This morning we woke up to boots in the hall filled with:
- botanical ingredients and recipes for various gin-and-tonic cocktails, from
Spain
- tins of several ‘Russian’ varieties of tea from France
- the latest Rolling Stones CD, recorded in England, mixed in the U.S.A. and
manufactured in the Czech Republic
- a CD of Christmas music arranged for jazz ensemble by trombonist Nils
Landgren, from Sweden
- Dominosteine ['Domino stones’ - a chocolate/marzipan/jam and cake
confection], from Germany
- mandarin oranges, from Spain
- orgsnic walnuts, from some unidentified European orchard
- miscellaneous chocolate confections of unidentified origin
- decorated branches of evergreen yew, from the front garden
St. Nicholas himself was represented by a couple of chocolate Santa figures
dressed in metallic foil wrapping depicting sunglasses, black and pink
fur-trimmed robes and a small sack of gifts captioned ‘Xmas rocks’. (I am
assuming, based on the costume — and finding support in the accompanying Stones
CD — that the ‘rocks’ in this epithet is a verb and not a noun.)
Happy St. Nicholas Day to all!
Chris Bruce,
promising to post the recipes for various
G&T cocktails to Lit-Ideas upon request, in
Kiel, Germany
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