Capsized Originally uploaded by framboise. I was growing tired of looking at the grey-tinged spring blossom, so I thought I’d put up a more summery photo, which precipitated the change in colour scheme to reflect the sunny weather we’re experiencing at the moment (interspersed with rain, of course… this is scotland after all…). If the […]
The Curious Hamster has clearly been up late partially baking pastry (it’s description, not mine, and given that it is a hamster, naturally nocturnal anyway). And I’m wondering if there was something introspective in the Scottish air last night. [B*llsh*t On2] On one of our infrequent evening walks yesterday, I voiced aloud to P a […]
From BBC news: Jack says no to poll. Chicken! Also from the BBC, an idiot’s guide to the EU constitution: Division of Responsibilities What the constitution says: The EU already has rights to legislate over external trade and customs policy, the internal market, the monetary policy of countries in the eurozone, agriculture and fisheries and […]
This could explain why I saw Natalie Portman at the Frida Kahlo exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London two weeks ago. And I subsequently sent my brother on a wild goose chase round the gallery. (Ha!)
A check of my Flickr statistics showed that my most viewed images weren’t even taken by me; they’re screenshots of Bad Wolf on the BBC’s Doctor Who site. I think I’m going to crawl in a small hole and bury my camera for good…
From BBC news: Baby step forward. (via Europhobia) It’s great that majority of the Swiss people have acknowledged the need for gay couples to have the same partnership rights as conventional married straight couples. [Rant on] I don’t personally know any gay couples with children, but from what I see of heterosexual couples with children […]
As previously threatened, a post on the Chelsea Flower Show. Almost two weeks late. (Ach, can you blame me? I’ve been busy…) Perhaps it was down to my crankiness from sitting indoors in a hot and unventilated room with ~300 other people for an entire afternoon when it was nice and sunny outside, but I […]
Badwolf.org.uk Screenshot of the BBC’s Doctor Who site. Spoilers ahead. A nicely balanced episode, with moments of comedy interspersing the rather more serious story of Blon the Slitheen being willing, again, to exterminate the entire human race to get what she wants. The last time we met the Slitheen family, they were prepared to wipe […]
This is going to be a lazy link post. Chicken Yoghurt says a lot of what went through my mind when Bob Geldof announced the plans for Live8. He makes the excellent point about the naïvety of Live8 organisers. When you think of how Tony Blair turned on his selective-hearing aid after the election, do […]
Ghost cook Originally uploaded by framboise. Following our introduction to possibly the second-best fried rice I’ve ever had (Grandma’s can’t be beat), we gave it a shot with the minimal contents of our fridge. Ideally, we should have used bean sprouts, carrots, cucumber/courgettes, shiitake mushrooms, and other pretty veggies, but we only had broccoli, chestnut […]
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