Well, that'll teach me. Maybe...

[desperance]

I had to go to the supermarket this morning. Went out of the house, crossed the road - and stopped, and turned round, and crossed the road again, thinking "oh hey, I could take my camera!" And reached the door and stopped again, thinking, "oh, but I'm supposed to be thinking about the book, plotting what happens next; and if I take the camera I'll be thinking about pictures instead; and besides, I've taken the camera that way once already, and it's awkward with the camera-bag and the shopping-bag, and..."

So I didn't. I turned and crossed the road one more time, empty-handed. And went into Birdcage Walk, and lo: the light was all soft and pearlescent, and it was entirely cool and quiet and cathedral-like under the high arches of the trees, and I really really wished I had my camera.

And then there was a little leaf caught on a fence that I wanted to photograph, and great marshy puddles because it's been raining all night, and and and...

And by the time I was coming home the sun was out and the light was all hard-edged, and I didn't see anything at all I wanted to photograph.

Hrumph. I guess I should be taking it everywhere just in case, but it is a little awkward as per current arrangement of bags. Perhaps I need (another!) new bag, that can carry both camera and shopping, or camera and laptop and book...?

Comments

[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

Speaking very tangentially of shopping, and fudz...I ordered some sea salt like you have, and I wondered what the herb mixture was that you had in the mortar with it.

For now I have a mortar & pestle, and fresh pepper, and good salt, and have thrown out the rubbish stuff.

Thanks for the new fetish, pal.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Hee. My work here is done...

It was probably a "herbes de Provence" mixture - thyme, marjoram, rosemary, oregano, basil, tarragon - which you should be able to buy under that name at a decent deli. It's the only known use for dried herbs, to mix with good salt and pepper and thus create yumminess by the sprinkle.

[pennski.livejournal.com]

So what do you then sprinkle it over?

(blushes to admit to presence of dried herbs in the cupboard).

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Whut? Dried herbs? Whut? But, but, but - you has a garden! I knows this, you has brought me windfalls... (*surveys rhubarb-and-apple chutney, with pride...*)

My salty Provencale mixture is a good-with-anything sprinkle; you could ask esmeraldus_neo what she used it for, but I often grab it when I would otherwise reach for salt. More particularly, it's the rub I use for my infamous home-made pork scratchings...

[pennski.livejournal.com]

Well that's why I blushed.