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| Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 | |
| 3:22 pm | Books, books, getyer books 'ere, they're luverly It's getting on towards that time of year again, and the (big, big) Epsom Book Sale is on Thursday 18th - Saturday 20th February. As has been the case for the last few years, I'll be going along in the days preceding to help them sort their SF/fantasy, and if anyone's got any books they want shot of and would like me to take along, let me know. (And thanks to those of you who've already done so.) |
| Thursday, January 21st, 2010 | |
| 12:13 pm | How to get more post.... I signed up to Postcrossing last month, and am rather enjoying it. Basically, you send a postcard to someone somewhere in the world; when it gets there, someone else (not the same person -- or hugely unlikely to be, anyhow) sends one back to you. You can have up to 5 postcards in transit at a time to start off with; at the moment I'm up to fourteen sent by me and received at their destination and twelve received by me. All it takes is a stack of postcards and some stamps (56p within Europe, 62p outside; although I have ticked the "I'm willing to send cards within my own country too" box, that has not yet happened). It's a bit lighter-weight than committing to send actual _letters_ -- and I can just about write legibly by hand for the amount required by a postcard, I'd struggle to do so these days for a letter ;) |
| Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 | |
| 10:05 am | Come on, you know you want to... For the gamers on my f-list: donate $20 for Haiti, get huge bundle of PDF games. (Their system seems to be melting under the load a little at the moment...) |
| Friday, January 15th, 2010 | |
| 12:31 pm | |
| Thursday, January 14th, 2010 | |
| 9:50 pm | |
| Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 | |
| 11:01 am | Soup! Black bean and bacon soup (liberally adapted from a recipe in Low Carb Slow Cooker Classics) 2 tins black soy beans (if you're not a low-carber you could use ordinary black beans instead) Approx. 750ml stock of your choice -- I used beef 4 cloves chopped garlic (or about 2 heaped teaspoons of Very Easy Garlic) 1 carrot 2 sticks celery Bacon - I used 1 packet of 8 rashers, you may not want quite so much, it's up to you Coriander to taste (in my case "taste" was about half a small jar of Bart's coriander-in-a-jar) 2 liberal slugs Tabasco 1 lime, cut into quarters Puree one of the tins of black beans with a little water. Drain the other tin of beans but leave them whole. Chop the carrot and celery finely (you could use a food processor). Chop the bacon into small pieces. Put the pureed beans, the whole beans, the veg, the garlic, the chopped bacon, the coriander and the lime into your slow cooker. Add the stock and the Tabasco, give it a bit of a stir and cook for "a few hours". (Four hours on High seemed to be plenty last night; the remainder's sat on Low to be lunch in another hour or two.) |
| Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 | |
| 12:55 pm | Ow, ow, pun alert... |
| 12:15 pm | Good grief, at _last_.... ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} docpotempkin, bytepilot, caffeine_fairy: the books I ordered for you guys for Christmas presents have FINALLY arrived, will distribute them when next I see you... |
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| Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 | |
| 3:29 pm | |
| Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 | |
| 1:26 pm | Wish me luck, I'm going in... ... to finish off tomorrow's Tesco order.... I may be some time. |
| Sunday, December 20th, 2009 | |
| 6:55 pm | |
| Friday, November 6th, 2009 | |
| 7:18 am | |
| Saturday, October 31st, 2009 | |
| 10:38 am | |
| Friday, October 2nd, 2009 | |
| 11:23 pm | It's tasty, tasty, very very tasty... If you happen to be in Porto at any point, treat yourself to a dinner at Restaurante Escondidinho in Rua Passos Manuel. We just had a thoroughly splendid meal there -- I can recommend their squid/prawn/bacon skewers, and rotwang had nothing but good to say about their tournedos (and he is amazingly fussy when it comes to steak). Really tasty food, excellent and friendly service... it's entirely possible we'll be back tomorrow. In an ideal world it probably wouldn't have a cuckoo clock but hey, one can't have everything...! |
| Sunday, September 20th, 2009 | |
| 8:11 pm | I think Orac, the Cat of Extreme Lard, may be hiding helium balloons in her fur... when I just weighed her, she was down to something approximating Normal Cat Weight as opposed to Is That A Cat Or A Small Woolly Mammoth (allegedly 4.6 kg down from a high of 5.9). Or this may just be her way of suggesting she'd really like some dinner now ;) |
| Saturday, September 19th, 2009 | |
| 2:44 pm | |
| Sunday, September 6th, 2009 | |
| 8:53 pm | |
| Friday, August 21st, 2009 | |
| 4:00 pm | rotwang definitely picked the wrong afternoon to be on a plane and out of reach of the cricket. |
| Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 | |
| 11:50 am | This looks like it may Have To Be Done: http://www.boffoonery.com/ |