Ever since I saw the revitalised Cadbury's Caramel Bunny, I've been meaning to check her against the original.

1980s bunny:


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I've mostly been doing unremarkable things, but this week I've been marking ( Read more... )

I'm thinking of this as a a clay sketch as it only took an hour and a half (with Primeval on in the background - can't decide if it's better or worse if I'm not watching the screen).

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Eve Sedgwick has died. She was an excellent queer thinker. One of my favourite pieces was her 'axiomatic' observation that 'people are different from each other'. The list of potential differences she gave, just within the area of sexual preference, dazzled me every time and every time I spotted something new, for which I hadn't thought through the ( Read more... )

Editorial asides I have written on my hot cross bun recipe at an earlier date:

1 tsp (hah!) mixed spice

I like them spicier.

Kneed fruit into dough (or add it earlier, this is a swine).

Thanks, past-self; maybe you could have put that advice in the recipe before the dough was finished.
My knuckles ache, but the result is delicious.

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I'm trying to find ways of talking about my creative writing without sounding like a tosser ( Read more... )

Deceased relatives have been peopling my dreams. It's been a nice way to spend time with them, although confused by the creeping awareness that I'm dreaming, and thus fooling myself - trying to wheedle something out of my own brain and attribute it to someone else from whom I can't get more information. The dead relatives, sensing the futility of ( Read more... )

'If you liked it then you should have put a ring on it." - Beyonce, discussing the usefulness of catching, ringing and releasing birds in ascertaining migratory patterns and lifecycles of endangered avian populations.

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Following my last useful post about bird identification, more information from a falconry talk I saw at the weekend ( Read more... )

I'd like to set up some regular charity donations - any recommendations? I'm thinking one that tackles generic global poverty and deprivation (something like Oxfam) and one that does something specific to my interests (gender equality, literacy and education, sexual health). I'm afraid I'm not particularly looking for medical research or support in ( Read more... )