A random assortment of bits and pieces from the past few weeks!
As I was putting this post together, I kept laughing at how absurdly funny life can be. After all, when was the last time you saw a raspberrying fish? This one was a super fresh orange perch at the Viet Hoa Fishmarket (Moo, if you’re reading this, can you please explain exactly what the “tongue” is? Thanks) …
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My take on morning yoga stretches. I’m sure you’ve all heard of “Salute to the Sun”?
Well, I’ve named this pose “Moon the Sea”. Sometimes I wait until the rowers are going past…
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I’ve added a couple of ammonite fossils to my collection.
The suture pattern in this one is so intricate that it messes with my mind a bit. How on earth does nature create patterns like this in stone? Both fossils below are cleoniceras ammonites from Madagascar and they’re 113 million years old…
The second fossil has been polished to display its nacre (the lining of the shell, similar to the inside of an abalone or pearl shell). It’s known as a fire ammonite, because under the right lighting, it glows an iridescent red…
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After searching all the coffee shops in our area, I finally ordered myself a tiny Keep Cup directly from the company. It’s the cutest wee thing and the perfect size for my decaf piccolos. As an added advantage, it fits into my bag or pocket when I’m out walking…
Best of all, they’re designed and made in Australia…
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Big Boy is now working three days a week in a client’s office and was trying to sort out lunch options – he’d eaten about as many bacon and egg rolls as he could stomach. I made him a quick couscous salad from ingredients we had in the fridge…
…then wrapped it up in a furoshiki (of course). My darling boy was ever so grateful, particularly for the opportunity to go to work looking like (his words) “a Japanese schoolgirl”…
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I sent this photo to Cynthia, and told her that that the wall-flours sit demurely in my kitchen, but they’ll dance if they’re asked. She loves both a good pun and a bad Regency romance…
My baby sister replied with…
“What do you call a theoretical chemist?”
“A hypothecary!”
It must be genetic, because these days, we find each other hilarious, even though nobody else seems to. Our families are mostly appalled.
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Finally, I’ve decided that this is the only ice cream I’m ever eating from now on.
Ok, that’s unlikely to stick, but it’s definitely the ice cream I want to be eating from now on. Cow and Moon in Enmore won the Gelato World Tour title in Italy in 2014 on the strength of it. It’s a Mandorla Affogato gelato, made with caramelised Italian almonds, single origin coffee and Madagascan vanilla, and it’s ridiculously good…
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Have a fabulous weekend, folks! ♥
PS. Blogging is about to slow down a bit, as life is about to get very busy, in a most excellent way. It’s been wonderful catching up with you all this month! x
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Love the keep cup! Colours are gorgeous! Mine is boring beige and green but I use it all the time.
Thanks for the laughs – well needed today!
thanks for the smiles )
You’ve covered a little bit of a lot of things, reminding that life is full of fun.
Thank you for the Friday funnies! Happy weekend😀
Friday funnies! That’s what I’ll call the post next time, Becky! Thanks! 😉
I saw something similar to your photo of the fish on Tele but with a different species. They said that it wasn’t a tongue but their stomach. Apparently, when they are brought to the surface very quickly (as in nets) they sort of turn themselves inside out and vomit their stomachs!
I think the idea of a tongue sounds much better!
Shall go to bed laughing, licking my lips for your super gelato and promising myself one of these ‘keepcups’ if I do everything on my weekend list :) !
The ammonite fossils are gorgeous. Big Boy’s comment was funny and fitting. I’m sure he was thankful for the lunch he took along. Lovely post to start my day. Have a wonderful weekend as well!
Well at least you wrapped Big Boy’s lunch in a plain wrapper not a sakura furoshiki or one with bunnies or kittens. :-)
bahahahaha! gee I laughed at you mooning the rowers!! I bet they get a real giggle too!!
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that was a treat……now I too want Gelato! Sending the theoretical chemist on to my bro in law who is one……great laughs all.
I’m sitting in Taronga Zoo reading this post Celia and you’ve made me laugh out loud! Pleased to hear exciting things will be keeping you busy but I will miss your posts xoxo
Smiling! Is it weird that I dreamt last night I was at an airport teaching passengers how to wrap things up furoshiki style?!
Not weird…it’s hilarious!!! 😘
That fish cracked me up when I first saw it!
I love the fossils, and the Keep Cup is so cute, I didn’t realise they made them so small until I saw a colleague with one for her macchiatos… As a Georgette Heyer fan I love the wall-flours, though I was sort of hoping you had an easy and stylish storage solution as my kitchen also is covered in giant bags of flour, rice, sugar and dried beans that my husband would probably rather were stashed neatly away somewhere :)
I adore Cow and Moon; wish I could get there more often, or that they’d open on the north shore!
Thank you for my morning giggle, the world is entirely too serious these days.
I think the fish ‘tongue’ may be it’s swim bladder, which helps it stay buoyant. I half listen to my fishing-crazy husband, and I’m pretty sure that’s what he told me!
The fossils were fabulous, the puns wonderful, and I’m awed that you can actually make the moon pose!👍
Your question of how such intricate patterns occur in nature is actually the subject of serious scientific study. Among other techniques it involves computer modeling that can replicate many of the patterns by understanding the conditions that give rise to phenomena like animal coat patterns, oil spreading on water, and patterns like your example. Maybe you should have been a scientist!
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I don’t get to WordPress as often as I would like, but without doubt your posts are always among my favourites. Your sense of humor is fabulous, thank you for the giggles xx