Saturday, 23 May 2015

Yellow

I thought it would be a nice idea to do a series of posts about colour, so I started making several collections of photos and will start the series with my favourite. I love yellow because I find it sunny and warm and happy. How do you "feel" yellow? As the series progresses, we will find out how each of us sees each colour. Well, If y'all like the idea, that is...















Friday, 22 May 2015

Unique armchair

This is the Layers Cloud Chair by Richard Hutten for Kavdrat:







The chair is made of 545 layers, consisting of a total of 840 square meters of fabric, and took 400 hours of design, engineering and production over a period of six weeks to complete. 

The Layers Cloud Chair weighs a mere 650 pounds! Some cloud, eh?

Thursday, 21 May 2015

Hey TW, some posh English for you!


albeit
conjunction: though.

"he was making progress, albeit rather slowly"

heretofore
adverb,
formal: 
before now. 

"diseases that heretofore were usually confined to rural areas"

whence
formalarchaic

adverb: from what place or source.

"whence does Parliament derive this power?"

adverb: from which; from where.
"the Ural mountains, whence the ore is procured"

whereof
adverb,
formal: 
of what or which.

"I know whereof I speak"

wherefore
archaic
adverb: for what reason.
"she took an ill turn, but wherefore I cannot say"

adverb & conjunction: as a result of which.
"truly he cared for me, wherefore I title him with all respect"

Wednesday, 20 May 2015

We need to talk about food

The conversations about food have endured in recent threads, so I decided to share photos of some of my vegetarian meals. I must say, they're quite delicious and there's a trick to help keep hunger at bay: the secret is to eat very slowly.

Sweet potato, shredded red cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, radishes, zucchini and walnut bread with hummus. The dessert is fruit purée (no sugar added) and banana.


Quinoa cooked with diced bell peppers, black and green olives cut very small, leeks and garlic. Zucchini, spinach, rocket and lamb's lettuce salad, walnut bread with hummus.


Wholemeal spaghetti with carrots, bell peppers, broccoli and celery with tomato and green olives.


Sweet potato, cauliflower, broccoli, hearts of palm, black olives and spinach, rocket and lamb's lettuce salad, plus my lovely walnut bread with hummus.


Unfortunately, I neglected to take a photo of another regular meal: whole rice with one of the following - chick peas, lentils, black, kidney or cannelinni beans cooked with loads of veggies, plus some kind of salad.

I always have the fruit purée desserts and they're really tasty. My favourites are mango, pineapple, pear, and recently I've tried quincy. Mango definitely tops the list!

Breakfast is a Marmite sandwich and banana mashed with oats, cocoa and a bit of honey. I also have avocado when they're nice and ripe.


Between meals, I snack on nuts and seeds, plus fresh fruit. I also have two squares of a chocolate bar (75% cocoa) and drink a lot of water.


The blood tests will be done in August. Hopefully, the results will be encouraging and I'll avoid the dreaded statins! Will keep you posted.

Tuesday, 19 May 2015

Windows

I like to collect photos of architectural elements: stairs, doors, windows... These windows are quite lovely, although the first arrangement is a bit crazy...