Odds And Ends

[poliphilo]

Ah- of course- that's why I'm aching so badly this morning: it's because I trimmed the hedge. You'd think it would be my shoulders that hurt the most, but, oddly enough, it's my hips.

Peter came round in the afternoon. We have this arrangement where he sits in the front window, drinks a single cup of coffee and plays online Scrabble for hours. While he did that we got stuck in to the final season of Six Feet Under. By the time we called a halt we'd clocked up six hours of it.

I don't suppose it's too much of a spoiler to reveal that the final season features the death of one of the leading characters. A bold thing to do, though, of course, no-one on Six Feet Under ever really dies. Dad- who got "creamed by a bus" in the pilot episode still keeps popping up in dreams and visions- and so does Lisa who was murdered in season 3. The episode in which the leading character is laid to rest was the most excruciating yet- and utterly gripping.  
 
We had a pasta dish last night that Ailz lifted from The BBC GoodFood magazine. The ingredients were bacon, peas, cheese and a whole packet of fresh mint. We were thinking as we stripped the stalks and chucked in the leaves that the flavour of the mint was likely to be overpowering, but it balanced the saltiness and fattiness of the bacon very nicely. A couple of days back we had a vegetable stew from the same magazine in which the miracle ingredient was coriander seeds- which are, quite simply, the most delicious foodstuff known to man.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

BBC Goodfood mag do a great series of compact books (101 series) including their best recipes. We have the Mediterranean one and it's fab. They're cheap too. http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h_?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=bbc++101&x=0&y=0
Tom F

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We'll look into that. Thanks.

[ex-redrain.livejournal.com]

Six Feet Under is an amazing show, and I normally do not like television programming. I've gotten through the first season and look forward to the rest...

Mint and bacon sound like they taste better than they sound.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We're living through a Golden Age of TV drama- mostly thanks to HBO.

I had my doubts abot mint and bacon too, but- trust me- it works.

[solar-diablo.livejournal.com]

We rented Six Feet Under from Netflix about 2-3 years ago, and despite the last season dragging a bit in terms of storyline it was the last TV series I was genuinely engaged in, if you don't count the single season of Firefly.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Six Feet Anger may drag its feet a bit at times- but it never lowers its standards or loses its bite.

[petercampbell.livejournal.com]

Six Feet Under flagged a little bit after the first two series, but it still remains one of my favourite TV series ever. And the last 15 minutes of the final episode are genuinely astonishing.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The first season of any show is generally the best- and sometimes towards the end of a long run I lose interest; this hasn't happened with Six Feet Under.