It's pretty windy over here in N.Ireland, but nothing major as far as I know. Hope you enjoyed the chili. I've just found out I'm allergic to the nightshade family of foods, so no more chilli for me ever again.Never a huge fan, though. Maybe I subconsciously knew!
Tomatoes AND potatoes! And eggplant, chilis/capsicums and goji berries. That sucks! (although I probably wouldn't miss the tomatoes all that much either, since I'm not a huge fan).
High winds in SE Wales and an eerie light early in the day due to the depth of cloud. Apparently schools have been closed further west for today and tomorrow. Batten down the hatches.
The light situation was really eerie, but quite fascinating. We also had a pretty thick fog yesterday evening (again, hardly any wind) which made for an atmospheric drive home.
No, no. It was her first novel, written slightly earlier, tho published the same year as The Man in the Queue, and also still published under her Gordon Daviot alias originally (my edition is a much later (1988) re-print).
It's best described in the Henderson biography as:
"In 1929, the First World War still hung over everything. Kif was published around the same time as the classics A Farewell to Arms and All Quiet on the Western Front. Kif was Gordon Daviot's attempt to make sense of the changes the Great War had wrought - Kif himself sees the war as a series of experiences, not all bad, but he is not able to see the wider picture and see how the war has irrevocably changed both him and the society he lives in."
If Henderson throws Kif into the same sentence as AFTA and AQOTWF, then I want to know Daviot's/Tey's approach. That is quite some expectation to live up to.
Ahh, over here in the US the weather dropped to almost freezing and I made chili last night too! I made vegetarian for the first time, with cauliflower. Definitely better the second day. Now I'm just mad I missed the avocado! Hope everyone is safe and warm - that picture makes me want to skip the work I was supposed to do tonight and snuggle on the couch with a book!
It sounds great! My mom makes a mean cauliflower soup (very creamy) and I imagine that the chili would end up like a thicker version of that (just with less nutmeg and more chillies?).
I'm glad you's didn't have any major storm disruptions, either.
The Tey isn't one of her Inspector Grant books, is it?
It's best described in the Henderson biography as:
"In 1929, the First World War still hung over everything. Kif was published around the same time as the classics A Farewell to Arms and All Quiet on the Western Front. Kif was Gordon Daviot's attempt to make sense of the changes the Great War had wrought - Kif himself sees the war as a series of experiences, not all bad, but he is not able to see the wider picture and see how the war has irrevocably changed both him and the society he lives in."
If Henderson throws Kif into the same sentence as AFTA and AQOTWF, then I want to know Daviot's/Tey's approach. That is quite some expectation to live up to.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchen/cauliflower-and-bean-chili-3852397