February 13th, 2008, 12 Comments »
Feeling adventurous, Julie bought these at the vegetable souk today. We have no idea what they are. Do you (click for bigger legume action)?
I’ve included the iPod for scale.
UPDATE: Julie provides these additional notes: they have a hard, thick skin and a beet-red juice.
UPDATE #2: I stand corrected. Julie assured me that they weren’t prickly or ‘cactus pears’, but she cut one open and tasted it. Indeed, they’re very small cactus pears with very intensely-coloured juice.
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January 30th, 2008, No Comments »
It’s a busy day, so I’m fobbing you off with a couple of photos from our Essaouira photos. Yes, there are quite a few gulls at the port:
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August 3rd, 2007, 3 Comments »
There’s a lot of nice graphic design work here in Malta, even for village events. This is one example which, with one glaring exception, looks pretty good:
What’s with all that fruit? It doesn’t remotely match the aesthetic of the rest of the poster, and seems laughably tacked on. They’re not even particularly good photos of fruit.
Julie postulated, quite accurately I suspect, that they added the fruit to imply that there would be food at the event.
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June 21st, 2007, 4 Comments »
KA emailed, and wants to know what’s in our fridge. Here it is:
Nothing too extraordinary, except that watermelon season seems to have started and they’re dirt cheap. What else…some Cisk beer (which rhymes with ‘frisk’, which is apparently the Maltese word for ‘fresh’), nectarines, cherries, some leftover olives, Diet Coke, gazpacho, and some condensed milk, which Julie’s been putting in her coffee lately (a habit learned, I think, from my South African step-mother).
KA also wants to know what’s in your fridge. There’s a Flickr photo group to which you can add your fridge.
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