Wednesday, September 15, 2010
I clicked the Readability bookmarklet by accident when viewing my profile page on Twitter and was surprised to get a single, nicely formatted page of every tweet I’ve ever written (all 500-ish of them). I had fun taking a look back at the last 31 months. Here’s a selection. 2008 My next-door neighbours are involved [...]
Thursday, September 2, 2010
My daughter Eliza, who is four-and-a-bit, is starting to help around the house. I’m proud that she, without being asked, removes the depleted toilet paper roll from the holder and fits on a fresh replacement before either throwing the old cardboard tube in the bin or, more likely, using it as a didgeridoo or decorating [...]
Thursday, August 12, 2010
My 4 year-old daughter loves playing “Plants vs Zombies”. So much so that she used watercolour paints to dress up as a zombie, frightening her parents when they arrived home from work. We use the game as a reward for being good, and a five-minute session sometimes replaces storytime before bed. It’s amazing to me [...]
We’re watching Twin Peaks at the moment. Lain lent us the Gold Box Set, and Daz (brother number one) comes over each Tuesday night. He and I watched Twin Peaks when it first aired, in ’91 or ’92 or whenever it was. I’d “tape” it, using a “video recorder”, or we’d watch it live. We’d [...]
For dinner tonight: 15 fresh clams, 15 fresh tiger prawns and a 750g silver perch, stuffed with spring onions and coriander. All cooked on a disposable charcoal barbeque and eaten with Thai “seafood sauce”, a delicious combination of green chilli, coriander, garlic and palm sugar. Smelled like Bangkok in our tiny back courtyard. Total cost: [...]
My goodness. Over the weekend Hoff, Clinton, Gabby and The Other Elaine came over for a Curry Night. D. made an awesome red lentil dhal, Clinton made amazing curried potatoes, and a fantastic lamb curry, and Hoff brought a pack of frozen roti. These were a revelation… much better than I expected, and better than [...]
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Over time our place slowly becomes more and more cluttered. Tonight I had a bit of time to myself, and I went on a packing-up spree; just simple things like sorting through piles of papers, binning what we don’t need, returning books to the bookshelf, putting away toys and clothes and whatnot. And what a [...]
This morning, after breakfasting on crepes with butter and golden syrup, we decided we needed some fresh air, so drove out Guildford way and walked along the swan. Dolphins, pelicans and dogs in the water, and lots of families puttering by in their boats. Decided we’d love to have a small boat to be able [...]
For dinner tonight: Medium rare eye fillet, seasoned with salt, pepper, cayenne pepper and garlic. Fresh green salad with a dressing of good olive oil and verjuice. Caramelised onions, cooked in the pan juices. Confit potatoes, made by boiling cubed potatoes in a heatproof bag, with goose fat and white pepper. A pint of Little [...]
Gak, my iPod Shuffle just died. I usually listen to a podcast while cleaning up after dinner, to distract me from the fact that D. is watching some American Soap Opera or other. No luck tonight – just a flashing orange light. Thinking the battery low, I plugged it into the old iMac for a [...]