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growing up
#1Son is old enough to enjoy "The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!"
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The Ides of April - book review
Lucked out and scored the new Lindsey Davies at the library. She's retired Falco and is now writing about his adopted daughter Flavia Albia, also an informer ( Read more... ) -
roast dinner
Everyone expects vegetarians to fall for bacon, but I never liked it (the taste is never as good as the smell, so disappointing.)
I used to miss sausages, but now there's good vege sausages. I still miss massive juicy steaks but c'est la vie.
Roast dinner, though. Yum.
So I'm delighted to have discovered a good, easy, cheap vege roast.
( soya roast ) -
Slow cookers (slight rant.)
Slow Cookers are trendy right now - and there's some very reasonably priced ones - so I've had a poke about and come to the conclusion I don't want one.
( Reasons to have a slow cooker. Or not. ) -
zyder and trains
ravenrigan's birthday party yesterday, at the Spa Valley Railway beer festival. Genius plan. We brought a picnic, which they were kind enough to let us eat in the buffet car away from the passable but very loud amateur band. #1Son enjoyed the train set in the shop best. It was good to see people in their real persona (we normally meet up for LARP ( Read more... ) -
neat!
Saw a neat motor trike today. It had an unusual boxy fibreglass fairing/chassis like a modernised version of a roman racing chariot, and the back wheels were angled in at the top for a smaller turning circle. The usual hard looking guy in a leather jacket and beanie (you don't have to wear a helmet on a trike, legally, although I think it's wiser ( Read more... ) -
back to dui lian after 6 months away
The odd sensation of not knowing what I'm going to do, and then doing it. -
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The scene: a suburban roundabout
#1Son: Mummy, there's a sort of green tractor behind us
Me: It does look like a tractor, doesn't it? It's called a Land Rover
#1Son: What's it doing on the road? -
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Pillow fight!