I've been following some great podcasts lately, including this one, podcast and YouTube channel, featuring the great Sandi Toksvig, now promoting a book while running a new play, various broadcast programs, her ongoing activism and more!
She's brilliant, and funny, a good writer, and a kind person, great combo. She's the one on the right, in case there's anyone who doesn't know her by sight.
Go here and see if you like her too. She now has a Tiktok presence, TikTokTok or something!
I also found this, which involves food cooked on the set and served to the guest, their choice of menu
So in with the new
And to Freecycle with the old. I don't need both.
The Friday knitting group was fun, full of news from Rhinebeck -- biggest crowds evah, a bit much even for the seasoned Rhinebecker in the group. She did manage to shop though
And news from our youngest member, now a Philadelphia homeowner who has been painting, sanding, and doing great exploits in the TWO WEEKS since he closed! The energy of youth.
Other chat ranged over fuel, furnaces, traffic circles, GPS, wine, yarn, thrift stores, renting equipment, parking, recycling and more.
What I love about Ruth and Laura is that now I can separate out and follow the chat when there's more than one stream going. No more blur of sound, with my trusty helpers in place. Restored to life, as Dickens said, but not about hearing. No more being lost in the chat.
And here's a NJ squirrel staring me down on my own patio and wanting me to go away
It was a draw, neither conceding a win to the other.
Happy day everyone, online meeting with friends and cronies Friday night, watching Kamala's Houston rally. It's all go!
Sandi is wonderful. She was here at the end of last year on tour.
ReplyDeleteYour new coat looks good. I dislike the overfilled ones that bulge out and flap about and yours isn't.
I would have liked to hear about furnaces, and traffic circles which I guess are roundabouts.
Sounds as if you might have been at her show? Lucky you. Yes, traffic circles here are roundabouts elsewhere. Sometimes rotaries, too.
DeleteYour new winter coat looks ideal! No more cold wind blowing up your wazoo.
ReplyDeleteI expect my wazoo will be appreciative!
DeleteI bought a new winter coat for walking too. It is longer as well, so cozy for those windy winter days. It is almost cold enough today to wear it.
ReplyDeleteYes, hip length isn't really doing it when you're walking.
DeleteLove the new coat and agree with you and others about Sandi Toksvig. I enjoyed her book.
ReplyDeleteShe's so funny, and really brilliant.
DeleteI love the new coat. It suits you. And you will surely be appreciating its warmth soon.
ReplyDeleteYes, I think we'll be colder soon. Still warm days up to now.
DeleteSue doesn't shop much, but she ended up in two clothing stores yesterday . . . and you can guess the rest.
ReplyDeleteAs long as she didn't need a uHaul to get home..
DeleteNice coat. that's one thing I don't do, listen to podcasts. too much to do to spend the time sitting and listening. when I'm working outside I'm listening to nature or thinking about things. inside my attention is focused on whatever I'm doing.
ReplyDeleteI don't sit and listen. I use podcasts to occupy my overactive left brain and free up my right brain to design and make fiber art. There's no tv watching in my life, in fact no tv!
DeleteI will check out Sandi Toksvig. I am one of those who have not heard of her. Nice coat it will keep you warm and cozy. That squirrel has some nerve ordering you off your own patio.
ReplyDeleteHe considers it his patio, allows me to sit there and give him pumpkin seeds.
DeleteAha, I do know who she is! I couldn't see her face well enough. I liked her on the Great British Bake Off.
ReplyDeleteShe hated the gbbo, bored and fed up of all the hours it took! She's funny about it. I've never seen it, so I dunno.
DeleteThat's a warm-looking coat. I love Sandi Toksvig. Shall have to look for the podcast.
ReplyDeleteThe Dish YouTube channel is a podcast but you can see the people and the food! They have interesting guests,including Sandi.
DeleteI remember Sandi from several BBC shows, and of course the GBBO. I never knew she disliked it. She hid it well! We have her book "Hitler's Canary" in our library -- the kids read it quite often.
ReplyDeleteShe couldn't stand the boredom of the hours in the tent! But she would be gracious about it. It's who she is.
DeleteVery stylish coat. The current craze here is for things called 'dry robe' - apparently originally designed for cold water swimmers to don on emerging from the water. They bear remarkable resemblance to horse blankets.
ReplyDeleteI must look that up. Not quite as stylish maybe.
DeleteI love sandi. I watched a show she did taking one famous woman with her to some quiet corner of the uk. They visited and chatted all the while you learnt about the place and the special person with her.
ReplyDeleteI also love her on QI. She’s hilarious
The jacket looks great on you
Sandi is funny, also brilliant. She's usually the brightest person in the room but never puts down the other people.
DeleteI like the length of your new coat, Liz. I'm still wearing a short jacket everywhere, but some days it simply isn't warm enough and I've been eyeing longer coats. I wear my winter coats for years, too.
ReplyDeleteYes, I have coats for many years. Well, everything really! l like my things and wear them to shreds.
DeleteIf you haven't given away your shorter coat you may want to hold onto it for a season just to be on the safe side. My knee-length winter coat (thrift shop find years ago and a great wardrobe addition) heats me up so much that I can only wear it in extremely cold weather or when strong winds pull the heat right out of a person.
ReplyDeleteI haven't worn it in a couple of years. It's too hot for the upper body while your legs freeze! It was given to me by someone downsizing, so it doesn't owe me.
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