First of all, if you haven't yet seen the end of "Robin Hood" series 3 and don't want to be spoilt, better give the rest of this post a miss.

( There should be a rule against this... )

It's been a while since my last food-related post, so since I'm cooking dinner tonight, I thought I'd add a couple of recipes. Nothing fancy or particularly funky, just basic things that B and I make regularly at home.

( Poached egg; Nachos@home... )

There are some advantages to living near London. Last night B and I went to the theatre, to see an adaptation of a Russian film, "Burnt by the Sun"/"Utomlennye Solntzem", which won an Oscar a while back. Despite my prejudice (to wit: distaste for Nikita Mikhalkov, who starred in and directed the original film), I must admit it was a brilliant, ( Read more... )

By way of rowan_d.

BOOK MEME
The BBC allegedly believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here:
How do your reading habits stack up? [bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish]
The sad thing is that I've read most of these years and years ago. If I had to stack up the books I've read ( Read more... )

My return to the Xenaverse doesn't seem to be abating. On the contrary, it's actually gaining momentum. I've gone as far as re-watching a couple of episodes a week -- haven't done that in at least ... hmm... five years. (My God, I've been in this fandom for 12 years! The current generation of fans at the XOC forum was still in preschool when I was ( Read more... )

For the first time in quite a few years, and certainly for the first time outside Russia, I got to walk to work in the snow! And it still hasn't melted, except on the larger roads -- nobody has bothered to grit or spead salt on the side-streets, so cars and bikes are slowly crawling through whiteness. Seems I didn't completely miss out on all the ( Read more... )

What a totally awesome idea! And I don't even mind that it's for an ad :D -- pity I wasn't in London last week.

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There's a "making of" video on how they did it here.

There's a POTO fic in there just dying to get out. (No pun intended. :D)


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Despite rumours to the contary, you *can* actually get mangoes in the UK. Don't believe me? Why, shame on you. Here is one, proudly displayed on the Tesco grocery site:

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Delivery man, a nice elderly guy, upon my opening the door: "Ah, smells amazing! What've you cooked up ( Read more... )