I'm watching Ray Mears (a UK-based backpacking, backcountryliving sort of bloke) on television going 'walkabout' in Aussieland with one of my heroes: the great Les Hiddins, otherwise known as Bush Tucker Man. I don't normally bother with Ray, but when I heard Les was on it I just had to watch ( Read more... )

1. The end is now *almost* in sight on my W/H/A video :) At least, I'm almost 2/3 of the way through the tune, and I know the outline of what's coming in the next section ( Read more... )

Browsing through a magazine in the loo just now, I came across the following makeup tips for lips. (Ooh, it rhymes! At this juncture my grandmother would have said, "She's a poet, and she doesn't know it!" Heh...) Well, and returning to the subject in hand...

LIPS - how to do them in the morning.

1. Apply lip balm, then buff with a flannel. ( ( Read more... )

I've lost a fair bit of weight in the last month, and lounging on the floor in front of the television just now I noticed that my hip bones have made a rare but welcome reappearance!

**toasts them with a glass of white wine**

No doubt they'll soon be off again *g*

**trots back to the Cookery Channel**

Rufus Wainwright - adorable! A fantastic voice, tremendous, exuberant, original songs, such a sweet smile and that machine gun of a laugh! Every last little bit of him goes into singing these songs :)

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Cigarettes & Chocolate Milk

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I'm having a total nightmare trying to post something. It includes a few files embedded from YouTube, but each time I try to post it LJ cocks up the embedding code in one particular place and it comes out wrong. I've had this problem before when I've been using the Rich Text posting option, but I've not been using that for months now, since t_eyla ( Read more... )

Checking through my backlog of post I found this.


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Yum :)

One of the good things about getting back into running...


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Hello peepses!

I'm home, and I've just finished the Harry Potter book. Now I can use the internet again without fear of stumbling upon a spoiler :)

Mucho picture spam to come. I hope you've all been well and happy and productive over here in my absence. I've got a lot of reading to catch up with. First, though, a coffee...