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Isabel Bayrakdarian is a very lovely and talented Toronto based soprano. She is also a close friend of the wife of one of my friends. I saw her sing Cleopatra in Handel's Giulio Cesare at the COC a few years ago. Ravishing in every sense!

Chip butties are one the basic food groups in Lancashire. Ideally, the bread should be a buttered bap, the chips hot and fresh and the salt and vinegar added with discretion.

What pervert doesn't like Victorian porn? Sadistic uncles having their wicked way with more or less reluctant wards. It's one of the few interests I share with Philip Larkin.



This shows how particles can and cannot propagate in 1+1 dimensional spacetime given the constraint of special relativity. I nicked it from Patricia Schwarz at Caltech.



This is the lovely Isabel (see above). Long gloves and a pearl choker would come a close second to one of the outfits she wore as Cleopatra which consisted of chains and not much else.



The Sanctuary Knocker from Durham Cathedral. It's been there since the middle ages sometime. The original is now in the cathedral museum but there is a copy on the door still.

Comment to play.

Date: 2007-04-25 09:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] buzzy-bee.livejournal.com
And what a lovely pair of knockers they are!

Bap?

Date: 2007-04-25 09:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dyddgu.livejournal.com
Shurely shome mishtake - wot no barm cake?

Re: Bap?

Date: 2007-04-25 10:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com
The various regional dialect words for a soft roll are legion! I remember the total confusion engendered by my first encounter with a stotty cake.

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