, which I remember being very fond of but which I haven't read since, oh, my early teens. Hmm.)

Broken Angels (Richard Morgan ( Read more... )

This is still one of the best minimal-effort recipes ever. Of course I have to use gluten-free soy sauce and check the bottle of the mirin to make sure it's one of the safe ones, but those are things I have around anyway. I have periods of total ambivalence about food in general, but I'm not sure I'm ever not in the mood for this one ( Read more... )

( No, really )

*adds The Warrior's Apprentice (Lois McMaster Bujold) to the read pile ( Read more... )

From Wikipedia: The series [From Eroica With Love] revolves around the adventures of Klaus Heinz von dem Eberbach, an uptight NATO major, and Dorian Red Gloria, an openly gay English lord who delights in bothering Klaus. ... Dorian is physically modelled after Robert Plant ( Read more... )

This was tonight's dinner, using turkey stock I made after Christmas and really nice leftover bacon from the same. Pared down version -- no celery, cabbage or parsley, and I honestly don't know why you'd NEED to add salt to something which has so much bacon in so I didn't -- but it's still pretty tasty! :) I used green lentils and did soak them for ( Read more... )

I have a happy new year period! But also a hot water bottle and painkillers. Did I say today was going to be a productive day? Haha. I'm sure I didn't. You must be imagining things ( Read more... )

There's already a happy thing for today, and that's Sir Terry. 8)

More to come later, perhaps?

(I'm also quite happy that I can lie under my duvet and tell you this, because the house has been fucking freezing these last few days. We had a mild Christmas, but we're in for a cold new year.)

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