J makes morning coffee in clean old-fashioned milk bottle shaped glass jar, as ceramic coffee pot has unaccountably developed a maze of fine cracks - and no, we weren’t swearing at it, although possibly within its hearing. Tops up the coffee in my cup and for a nanosecond I see the bottle and think he is spiking my coffee. Am obscurely disappointed on realising he is not, which is actually funny as I’ve never considered that adding liquor to coffee did much favour to either the coffee or the booze.
Assume that March 21 is the equinox, the first day of spring. But no, very early yesterday morning where we are and actually very late on Thursday the 19th in central and eastern Canadian time zones, putting it after midnight in Atlantic Canada. So spring it is. Yesterday overcast and thunderstorms overnight, but sunny today. Temperature 17, but much warmer in the sun when we take chairs out to the doorstep. Probably a little below usual average, but prefer to -25 in Sioux Lookout (yes, I know, that isn’t the high for the day).
J does our no longer frozen chicken in the excellent pressure cooker, which will give us chicken broth as we’ll as quite a bit of chicken. This particular pressure cooker unfamiliar, so caution required although stone walls that must be twenty-five feet high so little chance of redecorating the ceiling.
Re walls. Do a little preliminary googling on stone construction here. Plenty of very old stone churches or ruins of same in our walled city. Also stone used in more plebeian, less ancient buildings including ours. Proper investigation would take more time, which we may well have, but interesting early google find is a master’s thesis in architecture from the local Eastern Mediterranean University.
It’s a study of sustainable architecture, and apart from the theoretical bits, which I skim, focuses on five buildings in Famagusta’s walled city, the first of which is the family home of our dentist, Fehmi - now his dental surgery and the office of his psychologist daughter. We know the building well and Fehmi has told us quite a bit. His dental surgery is the room he was born in, although the family no longer lives in the building, which has been not only restored but extended to make the daughter’s office.
Happily, the thesis is written in English, though it’s clearly not the author’s first language and my fingers itch for a blue pencil.
Assume that March 21 is the equinox, the first day of spring. But no, very early yesterday morning where we are and actually very late on Thursday the 19th in central and eastern Canadian time zones, putting it after midnight in Atlantic Canada. So spring it is. Yesterday overcast and thunderstorms overnight, but sunny today. Temperature 17, but much warmer in the sun when we take chairs out to the doorstep. Probably a little below usual average, but prefer to -25 in Sioux Lookout (yes, I know, that isn’t the high for the day).
J does our no longer frozen chicken in the excellent pressure cooker, which will give us chicken broth as we’ll as quite a bit of chicken. This particular pressure cooker unfamiliar, so caution required although stone walls that must be twenty-five feet high so little chance of redecorating the ceiling.
Re walls. Do a little preliminary googling on stone construction here. Plenty of very old stone churches or ruins of same in our walled city. Also stone used in more plebeian, less ancient buildings including ours. Proper investigation would take more time, which we may well have, but interesting early google find is a master’s thesis in architecture from the local Eastern Mediterranean University.
It’s a study of sustainable architecture, and apart from the theoretical bits, which I skim, focuses on five buildings in Famagusta’s walled city, the first of which is the family home of our dentist, Fehmi - now his dental surgery and the office of his psychologist daughter. We know the building well and Fehmi has told us quite a bit. His dental surgery is the room he was born in, although the family no longer lives in the building, which has been not only restored but extended to make the daughter’s office.
Happily, the thesis is written in English, though it’s clearly not the author’s first language and my fingers itch for a blue pencil.