Banksy in Brussels

©A FourBees digigraffitipic ☂☀☁

I know it's not a real Banksy - what on earth would the legendary graffiti artist be doing in this out of the way part of southeastern Brussels.
Unless he was collecting a parcel....the TaxiPost depot for all Brussels is just around the corner and when those nasty postmen leave a note to say 'you were out when I called to deliver this parcel, now you have to travel half way around the Earth to collect it yourself at a time that is totally inconvenient for anybody with a job or a life', you will find yourself here in Veeweide If you can find the depot, that is.
When I go for my early morning constitutional along the Anderlecht canal-side, people are always coming up to me and wailing pathetically 'Ou est le TaxiPost?'.
I'm lucky, I suppose, I live just around the corner from the beloved TaxiPost, however I only ever went inside once, to collect my STEELY DAN tickets, when the greatest band in the world played at Forest Nationale.
Back to Banksy - it's not a real one, but it's quite a clever stencil, and in an unusual location on a patch of grass by the canal....

bodacious aubergines

Not only did I see Steely Dan - the most fantabulous band in the stratosphere - in Bruxelles this Monday and after 30 years' wait the two old pensioners did not let me down....., but I also survived a dose of two weeks in Romania without contracting giardia, like last time....a blessing to be sure.
Romanian cuisine is famous for its zacusca - a kind of ratatouille - and its wonderful aubergine puree, heavy with garlic, to be spread on dense white bread toast....yum.
You'll see ginormous piles of aubergines in the market but never be able to order them in the restaurant - it's a kind of delicious irony of life.
The Cuevo Gold, the fine Colombian, make tonight a wonderful thing....say it again, now....
©FourBees foodnbeverage pic 2007