nishatalitha

( A meme, because I can )

thesane arrived here yesterday around lunchtime and since then we have looked at many many colours of fabric and eventually ended up with a green/purple shot dupion silk for the bridesmaid dresses. It was a much faster process than we expected. Done a bit of other shopping as well.

I have made two batches of standard italian parsley pesto (from the Joy of Cooking cookbook), since the Stephanie's Cook's Companion recipe lasted under a week. This will take even less time to get through, I think. I also made delicious steak pie from one of Tessa Kiros' books last night and there is moroccan apricot lamb cooking in the oven at the moment from my new Alison Lannigan cookbook.

I have also successfully mended clothing; that is, I have sewen on two buttons and started stitching up the leather on my suade coat. There is much more to do on it than I thought before I can patch the lining. Then I have to mend the pocket on my brown coat, possibly the side-seams on my green skirt and then I can get back to the crossstitch. I don't think I can be bothered starting the embroidery on my brown coat, especially since I still need to decide what sort of pattern I want. I almost want to upsize the pansies on the Elizabethan bag thesane made me. We'll see.

David Eddings died the other night. Tor has a fairly nice obituary for him on their website. I feel sad at his passing. Along with Anne McCaffrey, his books were the first serious fantasy I read. I think I was in third form at the time - thirteen or fourteen. I bought all I could find second hand and I still have them on my shelves. They were reread this year; get reread every four or five years now. I can see all the things that are wrong with them, but they were still books that began to shape my view of fantasy.