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Cooking fun
I have bought a jar of fancy-schmancy baby capers to experiment with. Normally I find capers too overwhelming, but I had a great spaghetti with tomato/aubergine/caper sauce last week, and I am assured that the baby non-pareille capers are better than the big ones. Hopefully they'll be nice to use instead of olives while I'm still having to eat ( Read more... ) -
Drat
I have managed to give myself RSI again through over-enthusiastic quilting, so I won't be online much for a bit. -
Just call me Rosencrantz
D and I have just played a game of Scrabble. To determine who would start first, we took turns to take letters from the bag. For four turns in a row, we both pulled out the same letters, namely R, A, A, I. As far as we know, there are no letters missing from the bag. bouncy-penguin has just attempted to calculate the probability of this. He gave up, but ( Read more... ) -
Please spread the word
The BBC has just put up a horrendous article about ME which is factually incorrect and extremely biased, and which is stirring up hatred against ME sufferers. Apparently there's some sort of media storm going on at the moment, it's not just the BBC, but I am finding this too distressing to look into further. There are more details here. If you ( Read more... ) -
More randomness
Someone once said something along the lines of, "Without adultery and [something which I forget], literature and opera would be up shit creek." (Those of you who are beating your heads into a table over my poor referencing are welcome to correct me if you know the quotation.) Anyway, does anyone know of TV or books or what have you where people ( Read more... ) -
Recommendations for books on using a sewing machine?
I'm a pretty nifty hand-quilter, but I still don't have a clue how to use a sewing machine. I bought one a few years ago, discovered that the manual is absolutely useless (barely shows you how to thread the needle), made a few sporadic attempts to see if I could work it out on my own, and gave up. Because I've got severe ME/CFIDS, I have ( Read more... ) -
How much garlic can I safely get into this dip?
I recently tried an organic fruit & veg box scheme I've used in the past. After a couple of deliveries we realised that it's not for us right now, and meanwhile I've been left with a bulb of garlic which has huge cloves. ( Read more... ) -
Calling anyone whose Latin is decent
Mine was when I was 18, but that's a while ago now. Friend of a friend has just asked for a translation of this:
"Donec aliquet massa sit amet dui. Etiam adipiscing luctus ipsum. Sed quis enim sed erat placerat tristiue. Vivamus id enim in magna mattis elementum".
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More pondering about tablets
So I've found my seller, nice and reliable, and now I'm just dithering over two similar models of Eken tablet. The only difference is size. One is 7" (diagonal screen measurement as usual), the M009S. It measures 200 x 127 x 17 outside, 153 x 91 screen, and has a resolution of 800 x 480. The other is 8", the M003S, and it measures 207 x 158 x ( Read more... ) -
And they don't even say "cross-dressing"!
Isn't this adorable?