Hilary Talbot’s passing interests and activities
Posted in miscellaneous on Feb 5th, 2006
This is my absolute favourite cake. I like it best when it’s completely cooled down, and without any icing. It’s also really good buttered like bread. It always has interesting little dark specks in it, though I have known people to make banana cake that doesn’t - but that’s just weird!
Banana Bread
2 cups SR flour
125 [...]
Posted in miscellaneous, puppetry, puppets on Jan 25th, 2006
I was thinking today about how we go about starting and finishing things. It’s kind of curious and fascinating, don’t you think? How do we decide exactly what to do first, and how do we know when to stop?
This was prompted because I’ve started a new project in the last few days. I’m making a [...]
Posted in miscellaneous on Oct 25th, 2005
My friend Lynda is globetrotting at the moment. She has just finished a driving tour of Ireland, and relates her Haunted House experience. I love the way she writes.
Posted in miscellaneous on Oct 6th, 2005
This is a cool idea: LED slippers! I’d like LED ugg boots instead, please.
Speaking of shoes, Mimi linked to the Painted Shoes Manifesto by Howard Rheingold, wherein he says he has been painting his shoes for 7 years (it would be 10 now, if he is still doing so), and urges us to [...]
Posted in miscellaneous on Sep 27th, 2005
The neo-natal manager at a hospital special care baby unit says “Cooing should be a thing of the past because these are little people with the same rights as you or me.”
I can see the thinking but it just makes me laugh because babies are designed to be cooed over! It’s a cunning part of [...]
Posted in miscellaneous on Sep 8th, 2005
I heard a lovely Gaelic blessing at yoga tonight:
Deep peace of the running wave to you
Deep peace of the flowing air to you
Deep peace of the quiet earth to you
Deep peace of the shining stars to you
Deep peace of the gentle night to you
Moon and stars pour their healing light on you
Deep peace to you, [...]