Grazing

A while ago Suzy introduced me to a company called Graze, who provide little boxes of healthy snacks, delivered in the post. You go to their website, pick which delightful things appeal to you from their range of nuts, fruit, flapjacks, seeds, breads and whatnot and twice a week you get a packet of four [...]

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Language addendum

Lots of people have taken part in the language meme now and watching Summer’s video and hearing her pronunciation of “herb” I was reminded me of this Eddie Izzard sketch. If anyone else has done the meme, do leave the link in the comments for others to find.

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Holding no grudge against the vowels in caramel

Having dreamed last night that Bethany and Brenda came to visit me with Annalie (we looked at my old toy knitting machine, but didn’t have time to take it out of its box), I found an interesting post from Bethany in my feed reader this morning, talking about language. In a kind of video meme [...]

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Kickin’ it old sun

The internet was sighing and tutting yesterday – something to do with zodiac signs changing, but I assumed that wouldn’t affect me, so I didn’t Google it. You can’t change something like that. Even if there’s no connection to personality traits, I like that we all get a label, our zodiac sign, at birth. It’s [...]

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Ozzy visits Madame Tussaud’s

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7 Days Spring 2010 mosaic

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7 Days: Day 2 – Style

My current obsession: Watching Pixiwoo videos and getting ideas for new makeup styles and techniques. My current bad habit: Watching YouTube videos on my iPod for hours when I go to bed.

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Nuts, monkey and otherwise

One of the peanuts I planted has now germinated, pinging above the soil, split nut and all. I spent the first day or two trying to cover it up again with the compost, before finally confirming that it was ok, it was meant to do that. Like all patient gardeners, I’ve also dug about in [...]

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