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An Unexpected Encouter with Dung (Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship to India, part one)
My trip started with the East Coast Mainline suffering from storms on 29th January. Fortunately, all I had to do to do that day was reach King's Cross ( Read more... ) -
WCMT - part two - India
Off to London tomorrow morning, early, to avoid the Doom that I always inflict on the East Coast Mainline when I have a conference to organise on a Saturday.
After conference ... off to Heathrow, next stop Delhi, then flight to Guwahati, overnight and then a taxi up to Shillong "the Edinburgh of India". -
AKICOLJ
As all knowledge is contained on live journal....
does anyone know where I can buy replacement elastic bands for a clothes horse (airer)? -
Tristan, part 2
There are 96 berths on the ships which make scheduled runs from Cape Town to Tristan: the SA Agulhas II, the Edinburgh and the Baltic Trader ( Read more... ) -
Tristan, part 3
When you say that you are going to spend a few weeks on a tiny part of an island - maybe three miles, end to end, of the part you can walk on if you don't do near-vertical walking - people do ask 'what do you do to fill the time ( Read more... ) -
Tristan, part 2
There are 96 berths on the ships which make scheduled runs from Cape Town to Tristan: the SA Agulhas II, the Edinburgh and the Baltic Trader ( Read more... ) -
Imagine Table Mountain .....
Imagine Table Mountain. Then imagine, that Table Mountain is a circular Table Mountain, mostly descending not to the plain that Cape Town sits on, but directly into the sea. Apart from one narrow apron, itself edged with cliffs, and not particularly level as it has little volcanic cones and upheavals making the 'releatively flat' actually quite ( Read more... ) -
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From wellinghall et al
1. Marmite- love or hate?
I love it.
2. Marmalade- thick cut or thin cut?
Don't really like it.
3. Porridge- made with milk or water?
Really don't like it.
4. Do you like salt, sugar or honey on your porridge?
See 3
5. Loose tea or teabags?
Teabags( Read more... ) -
Felicitations!
Felicitations to the_marquis!
As the page (http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/4806/chocolate-marquise) says: this is decadent yet serious, for a dinner party, and full of richness
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I have a job ....
Rather to my surpise, and at great speed, I have a new job. And (of course) I am busily creating more new jobs. First new job is an Engagement Co-ordinator - essentially communications and events, both internal (thousands of volunteers) and external (squillions of users): Read more... )