1. Happy birthday Jon!, 2. Inside the stollen, 3. Angus Steak with Garlic & Herb Butter and Wedges, 4. White Wine Poached Pear with Shortbread (1 & 2 taken by the ever lovely Burd)
Ah, it's been a nice few days, with plenty of nice nosh to go with it. The first two pictures above are of the highly decadent chocolate stollen made by the better half for my birthday cake (we've crossed the point of a candle for every year, which would now look like a localised blaze). Chocolate and marzipan? Get in! As for last night, we went to our beloved Iglu for a typically delicious dinner, allowing me to sink my teeth into a blissfully succulent Angus steak with garlic & herb butter rolling over the surface. You know when a meal is so good you can't help but close your eyes as you're eating, all the better to focus on the taste and texture sensations within your mouth? It was that good.
What else have we been up to on this four-day weekend? Despite being hurled around by howling winds and lashed by bitter cold rain whenever we dared step outside, we managed to see friends and family in Glasgow which was ruddy marvelous. It was particularly good to see the Mighty Em, who looked most natty in knitted goodies made by the Burd, and rifle through Rob's vinyl collection for LPs he was willing to part with for money - there ended up being too many to carry, such is my vinyl fever at the moment. I've had a bit of a browse in Armstrongs with an eye towards a potential wedding suit (plenty more on that in a future post, no doubt). Good dining was also been had at Mono, the ever-reliable Grassroots, new Swedish bakery Peter's Yard, the omnipresent Caley Sample Room and fine Chinese nosh at Taste Good. And, er, Greggs.
Yesterday and today have been nicely relaxed days (aside from a godawful trudge through the aforementioned wind and rain, but that rather comes with the territory), with today centred around going to the cinema for the majestic There Will Be Blood, my second viewing of it and the Lass's first. It's an almighty masterpiece, even better the second time round, and hopefully I can knock my thoughts together into an intelligible review in the next few days (but then I always say that). I've also been enjoying some of my birthday pressies, such as the geekily enjoyable Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga for the Wii and the excellent compilation of BBC Sessions by Tindersticks, putting a few more pieces of artwork up on the Dawanda site (prompting a comment of "Einfach nur toll!" which is beyond Babelfish's understanding) and generally enjoying taking it easy, spending quality time with the missus-to-be and wondering why life can't always be like this. As a youngster eagerly devouring Tomorrow's World and future-tech books I was convinced that robots were going to be doing all our jobs by now, yet something seems to have gone horribly wrong there. Back to the daily grind tomorrow, damn its eyes, but there's still an hour or so to enjoy this evening, as Love's You Set The Scene croons nicely from the speakers via Nagl FM, the Lass does her knitting witchcraft summoning clothing out of nothing but wool and needles and a wee dram of the engagement whisky (Bowmore's Darkest, review to follow) awaits in the kitchen. Pip pip!
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