{"id":1375,"date":"2012-06-01T11:53:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T11:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2012-06-01T11:53:09","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T11:53:09","slug":"366-unusual-things-days-149-153","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=1375","title":{"rendered":"366 unusual things: days 149-153"},"content":{"rendered":"

28th May – Took some tartes au citron (French lemon tarts), made by me, to a French-Swiss friend.\u00a0 Like taking flowers to a florist.\u00a0 Got the recipe from her blog<\/a>.\u00a0 The recipe has ingredients for 3 large tarts, or 75 tartlets that might look like mine:<\/p>\n

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29th May – On The Voice<\/em>, a TV singing competition, one of the contestants is a beautiful blind singer whose name is a palindrome:\u00a0 Rachael Leahcar.<\/p>\n

30th May – Another singer with a powerful voice drew this exclamation from her coach\/judge, Seal:
\n“You’re possessed.\u00a0 You must have done a deal with the devil to make that voice come out of you.”
\nBut then he said,
\n“God bless you, darlin’.”<\/p>\n

31st May – Just watched what looked like a red autumn leaf fluttering among yellow leaves on a tree.\u00a0 But looking carefully I saw it was a red breast on a small grey bird.\u00a0 A robin.\u00a0 I’ve never seen one before.\u00a0 They only pass through suburban gardens when migrating.<\/p>\n

1st June – Read that Umberto Eco’s Italian original of The Name of the Rose<\/em> has no semi-colons in it;\u00a0 his machine didn’t have that key.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

28th May – Took some tartes au citron (French lemon tarts), made by me, to a French-Swiss friend.\u00a0 Like taking flowers to a florist.\u00a0 Got the recipe from her blog.\u00a0 The recipe has ingredients for 3 large tarts, or 75 tartlets that might look like mine: 29th May – On The Voice, a TV singing … <\/p>\n

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