Eating - De Winkel Plum and Cinnamon Yoghurt - I love how De Winkel have "seasonal" flavours and by linking to them I hope they might send me free samples. Hi De Winkel! I'm your biggest fan! Truly! Anyway, I can highly recommend their winter offering - a luxurious combination of smooth, velvety, creamy, roll it round in your mouth yoghurt, tangy plum and a *hint* of spicy cinnamon. Just fabulous. And yes, you! You know who you are! Yoghurt is pronounced yoh-gurt, not yog-urt.
Watching - Appaloosa starring Viggo Mortensen (I've almost forgiven him for that moustache because, let's face it, there's so much else to make up for it), Ed Harris (even more chiselled manliness - Ed also wrote the screenplay and directed) and Renee Zellwegger (now what was it she reminded me of most of the time? That's it: a constipated hamster! I suspect a little bit too much botox...).
Ah, how the lovely Mr Mortensen is made to play the old-fashioned, gravelly-voiced, still-waters-run-deep hero of the moment. Be stee-ul mai beatin' haaarrt! At first I thought this movie was going to be a little bit formulaic (yes, of course I only got it out for one reason), but it ended up being more about the characters than the action, with a clever script and a nice little standing joke between the two leads. Better than I (and the OH, who has to endure these things) expected.
Listening - David Gray's White Ladder. This album brings back pixel-sharp memories of the year we (that is, the Other Harf and a then 18-month old Miss 8.10) spent in London, living in that second story flat on the corner of George Lane and Kenwood Gardens, working too many long hours, visiting the OH's elderly parents in Essex in the weekends, and trying to make our new family fit into an old way of life . That year Miss 8.10 learnt to talk with the cutest true-blue Cockney accent, and K died, and I realised that London wasn't where I was supposed to be after all...
Reading - Baby Proof by Emily Giffin. "First comes love. Then comes marriage. Then comes . . . a baby carriage? Isn't that what all women want? Not so for Claudia Parr. And just as she gives up on finding a man who feels the same way, she meets warm, wonderful Ben. Things seem too good to be true when they fall in love and agree to buck tradition with a satisfying, child-free marriage. Then the unexpected occurs: one of them has a change of heart. One of them wants children after all."
Oi! I'm only a quarter of the way through and as a Mum who didn't want children way back when, and nature went and presented us with one anyway (and I adored her unconditionally from the word go) I'm intrigued to see how this one unfolds...
(All New!) Liking - Glassons Tie-Dyed Jade Stripe Panel Tee.
(morning tea break, Tuesday)
Fi: I really like that top. Whaddya reckon? Am I too old for tie-dye?
Edna: Well, it depends. If you wore it with jeans, cool. But if you wore it with pink leggings, I would disown you.
Fi: Yep, fair call...
So what are you eating/watching/listening to/reading/liking this week?
I saw Appaloosa recently, too. I liked it a lot. Tie-dye has never appealed to me to wear but I always liked the way it looked on others. Can't explain that.
I remember Rick Stein ince complaining about the way Aussies called yog-urt yoh-gurt. I had never thought about it until then. And now, now. Again.
I read that Emily Giffin book. I *heart* her chicklit but that was the my least fave of her. She always manages to make me cry though.