Well I didn’t manage to post yesterday. Claire told Maria that the BBC were streaming the Red Nose Day programme over the internet and that was it. There was no chance of me getting anywhere near the computer. Mind you it does make you appreciate how good British TV is, we have hundreds of channels here, but apart from the films very little we want to watch. Mind you we do love the adverts, particularly the one about the slimming program which goes on about what a lot of weight all these people have lost and then in small print in the corner of the screen it says ‘these are not typical results’!!? And of course the ones about medication for bladder urgency which you shouldn’t take if you have various urinary conditions!!?
Anyway, we had a quiet day yesterday, Maria did some work on her bears but she was hampered by her lack of long needles, and then we went for a walk along the Hudson and picked up a few bits of shopping then went back to the apartment to watch RND. When John came home he was rather wound up so he took a while to relax and then neither he nor Maria fancied cooking (I offered) so we sent out for some Chinese/Thai/Japanese fusion food. It was very nice but I suppose we all like the food we’re used to.
This morning John had some work he needed to do so we listened to a few CDs and got on with some bits and pieces until after lunch. By then we were all feeling rather ‘stir crazy’ so we decided to go out, Maria had expressed a wish to go to Barnes and Noble so we took the subway to Union Square.
When we got there we discovered they had a farmers market going on so we had a lovely time looking at all the stalls. We got some unusual salad bits we’re looking forward to, some very nice cheese (Maria and John keep going on about how you can’t get any decent cheese or bacon here) and some bison meat(?), I kept trying to nudge them towards the stalls selling honey but they kept going on about the carbs.
We then had a really good wander around Barnes and Noble, we spent a fair amount of time in front of the shelf with the beading books, talking in loud voices about how good the Beaders Bible looked. Perhaps we were a bit obvious?
John was amazed how long Maria can spend in a bookshop. She seems to have a real talent for it. Maria was amazed how many books they had on cooking in a city where so few people cook. I was amazed how many differnt magazines they had and how few of them were about bears.