Dinner At The French Embassy

SM Stirling, The Peshawar Lancers (New York, 2003), pp. 249-250.

While I eat a Danish pastry for breakfast, Henri who enjoyed a samosa now enjoys dinner at the French Embassy:

lobster thermidor;
salad with goat cheese;
kefta (minced lamb cakes with pepper sauce);
poulet aux truffles;
bottles of Sidi Bouhai (?);
desserts, including cakes, marron glacee and Creme Anglese;

cheeses;
unspiced coffee;
brandy from the ambassador's family estates.

Meanwhile, on our timeline, Sheila and a friend share their birthday today so, as usual, we will eat out although this time pizzas instead of Indian.

The Asianization Of The Angrezi

SM Stirling, The Peshawar Lancers (New York, 2003), p. 140.

Athelstane King's mother and sister wear saris and his sister paints Athelstane's tikal before the family presides at Diwali which celebrates Laxmi, consort of Vishnu. The festival also includes a play about Krishna and Ravana.Thus, the Second British Empire differs considerably from the First.

Unfortunately, the nearest mandir to Lancaster is in Preston, just over twenty miles away. If it were nearer, I would visit it more often although we can meditate anywhere of course. Reality is here, not in a building elsewhere. John 4. 21.