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Three or four years ago a friend handed me a book and said "put that at the top of your pile." I was thus introduced to Daniel Woodrell ( Read more... )

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For anyone visiting London here is a really nice bar and restaurant with a great view over nelson's column and big ben: the national portrait gallery

http://www.npg.org.uk/visit/food/restaurant.php

food was pretty good too

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cut and paste from yahoo news. Every day I feel like this. For some people the normal laws of physics do not seem to apply. I have been assured by some that water makes them put on weight and they only "eat like a sparrow". I would imagine this patient was like that ( Read more... )

This is part of a review, of a biography of Leonid Brezhnev, copied from today's Australian Financial Review which quotes from Land Of Shadows by Clive James ( Read more... )

Flicking through the weekend paper magazine supplement I came across an article about old English TV series being remade as movies: State of Play, The Singing Detective, Traffik, THE EDGE OF DARKNESS ( Read more... )

A Jamie Oliver recipe book recently came to me via BC. Until I had this book I didn't like risotto. Here is a link to a fantastic prawn and pea risotto I made over the weekend. Highly recommended.

http://www.jamieoliver.com/foodwise/article-view.php?id=1626