Carve the sun into a diagram that reads to you

[sovay]

Actually, despite the amount of vacuuming and dusting it contained, I had a rather nice day. I walked into Cambridge to pick up my copies of Sian Northey and Ness Owen's Afonydd (2025) and Vin Packer's The Girl on the Best Seller List (1960) and a present for my niece, based on Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris' The Lost Words (2017). Thanks to a sale, I was able to present spatch with a DVD of Get Crazy (1983) and my mother gave me Poker Faces (1926), otherwise known as the recently restored silent feature starring Edward Everett Horton which has intrigued me for the last month. She thinks I should learn to read Welsh. I had an oat scone in between errands. selkie approved my introduction to Calbee's seaweed-and-salt potato chips. The mail brought the disaster-themed special volume of The Massachusetts Historical Review which contains the chapter on the 1755 Cape Ann earthquake from Donald Fleming's never-finished history of science edited by Dean Grodzins. I cleaned a lot. Mostly it's been weeks since I walked anywhere and was not dead flat afterward, wiped out from doing one thing in a day. The alternative was nice.

Comments

[selkie]

*hugs* Thank you for all the light, and I’ll let you know what Mr 15 says.

[sovay]

Thank you for all the light, and I’ll let you know what Mr 15 says.

*hugs*

Microcontinent this morning was where I'd left it, at least.

[selkie]

What’s a little elective abstract stratigraphy adjustment between old friends?

[cmcmck]

We saw seaweed based crisp snacks in a shop in Conwy- the same deli that was selling the yummy laverbread.

[sovay]

We saw seaweed based crisp snacks in a shop in Conwy- the same deli that was selling the yummy laverbread.

I will eat pretty much any form of seaweed, laver included! I was given some as a gift once and did make laverbread from it. I miss when our local earthy-crunchy supermarkets carried kelp noodles.

[asakiyume]

I think I've seen Calbee's potato chips! Seaweed-and-salt flavor is one I'd love to try...

What was the present based on The Lost Words?

[selkie]

If you like eating seaweed sheets, you will likely enjoy them; there's finely ground nori all over them and they have a sort of umami quality to me. I'm actually pondering how they'd go as a topper for tuna casserole, which no one in my family eats but me...
(Spouse and Child went to Japan last November and came back with a taste for the import store. We have found Calbee a reliable purveyor of Fishy- and Sea-Flavored Things Americans Will Still Eat. They're the company that brought snap-pea puffs from Japan to the US in the '70s, apparently, thus fueling my kid's toddlerhood.)

[asakiyume]

I *doooo* like eating seaweed sheets!

(LOL about tuna casserole!)

How long were spouse and kid in Japan? In November, they probably caught the fall foliage, if they went to Kyoto.

[sovay]

I think I've seen Calbee's potato chips! Seaweed-and-salt flavor is one I'd love to try...

Normally I just eat sheets of seaweed straight, but it turns out that the delivery mechanism of potato chips is entirely acceptable, especially with the dipped-in-bonito-flakes umami of it all. (Tuna extract powder, according to the back of the packet.)

What was the present based on The Lost Words?

A card game where it looks as though you have to match the illustrated plants and animals to the poems written for them, like answering riddles. I don't know how high-stakes it is, but it looked lovely.

[asakiyume]

That does sound like a good game!

And the potato chips are sounding more and more delicious the more I hear.

[gwynnega]

Yay more silent Edward Everett Horton!

Are you going to learn Welsh? It's always intrigued me because of having a Welsh name.

[sovay]

Yay more silent Edward Everett Horton!

I will report back!

Are you going to learn Welsh? It's always intrigued me because of having a Welsh name.

I'm thinking about it! I've never studied any of the Celtic languages. Looking at side-by-side bilingual poetry indicates that I recognize a random handful of vocabulary even through initial consonant mutation and I am not confident of my ability to pronounce any of it, early exposure to that one chapter in Susan Cooper's The Grey King notwithstanding. I know zero about the verbs.

[thisbluespirit]

Mostly it's been weeks since I walked anywhere and was not dead flat afterward, wiped out from doing one thing in a day. The alternative was nice.

Aw, I'm glad. ♥ Also: books!!

[sovay]

Also: books!!

Important!

(Today has been much less nice, but the sunlight is still beautiful. And the books are great.)

[pameladean]

I'm glad you got a nice day with energy. May they become far more frequent. *hugs* P.

[sovay]

I'm glad you got a nice day with energy. May they become far more frequent.

Thank you!

*hugs*

[radiantfracture]

That's a gorgeous subject line.

Sian Northey and Ness Owen's Afonydd (2025)

I love the cover! Retro linoprint tertiary colour mood.

Hurray for a proper bookstore day at last.

[sovay]

That's a gorgeous subject line.

I heard it on WERS!

I love the cover! Retro linoprint tertiary colour mood.

Yes! It reminds me of the covers of children's books from my childhood, originally from the '60's or '70's. I like the poems, too.

Hurray for a proper bookstore day at last.

Thank you!