Povey Prattle

1.   When you are cooking from a new recipe you discover that you are missing a key ingredient when there’s no time to rush to the store to buy it. 2.   You notice some cobwebs just ten minutes before your guests are due.  You dust furiously. 3.   Twenty minutes after your guests have arrived you notice yet more cobwebs. 4.   Your guests do not notice the cobwebs, but they (silently) wonder what ingredient is missing from the dinner you serve. 5.   When the guests leave they compliment your cooking to excess: -  thus you know that they were not impressed. 6.   It’s after you’ve lugged the vacuum cleaner back to its storage place that you notice the areas you missed. 7.   When you break a glass, cup, or plate you sweep up every little bit. 8.   Except that tiny shards of glass or china hide themselves away, only to emerge three months later. Where do they hide? 9.   You forget 96% of the sermons you’ve ever heard.  Of the remaining 4%, you remember half because they were so dre

I knew that it was Veteran's Day (USA) today.  I set out my American Flag.  I paused for silence at 11:00 a.m.  I set out at other business, including a very good lunch with my friends Cindi and Wes. At about 4:00 p.m. I began to fret because the mail had not arrived. By 4:30 p.m. I began to get annoyed about this. Silly me. I had forgotten that Veteran's Day is a public holiday in these United States. Such is life in retirement -  public holidays lose their importance. I believe that in the United Kingdom the public observances of the eleventh hour of the eleven day of the eleventh month  (11th November 1918) are now moved to the previous or next Sunday which is known as Remembrance Sunday. In the U.S.A. the meaning of the day has shifted away from the cessation of hostilities in The Great War, to a generalised celebration of all military veterans, whether or not they served in combat.  And in current parlance they are all heroes.  Indeed we have reduced the m

A day on which Britons and Americans will write the numerical form of the date in exact the same way,

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I went downtown today to see this fabulous street art on South Pineapple Ave. here in Sarasota. I'll be posting some of the photo's I took over the next three or four days.  Here is the first batch.

There are so many new kitchen gadgets, machines, tools etc. I sometimes wander around a kitchen store called "Sur la Table" and I positively drool at some of the things on sale. BUT.......   no one has been able to improve on one kitchen staple (I warned you that this blog would be eclectic!)