Hey Patrizio!
Thanks for the newsy email re: your trip and all the cool outings you've had!
No pun intended..! so... the malts are expensive eh? oh well what's money.. LOL!
Friday is my last day at work and I am a happy camper! Retirement will be a blast! ...
Thanks for the newsy email re: your trip and all the cool outings you've had!
No pun intended..! so... the malts are expensive eh? oh well what's money.. LOL!
Friday is my last day at work and I am a happy camper! Retirement will be a blast! ...
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Medusa, a gorgon
Sculpture:
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Photo: Jane Marie Cleveland |
Cheers! Hello to Corrinne! (Cora Lee?) JWoWe are waiting for our flight from Amsterdam to Stockholm. We had great weather here and did the Rijks, Van Gough, Stedjyk, Petite Hermitage, Geelvinck-Hinlopen, Willet-Holthuysen and Van Loon Museums. Bought the museum card Amsterdam and got our monies worth. When we arrived at the Van Gough, the line to buy tickets was two hours long and we breezed straight in with the MKA, a MasterCard moment. We visited the Rijks five years ago when a temporary collection was on display in a wing but the renos are now done and the collection is now open in its full glory. The expected floor was quite crowded but the other two floors were not and the displays done using technology to its fullest. We walked everywhere. Made an attempt on the Anne Frank House but the line was very long, next trip.
[Gorgon, any of the three monstrous sisters Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa
in Greek mythology, who had snakes for hair. They turned into stone
anyone who looked into their eyes. From Greek gorgos (dreadful)]
We did a canal tour on a boat owned by the hotel. It was built
in 1909 and used by Winston Churchill and Queen Beatrix to tour the city
after liberation from the Germans. The Petite Hermitage had a display
of Peter the Great. He loved Amsterdam and spent a lot of time here.
It was a memorable display, especially his House Party Rules. I managed
to find Dutch designed shoes and other stuff at Marlies Dekker (YAH).
We found a wonderful restaurant with nouvelle Italien /Dutch cuisine,
ate there twice it was so interesting. The Dutch are very friendly and
all speak fluent English, an easy place to visit. Off to see Stockholm
and then to the cruise ship on Saturday. Cimcky has emailed that he is
happy and been bribed with bacon. All is well, Love Francesca and Gregg
Baby Martyn stats: Check my fb page for pix. Grandchild # 7, granddaughter # 3 to Grammie & Grandpa.
Katelyn Emily Alexandra Martyn, born August 19, 2013 @ 9:45 pm, 7 lbs 2
ozs, 20", strawberry blond fuzz, gorgeous mouth, to our youngest
daughter, Beth & Terry, little sister for Kennedy, 5 1/2 and Oliver,
3.
Hi Maggie: Congratulations from Cornwall! The Goils in the garden of the house we have in Blackwater until the end of August. Ayn, our eldest, has been over from LA, since the 15th, leaves this coming Sunday. Cheers, Cora Lee and Patrizzio!
Thursday, up at just before 7:00am to javanate and scribe. Melange of beet greens and diced, overleft pastie for breakfast, much to the horror of The Assembled Sisterhood. To Brian Etherington Farm Shop for seven juicy sirloin steaks for this coming Saturday's dinner with Maureen/Bill and Penny/Mickaelovich, and two "Summerliving Instant Disposable BBQ's, with charcoal & starter sheet, ready to cook in 20 minutes, Cooks for up to 1 1/2 hours", £1.99 each, of which I remain skeptical, Dear Reader, unconvinced of their efficacy, yet to be proven. We shall see and smell and taste what we shall see and smell and taste, I suppose! Purchases made, then to drop The Power Shoppers at the bus stop, being Truro bound that they were while I repaired home to scribe, diligently, until around 3:00 pm. Find that riding in the heat of the day, (Not complaining about the wonderful sunshine, mind!), can be more tiring than it already is with the plethora of hills that lie everywhere, in all directions, waiting ever so patiently for the unsuspecting cyclist. Decided I'd try for another 20+ KPH AVG so when I'd slathered on my sunscreen and donned my camel pack I set off for Carnon Downs:
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/363253852#.UhZJs9W2YRo.email
Most enjoyable outing although I must admit that in order to attain the AVG I desired I could never allow the slightest opportunity, on the flat, relative or otherwise, (especially on the downhill runs), to go unexploited. so it was a constant battle of give and take, of loss and gain, against both the undulating terrain and the two unforgiving hills out of Chacewater and then Porthtowan. Once these two had been bested I knew victory was mine, although my legs were not quite as convinced after each steam puffing, lung labouring ascent.
Still, I was more than pleased to roll up to the patio at Sydney House, to find Coriandre reading the paper, sipping a glass of chilled wine at the table, Spudnik lolling in the shade beside her, her reward for just having cut the grass of a thousand lawns, with a push-mower, no less! Quick infusion of java and then a shower to ready myself for the viewing marathon to come.
A Sainsbury's' 2012 Casablanca Savignon Blanc, 13.5%, a rather remarkable, intense citrus mouthful, more grapefruit that I've ever tasted in a wine before, mingling exquisitely with a just the right amount of minerality on the lingering, clean finish, to help us through the first episode of Game of Thrones of the evening. Stunning value for the 2x£12 Sainbury's' Specials, true bargains we have come to love and seek out. Gluten-free sausaugen, new spudniks, boiled, (not old Spudnik, boiled, Dear Reader!), tomatoe/red cabbage with Cheddar with Hot Garlic, saladin and large wedges of Toblerone for dessert with a Macallan chaser. Trundled off to our beds to set sail for the Land of Nod by just after the first stroke of midnight, dropping off before the last chime sounded!
Hi Maggie: Congratulations from Cornwall! The Goils in the garden of the house we have in Blackwater until the end of August. Ayn, our eldest, has been over from LA, since the 15th, leaves this coming Sunday. Cheers, Cora Lee and Patrizzio!
Thursday, up at just before 7:00am to javanate and scribe. Melange of beet greens and diced, overleft pastie for breakfast, much to the horror of The Assembled Sisterhood. To Brian Etherington Farm Shop for seven juicy sirloin steaks for this coming Saturday's dinner with Maureen/Bill and Penny/Mickaelovich, and two "Summerliving Instant Disposable BBQ's, with charcoal & starter sheet, ready to cook in 20 minutes, Cooks for up to 1 1/2 hours", £1.99 each, of which I remain skeptical, Dear Reader, unconvinced of their efficacy, yet to be proven. We shall see and smell and taste what we shall see and smell and taste, I suppose! Purchases made, then to drop The Power Shoppers at the bus stop, being Truro bound that they were while I repaired home to scribe, diligently, until around 3:00 pm. Find that riding in the heat of the day, (Not complaining about the wonderful sunshine, mind!), can be more tiring than it already is with the plethora of hills that lie everywhere, in all directions, waiting ever so patiently for the unsuspecting cyclist. Decided I'd try for another 20+ KPH AVG so when I'd slathered on my sunscreen and donned my camel pack I set off for Carnon Downs:
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/363253852#.UhZJs9W2YRo.email
Most enjoyable outing although I must admit that in order to attain the AVG I desired I could never allow the slightest opportunity, on the flat, relative or otherwise, (especially on the downhill runs), to go unexploited. so it was a constant battle of give and take, of loss and gain, against both the undulating terrain and the two unforgiving hills out of Chacewater and then Porthtowan. Once these two had been bested I knew victory was mine, although my legs were not quite as convinced after each steam puffing, lung labouring ascent.
Still, I was more than pleased to roll up to the patio at Sydney House, to find Coriandre reading the paper, sipping a glass of chilled wine at the table, Spudnik lolling in the shade beside her, her reward for just having cut the grass of a thousand lawns, with a push-mower, no less! Quick infusion of java and then a shower to ready myself for the viewing marathon to come.
A Sainsbury's' 2012 Casablanca Savignon Blanc, 13.5%, a rather remarkable, intense citrus mouthful, more grapefruit that I've ever tasted in a wine before, mingling exquisitely with a just the right amount of minerality on the lingering, clean finish, to help us through the first episode of Game of Thrones of the evening. Stunning value for the 2x£12 Sainbury's' Specials, true bargains we have come to love and seek out. Gluten-free sausaugen, new spudniks, boiled, (not old Spudnik, boiled, Dear Reader!), tomatoe/red cabbage with Cheddar with Hot Garlic, saladin and large wedges of Toblerone for dessert with a Macallan chaser. Trundled off to our beds to set sail for the Land of Nod by just after the first stroke of midnight, dropping off before the last chime sounded!
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