Nuts

I was pleased at Earlsfield to find a large hoarding advertising the brand of peanut butter which we favour in our own cupboard. I have yet to work out the significance of our jar coming with brown livery, rather than the blue illustrated.

Oddly, from Kallo Foods, which I had thought a Finnish food company, Finland not being the first place to look for peanuts, with the only clue at reference 1 being an un-English diagonal slash through the terminal 'o'. But then the outfit at reference 1 turns out to be a brand from the outfit at reference 2. Which turns out to be the English arm of the outfit at reference 3, a company which has been trading in the Netherlands for hundreds of years, with humble beginnings in the mustard and canary seed trade. But the only link to Finland that I can turn up is a couple of places so named in the south of the country.

Note the technique of having the jar climbing out of the frame of the picture, a technique which we noticed used in some of the exhibits at Opus Anglicanum, noticed at reference 4. A technique which has been around since at least the time of the ancient Greeks, with at least one example on a pot in the British Museum, involving a stick figure of a man climbing out of his frieze running around the of the pot. Search of the first volume of this blog turns up reference 4, which leads in turn to a pot of this sort, but not the one that I remember. I shall try and turn that one up during the day to come.

Telephone clearly struggling in the uncertain light of a winter afternoon. Perhaps it could not cope with the mixture of natural light and two sorts of unnatural.

PS: 'search' used above is slightly economical with the truth. I had to do a windows search of the blog archive in order to come up with a suitable search term to use on the blog direct.

Reference 1: http://www.kallo.com/.

Reference 2: http://wessanenuk.com/.

Reference 3: http://www.wessanen.com/en/.

Reference 4: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/sewing.html.

Reference 5: http://pumpkinstrokemarrow.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=540BC.

Group search key: brc.