tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58059844819148900102024-03-17T18:05:44.888-07:00The Bohemian BudgieThe Bohemian Budgiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523625775950213101noreply@blogger.comBlogger613125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805984481914890010.post-41978432256492677702024-02-14T01:00:00.000-08:002024-02-14T01:00:00.174-08:00Fischer-Lagerhaus, Neuwied<div style="text-align: justify;">There are some stores which are just kryptonite to your wallet. I used to think I had the perfect kryptonite to avoid at all costs in the shape of B&Q, especially when they crank up that 80's style dad music; Duran Duran, Africa, Bananarama, etc. So much the more allure when I was fresh from the press with a new job, with a burning need to make DIY repairs to a new house. Well, scrub all of that. <a href="https://www.fischers-lagerhaus.de/" target="_blank">Fischer-Lagerhaus</a>, has stores all over Germany including Neuwied near Koblenz. Their cathedral-like Aladdin's caverns purvey the most epicurean selection of ethnic trophies from around the world, from India to China, Africa to Tibet. In its splendour, taste and voluptuary elegance, it makes the likes of Dunelm Mill look like Preston Bus station in the 1970's. I have every confidence these people will bankrupt me in the most supremely ethical way, and leave me sitting in an immaculate museum piece of a house, surrounded by exotic leafy plants with furniture smelling sweetly of polished mahogany and sandalwood, as I weep into my final credit card bill with fond Sanskrit memories. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5b6rLVPIf2jzSBCSJRfvyHhZRfTZ5D0N9JZgPJdh5DLKQIJ-siL4u3nEuU05tXeA4Uf29neU8r5eMDkOSJHVGTkQXUsKwtTEZe8fFRHJVD9nK6MqCxufAgs6oBP6Xlz8Hy5EcuRTxYqyq6sW93Z7cshon2VpA2F_0ibH8aH804zWpo8uW46GKmfuEXD4/s2040/403408792_385699013897126_8644427197838710137_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2040" height="401" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5b6rLVPIf2jzSBCSJRfvyHhZRfTZ5D0N9JZgPJdh5DLKQIJ-siL4u3nEuU05tXeA4Uf29neU8r5eMDkOSJHVGTkQXUsKwtTEZe8fFRHJVD9nK6MqCxufAgs6oBP6Xlz8Hy5EcuRTxYqyq6sW93Z7cshon2VpA2F_0ibH8aH804zWpo8uW46GKmfuEXD4/w533-h401/403408792_385699013897126_8644427197838710137_n.jpg" width="533" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Our accommodation was in the style of a secluded holiday log cabin, which was nestled into a hillside overlooking a lake called Waldsee (Forest Lake). The first night we arrived, we ascended into the hills to be greeted by cobs of fluffy snow which carpeted all around in a magical Christmassy scene, and pretty much sealed us off from the urge to explore. We were accompanied by a kind of industrial pellet oven heater we mischievously called the 'mini Gigant', which groaned and spat out flames all day and night, to whichever temperature setting you wanted. In this cabin more than any other, there were also a plethora of soft lighting options which offered an endless fascination with engineering mood. In all it made for an incredibly cosy retreat. In the grounds of the holiday cabin, there was a small outbuilding which served as a sauna, complete with coals, water pail and ladle, woodland essential oils and fragrances, plus the inevitably refreshing dash back to the cabin in the frosty night air. Whilst we had planned to explore the surrounds of the lake, woods and nearby restaurant, it turned out we caught covid, so had some enforced downtime, which was no hardship. Below are various photos of Waldsee. Some of them are from the internet, some self-taken of the cabin, and some out of season, but hopefully they illustrate the beauty of the area, which is an inspiration for naturalists, walkers, writers, and carries a rich tradition of folklore and fairy tales. 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It would be an error to think that a liberated prisoner was not in need of spiritual care any more. We have to consider that a man who has been under such enormous mental pressure for such a long time is naturally in some danger after his liberation, especially since the pressure was released quite suddenly. This danger (in the sense of psychological hygiene) is the psychological counterpart of the bends. Just as the physical health of the caisson worker would be endangered if he left his diver's chamber suddenly (where he is under enormous atmospheric pressure), so the man who has suddenly been liberated from mental pressure can suffer damage to his moral and spiritual health. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">During this psychological phase one observed that people with natures of a more primitive kind could not escape the influences of the brutality which had surrounded them in camp life. Now, being free, they thought they could use their freedom "licentiously and ruthlessly. The only thing that had changed for them was that they were now the oppressors instead of the oppressed. They became instigators, not objects, of wilful force and injustice. They justified their behaviour by their own terrible experiences. This was often revealed in apparently insignificant events. A friend was walking across a field with me toward the camp when suddenly we came to a field of green crops. Automatically, I avoided it. but he drew his arm through mine and dragged me through it. I stammered something about not treading down the young crops. He became annoyed, gave me an angry look and shouted, "You don't say! And hasn't enough been taken from us? My wife and child have been gassed - not to mention everything else - and you would forbid me to tread on a few stalks of oats!" </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Only slowly could these men be guided back to the commonplace truth that no one has the right to do wrong, not even if wrong has been done to them. We had to strive to lead them back to this truth, or the consequences would have been much worse than the loss of a few thousand stalks of oats. I can still see the prisoner who rolled up his shirt sleeves, thrust his right hand under my nose and shouted, "May this hand be cut off if I don't stain it with blood on the day when I get home!" "</p>Frankl, Viktor, 1946. Man’s Search for Meaning. Washington Square Press.<br />Below: Various images of devastation in Gaza.<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiduSUvfFPuATiWeEZm-wAsIjBErwAfBr18PgJgAS1RdocslErl_Yon9R1Ih1P-w6l-ldusSnx29-FA89FIhGdhl0u4OniTk6KP2IQZasp_3ti3Art3Ar8_LC8j5374v_CVLxj6qFJ1MHMfolVONq8qahYdUFQu6VTpL5eC2H8DY9x9hKB367vJXcfLq_Q/s4244/gettyimages-1752139716_custom-3689b350517c649aa9ba13127900f3538ab17c92.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2740" data-original-width="4244" height="351" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiduSUvfFPuATiWeEZm-wAsIjBErwAfBr18PgJgAS1RdocslErl_Yon9R1Ih1P-w6l-ldusSnx29-FA89FIhGdhl0u4OniTk6KP2IQZasp_3ti3Art3Ar8_LC8j5374v_CVLxj6qFJ1MHMfolVONq8qahYdUFQu6VTpL5eC2H8DY9x9hKB367vJXcfLq_Q/w542-h351/gettyimages-1752139716_custom-3689b350517c649aa9ba13127900f3538ab17c92.jpeg" width="542" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjilzDwruRCTdG4EYFjOudHzwVvfrO5CG5KWX6lqiWQizRdiIQmLqwzzfUx03Uz-xtAXYtSEK_mVXY50nKt7_mW6nSaX_chPYQFCGvH9lqmX79434s7u72WtqLWp_LLu5wk10NqgWNRYyqHahwGlpwfrJ3xsRsOY0ZbBvCbdZq6E-gbbL5jQKHMKpj2Dgo/s1200/07pp7pmo_israel-hamas-war_625x300_11_October_23.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="738" data-original-width="1200" height="333" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjilzDwruRCTdG4EYFjOudHzwVvfrO5CG5KWX6lqiWQizRdiIQmLqwzzfUx03Uz-xtAXYtSEK_mVXY50nKt7_mW6nSaX_chPYQFCGvH9lqmX79434s7u72WtqLWp_LLu5wk10NqgWNRYyqHahwGlpwfrJ3xsRsOY0ZbBvCbdZq6E-gbbL5jQKHMKpj2Dgo/w541-h333/07pp7pmo_israel-hamas-war_625x300_11_October_23.webp" width="541" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirrNtQf7h1udm7BgpDNexRRyoY5ZeoPETmAsTKZp6CAuN8zarEK2oiS_A-JaXfkyeuI8D6FXpFR6LwqJI6jslIBSbcBTEs3sBYhnWMZrYrEnODHMPAmJjD5TMwZkh1AzDLLojIipQPKZrXFhrMleC5JrvkLp3dC1-JyuLLgvv7SLHEL_huDgzXBf_N6ko/s2000/231010162849-yassin-mosque-100923.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1333" data-original-width="2000" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirrNtQf7h1udm7BgpDNexRRyoY5ZeoPETmAsTKZp6CAuN8zarEK2oiS_A-JaXfkyeuI8D6FXpFR6LwqJI6jslIBSbcBTEs3sBYhnWMZrYrEnODHMPAmJjD5TMwZkh1AzDLLojIipQPKZrXFhrMleC5JrvkLp3dC1-JyuLLgvv7SLHEL_huDgzXBf_N6ko/w544-h362/231010162849-yassin-mosque-100923.jpeg" width="544" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrJtU17pnI7k47OcE3xlak3juTDI-QSknnNDWUWDSIW-lgIdd00GbVKL_ws1VygRYOUeh9ABLPX5E38pSX_2t5i_JgpK-9g0Pc_uoErzZToWfEOjVvti2Ph-dVuj5Nt2Urrjidz5emAdKy538qryPjznj63vd2KG9aBEQF8U3zVOKn05JhWXj_05CPN0I/s1000/2014829336197112_8.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="666" data-original-width="1000" height="361" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrJtU17pnI7k47OcE3xlak3juTDI-QSknnNDWUWDSIW-lgIdd00GbVKL_ws1VygRYOUeh9ABLPX5E38pSX_2t5i_JgpK-9g0Pc_uoErzZToWfEOjVvti2Ph-dVuj5Nt2Urrjidz5emAdKy538qryPjznj63vd2KG9aBEQF8U3zVOKn05JhWXj_05CPN0I/w542-h361/2014829336197112_8.webp" width="542" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTDc9rDf5KSZdebiCfTpMYzcdODVD7in4hhjupCYACl0DZZ1BFs_tzP30mFSlD3oO5Hofl4FzgCMS8a7LNNQlIun3V1YELI_nt0YvawRY5x6__UNoUDa6Iy5p-50_1pKt86lC0l-TlgQ-sJ72bUvrcBos2nygLKlRwbIYAj-N1_BfD9YApouV-UswxOxc/s760/Damage_in_Gaza_Strip_during_the_October_2023_-_32web.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="507" data-original-width="760" height="361" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTDc9rDf5KSZdebiCfTpMYzcdODVD7in4hhjupCYACl0DZZ1BFs_tzP30mFSlD3oO5Hofl4FzgCMS8a7LNNQlIun3V1YELI_nt0YvawRY5x6__UNoUDa6Iy5p-50_1pKt86lC0l-TlgQ-sJ72bUvrcBos2nygLKlRwbIYAj-N1_BfD9YApouV-UswxOxc/w542-h361/Damage_in_Gaza_Strip_during_the_October_2023_-_32web.jpeg" width="542" /></a></div><p></p></div>The Bohemian Budgiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523625775950213101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805984481914890010.post-82406208887287236502024-01-14T01:00:00.000-08:002024-01-14T01:00:00.136-08:00Winter on your Doorstep<p>I'm sure its not just me. There must be a certain type of domestic nature photographer, or "nature under your own nose" type, who, seeing an eerie sunset, or odd weather phenomenon, rushes out and captures the scene immediately outside of their house, pretty much dressed in a pair of boxer shorts or like Arthur Dent, in a dressing gown, and beggar the attitude of the neighbours. 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</span></span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">a leap in the dark without any undies on; </span></span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">a mere mouse dropping on the floor of social media. </span></span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">And yet, who would have thought, like an irradiated cockroach I would out-survive Twitter. </span></span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">It is the earnest desire of The Bohemian Budgie to outlast all forms of corporate capitalism and become an indelible beacon of light which radiates out to the universe like a pulsar until aliens send an anarcho-syndicalist rescue party, and arrive in giant disco ball spacecraft, dressed in crushed pink velvet jackets , zebra skin wide brimmed hats, orange floral shirts with 12" collars and giraffe patterned leather pants. 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Her post-Romantic musical style was more symbolic than impressionistic, featuring thematic obscurantism, unresolved 7th and 9th chords in the style of Debussy, inclusion of modal and parallel chordal progressions, etc. The end product is forlorn, somewhat alienated 20th century aural landscape which Boulanger supplemented by reference to equally forlorn literature, such as her short compositions <i>Clairières dans le ciel </i>(1914) to the poetry of Francis Jammes:</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>"Today is the most beautiful of Easter days.</i></div><i><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>I plunged deep into the blue countryside,</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>across woods, across meadows, across fields.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>How is it, O heart, you did not die a year ago?</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>O heart, once more I’ve caused you this Calvary</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>of seeing again this village where I suffered so,</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>the roses which bled before the vicarage,</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>the lilacs that kill me in their melancholy beds."</i></div></i><br />Boulanger's "Sous Bois" was performed by the choral ensemble Voices of Ascension in March 2019. Although the piece had fallen into obscurity during the 20th century, it is rightly undergoing a popular revival of interest. <br /><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgyuawm0r6Dj_esIdi5WE-pcCsFrt0yrVDiz2iswVGbufL6bHs5TdW0CZjkuooX9gZAeJqzthchVBikUsEctf5LkWV-ODhI6EYv7_fxp1xdQCW8t8dh4VsxWaPPgCfYiIr8WpaXXTMRFuKjsr3REW9ZK4wXdo15ancZKlojLRynGiJfYK8lxSzrtbL1S8/s2389/lili_boulanger_1er_grand_prix_entier.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2389" data-original-width="2389" height="537" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgyuawm0r6Dj_esIdi5WE-pcCsFrt0yrVDiz2iswVGbufL6bHs5TdW0CZjkuooX9gZAeJqzthchVBikUsEctf5LkWV-ODhI6EYv7_fxp1xdQCW8t8dh4VsxWaPPgCfYiIr8WpaXXTMRFuKjsr3REW9ZK4wXdo15ancZKlojLRynGiJfYK8lxSzrtbL1S8/w537-h537/lili_boulanger_1er_grand_prix_entier.jpeg" width="537" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="455" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OwUhaWEUBRw" width="547" youtube-src-id="OwUhaWEUBRw"></iframe></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>References</b></div><div><br /></div>Citron, M., 1991. Women and Music. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Pendle, K (ed). <br /><br />Classic FM., 2023. Who was Lili Boulanger? Meet the inspiring composer who died tragically young. Classic FM Discover Music. <a href="https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/lili-boulanger/ " target="_blank">https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/lili-boulanger/ </a><div><br /></div>Oxford International Song Festival., 2023. Songs: Demain fera un an by Lili Boulanger from Clairières dans le ciel (1914). <a href="https://oxfordsong.org/song/demain-fera-un-an " target="_blank">https://oxfordsong.org/song/demain-fera-un-an </a><br /><div><br /></div><div>Wikipedia., 2023. Lili Boulanger. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili_Boulanger " target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili_Boulanger </a></div></div><div><br /></div>The Bohemian Budgiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523625775950213101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805984481914890010.post-78053236134070049522023-11-01T02:00:00.057-07:002023-12-02T08:27:33.057-08:00Johanna Müller-Hermann: String Quartet in E# major, Op. 6 (1912)<div style="text-align: justify;">Johanna Müller-Hermann (1868 -1941), was an Austrian composer who studied with Guido Adler and Zemlinsky. Although she received a good musical education, in keeping with her comfortably middle-class background, she was not allowed to progress but was trained as a teacher. Her marriage in 1893 to the traffic specialist Otto Müller-Martini freed her to concentrate again on her music, studying piano, violin, theory and composition. It is a genuine tragedy that Müller-Hermann's music has been largely erased from history, one which can only be viewed through a feminist lens. Such a ruinous bowdlerisation is attributable to the insidious misogyny of nazism and a postwar cultural purism in which the "allies" should bear some responsibility. </div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHQvjYSX2vrYTQ35E4k_ill5Mugp_8-_4jVv0ILpjdqmrkvheYvtViaGx_hyKfCBIXGVp90fHynVSwGkr5hbhe3P4K_DIhlHGHTWSJpbOwBhLcaxW98qI2Bt-zlLyFtwjUjd3fqbMgX_lAQfq54JysWBnlKDXBXfVZpEB4qF9F-FETyZja2udYaW5nXgw/s325/JMH.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="302" data-original-width="325" height="477" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHQvjYSX2vrYTQ35E4k_ill5Mugp_8-_4jVv0ILpjdqmrkvheYvtViaGx_hyKfCBIXGVp90fHynVSwGkr5hbhe3P4K_DIhlHGHTWSJpbOwBhLcaxW98qI2Bt-zlLyFtwjUjd3fqbMgX_lAQfq54JysWBnlKDXBXfVZpEB4qF9F-FETyZja2udYaW5nXgw/w514-h477/JMH.jpg" width="514" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="435" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LhV0DIUE0f8" width="522" youtube-src-id="LhV0DIUE0f8"></iframe></div>The Bohemian Budgiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523625775950213101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805984481914890010.post-90118803153983347442023-10-01T01:00:00.013-07:002023-10-01T01:00:00.149-07:00Return of the Light: Album Artwork<p>One of the first things I did in the new year was make a dance compilation to keep the blood pumping, called <i>Return of the Light.</i> Some of it is old skool house and dance choons which I think shouldn't fade into obscurity so easily; some feature nostalgic female vocal mixes, e.g. Sade & Lisa Stansfield; and some of it is less frequented but contemporary Euro-dance like Gudrun Von Laxenburg, Elin Ey, etc. Now the nights are drawing in a bit, I am already hankering after lullabies and incantations to welcome back the sun. Anyway, below is the album artwork I compiled. If you're interested in the music, the tracks are currently all available on Youtube. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN-c17zNuqeyD4X1NfwpG5J5P4H37mOLqmEgA6sjN0vEp0CnKRVNLimXO5M_6Zh5ziMPCbUZWr8KrMsWdcfrE9_rVuQq_Uwl-PBnkp5j1eB9_KbzdHdEQn1ehww6rKB5mZWnjJhnnnRO3hd_szw0tRm36o4j3JN5k6XD4xCAvS2ekHj_Zh_Z0gg2i4ZNI/s800/Return%20of%20the%20Light%20(Fantasy).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="789" data-original-width="800" height="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN-c17zNuqeyD4X1NfwpG5J5P4H37mOLqmEgA6sjN0vEp0CnKRVNLimXO5M_6Zh5ziMPCbUZWr8KrMsWdcfrE9_rVuQq_Uwl-PBnkp5j1eB9_KbzdHdEQn1ehww6rKB5mZWnjJhnnnRO3hd_szw0tRm36o4j3JN5k6XD4xCAvS2ekHj_Zh_Z0gg2i4ZNI/w532-h525/Return%20of%20the%20Light%20(Fantasy).jpg" width="532" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnblpMIZBmOTDZkfJdUBHw8-JP6t5-7eUuGc-nXQ5Kqvh1D9BFn8k96SXULjk3edA8spHsb07npLMRmiTUJJRGERXZl1hAsnlmpqz9qcHSToNA2m17ClG_FYrKBMJZ6ONfPPjvHTbQ7gReA0OYWVa36teCVZiy6Vk2B0MF1AAnRing8X6Z3DZVC6zMKos/s1672/Return%20of%20the%20Light%20(Celtic).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1672" data-original-width="1672" height="537" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnblpMIZBmOTDZkfJdUBHw8-JP6t5-7eUuGc-nXQ5Kqvh1D9BFn8k96SXULjk3edA8spHsb07npLMRmiTUJJRGERXZl1hAsnlmpqz9qcHSToNA2m17ClG_FYrKBMJZ6ONfPPjvHTbQ7gReA0OYWVa36teCVZiy6Vk2B0MF1AAnRing8X6Z3DZVC6zMKos/w537-h537/Return%20of%20the%20Light%20(Celtic).jpg" width="537" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCEnCk-qm4s8NIRostVBKuoeInFRA7tfBNaNZ05aOB-mbMaPAlALXILBXSK4mw9VgoHc4pPnNheMVPyN9eeEvtcVVJ560apdqwMZEMVPWZO6a8TDau_LP0Fxr74q_6UM1s1lrdNad8p74HZ22yIMNEvhTIXJ5xfBRHjNc3U6suiLwMrsjlCN-95Ph6ZAc/s2876/Return%20of%20the%20Light%20Tracklist.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1612" data-original-width="2876" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCEnCk-qm4s8NIRostVBKuoeInFRA7tfBNaNZ05aOB-mbMaPAlALXILBXSK4mw9VgoHc4pPnNheMVPyN9eeEvtcVVJ560apdqwMZEMVPWZO6a8TDau_LP0Fxr74q_6UM1s1lrdNad8p74HZ22yIMNEvhTIXJ5xfBRHjNc3U6suiLwMrsjlCN-95Ph6ZAc/w537-h301/Return%20of%20the%20Light%20Tracklist.png" width="537" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>The Bohemian Budgiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523625775950213101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805984481914890010.post-25685879864236129802023-09-01T01:00:00.028-07:002023-09-01T01:00:00.149-07:00Paleomoussaka!<p style="text-align: justify;">Say it! As all one word. It's so invigorating, you can really shout it. Shout it at random people in the street. Wait for friends and relatives to walk by and jump out of a murky recess, shouting PALEOMOUSSAKA with gusto like a maniacal murderer. It truly is good for the soul. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGV_hG2ea2QngqiaF72Q27xLDTZkMflGZMjunv_9NFheUIMTjHxQC0MTAStFRwtNiYY-OWXwgtZLn9NygMZmVKvcAChr9rxFIQZ2Ev31fhnA_d2iUJ8jNaS98j-SveNvKmUagNZy5pDkjHdBoiZ3jscjMqY64fambKoqdearUYenyyELKp9TPXr-dLb1Y/s4208/IMG_20230729_185626.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4208" height="393" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGV_hG2ea2QngqiaF72Q27xLDTZkMflGZMjunv_9NFheUIMTjHxQC0MTAStFRwtNiYY-OWXwgtZLn9NygMZmVKvcAChr9rxFIQZ2Ev31fhnA_d2iUJ8jNaS98j-SveNvKmUagNZy5pDkjHdBoiZ3jscjMqY64fambKoqdearUYenyyELKp9TPXr-dLb1Y/w531-h393/IMG_20230729_185626.jpg" width="531" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">This recipe, as the battlecry suggests, is a paleo modification of the Greek dish moussaka. That is to say, flour has been eliminated from the top layer part of the recipe, leaving only whole yummy goodness. Many paleo enthusiasts may take issue with the use of cheese, but I tolerate it quite well so have incorporated it. If you wanted to dispense with the cheese, you could go for a mushroom sauce type of thing, maybe using besan or chickpea flour to give it body. Consider my words of wisdom on this matter, and then create!</p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;">In essence, moussaka is a lasagne but using aubergine instead of lasagne sheets, so its already primed to be a paleo meal apart from the topping. Modify that, then bingo you've got Paleomoussaka.</div><div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwiyd_i88VvDKC_yBgLV98SL5yRUJCJFUvibyvEuKpHPsI3Rhbg84oI9sq23liH2oLsUHKVYuki52BiAROVbhGYN0yo9UogkWFW8PgkRGADJfHBnS4Y6xDrowecxwe9fS0ZFvBLOCQllWtLl6ULvAiAWaOK8TYIf7SXfa3xTkrHV0V3tx4YdHNl2BYn7Q/s4208/IMG_20230729_141211.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4208" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwiyd_i88VvDKC_yBgLV98SL5yRUJCJFUvibyvEuKpHPsI3Rhbg84oI9sq23liH2oLsUHKVYuki52BiAROVbhGYN0yo9UogkWFW8PgkRGADJfHBnS4Y6xDrowecxwe9fS0ZFvBLOCQllWtLl6ULvAiAWaOK8TYIf7SXfa3xTkrHV0V3tx4YdHNl2BYn7Q/w533-h394/IMG_20230729_141211.jpg" width="533" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">A word on the ingredients. Obviously the fresher and more home-grown the ingredients are, the better. I think the key ingredient to prove that point is the tomatoes. If you have a bunch of luscious ripe, sweet tomatoes straight off the vine then you can see how that is very much superior to some anonymous, industrially produced floor scrapings from a tin, but if that's all you've got then needs must. If you are asked by a dinner guest on the origin of your tomatoes just switch their attention to the sensual precociousness of your aubergines and that should hopefully spare your blushes. Or maybe contribute to them, depending on which way you swing. You will see that in place of 1 onion (yellow, red, both fine) in this recipe there are three good sized spring onions, but again it depends what is lurking in your garden. And finally, selection of a good cheese is essential if you are going to blag a moussaka topping by avoiding flour. High quality cheese and parmesan can prove a nutrient dense diversion from what's not there. Some people use potatoes in moussaka, but it's not a paleo option, so it's not in this recipe. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Speaking of ingredient quality, both sweet marjoram and spearmint were doing well in my garden at the time (July), so I cut them fresh in the proportions of Marjoram 2:1 Spearmint and chopped them both up very fine together. Being quite aromatic (I used mostly leaf but also a little flower of both) few other fresh ingredients were needed. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI0X7a4u-FwRF1JZjBCSf6omD-3AeDMxlN1sT4vcf3B2nxKDZuEv4NTAnxqtQ14Du3k-6ht9YarS9e0HHqDoJe7MAH66fPmi3ezm5GaeR8ej-j4XsIGjKlJ8PYEF1ItOLD3BC-zJGS0VDfGaedDKfY8wRwYS3bg9K1vzIiZYcek1-LpDIc2hgYsNlnii0/s4208/IMG_20230729_141438.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4208" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI0X7a4u-FwRF1JZjBCSf6omD-3AeDMxlN1sT4vcf3B2nxKDZuEv4NTAnxqtQ14Du3k-6ht9YarS9e0HHqDoJe7MAH66fPmi3ezm5GaeR8ej-j4XsIGjKlJ8PYEF1ItOLD3BC-zJGS0VDfGaedDKfY8wRwYS3bg9K1vzIiZYcek1-LpDIc2hgYsNlnii0/w237-h320/IMG_20230729_141438.jpg" width="237" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw8WyKWCC7hqQ7H1tty2U0B7a0MVhEfNNsMqmdfrVvauap2ekfzm19N5zJktxMEGHhYQxUaLU-fq0sdrC6tugtLw1jViwU7oiI8VLJ7R0nflKFeS0PK3rPlYXWn0N6TMgxRbhiMGL6UhGhEoqWrNLJUMNkxUfwvu-YuE4XL8Dh8AYfLC6rzDlfy3HNjJU/s4208/IMG_20230729_141546.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4208" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw8WyKWCC7hqQ7H1tty2U0B7a0MVhEfNNsMqmdfrVvauap2ekfzm19N5zJktxMEGHhYQxUaLU-fq0sdrC6tugtLw1jViwU7oiI8VLJ7R0nflKFeS0PK3rPlYXWn0N6TMgxRbhiMGL6UhGhEoqWrNLJUMNkxUfwvu-YuE4XL8Dh8AYfLC6rzDlfy3HNjJU/w237-h320/IMG_20230729_141546.jpg" width="237" /></a></div><br /><p>Now if I said just treat the whole bloody thing like you were making a lasagne you couldn't go far wrong from here, but below is the recipe, which I suppose is what you're here for: </p><p><b>Ingredients</b></p><p><b>1. Moussaka component:</b><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>5 Tbsp olive oil</li><li>3 large spring onions, finely chopped</li><li>3 cloves garlic</li><li>500g minced lamb</li><li>8 medium mushrooms, finely chopped</li><li>8 large fresh tomatoes, finely chopped (+ tomato puree to thicken up if required)</li><li>2 Tbsp dry white wine</li><li>1/4 tsp cinnamon powder</li><li>1 tsp cumin powder</li><li>1 tsp ground coriander powder</li><li>2 Tbsp fresh sweet marjoram & spearmint in ratio of 2:1</li><li>2 medium-large aubergines sliced thinly</li><li>Salt and pepper to taste</li></ul></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><b>2. Top layer</b></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Dolmio Lasagne sauce (Creamy, family-sized version or similar) </li><li>Large handful of strong cheddar cheese</li></ul></div><div><br /></div><div><b>3. Garnish</b></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>2 Tbsp chopped parsley</li><li>Parmesan cheese & pepper to taste</li></ul></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On the subject of the Dolmio. Yes, its a short cut compared to making a cheese sauce from scratch but if you choose a lasagne sauce that does not contain flour or gluten and you can tolerate lactose/ dairy, then you're winning. There is a modicum of glucose syrup in this sauce, which I object to, but total carbs in this product is 3% so the levels are bearable and conform to requirements of a keto diet. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiYdDUnUBeWykpR0L5vLMy2dIxzt57y0cpYVa3RiyD9_AUKd6wnkmYVbLkaGbpujZedS-usoIZ9leSjjoMVpeP1TNZK-c89fd1EdUA40CncvGL5in9yoK09rHpCmU0s3oEAaYtO1MOo-yrsRoB0E_sXRNTjJul8zYzgXRc9qEfQbsWMCeOkjnNuPL6FfA/s4208/IMG_20230729_173122.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4208" data-original-width="3120" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiYdDUnUBeWykpR0L5vLMy2dIxzt57y0cpYVa3RiyD9_AUKd6wnkmYVbLkaGbpujZedS-usoIZ9leSjjoMVpeP1TNZK-c89fd1EdUA40CncvGL5in9yoK09rHpCmU0s3oEAaYtO1MOo-yrsRoB0E_sXRNTjJul8zYzgXRc9qEfQbsWMCeOkjnNuPL6FfA/w474-h640/IMG_20230729_173122.jpg" width="474" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsuPvVumhe0VrxmnMwNQhni4uBIMeW2rIO-fHR9aN5GkjkrONVGxXrhxc_3FIuFY4VIoccV7m7ulEuagfKIh13_kAU3fDuH5B6VNz5ZzKXXAHX8GVv6iTDa7tyI07M8HwHXMnMIyXW4R60rcGHVzV4kPRytQ2PkGVSA-ycmBEIdMZR4P1sXnA50DBvCFc/s4208/IMG_20230729_174955.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4208" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsuPvVumhe0VrxmnMwNQhni4uBIMeW2rIO-fHR9aN5GkjkrONVGxXrhxc_3FIuFY4VIoccV7m7ulEuagfKIh13_kAU3fDuH5B6VNz5ZzKXXAHX8GVv6iTDa7tyI07M8HwHXMnMIyXW4R60rcGHVzV4kPRytQ2PkGVSA-ycmBEIdMZR4P1sXnA50DBvCFc/w478-h352/IMG_20230729_174955.jpg" width="478" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><b>Method</b><br /><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Preheat oven to 180°C. </li><li>Heat half of the olive oil in a large casserole dish over a moderate heat. </li><li>Saute the onion and garlic until they brown.</li><li>Add lamb mince and mushrooms and increase the heat. </li><li>Cook through for 5 minutes, then add the wine, chopped tomatoes, and spices. </li><li>Reduce to a simmer and cook gently for 30 minutes.</li><li>Meanwhile, heat the rest of the olive oil in batches in a frying pan set over a high heat until very hot. Fry the aubergine slices quickly until lightly golden on both sides. </li><li>Once coloured, layer the slices in a shallow, heatproof 2.5 litre baking dish. </li><li>Season between the aubergine layers with salt and pepper and set to one side.</li><li>Add the Dolmio to a separate pan and heat through.</li><li>Spoon the lamb sauce over the aubergine layer. </li><li>Pour the Dolmio topping over the lamb sauce and add the cheese on top.</li><li>Bake for 30 minutes until the top is golden brown and bubbling. </li><li>Remove from the oven and allow it to sit for 5 minutes. </li><li>Spoon the moussaka onto serving plates and garnish with parsley, pepper and parmesan as desired. </li><li>Shout PALEOMOUSSAKA and dive in. </li><li>Enjoy!</li></ul></div></div>The Bohemian Budgiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523625775950213101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805984481914890010.post-78838164463129248082023-08-01T01:00:00.002-07:002023-08-01T01:00:00.143-07:00Frank R. Paul (1884-1963)<p style="text-align: justify;">The artwork of Frank R Paul is of course quite retro for sci-fi illustration, compared to modern day standards, but I think that's what gives it such naive appeal. I say naive, but it is arguably more advanced than contemporary sci-fi illustration, I expect because Frank R Paul was right in the middle of the post-war upswing in science & tech which was so creatively infective. His imaginative etchings ooze futuristic optimism in a way we fail to do. To Frank R Paul, the future was rich in possibility and daring. 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At the opposite extreme the route from Yorkshire Bridge is indubitably a real horror, a muddy step-ladder under a heavy canopy of conifers. </i></p><p><i>Geographically, Win Hill belongs to the Kinder Scout massif, but the long connecting bridge, forming a curtain barrier between the Woodlands and Noe valleys gives the hill a strong independence and may fairly claim to be one of the prime viewpoints of Peakland."</i></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: right;">Mark Richards</div><div style="text-align: right;">High Peak Walks</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0000ee; text-decoration-line: underline;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I have climbed up Lose Hill a few times. The most notable occasion was in my early 20's. Having walked along the Edale valley from Cooper's camp site, my brother and I took a sharp ascent of Lose Hill over some barbed wire fences, stone walls and onto the rugged grassland above. From that approach Lose Hill offered three increasing gradients, so the energy expenditure in climbing it was deceptive; about half of your effort was spend on the final 1/3 of the hill. Although it was decades ago I remember getting to the top my very first time, and being in yearning need of a brew, but had to wait for my sluggardly sibling to arrive with the flask. Once he eventually arrived, he pulled out the flask only for us both to be greeted by the inimitable clank of broken glass and weak tea pissing out everywhere. For me, that moment most captured the essence of Lose Hill. </div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Over the years I would reach the summit of Lose Hill, usually after walking the ridge from Mam Tor, to inwardly re-live my tea trauma and wistfully look across to Win Hill, imagining all the lucky walkers there with flasks full of hot tea, and reliably footsure brothers. Imagine my joy when this year I got my chance to see how the other half live. Although it was a hot day for walking, Win Hill is a feasible climb taking Mark Richard's advice and ascending via Wooler Knoll. Reaching the top of Win Hill and recalling flask-gate, I looked all around the Peaks like a conquering hero and realised that when you reach the top of Win Hill, all you can see around are losers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"But we mount the heights of our being only to look down into darker colder chasms."</i></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;">Margaret Fuller, </div><div style="text-align: right;">From a letter to Elizabeth Hoar, May 15th 1859. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1170" data-original-width="1578" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEmo6Z2RTA12YAgENz5scqTzaqE0Nzlvu0Jf64d7Zo9gSfsoF_pVjuqHepT7EATvIyrFJq39n54eBGXr8Y-p2ma6vknteJQKO0q5Xvih2VowDZuZBOu1vUzZ4R_SAnlPjLLFuCubAxqRyKzZGFwKyiHaekS2UmR1rEXlFn0Gzv8jmL7jfvY1uMGcLe/w527-h390/348382233_719085606656747_2658203599888682885_n.jpg" width="527" /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>View over Hope Valley</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1170" data-original-width="1578" height="385" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAFU7X7-2Gw5VVgmb_wM4INNGQyzWbcla0TymEBki8AHVGaJuL1AqbxKEy8ETYK4xrJ3Io7NJPvYRiFPWXuZYWtEsn8NduXt1xob4JxIeIar18CMRQdKaRlBmVaKVjTWb6JZC2buYNtPUmh-KKVKI_EG9lPJVjKmn8pFXPcbtoUDuw8lPVRLLx0qRw/w520-h385/348383183_628333849219327_2981623264811495520_n.jpg" width="520" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>SE view of Lose Hill</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMs8KNSyIaXURtdvP6IdmZL40iLQNjSLGgCs6dyWwdT41YG_nWF8H1K2PckA6aPKvyMvrce1Q6yhAQguTSI1e3yQpqfKj1Hdn0e-iyzJBoJrBk8OkFbhg-xlrW9bEcbw-_mXGKMLuC4xI3xabaehI9P0x4SIu0g8GMrwUgHy5QRB8eWzzfalKJDIYf/s1578/353172110_624678116273726_4177355486156174000_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1170" data-original-width="1578" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMs8KNSyIaXURtdvP6IdmZL40iLQNjSLGgCs6dyWwdT41YG_nWF8H1K2PckA6aPKvyMvrce1Q6yhAQguTSI1e3yQpqfKj1Hdn0e-iyzJBoJrBk8OkFbhg-xlrW9bEcbw-_mXGKMLuC4xI3xabaehI9P0x4SIu0g8GMrwUgHy5QRB8eWzzfalKJDIYf/w517-h382/353172110_624678116273726_4177355486156174000_n.jpg" width="517" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Approaching Win Hill Pike, aka the Pimple</i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIPFd0yFF_ehDhwmOZbYwXAxVKW1K8f8xYC9iONgLQF4UKut-RD5ph-nz6KXkf0Cuu08I-l9btjYyRJA92kY4u7yxPzKyJEv_Hz4maLQUpNSEXz3PX-B1m6C0zi0aYGzk-qrdMjENRKEq_r_P3c8ZzPVQqbt3Yy9FWk3B8bM92Jh9B5iEM2b86l7p9/s1578/353602023_1663643727391369_5634030707340963965_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1170" data-original-width="1578" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIPFd0yFF_ehDhwmOZbYwXAxVKW1K8f8xYC9iONgLQF4UKut-RD5ph-nz6KXkf0Cuu08I-l9btjYyRJA92kY4u7yxPzKyJEv_Hz4maLQUpNSEXz3PX-B1m6C0zi0aYGzk-qrdMjENRKEq_r_P3c8ZzPVQqbt3Yy9FWk3B8bM92Jh9B5iEM2b86l7p9/w515-h382/353602023_1663643727391369_5634030707340963965_n.jpg" width="515" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Ruins on the way down</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>References</b></div><div style="text-align: left;">Highland, Chris (Ed) (2007). Meditations of Margaret Fuller: The Inner Stream. Self Published.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Richards, Mark (1982). High Peak Walks: Walk 12 (pg.98). Cicerone Press. Reprinted 1989. </div>The Bohemian Budgiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523625775950213101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805984481914890010.post-70099796753942344122023-06-01T01:00:00.016-07:002023-10-28T07:33:14.427-07:00Against Nature: J.K Huysmans (1884)<div>I recently read Joris-Karl Huysmans wonderfully decadent, extravagant masterpiece <i>Against Nature </i>(or, <i>Against the Grain</i>, translated from <i>A Rebours</i>), which has some of the most opulent Bohemian prose I have ever encountered. Although it is likely not a book suited to everyone's taste, it imparts a darkly enervated, droll aesthetic which is only paralleled by the crooked imaginings of Poe, and so is most at home on these pages. In the same week, and quite unconnectedly, I discovered that Alfred Hitchcock partnered with Salvador Dali in his 1945 film <i>Spellbound</i>, as artist and set designer in the film's psychoanalytic dream sequence.* For some reason, these two cultural phenomena have become linked in my mind, and I present below scenes from Dali's dream sequence, and paragraphs from <i>Against Nature</i>; a section where the reclusive anti-hero Des Esseintes over-indulges his latest obsession in exotic plants...</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhH5f8LW8pIcXzX2jH9XZsM3re_Vy9Nix0Zj9MXm8FNX0zfKtf0dDXE1R7stqJLP6m6-oJBpf3pSiwKdEvSCo_SQjHtk_XYhffZRSiu_nYoC3AVLFa2id5VvD8ETmo763ZHwCAy7WPilAGCNy837iOWW0yeK-lbpW2s3qvn7u9djzZ7XJSJvRWmAjmB" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="515" data-original-width="915" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhH5f8LW8pIcXzX2jH9XZsM3re_Vy9Nix0Zj9MXm8FNX0zfKtf0dDXE1R7stqJLP6m6-oJBpf3pSiwKdEvSCo_SQjHtk_XYhffZRSiu_nYoC3AVLFa2id5VvD8ETmo763ZHwCAy7WPilAGCNy837iOWW0yeK-lbpW2s3qvn7u9djzZ7XJSJvRWmAjmB=w538-h303" width="538" /></a></div><br /></div><i>"Last of all, when he had sufficiently savoured the sight, he hurriedly scattered about exotic perfumes, exhausted his vaporizers, concentrated his strongest essences, gave the rein to all his balms, and lo! the stifling closeness of the room was filled with an atmosphere, maddening and sublime, breathing powerful influences, impregnating with raging alcoholates an artificial breeze,--an atmosphere unnatural, yet delightful, paradoxical in its union of the allspice of the Tropics, the pungent savours of the sandalwood of China and the hediosmia of Japan with native odours of jasmine, hawthorn and vervain, forcing, to grow together, in despite of seasons and climates, trees of diverse essences, flowers of colours and fragrances the most opposite, creating by the blending and shock of all these tones one common perfume, unknown, unforeseen, extraordinary, wherein re-appeared at intervals as a persistent refrain, the decorative phrase of the opening, the odour of the broad meadows breathed over by the lilacs and the lindens.</i><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgMMglVLrID3QVOTWq8J7WIczIr-LNvSogkBONWl6Qg_oqVBEJ0-ovhlG1QvmgKsWzpgg0bfLjx8ckvN9-Lp7HDsIiRTv7jv_yjEHQowuBB871lQl8Bp7hQAc8Mq--sCSeIFGhz4zAcaaM0v6W6rwUnWTTBNplcthAWAnGPE-KTJFv4b5MophfW_9vQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="511" data-original-width="818" height="338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgMMglVLrID3QVOTWq8J7WIczIr-LNvSogkBONWl6Qg_oqVBEJ0-ovhlG1QvmgKsWzpgg0bfLjx8ckvN9-Lp7HDsIiRTv7jv_yjEHQowuBB871lQl8Bp7hQAc8Mq--sCSeIFGhz4zAcaaM0v6W6rwUnWTTBNplcthAWAnGPE-KTJFv4b5MophfW_9vQ=w541-h338" width="541" /></a></div><br /><i>Suddenly a sharp agony assailed him; it felt as though a centre-bit were boring into his temples. He opened his eyes, to find himself once more in the middle of his study, seated before his working table; he got up and walked painfully, half-stunned, to the window, which he threw part open. A current of fresh air sweetened the stifling atmosphere that enveloped him; he marched up and down the room to recover the proper use of his limbs, going to and fro, his eyes fixed on the ceiling on which crabs and seaweed powdered with sea salt stood out in relief from a grained background, yellow as the sand of a beach. A similar design decorated the plinths bordering the panels, which in their turn were covered with Japanese crape, a watery green in colour and slightly waved to imitate the ripple of a wind-blown river, while down the gentle current floated a rose leaf round which frolicked a swarm of little fishes dashed in with two strokes of the pen.</i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhYp-61Oagk_zhUCriaTwNx37UycjJ_D2RVUEa0zfQ3eo3iZfcVI_EwGdA5t1-uNWsU9ODmlN_lrsz2aX9Gd0vJxaE52YBGL7Sbb4lIvrdoJDL457rNKQGKEI197Xr-iyxGhqa_BbeW14aiyVxf3UGSqhNz3TGD8gnaDvfoYTwkQjfIPPC6z1FuD8Pv" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="338" data-original-width="600" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhYp-61Oagk_zhUCriaTwNx37UycjJ_D2RVUEa0zfQ3eo3iZfcVI_EwGdA5t1-uNWsU9ODmlN_lrsz2aX9Gd0vJxaE52YBGL7Sbb4lIvrdoJDL457rNKQGKEI197Xr-iyxGhqa_BbeW14aiyVxf3UGSqhNz3TGD8gnaDvfoYTwkQjfIPPC6z1FuD8Pv=w541-h304" width="541" /></a></div><br /><i>But his eyes were still heavy; he left off pacing the short length of floor between the font and the bath and leant his elbows on the window sill. Presently his dizziness ceased, and after carefully recorking the bottles of scents and essences, he seized the opportunity to tidy his apparatus for making up the face,--his paints and powders and the like. He had not touched these things since his arrival at Fontenay, and he was almost astonished now at the sight of this collection once visited by so many women. One on top of the other, phials and porcelain pots littered the table confusion. </i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTdPERbxOUrWNUls6Qbqzh99rpmfCI83phTqaTB-VbjBh64xMJTGLErF50rSdjw-WdJe7rxZYCTPsRlCObYGh7FsOK8OP5pQkd--6STQoGuaQsPBo2VWJTbEPfS7atpK2EoIQgD5btvI6uCoR1rIcUHQlmTqIY9e9b93AC2kA23FQn15B3lkSXtX85" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="511" data-original-width="818" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTdPERbxOUrWNUls6Qbqzh99rpmfCI83phTqaTB-VbjBh64xMJTGLErF50rSdjw-WdJe7rxZYCTPsRlCObYGh7FsOK8OP5pQkd--6STQoGuaQsPBo2VWJTbEPfS7atpK2EoIQgD5btvI6uCoR1rIcUHQlmTqIY9e9b93AC2kA23FQn15B3lkSXtX85=w550-h344" width="550" /></a></div><br /></div><div><i>Here was a china box, of the green sort, containing schnouda, that marvellous white cream which, once spread on the cheeks, changes under the influence of the air to a tender pink, then to a scarlet so natural that it gives an absolutely convincing illusion of a complexion mantling with red blood; there, jars incrusted with mother-o'-pearl held Japanese gold and Athens green, coloured like the wing of the cantharides beetle, golds and greens that blend into a deep purple directly they are moistened; beside pots full of filbert paste, of serkis of the harem, of emulsions of Cashmere lilies, of lotions of strawberry and elderfiower for the skin, beside little phials of solutions of India-ink and rose-water for the eyes, lay a host of different instruments, of mother-o'-pearl, of ivory and of silver, mixed up with dainty brushes for the teeth and gums,--pincers, scissors, strigils, stumps, crimpers, powder-puffs, back-scratchers, patches and files. He handled all this elaborate apparatus, bought in former days to please a mistress who found an ineffable pleasure in certain aromatics and certain balms, an ill-balanced, nerve-ridden woman, who loved to have her nipples macerated in scents, but who only really experienced a genuine and over-mastering ecstasy when her head was tickled with a comb and she could, in the act of being caressed by a lover, breathe the smell of chimney soot, of wet plaster from a house building in rainy weather, or of dust churned up by the heavy thunder drops of a summer storm."</i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjDoSvVJvdF_N9FjVppqU_CbvAg4ZZEW2vz3RW9CKZg0bb8gBdQb_HX31OOSXhSCX5m2g9PqDfcc-uqzGMSFn0t4dqZQNH96U9MwdyZVurz-7UovNbt_BnDlTtv92sJEy9wl71aaxBzVxrN2r6efumN8Wh94JWfgrmfT_nl1Zt_dp_4h6Y58RySRdZv" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="663" data-original-width="1029" height="349" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjDoSvVJvdF_N9FjVppqU_CbvAg4ZZEW2vz3RW9CKZg0bb8gBdQb_HX31OOSXhSCX5m2g9PqDfcc-uqzGMSFn0t4dqZQNH96U9MwdyZVurz-7UovNbt_BnDlTtv92sJEy9wl71aaxBzVxrN2r6efumN8Wh94JWfgrmfT_nl1Zt_dp_4h6Y58RySRdZv=w542-h349" width="542" /></a></div><br />* Interestingly, these eyeball scenes are similar to the <a href="https://bohemianbudgie.blogspot.com/search?q=the+babble+machines" target="_blank"><i>Eyes </i>from <i>Metropolis</i>, by Fritz Lang (1927) </a>and I wonder if Dali was influenced by this technique. I say 'wonder' because with any other artist I would be certain it was an act of plagiarism, but Dali was such a creative force that I expect he could quite independently come up with such an idea. </div>The Bohemian Budgiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523625775950213101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805984481914890010.post-89989987004055751002023-05-01T01:00:00.013-07:002023-05-26T11:29:03.639-07:00Wayne Shorter: A Wish for Eternity<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKfLdFxF5PHhK-Z24sGjrHo_b5bVHxoRwksKmMuyBZZJF4t-FwqZ5NAXMozlRF3_uapFNnYRp8kqvUIXgduugkcawxcRt8LIqOD9uSo70VEEMdfRVSVkyiH0EYjQFm4YMoh8MhGXU8eH3hlEYPP4J0lixyHnrg9ttkDb-gSQkqT0WLejSqn0F84QZm/s900/feb_14_nujo_web.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="900" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKfLdFxF5PHhK-Z24sGjrHo_b5bVHxoRwksKmMuyBZZJF4t-FwqZ5NAXMozlRF3_uapFNnYRp8kqvUIXgduugkcawxcRt8LIqOD9uSo70VEEMdfRVSVkyiH0EYjQFm4YMoh8MhGXU8eH3hlEYPP4J0lixyHnrg9ttkDb-gSQkqT0WLejSqn0F84QZm/w540-h301/feb_14_nujo_web.jpeg" width="540" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><i>“When all those records came out, I didn’t know they would be thought of as classics or ABCs of modern jazz. Most of those tunes came out just like that – real quick… and if anything was behind them it was like a wish that was manifested musically: maybe a wish for eternity or a beautiful girl.” </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: left;">Wayne Shorter. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="366" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZjLHmEx5BiE" width="440" youtube-src-id="ZjLHmEx5BiE"></iframe></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Such was the genius of the man, that intellectually, intentionally, he didn’t comprehend how he was constructing such sublime impressionistic harmony, and nor did he need to. Rather, it came from his soul, or perhaps from above. Such was the instantaneous authenticity of his talent. And that is what made him an improvisational jazz master. Musicologists in the future will try to unravel it, and maybe they will succeed, but it will take people outside of the reference frame in which this music was created to interpret what amounts to a Venutian language. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">The fact that Wayne Shorter was a Nichiren Buddhist was no accident in my opinion. His mastery expressed itself spiritually in the music of jazz, and in the rhythm of chanting. The beauteous simplicity of Nichiren chanting demands a sort of manifesting, faith-in-action. And in his troubled life, Wayne Shorter perhaps needed it more than most. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0osRdutL27S6b0SIbA3i81CW5ZRN3NiTt5ATKfVXhxLu20y-QIDASI82Js0gLultQOJ5mF_cjaY7VJAeqbKHZxEe2pgGw5u_J0l28imL6xH2L8fNZmUx7MbIRjhRaCUMvBx4fOEp8Sz05oKUmPM4ciTfMIO_Ic5cx3UfCBdloXToVInGiEtNUdCbO/s600/3087474.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="590" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0osRdutL27S6b0SIbA3i81CW5ZRN3NiTt5ATKfVXhxLu20y-QIDASI82Js0gLultQOJ5mF_cjaY7VJAeqbKHZxEe2pgGw5u_J0l28imL6xH2L8fNZmUx7MbIRjhRaCUMvBx4fOEp8Sz05oKUmPM4ciTfMIO_Ic5cx3UfCBdloXToVInGiEtNUdCbO/w394-h400/3087474.jpeg" width="394" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">The beautiful woman on the front of the Speak No Evil album, recorded in 1964, was of his wife, Teruko (Irene) Nakagami, described by Shorter as “like a pretty Japanese Audrey Hepburn.” Shorter dedicated the pieces "Miyako" and "Infant Eyes" to their daughter, and the album was copyrighted as "Miyako Music." Through this filter the whole album takes on the magnificence of a man in love with his family and playfully exploring his universal creativity. Sadly the relationship did not last and they separated in 1966, the year of release of the album. It always strikes me as ironic that such a brief testimony of love as Speak No Evil, was brought to the world when it was over. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Shorter remarried Ana Maria Patricio in 1970. Their daughter Iska died of a grand mal seizure at the age of 14, and both Ana Maria and the couple's niece, Dalila, were both tragically killed in a plane crash while travelling to visit Shorter in Italy in 1996. Shorter eventually remarried Carolina Dos Santos, a close friend of Ana Maria, and I hope found happiness. Nichiren Daishonin said <i>“Do not go about complaining how hard it is to live in this world. such behavior is entirely unworthy of a real man.”</i> And I think Shorter lived by that principle, joyously. I wish that he is transported to Sagga on winds of eternal Jazz music in gratitude for his Buddhahood and gifts to us all.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbC-Zw9t_rvhI8u3a3sdDToboIDSdYMBdR9aiZQZn6izUqxgyUAacEdcXnpA0wohRxfnpTcRgnCSGGaUPDMB6-HYgyWMHi17YgABFO9FQzQW2seizCZVvCyxgauk-ekLiHrXSIc7y8fwFD1DsOZnNu9sBnJNVJcpSOSSXaKb3ViBSDf6biGIwN7HWf/s1774/ezgif-5-8f2431d2f7.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1774" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbC-Zw9t_rvhI8u3a3sdDToboIDSdYMBdR9aiZQZn6izUqxgyUAacEdcXnpA0wohRxfnpTcRgnCSGGaUPDMB6-HYgyWMHi17YgABFO9FQzQW2seizCZVvCyxgauk-ekLiHrXSIc7y8fwFD1DsOZnNu9sBnJNVJcpSOSSXaKb3ViBSDf6biGIwN7HWf/w390-h640/ezgif-5-8f2431d2f7.jpeg" width="390" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>The Gohonzon is a Chinese-Sanskrit scroll containing characters that aids practitioners of Nichiren Buddhism to develop Buddhahood from within their lives.</i></div></span></div>The Bohemian Budgiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523625775950213101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805984481914890010.post-20481543423530043792023-04-01T05:00:00.000-07:002023-04-01T05:00:00.192-07:00Khabaram Raseeda: Fareed Ayaz and Abu Muhammad (2012)<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="394" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qYFwzGZcidk" width="473" youtube-src-id="qYFwzGZcidk"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">From Episode 2 of the Pakistani Coke Studio (Season 5, 2012). A ghazal adaptation of Khabaram Raseeda by lyricist Amir Khusrau (1253–1325 CE). Ghazals derive from Arabic poetry and declare spiritual and romantic love and longing. In the case of </span>Khabaram Raseeda (lyrics below) the longing is for realisation of the divine in total absorption and surrender, in dying to oneself in the Sufi/ Yogic death-before-death. And thus our ego is washed away like embers of a beach fire on the shore, or demolished like sands on the wind. It is beautiful, tragic, endlessly creative. I like to think if there is an afterlife, the doors will one day fling open and this will be the devotional music which greets my ears. </div></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Tonight there came a news that you, oh beloved, would come –<br />Be my head sacrificed to the road along which you will come riding!<br />All the gazelles of the desert have put their heads on their hands<br />In the hope that one day you will come to hunt them….<br />The attraction of love won’t leave you unmoved;<br />Should you not come to my funeral,<br />you’ll definitely come to my grave.<br />My soul has come on my lips (e.g. I am on the point of expiring);<br />Come so that I may remain alive –<br />After I am no longer – for what purpose will you come?</i></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_5svvZs20sJfEW43sfj9jV8HU4j4wU7-fD097xUP-LdXAPcUo-v3V6ptkQhjIVqXZSPgaYciUGr9H73TfDk2DngcWuyVsGh5FuuKuLaiEWl93MuwaI7BqBYlzgV4Nxtjs2RFuJu6oQouPc2CSs0YADTCRlxz3D6sY_rwJk1de7vzTMJ0GY0OigpJf/s800/Fareed%20Ayaz%20and%20Abu%20Muhammad.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="800" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_5svvZs20sJfEW43sfj9jV8HU4j4wU7-fD097xUP-LdXAPcUo-v3V6ptkQhjIVqXZSPgaYciUGr9H73TfDk2DngcWuyVsGh5FuuKuLaiEWl93MuwaI7BqBYlzgV4Nxtjs2RFuJu6oQouPc2CSs0YADTCRlxz3D6sY_rwJk1de7vzTMJ0GY0OigpJf/w498-h299/Fareed%20Ayaz%20and%20Abu%20Muhammad.jpeg" width="498" /></a></div></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo1e0S9LM1Age72DePAb9Hfc2LsFaw7z_lEgm7x29ub6g9dSbozuKSa4aIBKIldR66_MJs5lWjxluH3BQyZWX6P30vWoQLLAxKfkwRgRbDLqMvA_GFYEHMqq0RlwUUpEv8K3P0Y4WhSPDdSa5MUODCUGtEX6qsyrGywzMkvc-sFhHfffwafI0F7RRi/s761/602ce324-8aee-464b-902c-7195bc7078de.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="761" data-original-width="600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo1e0S9LM1Age72DePAb9Hfc2LsFaw7z_lEgm7x29ub6g9dSbozuKSa4aIBKIldR66_MJs5lWjxluH3BQyZWX6P30vWoQLLAxKfkwRgRbDLqMvA_GFYEHMqq0RlwUUpEv8K3P0Y4WhSPDdSa5MUODCUGtEX6qsyrGywzMkvc-sFhHfffwafI0F7RRi/w504-h640/602ce324-8aee-464b-902c-7195bc7078de.jpeg" width="504" /></a></div></span></div>The Bohemian Budgiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523625775950213101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805984481914890010.post-44566273978065953362023-03-01T01:00:00.130-08:002023-05-26T11:24:45.553-07:00Melanie Gaydos<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">I first saw Melanie Gaydos in the sci-fi Vesper (2022), where she plays a doomed 'jug' (genetically engineered human slave). </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">After a swift google, I discovered she is a highly successful model with the condition ectodermal dysplasia (ED).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">ED is a heritable genetic disorder which affects the development of various ectodermal structures (including skin, teeth, hair, nails, exocrine and sebaceous glands). </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">There </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">are at least 177 Mendelian presentations of ED. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">The condition was medically described as far back as 1792, and we know Charles Darwin was made aware of a case of 10 Hindu relatives with ED, by means of an 1838 letter from David Wedderburn (a <a href="https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-7660.xml" target="_blank"><i>humble disciple of </i></a></span></span><i><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><a href="https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-7660.xml" target="_blank">Darwinism</a></span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">With so many clinical presentations, it could make diagnosis difficult and since baldness and hypohidrosis (absence of sweating) are sometimes implicated, it does make you wonder about Prince Andrew doesn't it. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">For more on ED see: </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Deshmukh, S., & Prashanth, S. (2012). </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Ectodermal Dysplasia: A Genetic Review. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><i><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">International Journal of Clinical Pediatric Dentistry</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><i><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">5</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> (3), 197.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">As far as Melanie Gaydos goes, she has tenaciously challenged modelling orthodoxy w</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">ith incredible bravery and style. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">She possesses an otherworldly allure which has spawned a number of unique creative projects which perhaps only she could inspire. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">I include some samples of her work below. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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When I said that to the careers officer she openly laughed in my face. Yet I do feel I had the last laugh what with the collapse of the world economy and the rise of self-employed boutique businesses. If I had my careers interview in this day and age maybe I would have got a more sympathetic hearing; a box of dead birds and a start-up grant.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So, it’s good to see the disenfranchised making a career of taxidermy, no-matter how tenuous. I came across <a href="https://www.zenger.news/2022/08/08/taxidermist-makes-pencil-cases-out-of-dead-rats-and-they-come-with-a-pencil-sharpener-at-the-rear/" target="_blank">this article</a> recently about Bad Taxidermy Man Jack Devaney who makes pencil cases out of taxidermized rats, complete with a pencil sharpener up their ass. I have included a link with Jack’s splendid collection of taxidermy mysteries, artwork, animalgamations and oddities which are very reasonably priced. People I know: be aware you might get a taxidermy fluffy keyring for a festive present at some point in the future.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://worldaroundewe.com/">https://worldaroundewe.com/</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcVWWROIEBsca2xR8LCiDsKCUM_XTNoBQGdD214Q63Fj1or8lT_ntl_PNPIoEgIpvAVCI7tS7TQvgzo4InH6L1YbXKTlvYjRM16xkJT1jCaWxlgPS79ro-RMEnZaRpWMvaMtnVo1bX8SDkOT1yzY9OAviAEjCvKpT_CbMH7zuUEaMtB48Aj_LatIll/s1600/20201016_144055_720x.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="720" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcVWWROIEBsca2xR8LCiDsKCUM_XTNoBQGdD214Q63Fj1or8lT_ntl_PNPIoEgIpvAVCI7tS7TQvgzo4InH6L1YbXKTlvYjRM16xkJT1jCaWxlgPS79ro-RMEnZaRpWMvaMtnVo1bX8SDkOT1yzY9OAviAEjCvKpT_CbMH7zuUEaMtB48Aj_LatIll/w288-h640/20201016_144055_720x.webp" width="288" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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This process involves a descent and a death of something old in preparation for something new to be reborn. The descent into the Underworld or Otherworld can be understood as a journey into the unconscious and the spirit reals within each of us. The seeds of our ideas and future direction in life are incubated in our unconscious during the winter months, ready for rebirth in the spring. We can honour the cycle by being aware that each end and death of the old will bring opportunity for a new start as each beginning holds within it an end. This endless cycle of change is necessary, bringing renewal of cells, of ourselves, our understanding and our ideas. It means there are always new opportunities to start again, to stay healthy. Many illnesses are rooted in stuck energy patterns, emotional congestion, and hanging on to the past."</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Glennie Kindred, from Sacred Celebrations: A Sourcebook. Gothic Image Publications (2001).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK1lryZ1lKHhavjeBbGG5agceg_pjvG4QmbK9YUEDfKffdGpiS2XcbBBvqlYDDxYj4_sQNwiMhU8JYPbkAXkWKzlJs0ssD7Edvr8nnGUEmtE4qNe7oIN0zO9H7W1C-hiivwETlwl2Odw17lhLijrhz79oVER3RPrbb0TML7FP2DUGejnFmwOLM0X7Z/s1080/126902934_303339477467156_7137712013345817119_n_18136148434124838.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="665" data-original-width="1080" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK1lryZ1lKHhavjeBbGG5agceg_pjvG4QmbK9YUEDfKffdGpiS2XcbBBvqlYDDxYj4_sQNwiMhU8JYPbkAXkWKzlJs0ssD7Edvr8nnGUEmtE4qNe7oIN0zO9H7W1C-hiivwETlwl2Odw17lhLijrhz79oVER3RPrbb0TML7FP2DUGejnFmwOLM0X7Z/w509-h312/126902934_303339477467156_7137712013345817119_n_18136148434124838.jpg" width="509" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj29mqig7ngPOvQX0NCWApdygZv2PndpNZtt8OAUcTFtuvzBad6UXOAmy2xNFLpto-VABpdPHlgY3RQEIoxOKU-hQZbXREUsA9RwIh1VYlm1kOdrXrSWvvPm00188eG7nnL9t08UKWF_eQ3xVd5pf7MRqMv8fmgZRHi2zamZ6VED8U1Ni_6yrCvqMv0/s1350/32272141_170751046931380_8705820416033161216_n_17947610359054067.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj29mqig7ngPOvQX0NCWApdygZv2PndpNZtt8OAUcTFtuvzBad6UXOAmy2xNFLpto-VABpdPHlgY3RQEIoxOKU-hQZbXREUsA9RwIh1VYlm1kOdrXrSWvvPm00188eG7nnL9t08UKWF_eQ3xVd5pf7MRqMv8fmgZRHi2zamZ6VED8U1Ni_6yrCvqMv0/w512-h640/32272141_170751046931380_8705820416033161216_n_17947610359054067.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDXzqEnZb08yl2qdds2Wx5KsA-irJ5mV6Kxq3kAXsDUrtFP6lm8nDcTkJJpE9b1LYskrye94P0QyKnUptpDpWPSB5mktIml_AEmbmeHqgRE_f8WpD2arupfAL8Sn0aPL3r_YGXadSWS_HPHqOjhBurF9ubYJ08H0rh4Uov75KSYgbshKyMa2tlLN3M/s1080/31096606_248340649073131_8219120958342955008_n_17944097893056955.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1080" height="383" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDXzqEnZb08yl2qdds2Wx5KsA-irJ5mV6Kxq3kAXsDUrtFP6lm8nDcTkJJpE9b1LYskrye94P0QyKnUptpDpWPSB5mktIml_AEmbmeHqgRE_f8WpD2arupfAL8Sn0aPL3r_YGXadSWS_HPHqOjhBurF9ubYJ08H0rh4Uov75KSYgbshKyMa2tlLN3M/w510-h383/31096606_248340649073131_8219120958342955008_n_17944097893056955.jpg" width="510" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3OKZwwWrhiOCktjKBKOxN0iJAiYQpKZL_PMXMNPZfzy91ofSVsGVGvgyhSjEjDwCsU2s-DT9fFib_ROzz4UJBZgQkBlCYKxXcAxCPYwSWIsYdAsUHwKffHHho7XzaeoNsTNlCcHH9ORvrdyfJ4rb02peFinXQU8FkOEu765whBwFTkcelluG-YLm_/s1349/30084375_189930485063362_7710276928447447040_n_17877707656223234.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1349" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3OKZwwWrhiOCktjKBKOxN0iJAiYQpKZL_PMXMNPZfzy91ofSVsGVGvgyhSjEjDwCsU2s-DT9fFib_ROzz4UJBZgQkBlCYKxXcAxCPYwSWIsYdAsUHwKffHHho7XzaeoNsTNlCcHH9ORvrdyfJ4rb02peFinXQU8FkOEu765whBwFTkcelluG-YLm_/w512-h640/30084375_189930485063362_7710276928447447040_n_17877707656223234.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><br /><p></p>The Bohemian Budgiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523625775950213101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805984481914890010.post-25336313423163715162022-10-01T09:17:00.054-07:002023-02-22T09:43:45.138-08:00Wet Leg: Chaise Longue (French Version, 2022)<p><span style="font-size: medium;">With a track called <i>Chaise Longue</i>, it makes sense to have a French version, but it should've been recorded first, right? 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The original recipe calls for cod, but I substituted this with duck and it worked perfectly fine. There are a number of raman variations in the book, which also includes a host of fresh favourites, plant-based creations, rice & noodle dishes, sides, sauces and marinades. One of the advantages of this particular recipe is that it required pak choi, and I had a fresh batch from the garden. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimDzuD516mffUIaqx8yx-9ndhlEyzqBucCxE7aQEkNYp3bRpAqSy71Zv6nSyRr8zjcMxeRl_ZgYnCsOTFfYxTD6vJvh0ooFxAs3mc0C6rmO3MlGF_XePeHZVo1IH9UHaVSeuNdligV6FWaVyxSK7zkLrN5j-Ql2syIARkIyK9MsxWPIVDYKUygvf5B/s500/41yWNr7dphL.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="407" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimDzuD516mffUIaqx8yx-9ndhlEyzqBucCxE7aQEkNYp3bRpAqSy71Zv6nSyRr8zjcMxeRl_ZgYnCsOTFfYxTD6vJvh0ooFxAs3mc0C6rmO3MlGF_XePeHZVo1IH9UHaVSeuNdligV6FWaVyxSK7zkLrN5j-Ql2syIARkIyK9MsxWPIVDYKUygvf5B/w520-h640/41yWNr7dphL.jpeg" width="520" /></a></div><br /><p><b>Ingredients:</b><br /><br />4 duck fillets<br />3 tablespoons vegetable oil<br />200g soba noodles<br />200g pak or bok choi<br />500ml Vegetable Stock (or use a good-quality stock cube)<br />2 teaspoons light soy sauce<br />1 teaspoon oyster sauce<br />1 tablespoon fish sauce<br />1 tablespoon white miso paste<br />2 teaspoons mirin 1 tablespoon soy sauce<br />2.5cm piece of ginger, peeled and grated<br />1 tablespoon sesame oil garnish<br />2 spring onions, finely sliced<br />12 pieces menma<br />1 tablespoon chilli oil, to taste</p><br /><b>Method:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Place the marinade ingredients in a wide, shallow bowl and stir to combine.</li><li>Add the duck fillets and coat well, then cover and leave to marinate in the fridge for at least 30 minutes.</li><li>Heat 2 tablespoons of the oil in a frying pan or wok over a medium heat until hot and place the duck fillets, skin-side down, into the pan</li><li>Pan-fry the duck for 2–3 minutes until the skin is golden brown, then turn and cook for a further 2–3 minutes on the other side.</li><li>Transfer the duck to a plate and set aside.</li><li>Bring a pan of salted water to the boil and cook the noodles according to the packet instructions, then set aside.</li><li>Add the remaining oil to the wok and stir-fry the pak or bok choi until it starts to wilt.</li><li>Add the vegetable stock to the wok with the soy, oyster and fish sauces and stir to heat through.</li><li>Divide the noodles between 2 serving bowls and add the broth.</li><li>Top with the pak choi and cod and garnish with the spring onions, menma and a drizzle of chilli oil, to taste.</li></ul><p>From the book: <i>Wagamama Feed Your Soul: Fresh & Simple Recipes from the Wagamama Kitchen</i> (pp. 137-138). Octopus. Wagamama Limited. </p>The Bohemian Budgiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523625775950213101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805984481914890010.post-62072487175560489772022-08-24T14:33:00.126-07:002023-03-07T03:57:32.841-08:00Malham Cove<p>Been wanting to do this walk for a while. Real bucket list stuff. I had the pleasure of taking my nephew and introducing him to the art of perambulation. The journey from Lincolnshire was quite long, and we agreed that he would play rap on the way there, and I would play hippy boho retro space raga faery fluff on the way back. It kinda worked out. He was grooving to Mellow Candle and Caravan by the end, so thats a win. </p><p>The map below is pretty much exactly the walk we did, although we started from a field to the south of Malham, which had been temporarily turned into a car park. We walked to Janet's Foss where there were a number of people taking the fresh waters of the falls, then walked up to Gordale Scar although we didn't proceed further that way. It was more of a reccie to see what was involved with the rock climbing/ scrambling. It doesn't look too daunting, although I have read differing estimates of its difficulty level online. One for the future maybe. Anyway we returned the way we came then turned right to walk over the tops, via the limestone pavement, then descended to the amphitheatre of Malham Cove. from there the return was very easy along Malham Beck and through the village back to the car. </p><p>There are options for future walks. Gordale Scar obviously, but also Malham Tarn, to the north of that taking in the Pennine Way, and several other circular walk permutations. We successfully avoided the rain all day and even though it was the school holidays, there weren't too many people around. A tolerable number I would say. The whole valley was alive with the concert of blossoming limestone flowers, joyous acrobatic birdsong, and the certain knowledge that the apex of an English summer had arrived.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi41pVHsRcpx5VG5smps1u77_rsxn5hleXDvLG10fANzKffK2EgedLQA23gxhdT8IGfZZ4bfrt9Kp0ljLjkKtQVtn9FgbRh5KMNki7Xo5nZhSV1jgkk_3uLk45nTaUgPvc0ghpIff8QEb1UXxv1eU7KdNZSiSAbeE0IZ-yPoRzzuSlaKLxMvDFYM9RI/s962/imgID15302445.jpg.article-962.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="699" data-original-width="962" height="387" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi41pVHsRcpx5VG5smps1u77_rsxn5hleXDvLG10fANzKffK2EgedLQA23gxhdT8IGfZZ4bfrt9Kp0ljLjkKtQVtn9FgbRh5KMNki7Xo5nZhSV1jgkk_3uLk45nTaUgPvc0ghpIff8QEb1UXxv1eU7KdNZSiSAbeE0IZ-yPoRzzuSlaKLxMvDFYM9RI/w531-h387/imgID15302445.jpg.article-962.jpg" width="531" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Celebration circular dances were performed in which the chiefs of the tribes wore horned headpiecesnin honour of hunting and physical prowess, and corncakes were baked in the shape of the corn king, Bel, who was treated as a sacrificial god and eaten. The autumn festival was one of plenty and prosperity, of celebration of the fruits of the earth and its bounty. It was also a time when alliances were arranged and marriages contracted. There was also a Celtic system in which a trial marriage could be entered into at Lughnasadh, and if the union proved unhappy, the contract could be dissolved at Beltain.</div><p>From: The Celtic Book of Seasonal Meditations, by Claire Hamilton, 2002. </p></blockquote><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXT7ptPpYlC5VybIGgUvnfk0fpiS2SBLXsLqdOWZ-zLmEVuKUKbxazD-a8xFaEydh75xfgonrYq3fcwrZ-WDNnJGrw4F5fbB4yyzpwKsGCQfjse43ynfDu_QPr1c5hWBOWk0J7wORXh9-1k6pIZP4ryrb8uPhYD6qg2LnSg0EZTZuDM-ecXyp6k_M4/s1080/91972974_239580157092156_39307182574745816_n_17851888078963845.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="648" data-original-width="1080" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXT7ptPpYlC5VybIGgUvnfk0fpiS2SBLXsLqdOWZ-zLmEVuKUKbxazD-a8xFaEydh75xfgonrYq3fcwrZ-WDNnJGrw4F5fbB4yyzpwKsGCQfjse43ynfDu_QPr1c5hWBOWk0J7wORXh9-1k6pIZP4ryrb8uPhYD6qg2LnSg0EZTZuDM-ecXyp6k_M4/w503-h302/91972974_239580157092156_39307182574745816_n_17851888078963845.jpg" width="503" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Almond, moong and adzuki beans.</i></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Owing to an horrific motorway closure on the M18 I arrived nearly 2-hours late and my poor walking buddy understandably cried off. But I had a glorious solitary walk which was wonderfully healing in the Hippocratic tradition: w<i>alking is the best medicine. </i>Having walked up to the Slippery Stones Pack Horse bridge for my lunch, and in the heat of the day, I took my walking socks off and bathed my feet in the cool running waters of a secluded spot by Bull Clough, which was incredibly refreshing. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrS0xXojGupdZZhtTYeqnmRyfFicF_KKyIeoFGQpYSeGvp-63FCZbbc1w6MnmqPzG9NIMeL2oblWcq1eghkvUSxIRcMM5nhSaPGFnU0koHO-nXj_sSF8Csv0c_rwo1hhySyNrpsEoNOWgt-rcZfKLopkei0OvCdz5u65cHz4K9nGpJtIbswD5t9rgX/s1080/293730112_1143297576225762_6399654502775441205_n_17948035286028192.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="505" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrS0xXojGupdZZhtTYeqnmRyfFicF_KKyIeoFGQpYSeGvp-63FCZbbc1w6MnmqPzG9NIMeL2oblWcq1eghkvUSxIRcMM5nhSaPGFnU0koHO-nXj_sSF8Csv0c_rwo1hhySyNrpsEoNOWgt-rcZfKLopkei0OvCdz5u65cHz4K9nGpJtIbswD5t9rgX/w505-h505/293730112_1143297576225762_6399654502775441205_n_17948035286028192.webp" width="505" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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