1. Cakes with walnuts in them. And the naughtiness of eating cake for breakfast.
2. Memory sticks. Pop them in the USB port, move the files over, and you are ready to go. Wow. How do they get so much on to that little chip?
3. I love reading back my shorthand. I spent nearly a year learning it back in the late 1990s, and though I rarely get to exercise it, it is so useful when I need it. Sometimes a word can puzzle me, but I usually get there in the end. You have to note down the letters you have, and look at the context, and after a bit the answer leaps out.
The only cakes with walnuts most Americans eat are carrot cakes. But my mother used to make a walnut loaf that was really good.
ReplyDeleteThere's banana-nut muffins. I think those count.
ReplyDeleteWhen I were a lad, there was a teashop chain called Fullers. Fullers'walnut cake was one of the wonders of the world. It had a somewhat gravelly sponge because of the finely chopped walnuts in it, a creamy, butter filling and a slightly lemon-flavoured white icing. Proust is not not known to have sampled it, but if he had ...
ReplyDeleteTeashops - all we have are Starbuck's coffe, though I do imbibe there. When we visited London I loved the teashops. A very good thing, no matter what they are serving.
ReplyDeleteOh. How I agree with your number 1 "the naughtiness of cake for breakfast" what a beautifully phrased sin ;-)
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