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I am very excited to bring you a new Food, Shelter & Clothing feature!! In our house we are calling it "the snick off challenge" which will chronicle our tests of the hypothesis "there may be a chocolate bar better than Snickers." Luckily, we live in the land of candy or sweet counters. We will try every one and report dutifully back to you, dear reader. Also, we will rate these chocolates on the Snickers rating where 10 = Snickers, 0 = no Snickers. This is an independent self funded study. <br />
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Today, we chose to sample the Picnic Bar.<br />
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Our Picnic Bar photographed upon several of the books I'm currently reading on the dining room table.<br />
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Before starting, we cleansed our palates.<br />
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The Snick Off: <br />
The Mister: Despite its turd like appearance, the Picnic Bar is a deviation on the concept of a caramel nut chocolate concoction with an infusion of rice krispies and raisins. The flavor on first bite, not entierly out of tune wiht the almighty snickers, is quite pleasant. Unfortunately, on further chewing the Picnic bar doesn't deliver on its promise. It goes from chewy to gooey. Snicker Rating: 5.5 <br />
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FS&C: I would describe the Picnic bar as a Fruit and Nut Bar with caramel and rice krispies. I don't know what lepersy looks like, but this is how I imagine chocolate covered lepersy. It tastes much better than chocolate covered lepersy, but once you start thinking of lepersy your chocolate bar enjoyment isn't great. More seriously, I would pick a Fruit and Nut bar over a picnic because the caramel isn't salty enough and the rice krispies make it too textural. It is ok, but shall not be repeated. Snicker Rating: 4ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12054581405272755913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153411547526762773.post-5597744167318239872010-03-16T07:41:00.000-07:002010-03-16T07:41:29.884-07:00Market Report: Nonsense<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0g1rZcIYB_jXY7rGWwjH72PQGCst6_i7FTlVvkuGLxxWf0UV1nwXYfbKcdAMUMmpzil7QUMvsbnzuNJcGayk-DeAHVANJxbs2hPRcZlPULByHT67cJqfdxJjnsBWTOwQx0haw1YNt-tbz/s1600-h/Image0784.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0g1rZcIYB_jXY7rGWwjH72PQGCst6_i7FTlVvkuGLxxWf0UV1nwXYfbKcdAMUMmpzil7QUMvsbnzuNJcGayk-DeAHVANJxbs2hPRcZlPULByHT67cJqfdxJjnsBWTOwQx0haw1YNt-tbz/s320/Image0784.jpg" /></a></div>ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12054581405272755913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153411547526762773.post-53292877851156640582010-02-19T07:11:00.000-08:002010-02-19T07:11:36.800-08:00Breaking News!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVIT-V8h9vQpheV9RABgWIrG_qCdbgiL6LMOyyyGue13cX5WM2mnynoFYoFfhisVVviYZdeMReR3l9HzuNfjx2HxqVikaSiP_YZJw97pQzM_OGIO808FIUM7HE3IdcaJJk-IedcJ3VFgV_/s1600-h/Image0699.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVIT-V8h9vQpheV9RABgWIrG_qCdbgiL6LMOyyyGue13cX5WM2mnynoFYoFfhisVVviYZdeMReR3l9HzuNfjx2HxqVikaSiP_YZJw97pQzM_OGIO808FIUM7HE3IdcaJJk-IedcJ3VFgV_/s320/Image0699.jpg" /></a></div><br />
My mother, a very wise woman, thinks the fight over water is the next big thing.ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12054581405272755913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153411547526762773.post-24757608832616689162010-02-15T10:06:00.000-08:002010-02-15T10:06:42.076-08:00Pomme D'amour!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSSXEsYXUJLZI-4t94lxL0wXTxOh2z5Y2h97Lwi2xHOxuId4fEQHgzILjNWEWUTKjjxYnueBBb1gg96XBwIYzL87eAgIee59-MBxhYv4xrjY4-a8xbfzZeUmWZ7sBRDSZyb8MtPxNrYpA6/s1600-h/Image0680.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSSXEsYXUJLZI-4t94lxL0wXTxOh2z5Y2h97Lwi2xHOxuId4fEQHgzILjNWEWUTKjjxYnueBBb1gg96XBwIYzL87eAgIee59-MBxhYv4xrjY4-a8xbfzZeUmWZ7sBRDSZyb8MtPxNrYpA6/s320/Image0680.jpg" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Mister adores potatoes, so for Valentine's Day, we had beet root and parsnip hash, broccoli with worcestershire butter, and HEART SHAPED POTATOES. All of this was topped of with Frankfurter Greuner Saus and washed down with a nice dry cava. And then we shared a whole bar of green and black's butterscotch chocolate. Delicious! </div>ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12054581405272755913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153411547526762773.post-51309831534466105642010-02-02T06:38:00.000-08:002010-02-02T06:38:58.237-08:00Rimbaud Shoe Shine<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqPShZbm0If9WECdpWAvWZ40Yl1w9OxQenPenQfeOED-PcZhWzvCSWagKqy9iM5o6ueLQN6m8izktsjsTS8iIvEICWmLbsJmRiaRFEcqbNzveXB2bAKUw1t3KPD_Q16Is-4E7y1XP56F7e/s1600-h/Image0424.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqPShZbm0If9WECdpWAvWZ40Yl1w9OxQenPenQfeOED-PcZhWzvCSWagKqy9iM5o6ueLQN6m8izktsjsTS8iIvEICWmLbsJmRiaRFEcqbNzveXB2bAKUw1t3KPD_Q16Is-4E7y1XP56F7e/s320/Image0424.jpg" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I was listening to<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122722618"> this podcast</a> and appropriately walked past this restaurant. Other news, I adore stacked compositions these days. </div>ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12054581405272755913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153411547526762773.post-77572808727360322992010-01-20T11:55:00.000-08:002010-01-20T11:55:22.722-08:00ERs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrFwA5ohsy9FcwtDlSXvBYQVbbbloLZft_Djwlta5Sd36q2U_9dsJLVIM3CXqS0HuHTLTjxzl-vCmxImBsrbancevoRPykVyZY415QlraWrUWTMUxkLfITrQWHwSxqxZ-TdhbQii3aKJqB/s1600-h/Image0399.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrFwA5ohsy9FcwtDlSXvBYQVbbbloLZft_Djwlta5Sd36q2U_9dsJLVIM3CXqS0HuHTLTjxzl-vCmxImBsrbancevoRPykVyZY415QlraWrUWTMUxkLfITrQWHwSxqxZ-TdhbQii3aKJqB/s320/Image0399.jpg" /></a><br />
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Dear Reader, I'm knackered (or is that gnackered?). Anyway, I've been working the past 8 days straight and have another 7 or so more. Fashion, in case you are wondering, does not weekend. On the way home from picking up some patterns and samples from a manufacturer in zone 23 this afternoon, I stopped at Lidl and picked up some no name Wine Gums. As you know, I am from the usa, and we don't have wine gums, so these are a special treat for me. I was savouring them on the bus with my husband and pack mule (he was doing the heavy lifting) and thought how nice of them to label each flavor. How much like chablis this gummy tastes like, and 'oh i do love a nice port' and what not. Now that I'm digging into the bag again after dinner I've decided to research these amazing treats. Here is the wikipedia <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_gum">entry. </a>It was purely the power of suggestion on my tired mind! There is no booze in wine gums! This research lead me to another interesting wikipedia listing of note: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:British_confectionery">British Confectionery!</a> Check out the various entries.ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12054581405272755913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153411547526762773.post-29053619501464116132010-01-06T12:12:00.000-08:002010-01-06T12:12:06.325-08:00Bechamel: my ode to hibernation modeAlas no photo for you, dear reader, of either the snow or of our bechamel + cheddar and leeks coated ravioli and broccoli. On days like today, when my toes are nearly frost bitten all day, sometimes I just want to pop some store bought (£1! package for 2 raviolis) in a pot of boiling water with some broccoli, cook, sauce, bake and eat. And that is exactly what I did. May I suggest it?ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12054581405272755913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153411547526762773.post-49830320277665795592010-01-05T13:36:00.000-08:002010-01-05T13:36:10.231-08:00Whoa! Stop the Presses and sign the petition!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoa7XOrYe6L9xU6dwJGKVlknJQipK4ltO1iPUgNHRjkfhgllQS0HM6sB7k9EZExzGlZDkGzOl8caBxxB8SeJq647O9ETjhZdsp-r7qeDVaGe5L30KavMTO-GRf48ijobYs1RNRsvrfXvGb/s1600-h/Front_Page.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoa7XOrYe6L9xU6dwJGKVlknJQipK4ltO1iPUgNHRjkfhgllQS0HM6sB7k9EZExzGlZDkGzOl8caBxxB8SeJq647O9ETjhZdsp-r7qeDVaGe5L30KavMTO-GRf48ijobYs1RNRsvrfXvGb/s320/Front_Page.png" /></a><br />
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You should sign this <a href="http://tramdepot.wikispot.org/Front_Page">petition</a> because the building currently existing here is lovely, and the one they are proposing really isn't (see image above). Image from <a href="http://tramdepot.wikispot.org/Front_Page?action=Files&do=view&target=proposed%20ranges.png">here</a>.ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12054581405272755913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153411547526762773.post-67397605999160407312010-01-04T12:58:00.000-08:002010-01-04T13:05:56.294-08:00The Southern Hemisphere is so Hot right now!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho8-ISLT9ba_1W2fYY_uBr6YecCMQfY7wltdmsJsBM-Qw1aZTWGFFgQe7RWH_V6IWtU7H4tQ3jRTvrICn1NUaoPReo0Sp8Y5vrMtSvr9KNZzVbIox0-0Yl5L4gus3IClcC5_lZEZDXFNhS/s1600-h/Image0297.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho8-ISLT9ba_1W2fYY_uBr6YecCMQfY7wltdmsJsBM-Qw1aZTWGFFgQe7RWH_V6IWtU7H4tQ3jRTvrICn1NUaoPReo0Sp8Y5vrMtSvr9KNZzVbIox0-0Yl5L4gus3IClcC5_lZEZDXFNhS/s320/Image0297.jpg" /></a><br />
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So, dear reader, I spend a lot of time reading other blogs, walking the mean streets of Hackney, and disparaging as much as possible. There seems to be lots of attention being paid to the graphic designs inspired by African and Latin American textiles-- in particular I've noticed the jagged, repetitive lines, geometrical shapes filled with gradated colours, compositions that seem stacked rather than grid based. Newspapers talk about <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/fashion/31AFRICA.html?_r=1&ref=fashion">African inspired fashion</a> while blogs like <a href="http://mistermort/">Mr.Mort</a> and <a href="http://indiansummervintage.wordpress.com/">Indian Summer Vintage</a> and vintage stores seem to respond more to Latin American or traditional Southwestern iconography. Maybe it is a proximity thing for the blogs, American bloggers are more likely to see things or be nostalgic for an imagined imagery that is geographically closer (and Swedish vintage stores in London are more likely to be sourcing their stock from New England or Canada) while here in the UK, particularly in this neck of London, we are more likely to see African stuff (I pass how many wax cloth shops and money transfer shops to Nigeria on my 30 minute walk to work? 15?). Or just African inspired fashion is yesterday's news and Latin American will end up SS2011? I'm sure that, to some degree or another, you can read a bit of colonialism or post colonialism into all of this. But I have a sweet little Godard <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierrot_le_fou">dvd</a> to finish watching right now, but if <a href="http://threadbared.blogspot.com/search/label/colonialism">threadbared (my new favourite smarty pants fashion blog)</a> were to write about it, I'd prolly agree with whatever they post.ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12054581405272755913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153411547526762773.post-88839283495138303072010-01-04T12:31:00.000-08:002010-01-04T12:31:52.604-08:00Reimporting Export Strength Gin: A Taste Off<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNGzjxb58oq7NbzufbByB7_M8hmlicU3-yIC_4eMl2rYQE-95aGmz0bKrElFfuMYgJrnzAPpMTLN_TnqbpJD75eNARdXXNpqPw5UP4ZhHyrySoAFxC3JM0pCPACc0PeMbmqSNqZPvrwHlk/s1600-h/Image0344.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNGzjxb58oq7NbzufbByB7_M8hmlicU3-yIC_4eMl2rYQE-95aGmz0bKrElFfuMYgJrnzAPpMTLN_TnqbpJD75eNARdXXNpqPw5UP4ZhHyrySoAFxC3JM0pCPACc0PeMbmqSNqZPvrwHlk/s320/Image0344.jpg" /></a><br />
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Where was I this holiday season, you ask? The answer is depressing: sick in bed or at work. The week before Xmas, the week of The Mister's Bday, I was suffering from horrific food poisoning. Projectile vomit was involved, alas. I believe it is libel to suggest where these things happen without it being scientifically proven (and perhaps, alas, even then) so I won't. Then, I was in bed with a cold all of xmas! It was t otally, heavens to Betsy particularly as one of my cold remedies may or may not have induced hallucinations! After xmas I returned to work, as there are pressing deadlines that cannot not be met. Yesterday, in my copious free time we hit up our local grocery store looking for discounts on xmas puddings laced with brandy and realized it was time to get ready for Easter!ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12054581405272755913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153411547526762773.post-42708118862460750222009-12-17T08:30:00.000-08:002009-12-17T08:30:09.124-08:00Notes from Outer Zone 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzyqZXkbmY-IG2CYQAguW4RLTjj4p3HVW0Cq6M2-dBWott5ziPjRpS4sjx8vGdoYJJXWGh9qtCgH771ykeIiW9yppENaQuITltlhzQSTuIoICsqNn-1mLqef8a81IlyysRgd7272cDWbBj/s1600-h/Image0230.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzyqZXkbmY-IG2CYQAguW4RLTjj4p3HVW0Cq6M2-dBWott5ziPjRpS4sjx8vGdoYJJXWGh9qtCgH771ykeIiW9yppENaQuITltlhzQSTuIoICsqNn-1mLqef8a81IlyysRgd7272cDWbBj/s320/Image0230.jpg" /></a><br />
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</div>Dear Reader, to know me is to know I am hard at work -- in my <a href="http://www.pittimmagine.com/en/homef.php">ever decreasing </a>free time-- on my novel. In addition to actually writing, I do a certain amount of research. Some of this research includes reading all of the books on writing/publishing/etc in the <a href="http://www.hackney.gov.uk/cl-stoke-newington-main.htm">Stoke Newington Library</a>. Some of this research is also me spending a certain amount of time figuring out which Lanvin look would be best for my book launch. But, as the mother of this blogger says, "you can't count your eggs before they hatch." So, in the meantime, I will give you some reviews of these various how to write books. A brand new Food, Shelter, Clothing feature! The first one is <i>Beginning Writer's Answer Book </i>which was edited by Jane Friedman. In case you are wondering, those eyes belong to the cover of <a href="http://www.amhomesbooks.com/index.php?mode=objectlist&section_id=176">The Mistress's Daughter</a> by A.M.Homes, a far better book than the book resting upon it or my own book. But <i>Beginning Writer's Answer Book </i>is an vaguely useful read. It is basically a list of questions and answers.<br />
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Q. Are stationary and business cards necessary for a writer?<br />
Q. Should I read the classics or contemporary writing?<br />
Q. An editor rejected me by writing, "Read the magazine!" Isn't this rather insulting?<br />
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Q. I have a novel in the works, but it is months away from completion. When should I send query letters to publishers?<br />
Q. I would like to adopt the pen name of George Orwell. Will I need permission from his heirs?<br />
Q. How can a full-time freelancer provide for retirement?<br />
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</div>Years ago I lived in this idyllic house for 2 years. One of my rooms in this house was the very same room that the founder of Yahoo! used to live in (one of those guys or maybe just netscape). Anyway, I, like most people, have long since stopped using Yahoo about 10 years ago. But my dear <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hackney_freecycle/">Hackney Freecycle</a> insists on using this dinosaur system. Kills me! Ugh!ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12054581405272755913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153411547526762773.post-62646819054986409012009-12-14T13:31:00.000-08:002009-12-14T13:33:50.747-08:00Every once and awhile, I wish we lived in LA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://referencelibrary.blogspot.com/2009/12/lucky-sunday-no-early-birds-let-their.html"><br />
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Not only would it take this dear writer back to her native state, but there would be sunshine and we would have gone <a href="http://referencelibrary.blogspot.com/2009/12/lucky-sunday-no-early-birds-let-their.html">here</a>. <br />
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It is so cold and dark and windy and bone chillingly damp in London. Luckily, I have a German mother in law and a German grandmother in law. These two wise women are knit extraordinare and have made me these exquisite striped wool socks. See how they fit my feet PERFECTLY. So, we are wearing our wool socks, and eating <a href="http://www.hausfrauenseite.de/index.shtml?http://www.hausfrauenseite.de/rezepte/auflauf/index.html">auflaufs</a> to get through the cold, dark winter while dreaming of Deauville.ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12054581405272755913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153411547526762773.post-68478678944190932422009-12-14T09:29:00.000-08:002009-12-14T09:29:23.177-08:00Here, when I say I'm from "Jersey," they sometimes think I mean the tax haven...<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.opticsplanet.com/msgboard/about12-11429.html"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7uGU_OIHWdQhYEaX9fmXea0nQKtaIe7Yl-4PsK1-F7FAIbxpDptY82HWbWR8S8XzUcGT5pKOVpxBzV9NfOb58lqUT5HEbwan8jlDxuAKhYgaRzeQx7Om4EEnXF285ckkaxsPRP5olLVtj/s1600-h/0030.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7uGU_OIHWdQhYEaX9fmXea0nQKtaIe7Yl-4PsK1-F7FAIbxpDptY82HWbWR8S8XzUcGT5pKOVpxBzV9NfOb58lqUT5HEbwan8jlDxuAKhYgaRzeQx7Om4EEnXF285ckkaxsPRP5olLVtj/s320/0030.jpg" /></a><br />
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</div>When I was 15 I thought I was pretty cool cause I already knew all of <a href="http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/notes-from-the-velvet-underground/">all of this</a>. I was glad that they brought up Adams of suburban NJ, because I have been thinking of my old town's Adams Shopping Center recently. Not for Adams or it's equally sad WASPy sister store Madam's, but for the cupcakes available in the bakery in this shopping center. They were buttercreme concoctions of magicalness unseen in this cupcake boom. They were decorated like cookie monster, like this<a href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/78/195728651_5b10d2d6c8.jpg"> one.</a>ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12054581405272755913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153411547526762773.post-84479647326008501522009-12-12T09:34:00.000-08:002009-12-12T17:01:36.994-08:00Gluttony!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmS8OsPAcgrogEwqp46si0KU04F3eIdSDeCCdykKb8hyf2wTU3P7VAX3mocQgq8I7worYT2MnO1thnnPjTDgt9Fu6NflghQJsouCHNr30oZ03aU8zpm2lp3NLWcn5B18Aih_jzzjciXoSG/s1600-h/Image0282.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmS8OsPAcgrogEwqp46si0KU04F3eIdSDeCCdykKb8hyf2wTU3P7VAX3mocQgq8I7worYT2MnO1thnnPjTDgt9Fu6NflghQJsouCHNr30oZ03aU8zpm2lp3NLWcn5B18Aih_jzzjciXoSG/s320/Image0282.jpg" /></a><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Usually, I am very smug at the checkout with my whole grains. But today's shopping was blessedly silly. <br />
</div>ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12054581405272755913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153411547526762773.post-67766775678082327802009-12-11T09:12:00.000-08:002009-12-11T09:37:19.723-08:00Dear Reader, I married him<script type="text/javascript"><br />var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");<br />document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));<br /></script><br /><script type="text/javascript"><br />try {<br />var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-11960438-1");<br />pageTracker._trackPageview();<br />} catch(err) {}</script><br />While googling myself today, I found my old blog. And <a href="http://eeeelizabeth.xanga.com/150845089/item/">this</a> charming posting about when I first met The Mister. I think his height is more like 6 foot 3, or whatever 190cm is in inches. You, dear reader, can do the maths.<span style="font-weight:bold;"></span>ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12054581405272755913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153411547526762773.post-28420317378392424692009-12-09T12:35:00.000-08:002009-12-09T12:42:02.551-08:00Haneke vs. Hackney Gazette?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3ILe7A8OSi2xu4KSEZj2kt0Uthq-91tchxatDxmBmuSRPtQqjP2pANIq57NgCajA_Mbh9GPZTQ3LBQZdOwIRymYAU_Z3Ao96tEATuzizQf1cunEwiDcMNB_NZPcBavWoVL6XDaGzSbhT2/s1600-h/Image0278.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3ILe7A8OSi2xu4KSEZj2kt0Uthq-91tchxatDxmBmuSRPtQqjP2pANIq57NgCajA_Mbh9GPZTQ3LBQZdOwIRymYAU_Z3Ao96tEATuzizQf1cunEwiDcMNB_NZPcBavWoVL6XDaGzSbhT2/s320/Image0278.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413339410781914226" /></a><br /><br />Dear Reader,<br /><br />Last night we watched Michael Haneke's White Ribbon. A bewildering tour de force, but we expected no less from Mr. Funny Games. Normally, films like that keep the mind reeling for days. But it is hard, when your thinking on the walk from the bus stop to work is interrupted with this headline. This mind is boggled!ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12054581405272755913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153411547526762773.post-10733442210164190162009-12-09T12:29:00.000-08:002009-12-09T12:35:44.063-08:00Amish Pie Tote; I need this right now!<script type="text/javascript"><br />var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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Alas, more of my time goes towards thinking what to wear to my book launch than to writing. But I do quite a lot of research. In addition to exploring my settings, I've read nearly all of the books on how to write a novel, murder mystery, get published, pick what to wear at your book launch at the <a href="http://www.hackney.gov.uk/cl-stoke-newington-main.htm">Stoke Newington Library</a>. But I have not yet read this <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/07/books/07book.html?hpw">one</a>, yet. <br /><br />Hey, if you want to buy the hat above. Some very lovely <a href="http://www.lawrenceandfoster.co.uk/acatalog/gentlemen-hats.html">gents</a> make it.ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12054581405272755913noreply@blogger.com0