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Simple requirements
Mother mine ordered a vanilla pannacotta with blueberry sauce in an Italian restaurant. She was presented with a slice of chocolate cheesecake with cream. Not so strange, as orders get mixed up sometimes.
It got weird when the waitress informed her that it was a vanilla pannacotta with blueberry sauce. In my experience of Italian desserts, ( Read more... ) -
Kitchen catastrophe
No flaming toast or spontaneously defrosting freezer. Oh no.
The cupboards have fallen off the wall. The floor is a sea of cracked crockery. On the upside, I am now glad it was so fugly. -
Good news in twos
I have just booked tickets for a couple of Manics gigs in October and November, so there is goodliness to come. The Bradfield is a cure for most ills, other than those inflicted by MSP themselves. (Two is pitiful, really, but it'll do this year ( Read more... ) -
An act of extreme bravery
I'm posting a fic.
A fair few of you will have read it anyway, but I feel far more confident about my writing when it's anonymous in the protected confines of hoodland, and I'm doing it for the sake of my beloved Team Leather.
Title: Untitled
Author: applebeing
Word count: 739
Rating: G
Spoilers: None really, though it's not likely to make much sense without ( Read more... ) -
Trying to sound literate again
Book-thieved from mai_shiranui.
1. Book next to your bed right now: The Counterfeit Guest by Rose Melikan - I reached the point where it has started to race toward the end now, and putting it down this morning was something of a feat.
2. Favourite series: The Mennyms by Sylvia Waugh - five books and it never turns to rubbish, nor does the author’s voice get ( Read more... ) -
Better than chocolate
Because instead of gaining calories, you burn them off by jumping up and down and screaming in a most antisocial manner.
Easter Sunday, 8pm brings a shiny new feature-length Jonathan Creek!
I knew there would be one, but I've just seen the first trailer, which makes it so much more real and exciting. The last one, The Grinning Man was all kinds ( Read more... ) -
The K-Bomb not included
Leave me a comment and I will give you a letter.
Then, write 10 things that you love starting with that letter.
Post the list in your journal.
Give out letters to your commenters in return.
I got the letter K from mai_shiranui. This is proving so tricksy that I am doing it five at a time.
( Of music, make-up and masonry, amongst other things ) -
Ha!
James Purefoy on the blood-and-guts style of his forthcoming movie, Iron Clad, about the siege of Rochester Castle, being held by the rebel barons against King John (she says breathily in true Issy style):
"It isn't Robin Hood on Saturday teatimes."
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Advice and guidance
I've just finished The Evil Seed by Joanne Harris and was smitten with it. Considering it involves vampires and the Pre-Raphaelite movement, I suppose that's unsurprising.
However, her second novel, Sleep, Pale Sister (both are re-releases after much clamour from fans), heavily influenced by the life of Effie Ruskin and Victorian sensationalism, ( Read more... )
