Diem Ex Die - It's The Only Way

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OK - as semi-promised last night, an update on the meal I cooked then, tonight. As you can see above I zsuzsed it up with half a dozen topped whole green chillis of the hot variety, more chopped fresh coriander and half a red sweet pepper in fairly large chunks. I just sweated this lot under cover until it was hot, and ate it with poppadum and plain chapati. Pretty damned good and I have to say, pretty spicy hot: those Kenyan greenies do have somewhat of a kick, especially when eaten as a vegetable!

On another note altogether, I decided on a whim to check on the current whereabouts of my old university professor, Andrew Radford, from my brief tenure as a postgrad linguistics student at the then University College of North Wales, Bangor, in 1980/81. Sadly, it appears that he died some two years ago at the age of seventy-nine; the belated news of which actually coming as somewhat of a punch to the gut: not just that I held the man in great respect [he was given the chair at Bangor at the young age of thirty-four, and was a man of fearsome intellect], but also as it serves as a very barbed reminder that so much time and so many family, friends, colleagues and acquaintances have passed from us in the intervening years...

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