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What am I reading, er, eating on tattoo Tuesday?

April 8, 2014

Our lovely, local, independent bookstore sponsors an Edible Book Fair every April. Everyone is invited to submit a totally edible interpretation of a book. The entries are displayed, judged, and eaten. The set up and the voting takes a couple of hours. You can’t imagine how quickly the displays are devoured!

The book I chose was The Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli which is the Recipient of the 2014 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for the most distinguished beginning reader book.

I humbly announce that our entry (above) consisting of a fondant-covered red velvet cake watermelon with watermelon slice-shaped sugar cookies won the award for Most Appetizing. The prizes in the contest are, not a surprise, books! It is a lot of fun to see what people – kids and adults – come up with.

Edible Book Festivals have become a global event, read more here.

Tuesday would not be complete without tattoos:

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What am I nattering on about?

July 17, 2013

We are having a heat wave – in the 90s. And our old house does not have air conditioning. Most days the fans keep things comfortable, but last night the heat and humidity built up to a level that makes me cranky.

So we fled in the air conditioned car to the air conditioned mall with the air conditioned book store and this is how I spent the time . . .

I caught up on a bunch of interesting magazines:

Saw some rather surreal 90 foot orchids – okay, maybe they were 20 foot tall orchids . . .

Saw a fellow studiously photographing a shop window – and then I saw what he was looking at . . .

And walked out of the mall into a beautiful sunset . . .

We now have a window unit in the bedroom – did I mention it was going to be in the 90s all week?

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What bookstore would I like to visit?

June 11, 2012

Pretty much any bookstore, actually. And I am still missing the Library at Alexandria, but don’t get me started on that.

The bookstore which has caught my fancy today is the Book Barge (generally) moored in Staffordshire, UK. I love re-purposed buildings and a re-purposed houseboat – 57′ narrowboat – fills the bill.