sabato 19 novembre 2022

Lasagna or Lasagne?

"The word lasagna itself refers to the pasta sheet, and of course you use more than one sheet in the dish, so arguably lasagne is more correct. But in reality, both the singular and the plural are seen in Italy, and it is probably lasagna rather than lasagne that has become an English word."

We stayed in a motel in Wellington last night. The people running the motel were very nice but, we decided to have a wine, we were confronted with three glasses.


We'd taken some Church Road Chardonnay  2022, but I wondered if the three sizes were for different qualities of chardonnay - Marlborough? East Coast? Cleanskin? Church Road? Maybe The Wine Guy will know?

I didn't take my violin into Wellington so, as I waited for Shelley to get ready (as I often do), I needed something to fill in time. I found these three wise comments...






That last picture has captured the time on my phone and how much battery I have left - a bonus for you readers!

Ciao tutti.

6 commenti:

THE CURMUDGEON ha detto...

Thanks for that last image. I'll use it as an alternate for my The Wine Guy blog.

I shudder to think how much time I've wasted waiting for Lynn when we are about to go out.

It bugs me that motels have crappy and mismatched glasses in their cupboards. Given that places like Moore Wilson and Briscoes have very good and sensible sized glasses at cheap prices why do they foist that crap on us. Those small stemmed glasses are from the 1970s and 1980s. Ditto for the small tea and coffee cups or mugs they provide. The price for a night in a crappy motel though is at least 4 times more than it was back then.

A couple of tips for you:

You should wash those cups and glasses in very hot water before using them.
Clean out and refill the kettle.
Take the bedspread or duvet cover off the bed preferably without touching it.
Ditto for the 'vanity' cushions on the bed.

Perhaps best to not even go into the motel unit but curl up on the doorstep instead.

THE CURMUDGEON ha detto...

Uh oh! Downgraded to a 'like'.
I remember when Robert used to say that he loved you.

THE WINE GUY ha detto...

I knew that the 'lasagne' vs 'lasagna' thing would bug you but I'm just surprised that it took you so long to respond to it. I didn't know that anxious and OCD people factored in procrastination into their disorder.

THE CURMUDGEON ha detto...

Sorry for the confusion.
I typed that previous comment on a setting on the laptop that has The Wine Guy loaded.
The sentiment is the same though. Look on the bright side - more comments for you.

Richard (of RBB) ha detto...

Hey, the comments are building. 😄

THE CURMUDGEON ha detto...

I guess that every comment is a prisoner for someone who’s been downgraded to “like”.