Current Projects chat and miscellany

Dinner round your gaff must be a hoot.

It is. The other day, I was explaining to my 4 year old niece how the jelly she was tucking in to was a matrix of protein holding a lot of water in a roughly solid form, to which she added "And it's yummy".

I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a flower and say, "Look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. But then he'll say, "I, as an artist, can see how beautiful a flower is. But you, as a scientist, take it all apart and it becomes dull." I think he's kind of nutty. ... There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.

So I can enjoy the deliciousness of the Belgian bun and simultaneously revel in the paradox that it has nothing to do with Belgium, which might also lead to consideration of the similar demonymic misattributions applied to various pastries, or even the slightly odd pair "French Letter" & "Capote Anglais"