http://www.weboughtthefarm.com/ Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside en-us 2007-04-12T08:13:36-03:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://weboughtthefarm.com/archive/2007_04.html I heard excerpts of an interview with and readings by Kurt Vonnegut on the news this morning following the announcement of his death, and it surprised me how much of his work I have internalised (and reminded me how much... 448@http://www.weboughtthefarm.com/ 2007-04-12T08:13:36-03:00 http://weboughtthefarm.com/archive/2007_02.html Well, folks, I'm having a big birthday this week and we're all off to Barcelona to celebrate this, the anniversary and half-term and Valentine's Day all rolled into one. So, don't expect much news from these quarters for the next... 446@http://www.weboughtthefarm.com/ 2007-02-06T14:20:45-03:00 http://weboughtthefarm.com/archive/2007_02.html 445@http://www.weboughtthefarm.com/ 2007-02-05T07:15:49-03:00 http://weboughtthefarm.com/archive/2007_02.html If the number of books I read is any indicator of my leisure time (and I would posit that it is), then it should be obvious that I haven't been getting through much lately. Until now, that is. And it... 444@http://www.weboughtthefarm.com/ Reading 2007-02-02T10:10:43-03:00 http://weboughtthefarm.com/archive/2007_01.html Looking out our back door this afternoon, I can count seven peafowl - six are either hens or immature cocks, but then there's the Daddy. These are not small birds, and they poo everywhere, which got me, I confess, to... 443@http://www.weboughtthefarm.com/ 2007-01-29T09:40:22-03:00 http://weboughtthefarm.com/archive/2007_01.html A lazy man's entry. And much more 'pop' than I'd have thought representative of the overall collection. I like the juxtaposition of Rita Lee and the Beatles. And no Podcasts, although Blood Red is a download. Alma de Roca -... 442@http://www.weboughtthefarm.com/ 2007-01-29T03:43:07-03:00 http://weboughtthefarm.com/archive/2007_01.html BibleMap. How cool! (via Open Book)... 441@http://www.weboughtthefarm.com/ Technology 2007-01-23T10:28:01-03:00 http://weboughtthefarm.com/archive/2007_01.html It took me a while to get to it, but I'm really enjoying Dear Francesca, by Mary Contini. It's a literary cookbook, billed as "an Italian journey of recipes, recounted with love." And that sums it up pretty well. The... 440@http://www.weboughtthefarm.com/ Food and Drink 2007-01-22T05:03:31-03:00 http://weboughtthefarm.com/archive/2007_01.html I cannot believe how long it's been since I posted here. Because this is not a dead blog... I just have not had time to update, or write, or hardly to read. I have not had much time for anything.... 439@http://www.weboughtthefarm.com/ 2007-01-12T14:36:36-03:00 http://weboughtthefarm.com/archive/2006_09.html I have been alluding for a long time to developments in our lives that needed to be kept under the hat. Developments that have been a real time sink for me (and probably will continue to be, although the pressure... 438@http://www.weboughtthefarm.com/ Beer and Brewing 2006-09-24T14:08:10-03:00 http://weboughtthefarm.com/archive/2006_09.html An interesting week of milestones worth noting this week: 60 - the 60th anniversary of BBC's Radio 3, formerly known as The Third Programme, 29 September. 80 - the 80th birthday of John Coltrane, 23 September. Radio 3 had a... 437@http://www.weboughtthefarm.com/ 2006-09-24T13:46:04-03:00 http://weboughtthefarm.com/archive/2006_09.html I had the opportunity to spend a few days on the West Coast of the US last week. A meeting in metro San Francisco, and then a holiday weekend spent with my mother in Las Vegas. It was a whirlwind... 436@http://www.weboughtthefarm.com/ 2006-09-04T15:08:19-03:00 http://weboughtthefarm.com/archive/2006_07.html When I (re)named this blog, the intention was to buy a farm in a rural area and live in the country. That was a dream unfulfilled on our return from Brazil. Now, at least, we're part-fulfilling that ideal. This weekend... 435@http://www.weboughtthefarm.com/ 2006-07-27T05:51:57-03:00 http://weboughtthefarm.com/archive/2006_07.html Way back when, I used to blog Brazil. One of the sensations in the expat community was the shocking murder of a couple of Americans, Zera and Michelle Staheli, who were fairly new arrivals working for Shell. The Stahelis were... 434@http://www.weboughtthefarm.com/ Brazil 2006-07-17T14:20:35-03:00 http://weboughtthefarm.com/archive/2006_07.html We were invited to a cherry picking party earlier this week. We thought maybe the hosts had a small orchard, but no - just a single tree - the likes of which I've never seen. There were so many cherries... 433@http://www.weboughtthefarm.com/ Food and Drink 2006-07-15T04:29:19-03:00