If music be the love of food..And other misreadings

 My honorary granddaughter sends me an art card every week, and when she was in Berlin recently to  run the marathon, she visited museums, including the museum of early musical instruments. So these cards have started arriving.

Here's a wooden flute, the head of a bass viol, the ancestor of today's double bass, a c clarinet and a trumpet, all dating from the sixteenth century. 

These are instruments which played my favorite early music, very exciting to see. I hope they get played now and then, because they need handling and the wind instruments need warm air passing through them, to stay alive.

Yesterday was a rainy cool day, just right for comfort food, here tuna/cannellini bean fritters, with chili pepper, long pepper, and roast potatoes, sprig of Thai basil for a bit of color, ketchup because I could.

And comic relief from Free cycle

 

What I say is, if you need more elephant storage, you've got too many elephants.

And Halloween is almost upon us complete with costumes

Happy day, everyone, don't acquire elephants that you'll only have to store. But dress as one for Halloween, maybe.

Halloween, again, keeps coming round

 Illustration by Peter de Seve

Looks like an adoption in progress here, kitten applying for job of witch's familiar.

And my favorite Mundane Halloween costume

Mundane Halloween is a witty Asian take on Halloween costume, where it's everyday situations instead of fantasy.  Things like Woman who Forgot to Take out the Trash, and Man Walking to Work in a Wind. Complete with explanatory card to hold up.

The zookeeper in charge of the baby pandas is more self explanatory than most.

And speaking of catspaws, I found the scarf I'd knitted, and here's how it looks

Happy Halloween!