December 2006


Stanley Park after storm

ずーっと、夫と風邪を引いておりました。やっと良くなったので、友人達と一緒にスタンレー公園に散歩に行きました。バンクーバーは2週間前に大嵐に襲われ、湾岸にあるスタンレー公園を直撃し、約1000本の木が倒れました。公園管理局は倒木の処理で毎日大変です。色んな所から倒木を購入したいという問い合わせが来ているそうですが、環境的に森のためには倒木をそのまま保存するのが良いそうです。

My husband and I had had cold for a long time. At last we got better and we went for a walk to Stanley Park with our friends. Storm attacked Vancouver about two weeks ago and hit Stanley Park which is located just next to the bay. About 1000 trees were down due to this storm. The park board office has been very busy to move these trees. They have been receiving offers to purchase the trees but environmentally it’s better fot the forest to leave the downed trees as they are.

Stanley Park after storm

Stanley Park after storm

Stanley Park after storm

友人に倒木の根の裏の前に立ってもらいました。
I asked my friend to stand up in front of the back of the downed tree.

Stanley Park after storm

嵐の夜は、私のアパートも風で揺れ、船に乗っているような揺れでした。怖かった。
On the night of the storm, our apartment was shaken by the storm. It felt like as if we were on a ship. It was scary.

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夫の妹がBlack Booksというイギリスのコメディ番組のDVDを送ってくれたので、鑑賞しました。めちゃおもろい。主人公のBernard Black(写真右)は皮肉屋なBlack Booksという古本屋のオーナー。趣味は酒とタバコとお客いびり。そこで働くManny BiancoはBernardと正反対の性格で、性格が良い働き者。隣に雑貨屋を営む、ちょっと変わってる女性オーナーFranはBernardの飲み友達、いつもボーイフレンド探しに忙しい。番組に出てくる古本屋の玄関はロンドンの13 Leigh Streetに実在するCollinge & Clarkという本屋さんで撮影されたそうで(このサイトから引用)、私が通っていた大学のすぐ近くだったので嬉しかったです。

この番組の脚本は主人公を演じているDylan Moranの他に、私達が大好きなコメディ、Father Tedを書いたGraham LinehanやArthur Mathewsが書いている。

シーズン1を見ましたが、2と3もあるそうなので楽しみです。シーズン1のエピソード1は以下のリンクで見ることができます。


We watched an English comedy called Black Books which my husband’s sister sent to us. It was hilarious. Bernard Black (on the right in the photo) is a cynical person and an owner of an small old book shop, Black Books. His hobby is smoking, drinking and bullying customers. Manny Bianco who works at the shop is completely opposite to Bernard – he is nice and good worker. Bernard’s drinking buddy, Fran owns a junk shop next to the book shop and she is always busy hunting men. The front of the book shop which appears in the drama was shot at an actual book shop called Collinge & Clark at 13 Leigh Street in London (quoted from this site). I was happy to find the shop was very close to the university I went.

This comedy is written by Dylan Moran who acts Bernard and also the writers of our favourite comedy, Father Ted who are Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews.

We watched Season 1 and there are Season 2 and 3 and we are looking forward to it. You can watch the episode 1 of Season 1 from the following link.

Season 1 episode 1 – Part One
Season 1 episode 1 – Part Two
Season 1 episode 1 – Part Three

My rating: ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆(9!)
IMDB: 9.3 

先週はちょっと体調を悪くしておりました。体調は悪くても、今月のオフィスランチは逃しませんでした。今回は以前Piccolo MondoというイタリアンレストランだったSaveurというレストランに行ってきました。

私はレモンドレッシングがかかったスモークサーモンの前菜とクリスピーな鶉のグリルがのったスクウォーシュのリゾット。スクウォーシュの甘みと塩味のきいた手羽先が食欲をそそりました。

I wasn’t feeling well during the last week. Although my condition was not well, I didn’t miss this month’s office lunch. We went to a restaurant called Saveur which used to be an Italian restaurant, Piccolo Mondo.

I had smoked salmon with lemon dressing as an appetizer and squash risotto with crispy grilled quail. The sweetness of squash and the salty quail wing was very appetizing.


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同僚達は銀鱈や豚肉の煮込みなどを選びました。

My colleagues chose dishes with sablefish and wild boar.

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デザートは全部注文して、みんなでシェアしました。一番美味しかったのはラムレーズンアイス付きアップルパイでした。

We ordered all the desserts and we shared them. The best one was the apple pie with rum raisin ice cream.

Saveur restaurant


お料理はとてもおいしかったのですが、BGMを変えたほうがいいと思います。ABBAが流れていました。なんでABBAやねん。

The food was very good but I think they should change their background music. They were playing ABBA when we were there. Why ABBA?

Saveur
850 Thurlow Street (map)
Tel: 604-688-1633

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