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Posted Sunday 17th June 2012 at 9.49pm
Salmon
I got bored of following recipes and started making stuff up again :)
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Posted Friday 15th June 2012 at 6.51pm
Green
Climate change is the great problem of our time.
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Posted Thursday 14th June 2012 at 8.15pm
Seven days
Somehow I ended up in charge of the music for the SSGT reception. Probably the only time the Bee Gees (You win again) has been followed by the Beta Band (Dry the rain) at any event in the history of the world. Though the barman did compliment me on the number of Dexys songs on the playlist!
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Posted Sunday 10th June 2012 at 11.16pm
Saxophones and honey
A gorgeous weekend in Montreal!
Hello to the SSGT participants :)
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Posted Saturday 9th June 2012 at 12.09am
Fresh from theKitchn
As promised, I made two things that I saw on theKitchn today! The first was pork stir-fry with asparagus and sugar-snap peas, which was very nice. But the real star of the show was the blueberry and apricot crumble. Delish.
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Posted Thursday 7th June 2012 at 10.42pm
Flower power
I heard this conversation last weekend:
F1: "Why didn't you __________ with us yesterday?"
F2: (Silence)
F3: "Well, he's got to be more careful now..."
F1: "Why?"
F3: "Because..." (looks at F2's girlfriend)
F1: "That's stupid. You should just be yourself."
It reminded me of the line I quoted a week ago, from Wilco's "Candy Floss":
"I'm the boy with the poetry powers
I'm the boy she helps like flowers"
That's one of my favourite Jeff Tweedy lines. The juxtaposition of two seemingly contradictory parts of being in a relationship: being yourself, and changing. Are they really antithetical? This person I call me is just a hotchpotch of influences anyway... my family, my friends, teachers, books, TV... being myself isn't just about staying the same, it's also about learning to change for the better.
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Posted Thursday 7th June 2012 at 8.41pm
Home again
Back from Germany and Austria!
At some point before I went away I added theKitchn to the bookmarks bar on my old laptop. I'm going to try out some of the recipes from there over the next couple of weeks.
But for now, here's one of my own. Pasta, courgette, red pepper, apricot, spring onion, goat's cheese, lemon juice, olive oil...
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Posted Thursday 31st May 2012 at 5.03pm
Summer has teeth!
In Hamburg and it's raining :(
I'm the boy with the poetry powers
I'm the boy she helps like flowers
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Posted Thursday 24th May 2012 at 7.29pm
The serenade song of a police state
This is the first article I've seen in the British press that sums up the student protests in Quebec in a reasonable way. Others have made it sound like living in Montreal is like living in a war zone - in fact the only thing to worry about is if you happen to be near a protest when the police get out of control. Or if you want to sleep when there's a police helicopter overhead.
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Posted Saturday 19th May 2012 at 8.29am
Departure
Off to Berlin today!
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