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The many mistakes of Kim Bauer

February 10, 2012 – 10:09 pm

I’ve been watching a fair bit of 24 lately; first rewatching season 2-4 and then watching the remaining seasons for the first time. Generally I mostly like 24, but there are many things that annoy me about it some of which I’ve already mentioned in a previous post in 2009. Some other things include government [...]

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Timetravel in TV shows

February 9, 2012 – 6:40 pm

Timetravelling in TV shows is always a precarious thing as it has to be done with the existing universe in mind and can’t rewrite previous episodes. Lost is something that managed to do it well, even though it seems incredibly confusing during the first watch. Now that Lost is finished I only have a couple [...]

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The London Symphony Orchestra at The Hexagon [@londonsymphony & @TheHexagon]

February 8, 2012 – 11:48 pm

Tonight I went to see a concert by the London Symphony Orchestra in the Hexagon in Reading which marks the first time I’ve been inside the Hexagon, despite having lived in Reading for over ten years. I’ve realised over the past year that I quite enjoy seeing classical concerts, such as the Oxford Philomusica and a [...]

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Hairdryer review

February 7, 2012 – 3:29 pm

A couple of weeks ago I bought a new hairdryer after my previous one broke. This coupled with the purchase of shampoo, conditioner and serum recommended to me by the salon I had my haircut the same week and it’s safe to say that my life has been transformed or, in a less melodramatic way, [...]

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New discovery: I don’t like fennel

February 6, 2012 – 9:05 pm

Tonight I have realised that I don’t like fennel. Well, I do like it in some form, for example the Messmer tea, but I don’t think I will choose it as vegetable again. It’s all part of the experience of having a vegetable box with random contents delivered to my house which can turn out [...]

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Venice inspired weekend

February 5, 2012 – 10:21 pm

I’ve still not blogged about this week’s Venice trip which is mainly due to my pictures being worse than I expected. I’ve tried looking through them and editing the ones I’ve got to make them bearable, but about 3/4s of them just aren’t all that. The ones I have started posting can be found over [...]

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La Fenice

February 4, 2012 – 11:58 pm

For the past couple of days I’ve been reading Donna Leon’s ‘Death at La Fenice’ which is the first of her Commisario Brunetti books. Whilst I’ve read them before many years ago I don’t really remember them too well and am yet again wondering who the murderer could be. It really helps with the immersion [...]

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Roasted savoy cabbage

February 3, 2012 – 10:36 pm

Tonight I cooked roasted savoy cabbage with mashed potatoes and carrots loosely following the Abel & Cole recipe. With hindsight I should have probably followed it closer rather than just seeing what happens, but it turned out lovely. I used: A whole savoy cabbage though the one I had was kind of small. Half of [...]

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The snood

February 2, 2012 – 11:31 pm

I went to Venice and I bought a snood. Sure, lots of other great things happened, too, but the snood has changed things. I had been looking at knitting one before, but never really saw the point in them until it was almost too cold to bear it. The one I bought from a random [...]

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In prison

February 1, 2012 – 12:24 am

Yesterday I went to prison or rather a former prison. I was in the Palazzo delle Prigioni in Venice to see a concert. It included opera performances from Rossini, Chopin and others and, particularly with the setting, was beautiful. Venice, however, is very, very cold.

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Venice

January 31, 2012 – 12:10 pm

Today I’m off to Venice for two days with a friend which was a rather sudden decision a week ago. We’re planning to: Go to a classical concert with an opera since which is booked for tonight. Go to the Santa Maria della Salute church. Go to the Scuola Grande di San Rocco. Go to [...]

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Boots Opticians trouble

January 30, 2012 – 4:55 pm

A few months ago I started a blogpost about my displeasure of Boots Opticians which I never finished writing and subsequently never published. In April 2011 I got two pairs of glasses from Boots Opticians after my previous ones of over three years had broken. It was the first time I had used Boots Opticians [...]

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A scarf fit for a pilot

January 29, 2012 – 11:11 pm

Yesterday evening one of my housemates made the oddest request. He wanted me to knit him a scarf for his figure to go on top his model aeroplane when he’ll fly it later this year. How could I possibly resist this? The scarf was another lengthways scarf with five rows knitted over 65 stitches. I [...]

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Easy Kiweasy!

January 28, 2012 – 11:14 pm

Today I baked some kiwi muffins following [mostly] the Kiweasy recipe on the Abel & Cole website. Not only did I bake and cook for the second day in a row, but I also did something I mentioned in the previous post so it’s pretty much a double achievement! I modified the recipe by using [...]

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First Abel & Cole delivery! [@abelandcole]

January 27, 2012 – 11:57 pm

Today was the first delivery of my Abel & Cole box. I had considered ordering a vegetable box for a while and Abel & Cole was always at the top of my list thanks to some of the great reviews by people on Twitter. After putting it off for far too long I finally decided [...]

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#CatisNOTonacoach

January 26, 2012 – 11:03 pm

Earlier this evening an old tweet I had sent on the 9th of January via text message was published on Twitter: In Brussels with a full on cold. Incredibly unpleasant drivers, too. #Catisonacoach I can confirm that I am not currently on a coach and haven’t been since the 14th of January. Thanks to both [...]

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More on the Agatha Raisin series

January 25, 2012 – 11:32 pm

I mentioned a few weeks ago: I wish I had never discovered the Agatha Raisin series as it is sure to bankrupt me over time! Since then I have made a resolution that I will only buy one book each calendar week to not only draw out the series, but also ensure my bank account [...]

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Jessica Daniel – Locked In & Vigilante by Kerry Wilkinson [@kerrywk]

January 24, 2012 – 7:09 pm

Locked in was the first book I downloaded a sample of before realising I liked the book enough to buy it. It was specifically this sentence within the first few pages: She had no texts, no missed calls and the only emails were ones offering her enhancements she definitely wouldn’t be needing without far more [...]

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