Posts by Isabel Hitchings
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I cannot make a chickpea based dish without wondering how bourgeois it is.
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Hard News: Because it's about time we…, in reply to BenWilson,
We had a bongo van when I was a kid (after the morris minor and before the lada). The name has always given me great delight.
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Hard News: Because it's about time we…, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Once upon a time every cafe around these parts served 'expresso' and I can remember feeling very sophisticated and cosmopolitan when I learned to replace the x 'x' with an 's'.
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As a teenager in the very early '90s I had a regular after-school coffee date with my Mum at Robert Harris (Trafalgar St, Nelson). I felt so grown up with my cappucino.
We've been frequenting C1 pretty much since it opened and it kind of feels like 'home' but a tiny bit of me does miss the old days when the service was terrible and the coffee unpredictable (though sublime on a good day). We also live close to Ristretto (on Barbadoes St near the Warrington St shops) which has very good coffee and excellent baking - and a playpen for the littlies.
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Mr 5 just described Ewoks as "man-eating teddies". Would that they were really so cool.
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Muse: The High Aesthetic Line, in reply to BenWilson,
I’m going out on a limb to say I thought Episode III was not so bad. I thought it was better than VI, that’s for sure. But I and II were the low point, no doubt.
I've heard that from others but after I and II I couldn't be arsed even when it was on free-to-air telly. That said the kids are interested in the other movies and I find myself on the horns of a dilemma.
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Muse: The High Aesthetic Line, in reply to Megan Wegan,
I’ll admit to being kind of a Star Wars fan, but only because Star Wars was the first movie I can remember seeing. And we ‘played’ it as kids. I was ALWAYS Leia.
I think that may be my problem - I don't think I saw it until I was a teen so I don't have those memories of wonder associated with it that so many of my generation do.
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Oh lovely! This makes me very happy.
Funny you should mention Star Wars - we spent the last three Saturdays showing the (proper) trilogy to the kids. I'm not mad keen on Star Wars as it's always struck me as a bit of a Big Dumb Action Movie in space but the kids were completely enthralled. Watching Mr 9's face at the "I'm your Father" bit was well worth the price of admission.
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When my partner’s sister died she had a plain wooden coffin and partway through the service everyone came up to write or draw on it. She’d died suddenly and there had been little chance for last goodbyes so it was lovely to have this chance to send a final message. Spending the second half of the service looking at “I will miss you” in my seven-year-old’s best hand-writing shredded the last of my self-control though.
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Hard News: Floating the idea, in reply to BenWilson,
Ben - last year several classes from his school did a term of aikido for PE and several kids kept going so about half his class is people he already knows. The sensei is awesome - really encouraging and happy for kids to progress at their own pace. Crispin has to work hard and is often the last kid to grasp a new move but he gets there and is so proud when he does.