WEDNESDAY
10th/ APRIL 2013.
Today has
got nicer as the day has gone on, by lunchtime when we went for a walk with the
dog it was hot; this morning I made our pan of ‘Scouse’ for tonight’s supper
which we are having with Cabbage and fresh local Beetroot. The pictures above
shows the ingredients; Onions,
Garlic,Celery,Leeks,Carrots,Mushrooms,Turnip,Lentills,Green Beans and local
white Beans along with the diced Potatoes, Red Wine, Tomato Frito and Beef and
Vegetable Stock – the best diced ‘Estefado Beef’ is tossed in seasoned flour
and pan fried then the secret ingredients are added to the finished Pot – as
you can see in the picture of it cooking on the stove !!
While we
were out Brenda called into her dentist and he finished the work on her teeth
so she is back on ‘Proper’ food this evening; meanwhile over on the French
coast in the Normandy region David and Jane are on a short holiday, David many
years ago used to work in the region so they return often to what is also our
favorite part of the coast as we parked up on the quayside in Honfleur with the
Winnebago and went down the coast on our scooter to Deauville and Trouville –
happy days and happy memories – we loved going out and about on the scooter, a
100cc Peugeot – we still have our matching silver helmets!! The picture above
shows Jane on the quayside in Honfleur this afternoon and our silver helmets waiting to be used again!
Yesterday
afternoon we watched a fascinating documentary on TVE2 in English “ Mystery of
a Masterpiece ” – it was a real-life detective story about the quest to
discover whether a portrait of a woman as intriguing as the Mona Lisa also was
painted by Leonardo de Vinci. The collector who spotted the anonymous
‘Renaissance’ work, Peter Silverman, purchased it for $22,000,had it analyzed
by the worlds top experts, and recently rejected an offer to sell it for $ 80
million !! That’s because opinion is still mixed as to whether this is one of
the dozen or so extant works by the Italian master; as the story unfolded it
was intriguing to watch all the different experts going about their work, Art Historians,
Costume and Hair Historians, Scientific/Technology departments of various Universities,
a Professor Master of Fingerprints Identification, Forgery experts and one of
the worlds most influential Leonardo Scholars ! The picture that you can see
above was given the title ‘ La Belle Principessa’ It was painted on Vellum
canvas( Animal skin) by a left handed painter, as was Leonardo, they used a
revolutionary ‘Multispectral Camera’ They then discover that the painting had
been cut out of a book and then glued to the wood back panel – it turns out
that the book is still in existence in a Library in Warsaw and dates back to
1452- 1508 – the Vellum was carbon-dated to the same period. On examination of
the book they prove that the painting was taken from it by the three stitch
marks that match! The book was produced in Milan Milan
Tonight
after supper we are going to watch, upstairs and downstairs, the second leg
matches of the ‘UEFA Champions League Quarter Finals; Barcelona v PSG, 2-2 on
agg. and Juventus v Bayern Munich 0-2 – Bayern over the weekend won the German
Bundesliga for the umpteenth time! ( Pep Guadirola’s new team in the
summer!) Let’s hope that the match
officials get their act together tonight as last night both the winning Dortmund Malaga
PS; 1-1 draw on the night but 3-3 on agg - so Barcelona go into the semi-finals !!
PS; 1-1 draw on the night but 3-3 on agg - so Barcelona go into the semi-finals !!
Thoughts
for the Day;
The only
real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. The greatest mistake you can make in life is
to be continually fearing you will make one.
From errors of others ,a wise man corrects his own.
…
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