Showing posts with label wikipedia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wikipedia. Show all posts

Sunday, January 10, 2010

I LOVE SUGAR




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 entry. 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:  British Confectionery! Check out the various entries.

Friday, March 14, 2008

my arm has tuburculosis

Hackney is a TB zone. Please see image of Mantoux test from wikipedia and then my own welt.



Lets hope my lungs don't have it too!

Monday, January 28, 2008

Aha! Suspicions confirmed by wikipedia!


Confirmed by wikipedia:
Some health workers fear that a resurgence of goitre might occur because of the trend to use rock salt and/or sea salt, which has not been fortified with iodine.

Can you imagine a near future with hundreds of foodies with goitres. Ewww!

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

How bored are you?

Sometimes, dear reader, I have a lot of free time at work. And to cope with this problem, I have invented a super fun game:
1. Go to wikipedia
2. Click the "Random page" link on the left.
3. Use internal wikipedia links to navigate you to the wikipedia article on "scientology"
4. repeat until it is time to go home