Café Lisboa, off Portobello Road market, West London, Friday Morning. The most divine little custard tarts. Thin flakey pastry on the outside, delicate egg yellow custard on the inside. You bite into it, you get textures…crisp, then soft. Take it with a gallao, a milky coffee, sit at an outside table and people-watch. Then walk…
Archives for October 2008
Sarf London, Brand/Ross and the BBC.
Sunday was spent driving to Brighton to hear Matthew Delooze talk about The Serpent Cult. My daughter and I left late. Not for the first time, I wished that South London would be nuked out of existence as I negotiated stop/start traffic, culminating, just prior to taking the M23, in the irredeemably purgatorial Purley Way,…
Halloween with the teen
Mayan skull, Jalapa, Mexico The ‘Secret Chiefs moot’ at the Devereux pub, Strand. The actor/poet John Constable is giving a talk about the Crossbones graveyard in Southwark.This site was ‘discovered’ by Constable through channelling the spirits of ‘Grey Goose’ and ‘John Crow’. This graveyard for ‘single women’ (prostitutes) was in ‘The Mint’ the poorest area…
Cupboard love
Inspired by an article in Elizabeth David’s collection of writings ‘An omelette and a glass of wine’, I decided to look in my cupboards for those things I have never used. Chinese black rice – ‘the forbidden rice of Chinese emperors’ Egg replacer- for those vegan cakes I never make. A mix for chip-shop batter…
Race to power
Just back from another fascinating evening at the Astrological Lodge, London. A talk about Hellenic astrology by a 23 year old American astrological prodigy for the first half. I mentioned to him that I am studying Horary astrology, he declared it “the gateway drug for traditional astrology”. Tertiary progressions explained after half-time tea n’ biscuits. …
Vegetable stock
I followed vegan yumyum’s blog recipe and made vegetable stock on Sunday. Today I used half of it to boil red lentils. I then added a can of coconut milk. I didn’t need to add salt or herbs or anything else as the stock made it so tasty. Even my daughter liked it! Pulses, a…
Not shouting into the void
Woohoo I got recommended…http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-26/5-mustread-blog-posts/Love the way I am now an Italian. Ha.
Leave Madonna alone…
Will Chris Crocker now do a ‘Leave Madonna aloooone!’ vlog on Youtube? My favourite of his is the advice to guys to be nice to a woman’s gay best friend “buy him a fruit basket”. I’m sure my gbf Dvd would appreciate it.
Jon Ronson/ Skeptics in the pub
I have no luck at this venue. I arrived with my daughter, ordered drinks and food, and sat down. Half an hour later, a buxom waitress, clearing tables, asked: “Can I see her I.D?” “Why?” “To see if she’s under 18”. “She is under 18” “Well I’m afraid I’ll have to ask someone if she…
Gomorra
An Italian neo-realist film directed by Matteo Garonne, about the Camorra, Naples’ real-life mafia. Try to see it if you can, it makes ‘Goodfella’s’ look as inauthentic as Disney. The author of the original book, Roberto Saviano, is in hiding, under threat of assassination. Several members of the cast have been arrested since the release…