Peter Morwood

@peter.petermorwood.com

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Novelist, screenwriter, arms & armour fan, amateur historian, amateur cook. Interested in many things. Likes cats. CATS ARE NICE.

Close-up photo of the octagonal bone grip of a discontinued "Mainz-pattern" (leaf-bladed) Roman gladius short-sword.
The painting is called "Dinosaurs Eating CEO" and shows the non-frenzied feeding pattern of dromaeosurid dinosaurs, possibly Deinonychus or Velociraptor mongoliensis. Two dinosaurs have hunted down and killed a grey-haired man in a business suit, presumably the CEO of the title. He has been eviscerated and his entrails are on the road beside him, upon which the dinosaurs are starting to feed. In the background two more dinosaurs pursue a second business-suited man, while the house lights of an unconcerned rural community glitter on the distant horizon.
Old-style US fire hydrant with ribbed body and cap, peeling paint and a general air of having seen better days.
Kenneth Williams as Julius Caesar in "Carry On Cleo" saying that great line, "Infamy, Infamy, they've all got it in for me" (stabitty stabitty stab).
DAZ or something "armour" featuring the most ridiculous pauldrons (shoulder guards) I've ever seen. Let's not even mention the look-down-suddenly-and-spike-your-own-face breastplate.
A 1980-vintage Nikon FE 35mm analogue SLR camera with a Philips dual flashgun (its filters and bounce screen are beside the camera) and two Sigma zoom lenses, 28-70mm and 70-210mm.
Movie still from "Goldfinger" showing Sean Connery throwng a gold bar shot-putt style (good) after lifting it far too easily (bad). The next scene shows Oddjob shrugging off getting hit in the chest by it (worse). Of course he's a Superstrong Henchman who can crush golf-balls in one hand so OK, acceptable. Ish...
A modern (folding) pruning knife by French cutler Opinel.
Movie still from "Yangtse Incident" (1957). Able Seacat Simon comforts a wounded sailor aboard HMS Amethyst.
A paragraph from "Snobbery With Violence - English Crime Stories and their Audience" (1971), indicating that the kitchen knife as murder weapon is not a new phenomenon. In this specific instance, Watson cites the Sheffield carving knife such as might be part of a knife-fork-steel set given as a wedding present and brought out once a year to deal with the Christmas turkey.
A supermarket frozen food section made as one enormous "drawer" of cold air with no need for a lid.
Phones, tablets & power banks being charged at our local, in case the power at home ISN'T back until Tuesday...
Daube of Irish salmon, chips, parsley sauce, wedge of lemon, Before.
Interlibrary loan page showing that the nearest library with the book we want is +5000km away.
(Photo 1) A Great Spotted Woodpecker takes peanuts from a back-garden bird feeder. The woodpecker's plumage is dramatic black-and-white with a red rump, while the spots which give the bird its name are visible on its folded wings.
A historical-recipe cheesecake or "curd tart" made with Philadelphia cream cheese, tvarog (Central European cottage cheese) and chopped crystallised ginger. The top is beautifully golden, the curd is granular rather than smooth, the accompanying "cream" is more Philly whisked smooth and dusted with allspice (cinnamon would be equally good, IMO) and the cutlery is deliberately "period" for the look of things. It is, needless to say, delicious.
A recipe for "American Indian Barbecued Pork Roast" from Moira Hodgson's "The Hot & Spicy Cookbook", and which involves lots of basting with a molé-style sauce. Recipe not described, since the rest of the skeet thread is about - and has the recipe for - a casserole adaptation which avoids all the basting.
An Irish evening sky in mid-September, with a black silhouette hedge as the horizon and the sky colour above darkening upwards from skimmed-milk blue-white to a deep indigo blue.
Clockwise, small bowl of miso soup, large bowl of mixed sashimi, tiny bowl of soy / wasabi, platter of beef gyoza with dipping sauce, great big plate of chicken kara-age with dill, lemon slice and yuzu mayonnaise. Glasses of sparkling water off to the right.
A cropped image of home-made char siu pork, showing a beautiful red glaze of marinade on the meat and a blackened encrustation of marinade on the roasting tin. Wish I'd lined it with foil...
Anthony Higgins as Mr Neville, busy draughting in "The Draughtsman's Contract" (1982)
Twenty-three (23) fountain pens of various kinds: CultPens, Helix, J. Herbin, Kaweco, Lamy, Osmiroid, Parker, Pilot, Platignum and a couple of cheap-and-cheerful anonymous.