Today’s Guardian Newsblog had a link to the MoJo blog, which linked to a post about the amount of TV news coverage concerning the genocide currently taking place in Sudan. American network news has reportedly given Martha Stewart five times as much coverage as the Darfur crisis. This is not a uniquely American deficiency. The […]
Orange cupcakes Originally uploaded by framboise. Made some orange mini cakes tonight. Found the recipe on deliaonline.com. We have a teeny weeny bit of orange curd in the store cupboard (purchased from the “Good morning young lady” honey stall at the Edinburgh Farmers’ Market), so I decided to just use that instead of making it […]
Recipe from Nigel Slater’s Real Fast Food. He suggests frying some fingers of bread in butter, but I thought that might just be a little too much, and toasted it till quite crisp instead. For two (I halved it for my own-some): Sufficient bread, cut into fingers 75g butter (I used a small knob: ~10g, […]
I’m back to reading journals. Nature News has a report of the anti-bacterial properties of brass jugs: brass jugs polish off disease. Apparently, the copper in the brass jugs leaches into the water, and interferes with the membranes of E. coli (tested in dilute cultures and naturally contaminated water). Within 48 hours, the bacteria levels […]
Got a little bored while Flashmob: The Opera was on. Did another GU quiz. Do you know your classical composers? You scored 10 out of a possible 11 Fortississimo Bravo! Encore! You know this stuff inside out. Have you – like Faust – met your own Mephistopheles who promised you unnatural powers in online quizzes? […]
Funny looker Originally uploaded by framboise. Tabloid story in Guardian Unlimited’s Newsblog today: Birds of a feather. An interloper male osprey has taken up residence in a love nest belonging to long-term partners, Green XS (f) and NoRing (m). This is a story far more gripping than the other headlines lately (PJPII, C&C, 05-05-05…). The […]
Craved some biscuits to go with our after-dinner tea, and decided to try out a Green and Black’s inspired shortbread recipe. I used my now favourite shortbread proportions (6-4-2), and made two lots: one regular plus a dash of ground cinnamon and quick grate of nutmeg, and the other with 4 1/2 oz flour plus […]
A post by Neil Gaiman on an email sent to him by a fan about a spoof synopsis of LOTR led me to a nine-year old Win95 joke on the Tolkien sarcasm page, which I’d never heard before. Hilarious. So as not to spoil the punchline, it’s in white, and needs to be highlighted to […]
Yikes! I would have never called myself an opera buff, but scored a freaky 80% on a mock Wagner Ring Cycle quiz on Guardian Unlimited: “Wagner’s Ring You scored 8 out of a possible 10 Evidently a Bayreuth junkie, you’ve clearly read the writing on Wotan’s spear and could get round Valhalla in a blindfold. […]
Browsing other “kimono”-tagged photos on flickr brought up an interesting 12 layer kimono, made up of denim, with leather trimmings (click here for the back view). Although it’s probably just an exhibition piece, I think it’s absolutely fantastic that old national costumes are still being experimented on and brought up to date by modern designers/artists. […]
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