1. Do you like soup?

Yes, yes I do.

2. What is your favorite soup?

Saimin. I am also very fond of the classic chicken noodle. As a child, clam chowder with oyster crackers was another favourite.

3. What kind of soup would you like to try, but never have?

It is an unknown soup. One day I will find it on a menu and try it.

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January 26

What’s your favourite breakfast food?

Pancakes with loads of maple syrup and crispy bacon on the side. I very rarely make it, but I love to order it on the rare occasions I go out for breakfast.

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My last goal check-in was almost exactly a month ago. I stopped doing it because I was on holiday but now I reckon the advent of the pandemic has rendered most of the goals irrelevant. For a start, there’s no way for me to go to the gym for the next few months, and no way I’m going to get through this without the liberal application of booze. When ( Read more... )

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• My kids watched Castle in the Sky whilst a friend was looking after them for me over half term this week. Apparently, Humuhumu fell in love with the story and was glued to it for the length of the film. She has been watching it again in “episodes” over the past few nights. Keiki adores the robot who looks after all the creatures in Laputa. I am ( Read more... )

This was the view over the River Tywi at around mid-day on Saturday. We were up on the hill above it for all of ten minutes and were soaked to the skin when we returned to the cottage. You can see the silvery river snaking through the centre left of the photo.


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I got through January and didn't fail at every goal! \o/

( Goal Check-in 5/52: all success )

You know that feeling when you go to book a hotel for a short stay in Reykjavik, and you want to one that is downtown and gives you breakfast in the morning, so you book whatever deal Expedia gives you, and then you discover it is round the corner from a museum, which pleases you, and you look closely at the museum on Google maps, and it turns out ( Read more... )

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