My latest and greatest tea drinking vessel. The top half is a teapot with a cup in the bottom. Great for an earl grey that you can keep hot with a regular top up. A great tea drinking experience. Not bad for £4 from my usual shop. Still more to show!
On a more serious note I saw this blurb about a book by R T Kendall on forgiveness this week:
The act of Total Forgiveness may be the hardest thing we are ever called to do...'Total forgiveness is as spectacular as any miracle. We are talking about a feat greater than climbing Mount Everest. It means the highest watermark in anyone's spiritual pilgrimage. And yet it is within reach of any of us.' This book, possibly R T Kendall's most important work to date, explains what God calls for as 'total forgiveness'. No sin or action is unforgivable, says R T, and we are called to keep no record of wrongs, to refuse to punish those who have hurt us, to show mercy and to avoid any form of bitterness. A radical message for a divided world.
I was blown away reading that for the first time, still am.
I was in Waterstones yesterday. I have been buying my books online for so long now it was actually a novelty to be in a bookshop. I was browsing the art section but so many of them had cellophane on them which took a little of the hands-on feel of things. Its still a great way to look and see what interests among the books you while having a coffee.
I was captivated a little by the programme Lost before getting fed up of it. I was reading a book about interpreting it. I'm not so sure about my negative judgement of it. Maybe it is a very serious bit of tv worthy of a little more attention than say Desparate Housewives! I also picked up on the Led Zeppelin unauthorised biography Hammer of the Gods, interesting to see how they recorded their first album live in the studio and how delighted they were at the time about how good it sounded. I often prefer the sound of first albums from bands probably none more than Led Zep though I think they did a pretty decent job of never getting too studioy in their efforts. I played it again this morning and it sounds as good as ever though it doesn't seem to be much of a seller on amazon which is a pity.
While working for a friend who used to be a chef I was looking at his college cook book called Practical Cookery. It gives the basic recipe for just about everything but not dumbed down. The latest version is probably a lesson in iteslf in how to improve a textbook without losing the essence. I hardly ever find anything new to make despite having the Jamie Oliver books and the big Delia Smith one too - they just seem to lose me somewhere. I think I need a book that gives more of an overview - for example it explains a little about tofu and how it can take on flavours quite easily. But it covers the whole spectrum of food and every recipe has a nutrient content analysis.
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