Today was really chilly. Overcast, but no rain, a bit windy, and it really felt like winter is here.
After my morning ethics classes I took Scully for a walk and we went up to Moon Phase, the Korean patisserie. I’d had a sandwich at home and was on the prowl for something sweet, and they had a new special pastry today. I give you, Eclipse:
It’s a crisp flaky pastry shell, filled with yuzu curd (a little bit visible below the meringue), small cubes of yuzu jelly, on top of a very crunchy almond layer which was kind of halfway between a cookie and almond brittle. The whole thing topped with soft meringue and various garnishing bits. It was really nice. I like lemon meringue tarts as a matter of course, and this was just elevated to a whole new level. The bakers there really are something special.
One of my friends is currently in Vilnius in Lithuania. He’s flown there with two friends to follow the tour of King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, a band from Melbourne who are touring eastern Europe. He arrived yesterday and today was the only day of their ten-day trip on which they will not be attending a concert by the band – and he said he and his friends ran into the band while walking around Vilnius, and had a chat with them!
And in minor website news, I cleaned up the sidebar on the left ⬅️, removing some out of date links and adding my Bluesky account, and updated the full index page as well.