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Last Bagel Before Pesach
Apr. 15th, 2011 04:12 pm....was just eaten.
Now I'm looking forward to my parents' arrival on Sunday, and to bullying my dad into eating whatever I tell him to because "I have to use it up!" - including strange rare treats like the fancy-schmancy oatmeal, and the end of the really good French cheese. He'll do it if he has to. And to hearing Delia & my mom warbling Gilbert & Sullivan and Tom Lehrer together as they grate carrots and whip eggs to a leaven-y froth.
Between then and now lie deserts of vast eternity of cleaning cabinets & shifting boxes of dishes & food - mostly by Delia & her Minions, I admit . . . I finished most of the shopping today - though I sure hope those unopened boxes of matzah meal in the basement from last year have lost none of their savor.
My favorite line from yesterday's radio interview with Frank Stasio - actually his intro to the interview before ours:
No other Englishman beheaded by a monarch has moved as much product as Sir Walter Raleigh.
(No, of course I didn't remember it verbatim! I wrote it down. And it turns out you can hear the whole very entertaining interview with Mark Nicholls, co-author of Sir Walter Raleigh: Life and Legend, on the same page as ours.
(I haven't listened to ours, yet. You listen, and tell me if I sound like an idiot!)
Now I'm looking forward to my parents' arrival on Sunday, and to bullying my dad into eating whatever I tell him to because "I have to use it up!" - including strange rare treats like the fancy-schmancy oatmeal, and the end of the really good French cheese. He'll do it if he has to. And to hearing Delia & my mom warbling Gilbert & Sullivan and Tom Lehrer together as they grate carrots and whip eggs to a leaven-y froth.
Between then and now lie deserts of vast eternity of cleaning cabinets & shifting boxes of dishes & food - mostly by Delia & her Minions, I admit . . . I finished most of the shopping today - though I sure hope those unopened boxes of matzah meal in the basement from last year have lost none of their savor.
My favorite line from yesterday's radio interview with Frank Stasio - actually his intro to the interview before ours:
No other Englishman beheaded by a monarch has moved as much product as Sir Walter Raleigh.
(No, of course I didn't remember it verbatim! I wrote it down. And it turns out you can hear the whole very entertaining interview with Mark Nicholls, co-author of Sir Walter Raleigh: Life and Legend, on the same page as ours.
(I haven't listened to ours, yet. You listen, and tell me if I sound like an idiot!)