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[rebness]

'We all have our weak spots'

My prodigal sister is coming home for a couple of days. She has a sweet tooth. Anyway, my mum turned to me today and asked if I wanted to try making some palaver.

Me: Zuh?
Mum: I think you should try it.
Me: ...To make a palaver? What?
Mum: You know, that pudding she likes!
Me: ...
Mum: The Greek one!
Me: ...Baklava?
Mum: Yes! Palaver!

She's been outdoing herself lately. We were in a (busy) food market a couple of weeks back when she shouted from a fair way away: 'Becky, check whether they have any Gaddafis!'

She meant gefilte fish.

Mum Glossary

Grating: gratin

Gaddafis: gefilte fish

Pinochets: pimiento - she asked for some pinochets in a South American restaurant. I am not kidding.

Palaver: baklava

She also is convinced that Celine Dion is Selon Delon. It's kind of cute, except when the dictators come into play. I don't get where the connection is in her mind between dictators and food. It's rather troubling. I await the day she asks me for some ceasescu nuts.


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Pour encourager les autres

I had a dream last night where I had this book where Robespierre had to try and convince Louis XVI that to stave off revolution, he just had to give in to a night of hot slash. Can he convince him?

I remembered it when I was in the shower this morning and was all, 'that is awesome! I have to read this book!' and then I realised it doesn't actually exist. Boo. But I bet there's a fic out there. Yay!


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Eurovision tonight!

Ridiculously excited, tbh. We'll have a scoring party and snacks and drinks and pretend to be outraged when Britain gets three points in total and Cyprus awards Greece 12 points, even if their song is just someone eating a cat.

It's trashy, politically-motivated and embarrassing. And I love every second of it. Come on, Jedward!

Comments

[mcgarrygirl78.livejournal.com]

This is the best post ever! Just totally, content, execution, dismount, all of it. I laughed, I cried, I shook my fist in anger....its perfect! Your mom is awesome!

No seriously though, I did love it. It was the perfect companion for waking up too early on a Saturday and not thinking it was worth it. This post made it totally worth it....a little bit worth it : )

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Aww, glad you liked! And I hope you're having an awesome Saturday! :D

[ashling-c.livejournal.com]

Come on Jedward!!!! hahaha I'm ridiculous excited too. (nothing to do with the fact that I win 100 euro if they win) I actually like them, and they get such a raw deal over here in Ireland. I'm hoping they'll wipe the smile off the naysayers faces.

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Hahahaa. Well, I really hope they do! They're utterly rubbish, but they're so harmless and just fun. :D

[ashling-c.livejournal.com]

Exactly. they are fun and make you smile because they are just so positive and hype. If more people were like them the world would be slightly brighter. Granted I would probably go on a killing spree. But I'd be smiling as I went ;)

[sophiamcdougall.livejournal.com]

A Place of Greater Safety is about the French Revolution and slashy as hell. There was an awful part of me that was all "Get lost, Danton: Desmoulins/Robespierre OTP MEN2B 4EVA LALALA GUILLOUTINE I CAN'T HEAR YOU" throughout.

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Oh, OH! To Amazon!

Desmoulins is my Revolution hunny <3

That reminds me - mothergoddamn linked me to your epic slash debate post when I was away and I meant to comment on it upon my return. It was really good, really well argued. I shall have to pimp it. Like a good slash pairing.

[sophiamcdougall.livejournal.com]

Yay!

I feel I should offer you fair warning that A Place of Greater Safety is like an incredibly good book and an incredibly bad book made into an inexplicable soup. You lurch from "Wow that's amazing" to "Mantel WTF are you doing?" all over the place. I found it terribly frustrating but I was glad I had read it.

Things happen like Danton grabbing Desmoulins and protectively stroking his hair, though.

[pandorasblog]

I'm not rebness but you've convinced me to buy this book too!

[saffronlie.livejournal.com]

Yes, but do you know how to make a palaver?!! They had to make it on Masterchef without a recipe. I had to look it up on the internets -- fairly easy, I think, provided you knew what you were doing. Those on TV did not. Sigh.

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Oh, I made some yesterday and it was really good! I was very impressed.

The recipe seemed suspiciously easy and I was convinced it was all going to burn or be rubbish, but it was perfect. Not because I'm awesome (though I am) but because it was so simple.

Er, if I'd had to make it without knowing the recipe, I would have failed spectacularly. I can understand those poor Masterchef types.*

Baklava with vanilla ice cream tonight! *excite*

*You're really making me want to watch Australian Masterchef. May start downloading today to see.

[pandorasblog]

Seconding that comment on the perfect beauty of this post. I'm going to have "ceaucescu nuts" in my head all day.

And, er, a small part of my brain will be trying to come up with other dictator/food combinations. < / bad, bad liberal >