Television people seem to think that people who live in the country have two heads. Last night on MasterChef they took the contestants to a farm to cook for a hoe-down. What, MasterChef? I've lived in the country my whole life and have never been to a hoe-down. I've never even heard of one happening outside of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, ( Read more... )

I've just done the giant crossword in yesterday's paper's summer holiday supplement. Only one word to go: Field of knowledge, R _ _ LO. Any ideas ( Read more... )

I was a bit fed up yesterday, but not today. It's impossible to feel glum today, f-list, because I now own not one, but two - two! - containers of mushroom spores. As I've mentioned before, my mother always warned me about eating mushrooms that grow under trees, but she never said anything about ones that grow in boxes under the laundry bench. So ( Read more... )

I got some seasonal spam today: Santa's best friend is your dog. Even spammers get the festive spirit.

There is an Australian character called Quinn in the comic strip Luann at the moment. Well... he says he's Australian but he also recently claimed that Australians celebrate Thanksgiving, so I think he's from that northern part of Australia ( Read more... )

Am I the only person on my f-list reading mediumlarge? Because I shouldn't be. It's one of the few comic strips to consistently make me laugh (as opposed to Mary Worth, who always makes me laugh but for all the wrong reasons). I was particularly fond of the first panel in yesterday's stripI have been quite the busy bee today. I put together my new exercise ( Read more... )

You know when something used to be good and now it isn't, but you just can't stop even though you should have better things to do than waste any more time with it? Mmm ( Read more... )