WotD: Fireplace Vocabulary III

Welsh

• y lle tân "fireplace"
• y grât "fireplace; fire grate"
• y blwch tân "firebox"
• y simnai "chimney"
• y ffliw "flue"
• y caead "damper"
• yr aelwyd "hearth"
• y fantell simnai "mantel"
• y silff ben tân "mantlepiece, mantelshelf"
• y sgrîn dân "fire screen; fire guard"
• y brigwn "fire-dog"
• y gobed "andiron, cobiron"
• y heyrn tân "fire irons"
• y p(r(ocer "poker"
• y fegin "bellows"
• yr efel dân "fire tongs"
• y coed tân "firewood"
• y sbilsen "spill"
• y huddygl "soot"

Simple indulgence, or, how I spent the day after Thanksgiving

Austin de Croze, as quoted in the Larousse gastronomique (English ed., 2001):

Have a dozen choice brioches, kept hot, a fruit dish filled with sticks of candied angelica, a bottle of angelica liqueur, a carafe of iced water, and a box of Egyptian cigarettes. Light a cigarette, take a draught of iced water, crunch a piece of Niort angelica with a mouthful of very hot brioche, inhale, draw in and distill a few drops of angelica liqueur in the mouth, then start again. Then you only need the room to be sprayed with a light fresh perfume, such as verbena or citronella, to know what blissful enjoyment a discreet sybaritism can give.

Alternatively, you could fix yourself a mug of hot spiced tea, find a comfy seat under the late afternoon sun, and just read about doing such a thing.

In about an hour, monshu and I will be off to a friend's cocktail party. I may yet make it through Buy Nothing Day without having bought a thing!