Archive for North
On the Saguenay Fjørður [jatp]
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Travel with tags Canada, cruise, jatp, North, Québec, Saguenay Fjord, Sainte-Rose-du-Nord on July 29, 2022 by xi'an
abortion in Québec
Posted in Statistics with tags abortion, abortion pills, Canada, CBC, doctors, International Safe Abortion Day, legalisation of abortion, liberalism, North, nurses, Québec, religious right, Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court, ultrasound, USA on July 28, 2022 by xi'an
down by the lake #2 [jatp]
Posted in Statistics with tags Canada, hiking, jatp, La Grande-Eau-Morte, Lac Ouiatchouan, Lac Saint-Jean, lake, mosquitoes, North, Québec, Saguenay, vacations on July 17, 2022 by xi'an
down by the lake [Saint-Jean]
Posted in Statistics with tags Canada, jatp, Lac Saint-Jean, Metabetchouan, North, open water swimming, Québec, Saguenay, sunset, vacations on July 9, 2022 by xi'an
a journal of the plague year [grey & dry ‘nuary reviews]
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Travel with tags amazon associates, Atlantic ocean, book reviews, bread making, Brittany, buckwheat, COVID-19, curry, Daniel Defoe, Denmark, ethiopian food, Faroe, film review, films, Flanders, homecooking, Iceland, injera, Journal of the Plague Year, North, NYT, pandemic, spelt, teff, The one-hundred year old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared, Wild Hunt, WW II on February 27, 2021 by xi'an
Read a Danish novel Ø by Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen, directly translated as island in other languages (incl. French), which was a b’day gift from my wife, a book about the longing of uprooted Faroeses for their island, rather than about the mathematical meaning of the empty set!, and the connection between a young third generation young woman and her grand-mother’s story. Very well written, with a side entry on Faroese recent history, incl. the British occupation during WWII, just before they invaded Iceland. (And feeding my hopes to visit the Faroe in a near and brighter future!)
Cooked more (Flemmish) red and (curried) white cabbage. Moved to baking spelt bread with spelt yeast as it takes less than ten minutes of actual work! Attempted an Ethiopian meal with key wat (beef) stew, a vegetable version, and injera (pancakes) when I realised the teff cereal could be replaced with buckwheat, a basic staple in Breton households! But the injera tasted and looked more like a galette, so this was not the real thing… Nonetheless a nice family meal.
Watched the second instalment of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, The 101-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappeared, which is the straight continuation of the former if not as funny. (And not directly linked to the books.)
Read Time of Contempt, second volume in the Witcher’s novels. Not particularly impressive, with a lot of infodump chitchat, an almost absent Yennefer, a (thankfully short-lived) threat of the return of the magicians’ boarding school!, a gratuitous (?) visit by the Wild Hunt myth, some Star War inspired monster, an incomprehensible and highly predictable coup on the magicians’ council, and a teenage gang (in a Mark Lawrence rewriting Lord of the Flies spirit!), an inexplicable collapse of the balance of powers between the kingdoms. And I found the rendering of the rape scene at the end of the book most disturbing…
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