Happy day in action

Yesterday doctor visit, with the Man Ray reproduction keeping me company while I wait 

And all happy results, weight right back where it spozed to be, agreement that being last sibling is hard, you're doing fine, go home now.

And bounty from Gary's garden cleanup

Green tomatoes are beautiful 

A walk filled with color and leaves blowing about

And later a gift of Indian snacks. 

Left, sweet ones, don't know the name, right, pakoras, deepfried spicy veggie clusters in chickpea flour.

Happy day everyone, enjoy your day however you can, different for everyone's experience and situation.

Ukraine will retake Kherson from Russian invaders any time now.

In case there's anyone needing to hear this

 

And yesterday's movie at the library, attended by the custodian and me, was the classic Hepburn/ Tracy 

Wonderful fifties clothes, way beyond the budget of the office workers who wore them, but, Hollywood!

Happy day everyone, use your power for good!

Pease pudding and textile activism

 The pease pudding caper went like this

Cooked down and blended into a solid mass, sample seen in the saucer, butter and malt vinegar beaten in.

Then supper was slices of it fried in oil and butter, with an egg. The black specks on the egg are lovely flavored pan scrapings.

The tradition I grew up in, this goes with ham or bacon, black pudding, sausage, eggs for a special full breakfast or high tea. 

High tea is not to be confused with the dainty event of cucumber sandwiches and tiny cakes which is afternoon tea. For me, for this high tea,  an egg was enough. 

Speaking of working class food, yesterday's Textiles and Tea featured a young union activist, brilliant artist, now working in punch embroidery and walking the walk.

Her work is huge, some 72"by 42",  depicts the working class struggle and is stunning in color and concept. She's massively intelligent and perceptive and good humored though none the less passionate. 

Very timely to feature her in the current resurgence of the trade union movement and the union busting by such outfits as Star----- and Amaz-- not giving them any exposure here.

She's a very young, great talent, started with a degree from the prestigious Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art  in Philadelphia, switched from painting to textiles, weaving then embroidery, in the teeth of opposition from her teachers to whom painting was the ultimate art.

Now she's back in Tennessee where she was born, and finding her feet there with already major exhibit credentials. I'm planning to follow her career. 

So that was yesterday, happy day all round. Today it's Desk Set st the library movie afternoon.

And the reading is Kate Atkinson

Her latest, where she's partly channeling Maisie Dobbs and I think might be setting up a post WW1 Jackson Brodie detective in CI Frobisher's partnership with former combat nurse then peacetime librarian Gwendolen Kelling.

Set in the seedy nightclub world after WW1, it's already gripping and I've only started it, with nightclub owner, notorious Nellie Coker and her various offspring,  I have to get back to it now, so

Happy day everyone, vote, read, support your good causes. One little light is powerful.

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White Rabbits! Yes we have bananas, And music

 Suddenly it's November, after a wonderful October, and here's the monthly artisan

Working at her rigid heddle loom. That bit sticking up is the rigid heddle. The other sort of heddle is the string heddle, one string attached to each warp thread to raise and lower, changing the shed, to enable the weft to pass alternately across the work. 

I have a rigid heddle loom, like that one and here's a wall hanging I made on mine,  threads courtesy of Kamala, thank you.

And there's always music. If you've never heard Cecilia Bartoli, the most wonderful coloratura singer ever, you might enjoy finding her on YouTube. She sings a lot of Vivaldi, right up to Puccini.

The second link shows you the score as she sings, and if you can read music, you marvel at the total mastery of the complex runs and figures. Or you can just listen and enjoy, too.

Today seems to be about saluting the arts,so here's a painting that you could write a book about, so brilliant and complex is the composition.

I'm waving my arms just looking at it, all the interlocking shapes and directions, the echoing curves everywhere, the color directing your eye, the virtuosic total of it, the impact. 

And now for something completely different. My honorary granddaughter recruited her colleagues to go bananas for Halloween

Which leads me to yesterday's Misfits box 

Except today I'm finally making pease pudding, which I've been meaning to make for months and kept forgetting to soak the split peas overnight. 

I finally remembered. Left dried peas, right soaked peas ready to cook. 

Happy day everyone, remember to do yesterday what you forgot for today, and be grateful if your mind is less of a ragbag than that of your humble blogger.