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More animals...
As my lovely husband is on a telecon for work (so much for being on holiday!), another wildlife-heavy update...
So. If I get around to it I'll food-blog the dinner at The Tasting Room, though it won't be up to the standards of the likes of anw or stu_n as I failed to take notes and my memory slips as its alcoholic content increases. Suffice to say for now ( Read more... ) -
More from SA
We're now in Franschhoek in the Winelands. It proudly claims to be the foodie capital of South Africa, and from the evidence so far, it might well be justified in that claim.
On the way up here on Saturday, we visited Moyo, a huge restaurant with a spectacular buffet on the Spier wine estate between Cape Town Stellenbosch, for lunch. We got ' ( Read more... ) -
Animal overdose...
We've had a grand week here so far, despite the work.
Here's the view from our hotel room window last Sunday, on our first night in Cape Town...
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Sad that Clement Freud has died. He wrote my Desert Island Book - the kid's book Grimble. It still makes me laugh so hard it hurts. The conceit is that his parents go off on a trip to Peru without telling him, leaving him cups of tea in the fridge, sandwiches in the oven, notes with instructions on around the house, and a list places to go to cook ( Read more... ) -
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Quote from the academic journal paper I've just been reading:
'[Cyclophilins] catalyze the cis-trans interconversion of peptide bond amino-terminal to praline residues, facilitating changes in protein conformation and protein folding'.
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Bugger. Again.
To say I am pissed off with all things technological today is an understatement.
Last July, I had a hard drive disaster, and lost the entire Cambridge magazine that was at the final page proof stage, meaning I had to start again from scratch ( Read more... ) -
Is it 1 April already??
Surely this press release I received this morning has to be an early April Fool's joke?!!
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Pasante introduces canine condom New condom to help combat unwanted pregnancy in dogs ( Read more... ) -
Kitchen stuff
I've just ordered a new kitchen and booked the builder for while we're in South Africa. All paid for out of my $ earnings over the past couple of years - I turned the $ into £ a couple of months back when the rate hit 1.36, a bargain as a large proportion of them were earned at about 2.00 ( Read more... ) -
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It's all go with the door-to-door callers round here. Just been Jehovah's Witnessed again.
It always reminds me of this small piece of genius...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx-3trxxFFg