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Apple juicing

October 27th 2008

I’ll add photos just as soon as I find a cable in the depths of the bag of cables under my desk. So, this weekend I bit the bullet and set about juicing all the fallen apples from our tree.  It’s not a complex proceedure, but it is one that has taken us three years [...]

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Berocca Blogger Relief Pack

October 25th 2008

Well, I arrived home on friday to a box from Berocca.   I must have registered at some point to recieve it, but I don’t really remember doing so.  However, freebies are freebies, and I don’t think I’m endangering my credability by (ab)using their products and telling the world about it. The thing that I remember [...]

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Sex and the music

October 21st 2008

Sex and the City, my current guilty secret, turns out to have a brilliant soundtrack in the last two series.  Series six is worth a look for the french hip hop alone.  Sad, but true. Possibly Related Posts: Simple way to share iTunes over the Internet Scrapping CDs, because if you don’t your margins will [...]

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Laundry as therapy

October 19th 2008

Slow living is all a bit fashionable at the moment, and I’d happily knock it without thinking like most other “ways to live” that rise to prominence, but I can see some merit in it. This weekend, I spent a few hours in the launderette, watching my clothes go round in circles getting cleaner, as I read [...]

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Winter warming soup

October 19th 2008

As the weather gets colder, and your boiler packs in leaving you freezing your bits off*, its a great time to make sure of some seasonal vegetables and make soup. Pumpkin lanterns might be one of the most dreadful imports to this country from America, but they are damned tasty, and in a few weeks [...]

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Christmas Spirit

October 12th 2008

Many many years ago, I used to make flavoured spirits from fun and profit.  One of my most successful (in both catagories) was made at Christmas.  I called it Mince Pie Vodka, but one of my good friends renamed it Christmas Spirit.  The instructions I kept hidden, telling no man, but now this all changes. [...]

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A days worth of web finding

October 4th 2008

What a strange day.  I got locked out of my house.  My spare keys were in my car.  My car keys were in the house.  Epic fail on so many levels.  Anyway, life got a bit better when I opened my rss feeds: Flickr Panda - truly this is a very strange thing. The prime number shitting [...]

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