fajrdrako | Maboroshi's birthday... (Reply)

Yesterday we celebrated maboroshi's birthday by going to "Flippers", a restaurant in the Glebe. The food was stupendous - and not far off my diet, on the whole - I was particularly swooning over the smoked mackerel that maboroshi had as appetizer. The waitress was unusually friendly and almost as impressed with the book of Hollywood photographs that I gave mab, as she was.

Afterwards: Future Shop, where I spent my Christmas gift certificate on the DVD of "Pirates of the Caribbean". Happy about that. Then Chapters, where I couldn't find Sheamus Heaney's translation of "Beowulf" even though it was supposed to be on the shelf. (The sales staff wasn't much help.) Ah well.

I haven't seen "The Rough Guide to Middle-earth" in any of the local stores - I bought it at the convention in Toronto, and am enjoying it mightily. The pickings for Tolkien books are very slim, really. It makes me wish I had access to an American or British bookstore. I do, of course - and if I don't find Beowulf at the Kanata Chapters today, I'll order it from amazon.ca or amazon.com.

I'm also looking for a good book about Malta.