Due to overwhelming demand from philcamuk here is my recipe for lebkuchen which I mentioned in my previous post. It's based on an American recipe and I've added UK equivalents to the US 'cup' measures. But really, cups are a great and easy way of measuring stuff so if you get a chance buy a set of 'american cups' to use 'cos they...just work. Conversions ( Read more... )

I bought some silk boxers and was pleasantly surprised when the M&S 'buy one, get second half price' worked by adding the price of all items (of different value) up and dividing by 4 to get the discount rather than simply discounting half of the cheaper item. 63p bonus and a tremendous amount of goodwill. OK, so I have their credit card and I shop ( Read more... )

Remember my entry entitled Nokia batteries may KILL! in which I warned of the IMMINENT DANGER OF DEATH to certain Nokia phone users of which I was one? I forgive you if you don't. It was posted almost three months ago on August 15th ( Read more... )

New Olympic stadium? What's the problem? Looks quite nice to me.


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...since I posted much of interest regarding my life. So what have I been up to lately? Well...I'm not in the mood for much of a mega-wordy post (and I can hear the sighs of relief as I type) but here's a few things that have been done lately ( Read more... )

1. Have you signed up to facebook ( Read more... )

If this works then at 6pm my time, 1pm East Coast time this will transform itself into a trailer for Day 7 of 24. If not then...erm...I guess I'll delete it :)

ETA: OK, so it didn't work. The Fox site has the ability to embed the countdown and trailer-viewer in half a gazillion other sites (iGoogle? hello? how many people are even using that yet ( Read more... )

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We should celebrate poetry more than we do. On this National Poetry Day the first I knew of it was in someone's journal. Out there is a vast body of work which goes largely ignored by a great many people. I suspect most people were introduced to poetry at school which, by and large, is an excellent way of turning people right off something.

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In response to the recent rebranding of UCE as evidenced in their new logo:


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