Food & drink: report from 1st December

That's Martin Neaga on cello. Later Betty Rojas improvised on a large box instrument whose name escapes me while I did Unspoken Words.

Sarah was in Berlin for Baader Meinhof days. Scott was on Quality Street. Soon you'll be able to see him from space. Maria performed extracts of Burns' Tam O'Shanter. Rufo listed everything he's eaten and drunk all week. Thanks to Marianela and everyone else who did stuff too.

Some other words about food and drink, especially jam.

In Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, the White Queen, seeking to hire Alice, offers her 'jam to-morrow':

'I'm sure I'll take you with pleasure!' the Queen said. 'Twopence a week, and jam every other day.'

Alice couldn't help laughing, as she said, 'I don't want you to hire ME - and I don't care for jam.'

'It's very good jam,' said the Queen.

'Well, I don't want any TO-DAY, at any rate.'

'You couldn't have it if you DID want it,' the Queen said. 'The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday - but never jam to-day.'

'It MUST come sometimes to "jam to-day,"' Alice objected.

'No, it can't,' said the Queen. 'It's jam every OTHER day: to-day isn't any OTHER day, you know.'

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Edward Lear's The Jumblies (extract):

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Far and few, far and few,

Are the lands where the Jumblies live;

Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,

And they went to sea in a Sieve.

They sailed to the Western Sea, they did,

To a land all covered with trees,

And they bought an Owl, and a useful Cart,

And a pound of Rice, and a Cranberry Tart,

And a hive of silvery Bees.

And they bought a Pig, and some green Jack-daws,

And a lovely Monkey with lollipop paws,

And forty bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree,

And no end of Stilton Cheese.

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Next Spoken Word: "Animals" 15th Dec