Dan’s digital camera has been kept very busy this year. Much of the time, we’re taking the more conventional kind of holiday snap, but I’ve also been taking pictures on work trips which I can use in presentation, to bring the language assistant experience to life.
So, as a mix of both: here are some of the more unusual examples of signage we’ve come across this year.
And first prize for signage has to go to Madrid’s airport, which helps you locate the right place with use of beautiful colour coding. It’s not just us - it won the Stirling prize this year for UK architecture (as the architect is from the UK, even though the building is elsewhere). If you were to ’sing a rainbow’, this would be a good starting point.
December 6th, 2006
I managed my first proper roast dinner this year!
When I’ve said this to others, they always tell me that a roast is easy. But with timings of potatoes and veg to add to the equation, I was never sure I would manage to make it work out at the right time. As a former vegetarian, I probably worry more about whether the meat is cooked, etc, quite apart from knowing how to carve it.
For the vegetarian readers, I also managed a nut roast this year, Dan’s mum’s speciality from a time when she cooked macrobiotic meals more. Nut roast is actually Dan’s favourite meal ever, a great reassurance to me when we started going out, and my cooking repertoire was mostly veggie.
2 factors that made doing the roast even better:
- handing cookbook to Dan for him to come up with an ambitious recipe for stuffing. Why roast a chicken if you can’t do it in style too?
- having a few recipes for leftovers, such as risotto, that I felt comfortable with. So not only do you enjoy the roast, you have a further feeling of smugness when you make use of the rest!
Having said that, my homemade stock has tended to sit in the freezer, as I forget I have it. In a toss up between rapidly defrosting the stock, and grabbing a stock cube instead, the stock cube wins every time.
Perhaps next year, I’ll attempt some other kind of roast. On the other hand, I’m sure I can practice the chicken one for a while yet…
December 6th, 2006