Medlar Comfits

& Magnificants — Magnificent Insignificants

Anna Tambour's

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      • My other box of confections —

      • Anna Tambour and Others

        A fresh & salty tale

        • The Oyster and Alice O.

          • Fresh Comfits

          • Cardoons!
          • A Smoking Promotion for Phantasmagorium, 'Cardoons...
          • I'll take mine like the Owl and the Pussy-Cat
          • upcoming in A Season in Carcosa, editor: Joseph S....
          • Thar she blows!
          • The thinking person's tonic
          • If you could only hear me sing …
          • "I've always been terribly ambitious."
          • If I did SF covers:
          • Under a mushroom and that port wine birthmark

          Up from the cellar

          • The breakers' laundry
          • Parrot confidence course
          • How to play the cows
          • Xzamadhoom and the Lamp of History
          • Restaurants & Critics & Peppermills & Bling
          • How to survive an American luxury hotel
          • Adverb apoplecstasy
          • What the octopus?
          • Medlars yum! Medlar comfits and more
          • The adventures of discovering the ellemehnopee
          • Optical illusions, spiders and waspishness
          • The tiger and the mice
          • Ode to a dung beetle
          • Wodehouse, snails, and dramatic interest
          • The mystery coat, a rainy day, and essences
          • Foodies arise, for luscious fruits you've never eaten
          • Favourite Apple
          • What to do with a frozen quince
          • Coralline seaweed and yen
          • Clear mysteries
          • The delighted osteologist
          • An ass's coat
          • Australia's funniest science prize
          • So really. What IS science? Mere miracles?
          • The glory of unintelligibility
          • The campaign against men selling women's underwear
          • My father's hobby time-machine: A madeleine-free remembrance
          • Case moth feelings and feltings
          • "little celebrations of the secret"
          • Wild sorrel
          • The fruit for people who don't eat fruit
          • Portraits of muck in a rainbarrel's lid: The Invertebrates of Illawarra
          • Review: The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction
          • Bedside books and a public bedside manner
          • Hunger, fear, and the novel surplus
          • Postcard from the Fifth Kingdom
          • What 'ordinary' really means
          • Do English-as-a-second-language writers (and speakers) have more fun?
          • The big picture and little things
          • Love letters from D_____s
          • The first Onuspedia entry: 'Skwandro'
          • Remains of a Christmas beetle
          • Individualants
          • A circus of common language?
          • A pellet of dung beetles
          • From the bloodgum
          • The beauty of natural invention
          • Onuspedia: Lord Pemberton Gimble and Lord Pemberton Gimble
          • A cure for incuriosity
          • The heavy on medieval farts
          • But is that unicorn nugget genetically modified?
          • An ass, reflecting
          • I've got the proof of intelligent design, but what or whom was it made for?
          • To the unsung Autonomic Nervous System
          • I think that I will never see

            • Tributes

          • Literary Titan, Asher E. (huh?) Treat
          • To Rosie: Death coming
          • To Rosie: Thy will be done - Death came

            Some stories I've cooked, to chew on

            • The Eye of Nostradamus Summit
            • Temptation of the Seven Scientists
            • Strange Incidents in Foreign Parts
            • The Emperor's Backscratcher
            • Travels with Robert Louis Stevenson in the Cévennes
            • The Wages of Food-Play
            • Klokwerk's Heart
            • Me-Too

            • Monterra's Deliciosa & Other Tales &

            • A taste of Spotted Lily: Chapter 1









            • and more in my author site.

            Developing nose

            • November 2011
            • October 2011
            • September 2011
            • August 2011
            • July 2011
            • June 2011
            • May 2011
            • April 2011
            • March 2011
            • February 2011
            • January 2011
            • December 2010
            • November 2010
            • October 2010
            • September 2010
            • August 2010
            • July 2010
            • June 2010
            • May 2010
            • April 2010
            • March 2010
            • February 2010
            • January 2010
            • December 2009
            • November 2009
            • October 2009
            • September 2009
            • August 2009
            • July 2009
            • June 2009
            • May 2009
            • April 2009
            • March 2009
            • March 2008
            • February 2008
            • January 2008
            • December 2007
            • November 2007
            • October 2007
            • September 2007
            • August 2007
            • July 2007
            • June 2007
            • May 2007
            • April 2007
            • March 2007
            • February 2007
            • January 2007
            • December 2006
            • November 2006
            • October 2006
            • September 2006
            • August 2006
            • July 2006
            • June 2006
            • May 2006
            • April 2006
            • March 2006
            • February 2006
            • January 2006
            • December 2005

              Other Feasts - A bit of this, a bit of that

            • A Blog Around the Clock
            • Abnormal Interests
            • Centre for Genomic Gastronomy
            • Ads Without Products
            • The Annotated Budak
            • Bibliophile Stalker
            • Butner Blogspot
            • Ahar: Pleasure and Sustenance
            • Ample Sanity
            • Ashbury's Aubergines
            • BibliOdyssey
            • Bitter Lemons
            • Books, Inq.
            • Book View Cafe
            • Brisbane Insects and Spiders Daily
            • Burning Silo
            • ChiZine
            • Criminal English
            • Daniel Franklin's Reviews
            • Dispatches from the Culture Wars
            • Edge
            • Effect Measure
            • Errantry
            • Evolving Thoughts
            • Forms Most Beautiful
            • Greedy Space
            • George Bristow's Secret Freezer
            • Growing with Science
            • Fishileaks
            • Food and Whining
            • Frankenstein Journal
            • from Archaea to Zeaxanthol
            • Gernot Katzer's Spice Pages
            • The Inferior 4+1
            • Jivha for Ingredients
            • Language Log
            • Grrl Scientist
            • Making Light
            • Mike's Prattle
            • The Modulator
            • The Mumpsimus
            • Library Angst
            • Naturalist Notebook
            • The Panda's Thumb
            • Pencil and Leaf
            • Phasmatodea
            • Quid plura?
            • Rethinking Childhood
            • Rigor Vitae
            • Popcorn & Chain mail
            • Research at a Snail's Pace
            • Snark Hunting
            • Sailu's Kitchen
            • Street Anatomy - Anatomy in Art
            • Pharyngula
            • Technofettishist
            • Thoughts from Kansas
            • Words and Pictures

              A few portals and a circus

            • Radio Casablanca
            • Tree of Life
            • The A to Z Journal of Materials
            • Asimov's Science Fiction
            • Culinary History Network
            • Double-Tongued Dictionary
            • The Food Timeline
            • Infectious Disease News
            • Interstitial Arts Foundation
            • Locus
            • Microscopy U
            • New Scientist
            • Public Library of Science
            • ScienceBlogs
            • Circus of the Spineless
            • Weightless Books

              Some collections

            • Anthropology of Food
            • Black Mask Magazine
            • Classical Music Archives
            • Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature
            • Encyclopedia of Life
            • Digital Morphology
            • ibiblio
            • Islamic Medical Manuscripts
            • Infinity Plus
            • Picture Australia
            • Medieval and Renaissance Instruments
            • Mondomix Music
            • The Micropolitan Museum of microscopic life forms
            • The Red Hot Jazz Archive
            • Royal Microscopical Society
            • Saki's short stories
            • the Serpent website (the kind of serpent that goes bwaah! when you put your lips to its mouth)
            • Folklore and Mythology
            • Sacred Texts Archive
            • Secret Meanings of Nursery Rhymes
            • Penny Postcards
            • Cornell
            • University of Pennsylvania
            • The British Library
            • Boccaccio's Decameron
            • Chaucer
            • Wodehouse
            • The Book of Prefaces

              More delicious tidbits

            • Judy Horacek's cartoons
            • The Red World Stories of Marilyn Pride and Lewis P. Morley
            • Mahanandi's Recipes
            • Alphabet of Illustrators
            • Ascidiacea
            • Bois de Jasmin
            • Tom Volk's Fungus of the Month
            • The Caterer comic
            • The Heron's Nest
            • Gode Cookery
            • Feral Knitter
            • Tom Volk's Fungus of the Month
            • Verbivore
            • Food and Whining
            • Internation Musings
            • Heliotrope Magazine
            • Royal Microscopal Society
            • Darwin Awards
            • The Seaslug Forum
            • The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form

              Some clear-outs of the nasal passages

            • CaMPaGULAN (Campaign for More Percys and gratuitous Use of Letters After Names)
            • Pravda's Anomalous Phenomena
            • "Psychic readings by live psychics"
            • Cheap Thoughts
            • Cameron Kippen's delicious, voluminous History of Footwear
            • Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Bulwer-Lytton

              Some creative types (relatively low in personal pronouns and rabbitting on about creating)

            • Dean Francis Alfar
            • Gilad Atzmon
            • Steve Aylett
            • Janine Bajus
            • A.C.E. Bauer
            • Niall Benvie. Paul Harcourt Davies. Andrew Parkinson
            • Chris Matarazzo
            • May Berenbaum
            • Gail Carriger
            • Geoffrey Chaucer
            • Marcus Chown
            • Brendan Connell
            • Ellen Datlow
            • Clare Dudman
            • Hal Duncan
            • Jackie French
            • Theodora Goss
            • Rich Horton
            • Tim Hunkin
            • Kathleen Jennings
            • Bachi Karkaria
            • Ellen Kushner
            • Claude Lalumière
            • Eugene Linden
            • Marc Laidlaw
            • Glenda Larke
            • Val Littlewood
            • Kuzhali Manickavel
            • Mélisande*
            • Mahesh Raj Mohan
            • Vera Nazarian
            • Ben Peek
            • Alistair Rennie
            • Tansy Rayner Roberts
            • Jeff Schweitzer
            • Vandana Singh
            • The Serpent Website
            • Jay Tomio
            • Giles C. Watson
            • Neil Williamson

              A FEW News and Context Sites

            • Global Post
            • AlterNet
            • allAfrica
            • Newspapers worldwide
            • New Scientist's Short Sharp Science
            • War in Context - with attention to the unseen
            • Spinwatch
            • Church & State
            • International Crisis Group
            • Daily Star
            • Dawn
            • The Independent
            • People's Daily
            • Peace Now
            • The Free Gaza Movement
            • Australians for Palestine
            • Independent Australian Jewish Voices
            • Times of India
            • Taipei Times
            • Zaman

              Enlightenment

            • Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

            Like water and Air

          • Reporters Without Borders
          • Ushahidi - Crowdsourcing Crisis Information
          • Project Censored
          • The Sunshine Project
          • Theocracy Watch
          • Transparency International
          • Watchdog on Science
          • Quackwatch
          • The Onion
          • International Freedom of Expression Exchange
          • Read Banned Books

          Why Medlar Comfits?

        • " True, my sweet bird, true," answered the knight, picking a comfit from his gold drageoir.
        • " Only a poor comfit needs a gold drageoir," whispered the toad.
        • " Or a knight," the donkey sniggered. " Care, dear, for another medlar comfit?"
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          What Medlar Comfits?

        • Sensuosities - Curiosities - Roileries - Nature - Science - Eats - Mores - Tastes - Tongues - Sensibilities - & The Great Question: Are humans intelligent?

          • Copyright © Anna Tambour 2005-2011