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United Colours of Google

United Colours of Google

By E on November 17, 2006

These chocolate pots are not what I had for breakfast, nor what I will be having at any point today. But they came up in conversation yesterday over steak and red wine, so naturally I had to Google them this morning. In fact they are not chocolate pots at all, but, according to Nigella, Molten [...]

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By E on November 14, 2006

and here’s another tip: Obey the speed limit (even when you think they aren’t watching). and another: If you sell an old car to a “friend”, make damn sure that “friend” actually changes the car into their name, lest you try to renew a licence on a different car and find out that you can’t [...]

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A friendly reminder

By E on November 11, 2006

For any of you who – like me – may have forgotten to renew your car licences: do it! The tail end of my otherwise nice Friday night (there was chicken, whisky and dancing) was a not-so-friendly pink slip stuck on my car window this morning. So many things to remember that are too easily [...]

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Eggs à la…

By E on November 4, 2006

I don’t like to think of myself as someone who gets joy out of pinching things from others. But I just found this little list of how some of the world’s SUPERstar chefs might cook an egg (it’s from The Observer Food Monthly, find the full article here). It’s good for a little laugh (I [...]

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A joke.

By E on November 3, 2006

Approaching Frankenstein’s table, George thinks out loud, “I wonder what will happen if I pull this lever?” Inspector Plod suggests that he had better not. George: “Why not, I’m a born lever-puller”. Get it? Lever-puller. Li-ver-pool-er. And George is of course none other than one of the long-gone Beatles, and the joke is in fact [...]

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T.G.I.O.

By E on November 2, 2006

Thank God It’s Over. Halloween, that is. Though at least someone thought of something interesting to do with all those pumpkins. (I culled this image from Kitsch’n’Zinc, my favourite local blog). Now the next thing to get through is C***mas. They’ve already colonised the main street in town with the bloody lights. Yes, Santa and [...]

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And isn’t it a damn shame

And isn’t it a damn shame

By E on October 31, 2006

when you have to do something you thought you might like but half way through you decide you hate it and all you want to do is to get out. That’s how I felt about halfway through my first waitressing stint, which I’ve just completed. Truth be told, I think this is one of the [...]

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Stuck in the Box

By E on October 31, 2006

Since I am again unable to wangle time to write anything interesting, thought I would send you on to a good article about Food TV, which is taking up some space in my head these days. It’s from the Telegraph (UK), and when you are ready to leave, you can find the secret doorway here. [...]

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(For Freud) A Case of Ak

By E on October 23, 2006

Well it’s the end of another weekend. Sigh. And more relevantly, the end of another day of marking essays. Double sigh. (An aside: growing up in Swaziland I had a friend, a brilliantly creative Danish-Hong Kongese boy called Hans. His father, who was Danish, got Donald Duck comics sent from Denmark so his son could [...]

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Another Secret

By E on October 17, 2006

I keep forgetting to share this culinary epiphany I had recently. When you cook pasta and are using a fresh herb (as hopefully you are), particularly one of the more “robust ones” (sage or rosemary, say), here follows a clever trick. Save a little of the herb – some of which has presumably gone into [...]

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