C'était pas marrant travailler avec le marron

Professor Chestnut head in Dr. Slump

I saw fresh chestnuts in grocery store. A stew of chestnut came into my head.

So I got some home with my chestnut fantasy and checked how to cook them.

The recipe said once the outer shell is removed, put the chestnut with its skin to boiling water, then the skin can be easily removed.

I worked on a dozen of chestnut and at the end there was only 6 in the stew.

Some of them were rotten.

The boiling water way could hardly help me to remove the skin. 

The stew was delicious, but I spent 40 mins removing 6 chestnuts' skin.

I would go for a can one next time.

Maybe it will taste just the same.

A poor quality picture capturing a good quality birthday dinner

晚餐時我們談起小學。我說我們有陸運會，很遺憾沒有在最後一年參加跨欄，現在幾十歲都不知道哪裡可以給我跨欄了。還有因不用穿校服而興奮的秋季旅行，和唱無聊歌的音樂堂。他說對小學的印象很模糊了，沒有體育堂也沒有音樂堂，但記得小四時曾努力學吹牧童笛，還要排練舞台劇，那種皇帝皇后武士的西方兒童傳統劇目，最後演給家長看那些。他要化妝，穿上戲服演一個侯爵，唱歌之外還要吹牧童笛演出。我聽了很羨慕。