links for 2006-04-21

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | The Queen’s 80th birthday Lunch and the pitfalls of modern life Don’t forget: Friday is the Queen’s birthday. Or one of her birthdays, anyway. She’s got two, at least. There’ll always be an England.…

Watch this space

Will the woman who wrote this book turn me into a real watercolorist? We’re about to find out.

Eggs, at last

Finally, finally, after years of planning, considering, and having the pans at hand, I have made, for a dinner party, Martha’s Easter Egg Cakes. Very good indeed, looked great–and far more trouble than they were worth. But everyone oohed and…

Happy Easter!

Just returned from Easter Vigil services at the Oratory of St. Boniface, a local parish with wonderful music. It’s a beautiful service, beginning outside in the courtyard in darkness; then a fire is lit and blessed, and passed to individual…

Gone to (and back from) Ghana

Just returned from an interesting week in Accra, Ghana, where a London colleague and I were teaching a workshop in scientific publication. Accra, the capital, is a port city on the Atlantic Ocean, and much different from the other 2…

When I’m 95

Last night I went to hear Kitty Carlisle Hart (she, of “What’s My Line?” fame in my life. I didn’t know she was in a Marx Brothers film in 1935!) perform at the Regency. Since I didn’t get to see…