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Mutterings and Musings

by ~MM~

Rated: 13+ · Book · Opinion · #2101544

Mutterings, musings and general brain flatulence.

Here be mushrooms

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SandraLynn Team Florent!

May 12, 2021 at 9:49pm
In response to "Murder in the Sun"

I loved Nathan Fillion as the detective novelist and crime fighter wannabe in castle. I watched the drama you'd like to be in and it can be entertaining. Why not? Crime fighting and beach time is a win-win.

QueenNormaJeanGreeneggs&vegham

May 12, 2021 at 9:27pm
In response to "Murder in the Sun"

I must be out of the loop - I don't recognize any of the references you made. Tells you I don't watch regular TV much.

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PandaPaws Licensed VetTech

May 12, 2021 at 9:05pm
In response to "Murder in the Sun"

I love Nathan Fillion! Have you been watching The Rookie? He is absolutely wonderful but I wonder if he would be so much of little boy in man's clothing that he would be an ass?

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Kåre Enga in Montana

May 12, 2021 at 4:23pm
In response to "Murder in the Sun"

I notice that you didn't choose to be one of the victims... If you did you could change locations every week.

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SandraLynn Team Florent!

May 11, 2021 at 8:02pm
In response to "Behold! Beards!"

Those facial hair trends have 'cool' names, too. You mentioned Hipster, but there's The Lumberjack also. Some men are known as metrosexual. The fashion comes with a moniker. Yes, who decides what is and isn't cool? Often the fads seem ridiculous.

Kåre Enga in Montana

May 11, 2021 at 7:44pm
In response to "Behold! Beards!"

I look better with a short beard but for the last year and two months it hasn't mattered. I've gone between full bush and clean shaven. When my skin acts up I shave it off. It's been 19 months without a haircut. I could chop it off and have a friend trim it but... it doesn't matter.

It's interesting how at certain stages of life everything matters. I'm not in that stage at the moment.

QPdoll

May 11, 2021 at 7:21am
In response to "Bath Books"

I have never had a Bath as opposed to a bath. I only remember a couple of times I lit candles. These days I don't have baths, just showers. But they feel pretty good, too. I like the idea of your Baths and bath books.

SandraLynn Team Florent!

May 10, 2021 at 7:43pm
In response to "Bath Books"

I'm with you, reading induces relaxation and in turn calms me down. Fairy-cake novels are too sweet for me, but I like your moniker for romances.

Kåre Enga in Montana

May 10, 2021 at 6:34pm
In response to "Bath Books"

I was the one who mentioned it and although it received some positive feedback the suggestion was not put in place. It's one of the reasons I didn't join this month's challenge and may not bother in the future. I'm tired of prompts that trigger my traumas, although I did okay in March.

I took a hot soak and turned the lights off. Very relaxing, although a scented candle would've been better.

I have to use the bathtub downstairs which has no place to place anything. I don't dare take anything other than a used paperback ...

But yes, a long deep soak with a book.

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Kåre Enga in Montana

May 9, 2021 at 10:23pm
In response to "Bring Back Latin...?!"

Latin is okay but limited (helps with Romance and Celtic languages, less with Germanic and Slavic, used in certain fields). Chinese characters are much more useful and translate well into English in ways that Latin doesn't.

The US is so fortunate to have imigrants from every corner of the world. Many mono-lingual Americans would disagree but English while useful is not an easy language.

In Taiwan many people know and speak Mandarin but I prefer to say thank-you in Hokkien (do sia) or Hakka (si mu ni).

I think and dream in Spanish. It took a long time for that to happen.

March 8, 2021 at 5:44pm

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Holiday Food

Challenge: Where are some unusual places you’ve been? What was the most interesting or surprising thing you learned or discovered about those places?

I have been very, very lucky in recent years. I have been fortunate enough to travel extensively, particularly in the past seven years. I met Best Beloved climbing Kilimanjaro, and since we both love travel it only makes sense that we would have built on this. Because of the season nature of BB's work (his family run a holiday park), he doesn't traveling more than about forty minutes from home during the summer. So whilst we've been on some pretty exotics holidays, we've also gone camping ten miles up the road and felt like we were a million miles away. We got a shiny new tent for Christmas last year, and then covid hit meaning that the very first time we got to use it was my birthday in July. We camped in the in-laws garden, two miles across town. And had a thoroughly brilliant time.

Day Two's challenge asked about food; what do I like cooking and what are my comfort foods. Well, one of the things I love most about travelling is trying new foods. In Hawai'i, we had poke which is raw fish. In Dubai, Arabic coffee and dates - I have never liked dates, except, well, now I do. So much so that I'm trying to grow some date palms from stone. In Peru and Bolivia I had llama, guinea pig, and mountain trout creviche (more raw fish, but this time 'cooked' by soaking in lemon or lime juice).
Cornwall, were I live, specialises in pasties, but there's also a local dish called stargazy pie - which is basically fish pie with sardine or pilchard heads sticking out. Funnily enough, I'll try the guinea pig, but I draw the line at fish-head pie....

Every country I have visited, I've tried to learn a new dish or style of cooking - I'm not saying I'm any good at cooking it but I do love experimenting. My step-mother is Polish and recently we've taken to swopping comfort food recipes; I made kotlets and, when I'm feeling brave, gonna try pierogi, whilst she's now making shepherd's pie and roast dinners.
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