Senses working overtime #346

1 That prince of food - the donut

2 The power of the CD

Tagline - 'If vinyl is for hipsters and streaming is for everyone else, maybe the forgotten format is for you'.

3 RIP Joan Didion

“I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.”

 

4 Water

Margaret Atwood on being like water:

"Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does."

5 How Christmas has evolved over the centuries

Overtime: More Joan

“…quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again. I remember walking across Sixty-second Street one twilight that first spring, or the second spring, they were all alike for a while. I was late to meet someone but I stopped at Lexington Avenue and bought a peach and stood on the corner eating it and knew that I had come out out of the West and reached the mirage.”

― Joan Didion

Senses working overtime #268

1 Little Frimley Kitchen's donuts

The theme for this week is that prince of foods...the donut. Yes, just like a hamburger is the perfect meal, donuts are the perfect snack. So - find yourself one from the many on sale at Little Frimley Kitchen, order your favourite coffee, sit back, relax, check the latest football news from The Guardian on your phone, and enjoy!

2 Donut King

As great as LFK is, Donut King in North Hollywood, where Samantha used to live, is donut heaven. I realise it's a chain (there is even a Donut King in Palmerston North) but the North Hollywood one is special!

3 Mmmmmm

Photo by Kobby Mendez on Unsplash

4 Mmmmmm too

5 Donuts

Overtime: Fascination

It all began in the mid sixties, on a family trip to Sydney, and specifically down an underground ramp with lots of shops, on the way to get a train on the City Circle line, as my brother and I peered through a shop front window and watched the donuts being made.

We walked down the ramp, a little hyperactive, and excited to be in alien surroundings: an underground bitumen ramp going under the street, with shops along the sides, and with the prospect of going on a train. Those were all new sensations for us.

Underground smells are unique (and just like the London Underground smells). As we walked downhill down the ramp, surrounded by those new smells, we spied a shop window with a machine making donuts behind it. I distinctly remember watching the donuts being made in the frying section, being turned over and then tavelling on a little conveyor belt to drop into a cinnamon bath.

Mum and dad would purchase some donuts for us all and we would eat them from the brown paper bag as we walked to the train, the excess cinnamon dropping to the bottom of the bags.

Whenever I have a donut from Little Frimley Kitchen, I get a happy flashback to those innocent days in Sydney.