OK this is a kind of half-baked response to Libellum's post which I found on Fluffymark’s friendspage which kind of spawned an evil all-devouring comment monster.

The debate has clearly stirred up a load of strong feelings so I didn’t think it would necessarily be constructive to chime in, especially as I don’t know Libellum. I did comment on ( Read more... )

I'm sorry, I wouldn't have posted this except that procrastinating in a Fluffymark sounded like a top hobby...

On the twelfth day of Christmas, ( Read more... )

I have a more than healthy interest in cake. I like making it, decorating it, eating it, giving it to other people, sharing recipes for it, inventing recipes for it, and smearing it all over my body before diving into swimming pools filled with whipped cream (I've never actually done that last one ( Read more... )

And so we come to the subject of  Alistair Campbells World Cup Blog

For those who don't want to sully their minds by gazing upon (and I would recommend this option) I can paraphrase his first entry as follows:

'Women who think anyone cares about their opinions - aren't they shit?  People who don't like football, especially men, are shit too.  I'm ( Read more... )

I feel great embarassment about posting public entries, or entries which contain personal information - beyond the minimally obvious information that I have an interest in baked foodstuffs that borders on the obsessional.  So I thought I would explain what my user icons were about  and thus provide a teeny weeny amount of information linked to ( Read more... )

Someone said they were interested in bread, so I am going to inflict this on everyone - with any luck a few hours hard thinking should enable me to master the intricacies of the LJ cut (if it doesn't work please tell me - thank you).

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I have been badly bruised by tumbling down from the moral high ground and getting a livejournal. I know that not having a livejournal didn't exactly make me Mother Theresa, but us moral sluggards have to base our sense of superiority on the materials available, which is why I also think it is better not to drive a car (because I can't), not to fly ( Read more... )