Sometimes people don't realise that just sitting with us, staring at a sunset, eating soup, watching a movie – essentially just being – is all we really need.
Dressed in thin summer kimonos, we sat at long wooden tables laden with rice balls, dried squid, pickles, and miso soup, watching a scene of murder committed by a famous nineteenth-century brigand, followed by a famous love scene from a creaky samurai drama.
Cooking up alphabet-soup watch brand names might not seem like the best marketing strategy, but Maximilian Büsser, the founder of MB&F — short for Maximilian Büsser & Friends — enjoys playing maverick chef.
From the decked patio you can enjoy a bowl of fish soup and watch the whale-watching boats set sail in search of killer whales and the elusive big blues.
Mad Hatter's tea party: mock turtle soup, pocket watch and toast sandwich Nice theatre with the golden fob watch dissolving in your tea.
Miners in the ice-cold, no-frills eateries of La Rinconada would look up from steaming bowls of goat soup to watch the revelry.
The effect was lovely, and I lingered there, sipping my miso soup and watching the morning news on BBC2.
This is what every television executive and every secret television junkie, everyone who ever got over the flu by eating chicken soup and watching syndicated reruns of "Family Matters," always wanted to hear.
While MeiLin sipped her soup and watched TV, Lili pulled out a box of Polly Pocket dolls, stored in the family room between a soft and worn leather couch and a shelf of Fran's casebooks from law school.
"I am now in an impossible situation," he said, eating a lunch of boiled potatoes and rice in watery soup and watching battle videos on an iPad as he rested with some of his men.
The Bettys from the Red Cloud chapter had toured the museum of the Nebraska writer Willa Cather, spent an afternoon sipping homemade soup and watching the ice break on the Platte River and learned ways to preserve the handkerchiefs handed down from their grandmothers.
