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Nico's Big Day Out
Food Show First we went to the annual Food Show. It was $18 to get in and all the free samples you could eat. :-P I bought oat cakes, manuka and mint tea, Russian rye bread, and hand-made chocolates flavoured with herbs (coriander--cilantro to Americans, rosemary, lavender, and thyme) and spices (chilli, cardamom, ginger, and cinnamon) which might sound odd but are all extremely yummy. Oh, and Green & Black have some new flavours out here. I hope our local organic shop stocks them.
Eye update Then I went for an eye check-up to see how the lenses I got last week fit now I've worn them in a bit. I'm very pleased as my eyes have stopped hurting and being light-sensitive, and the optometrist was delighted too. She said the dry patches on my cornea caused by pressure from the old lenses have almost gone and I shouldn't need a change of prescription for two years or so.
Baby birthday After that it was off to Greg's sister's as our nephew Ari turned two today. This had totally slipped my mind (which was a Good Thing as having food show tickets was a valid excuse not to go to the kids' party at Lollipops) so I had to buy him something in a hurry. I got him books. Books are always good. Ari is a cute kid, I admit it, and he was very excited and bouncy and talking nineteen-to-the-dozen in a language not quite completely unlike English. :-P
Two Doctors Who, and Bayban the Butcher than Who And finally this evening I went to the 'Inside the Tardis' stage show which had Colin Baker ( Doctor number 6), Sylvester McCoy (Doctor 7), and Katy Manning (Jo Grant). It was great fun. I'll have to do a proper post tomorrow with what I can remember, but they were all extremely funny, they answered some questions in the second half, and we met them afterwards. I got photos and my program signed, took some photos of them -- and I met Bayban!
Yep, when I said to Colin that I loved his portrayal of Bayban, he said, "Fine woman, my mother. She called me Babe, you know. She told me to treat every minute as if it's your last. See you in a minute, Vila."
Eeeee!
OK, so he paraphrased it and made an hour into a minute, but how cool is that? :-D I'm still grinning here.
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Yep, when I said to Colin that I loved his portrayal of Bayban, he said, "Fine woman, my mother. She called me Babe, you know. She told me to treat every minute as if it's your last. See you in a minute, Vila."
That's amazing! :) Would have loved to see that. Lucky you!
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Babe could always do a son et lumiere--'sound and light' in the Gaul systems. He could recreate old battles or the destruction of the Kezarni city, but in places they didn't need the buildings any more.
And I hear Hotblack Desatio are hiring.
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Oh, and coriander is the traditional name here; cilantro is rather more recent. I'm not sure how many people realize they're the same thing, though. The chocolates sound interesting; I've got to see if we can get something like that here. They'd make unusual Christmas presents. :)
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I didn't think I'd like lavender chocolate either but the sample I tasted convinced me. I gave a box of the herb ones to Greg's sister and the fruit selection (including an amazing feijoa) to his mother.
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I have actually tasted lavender chocolate (I got it in a "lavener" show-bag as the last Royal Easter Show) and I found it a bit disconcerting to have all this lavender flavour mixed in with the chocolate. I think I'd rather have them separate; smell the lavender, eat the chocolate.
including an amazing feijoa
Was it a particularly amazing feijoa, or is it that you hadn't tasted feijoa before? Because I'd agree that feijoas in general are pretty amazing: they taste like flowers smell. The kind of food you'd only expect to come across on an alien planet which the Doctor was visiting in order to impress his companion with the cuisine.
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I love feijoas; they're one of my favourite fruits. The feijoa chocolate was amazing because it really tasted like feijoa and chocolate. So many fruit flavours are artificial and nowhere near the real thing. This was.
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That's come from watching cooking programmes on telly, mostly British.
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Did Katy look as disconcertingly like a blonde Servalan as she did on Doctor Who Confidential?
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Where did you meet Katy?
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At a one-day con run by some Doctor Who club, but it was so long ago I can't remember when or where exactly.
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I was given a box of New Zealand-made spiced chocolate truffles once, but I can't remember who made them. Might have been someone in the Coromandel.
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FWIW their snail mail addy on the box is:
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Thanks for the link.
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And wow, how sweet of Colin. *eagerly aaiting full report*
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