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Let them eat cake. If there was any left. This is the saddest lemon drizzle cake in all the land. Last year's malteaser cake was much be...

Worshipping at the altar of Joss Whedon at the moment - an epic Buffy rewatch, plus a little Astonishing X-men. Not quite enough Logan yet, ...

A photo taken of me ages ago, that I quite like. I remember on this day I was eaten up with weird, unspecific anxiety. The photo doesn't...

Burns Night. Cultural observance: done.

I've started Weightwatchers again. I was so narked with myself last time I gave up on it. It felt like an enormous waste of money when I...

When life gives you browning bananas and a solitary Sunday night - make banana bread.

Decided to use one of the packaged curries that Catherine sent from Thailand. Possibly I should have ignored the instructions to add more ch...

Dinner tonight at the lovely Blue Orchid in Aspley Guise. Mmm, duck in tamarind. It's a quaint building, and I found this picture online...

Another day, another delivery. Nearly four years of daily jabs, with a few missed along the way. Wonder how many that is?

Me: But I don't really like the library.* Him: That's because you're on the run from them. Me: I'll be Clyde, you can be Bon...

We're having a lot of weather.

When winter started, I had one pair of boots. Now look! I may get through the whole winter without getting wet feet once. And I have so many...

Last year I randomly decided to improve my maths skills, and so I turned to Khan Academy to show me the error of my problem solving ways. It...

Sometimes there are only cats, and a cuppa.

This is all I've done today. Well this, and watched 'The Thirteenth Tale', with Olivia Colman and Vanessa Redgrave. Broke my own...

A version of this is posted to Just Finished Watching . Really well done, neatly constructed and epic account of Nelson Mandela's life...

We went to see the Shunga Exhibition at the British Museum today. Shunga has always fascinated me - they're erotic Japanese images. Beau...

New Year's Eve was so dire, I had to hang myself*. * No Lizzes were hurt in the making of this photo.

"O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant, The captains, merchant banker...

Tea-stained eggs! I had seen them online unpeeled, and shells were all marbled as well. But of course, our eggs are brown, so they're on...

I hate myself a little bit for even writing these down, but it achieves Attainable Goal Number 2 on the list, so what the hell, sez I. Att...

Greta the Goose gets curried. Greta was the enormous goose we bought for Christmas lunch, and she has served us well as roast goose, goose s...

I thought it would be sharp and sudden, the abrupt silence of a song broken by a scratch. Instead it was the gentle eddyingswirl of leaves o...

Teaser Tuesdays  is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of  Should Be Reading . 'Oh. So you would get yourself killed and perhaps yo...

For a book about revenge and skulduggery, there is surprisingly little revenge and skulduggery. I don't think it was vastly necessary to...

Teaser Tuesdays  is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of  Should Be Reading . 'In order to create productive alignment in your lif...

1) Jai Ho - From the Slumdog Millionaire Soundtrack 2) At Last - Etta James 3) Bittersweet Symphone - Vitamin String Quartet 4) Cat's...

From the end of the bed, I pull the sheets back into place. An old man paints a large sun striped by clouds of seven blues. Across the ...

I've found it quite hard to face up to what I owe. Mostly, it's because I'm annoyed that I owe anything at all. But that's d...

Sleep has been in short supply this week, for no reason I can discern. I've always been kind of a poor sleeper, but this has largely bee...

One day, I will grow out of taking things so personally. I need to do this fast, or the managing people part of the job will go south, and q...

Monday, April 10, 2006 You know what they say about an untidy desk... To give you some insight into my untidy mind, here are the full and en...

April 2013 - a quarterly review: 1) I can be a project manager. It's hard, but I can do it. 2) And even if I decide not to, the universi...

I was going to write a fairly chipper quarter year review, because 2013 hasn't treated me too shabbily so far. But then as I dragged scr...

I'm in that horrible between book stage where nothing I start is quite hitting the spot, so I temporarily shelve them rather than not gi...

Today's crossword had one of my favourite words as an answer: gazump. Makes up for the fact that I can't for the life of me figure o...