tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33140511381583122292012-01-31T07:36:58.676-04:00... and other delicious recipesLulu LaBonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05546286547273386382noreply@blogger.comBlogger3991100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3314051138158312229.post-23509341428569518142012-01-11T19:42:00.007-04:002012-01-11T20:02:42.571-04:00

I'm on a bit of a Dickens jag at the moment and have just been watching Edwin Drood on telly.Drood was duly murdered then I went and checked out some small ads, finding this job advert for a Grave Digger which said in the job description:Candidates must have previous experience in all tasks associated with the preparation of graves ...

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Heads, heads - take care of your heads!" cried the loquacious stranger, as they came out under the low archway, which in those days formed the entrance to the coach-yard. "Terrible place - dangerous work - other day - five children - mother - tall lady, eating sandwiches - forgot the arch - crash - knock - children look round - mother's head off - sandwich in her hand - no mouth to put it in -

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Pork Tool Kit

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My Christmas contained young humans this year, I'm not often in their company and I find it hard to gauge my answers to their questions;My 4-year-old nephew asked me what work his Auntie Lorna doesShe sells cranial drills ...to brain surgeons ... So they can do brain transplants.

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Who doesn't need an off-the-shoulder-see-thru poncho trimmed with pompoms?I just went to Paris. The whole point of going away is to renew one's sense of the absurd, you go to a new place with all its strange behaviour, you're there long enough to normalise the strangeness, then you come back home to a whole new set of previously unobserved ridiculousness.The point of the Parisian trip was to

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Fridge and microwave were hauled upstairs, lounge became lounge/kitchen diner, Bill the builder started work on the ground floor tearing up the floor and knocking holes in walls. That first morning Bill asked me when the kitchen was arriving. I pointed at the cooker and dishwasher standing together in one corner and told him that the dining table, sink and a couple of sets of drawers were under

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Sorry about all the blog-neglect going on here, renovations Chez Labonne have taken over my life.It's the ground floor, and it started with just a little bit of picking around the edges, first in February, and then a bit more in May, Can Of Worms doesn't do the resulting mess justice: over in the lounge-ey area, the removal of a rancid blue nylon carpet uncovered shiny little tiles with deep

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Lisbon was lovely but I didn't want to waste time in town - I headed straight out to Belem where the world-famous-best-ever Portuguese custard pies are made. This turned out to be the world's biggest pie-eating palace, 12,000 tarts are made and eaten daily in a cafe that seats 2,000 people at a time. There were only 1,500 eaters in when I got there so I felt obliged to put in extra pie-eating

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Miss Whiplash drew up a schedule with lists and addenda of all the things that needed to be done by the end of today.Tomorrow I shall sleep for a few days and then I'll go to Portugal to eat and have fun, I'll probably have something to say about that here.

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A lot of people like the idea of 'working in television' but have no idea what that means, sometimes I get a glimpse into what is supposed happens in a production office, the letter below* arrived this morning and has managed to simultaneously brighten and depress my mood.Hello, My name is xxxx xxxxxxx and i was wondering if there was any work experience available for producing? I am 15 years old

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Finding jeans to fit me has got more difficult, this is possibly due to my recent obsession with cephalopods resulting in my becoming part squid. Surfing the net to see if there were any sexy 8-legged jeans, I came across some instructions from True Religion about how to care for TR jeans*.1. Wash true religion jeans jeans when the first salt water (brine concentrated more) wash will not fade

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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. Douglas Adams Last June our small company accepted a challenge to deliver 5 hours of television by the end of September 2011 - a 500% increase in the previous year’s output. Each film has to meet a series of deadlines along it’s production route and as the last two hours of programming enters the final stages of delivery the

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I bought a salmon at the weekend and invited everyone who has been working with us lately to come along to our house and eat it. Everyone was seated waiting for lunch to be served, Miss Whiplash and I were in the kitchen trying to wrestle the beast out of the poaching kettle and memories flooded back of another slippery salmon episode during a filming trip in Tasmania a few years ago. We

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Find a large brick of tea and crumble part of it into a pot of boiling water, add toasted millet.Keep the tea at a steady simmer and place slices of cold mutton fat, some cheese that is like unsalted Feta and a cheese that is like a very hard Parmesan in the drinking vessels. Play some songs.After half an hour of boiling add salted rancid butter and mares milk - a bit at a time until it tastes

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I'm hoping that I’ll have time to borrow a human this weekend.Getting home from the Azores three weeks later than planned meant that I’ve had to cram the start of a new building project and catching up with five-weeks worth of office stuff into three and a half days before heading off to work at WOMAD for the weekend.I love everything about WOMAD festivals except the camping, tents make my face

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AmbergrisI have been given a lump of ambergris by a whale-and-squid specialistAmbergris is made in a whale’s stomach, it is the sharp parrotty beaks of many squid mixed up with the whale’s intestinal fatty juices. Sometimes this mélange is burped back out of the mouth like a fur ball but more usually it passes through the other end of the whale, the lump bobs to the surface of the sea where the

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A Camera Boy has just turned up to help us find a giant squid somewhere in the big wet area in front of our house. He is fresh in from Indonesia where he was filming slow lorises (sounds a lot like slow lorries). The slow loris in the wild is nocturnal and it is the world's only venomous primate; they excrete venom from their elbows and when threatened they lick their elbows to make their bite

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This is what we see when we are at our house watching for specks on the ocean that might be our crew.

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Now that half the team are out filming at night our mealtime structure has fallen apart. These days at noon 3 people will be eating toast or a full-on fry up while the others are half way through their working day. Somewhere in the early afternoon a 'proper' cooked meal is ready, it would be nice if we sat and ate together but now we're never hungry at the same time so it gets eaten in shifts.

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Today I finally hoovered the ants.During any given summer many ants launch themselves on doomed nuptial flights wherever it is that I am staying. It seems futile to try and do anything about it until the stream of bodies stops but I’ve been here for two weeks now and still they are pouring out from under my window frame, heading straight for any electrical items and then dying. Drifts of little

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I have been informed that it is a legal requirement to install one television set per 20 square metres in every public place in the Azores, I haven’t verified this but I have seen a lot of screens - all showing what appears to be the same continuously running soap opera featuring swarthy men and heavily made-up women in dramatic and emotive situations.We appear to have been caught up with the

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FridayArrived Azores at lunchtime, it is damp and it is a bank holiday here. Shops shut. Luggage still in Lisbon. We hear that our giant cable, housed in a crate the size of a small apartment and the major component of our filming kit – the one that was freighted two weeks ago - has not arrived.Seven of us are occupying two adjacent holiday homes, most of us are sleeping in the upper house,

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Miss Whiplash and Girl Wonder have organised our squid-hunting trip. Without them there would be no expedition.I have talked about Whiplash in previous posts, she is very tall and good at sums and when she is not in trouble with the police she runs our film company with a rod of iron. Miss Whiplash also sings in a band. This weekend she is off to play at Glastonbury and somewhere between handing

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There is so much graffiti going on where I live that the shopkeepers have decided that, rather than fight it, they will go with the flow and many have asked the graffiteurs to artify their shop signs and shop fronts. I am filled with the urge to go out at night with my own cans to add to the decoration.Does anyone else think that my plan to transform the 'Massage Club' front would make it more

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Twenty years ago I bought an old Super 8 camera in a flea market and filmed everything that moved until I ran out of film. These masterpieces then languished in a drawer for years.I made two attempts to get the reels digitised but neither time was the job done well. Bits of my footage have survived the process though and earlier this year I used them to practice using a video editing

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I have a new bff in the Azores, keen to educate me in the culture of the islands she has sent me this link featuring Azorean singer Zeca Medeiros. I love it.

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Bristol gets in the news now and again it’s always interesting to see which bits of information stick. Miss Whiplash stayed late in the office last night, waiting for one of our cameras to be returned by a French company who had been using it to film bats in Nicaragua.The camera was delivered by a handsome and underemployed young artist who was delighted to be in Bristol - our city was a holy

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I have just returned from the Azores, this was a recce for a forthcoming filming expedition which was arranged and executed with tremendous haste. I’ve spent the last four days meeting skippers and making lists, measuring things, making drawings and drinking a lot of strong coffee. The main things that have stayed in my head from the trip are these:a) Portuguese as a written language clearly

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We like whiteboards to keep track of what's to be done around the office. They get full of notes about jobs to be done, shopping lists, and about a million unresolved problems. Next week we will be recording the narration for two of our films, Whiplash and I have been squabbling over who gets to chase John Lynch.

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Since our 'riots' last month, my neighbourhood has been host to a continuing party, even in the rain people crowd the streets. Yesterday I was struggling home with my shopping and was so overcome by the glorious technicolour everywhere that I decided to photograph my favourites in the last 500 metres before I got to my door.

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I needed a photo frame and wandered into what looked like the right sort of shop. I didn't see a photo frame but I did see a clock on a suction pad which I thought might be useful stuck to our fridge (now that I've thrown my cooker out I have no kitchen clock). The suction clock was £4. On the way to the till I saw some antlers shaped like mirrors which I had no idea I needed, I couldn't see the

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I've been tearing out strange and interesting pages from magazine for decades, today I decided to decorate one of the edit suites with them, the parts are still being shifted around but they must get stuck down tomorrow.I'm hoping the editor will enjoy it, this bit appears to be the animal cruelty section, it includes a photo of James Dean playing bongos to some cows and a pig, Emilio Zapata

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Darn fox - still evading capture

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Trying to round up the animals for treatment - panic ensues!

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I've just discovered that Hugh has carpet moth.Treatment starts tomorrow

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My lovely Lumix has broken, just as I've got the urge to photograph things, but I shall not be deterred, my iphone 3 will stand-in and herald the start of a week-long 'Fuzzy Picture of the Day' feature.Today's image shows you two things of which I am very proud:Thing Number One = Brick-o-matic Bread, it might look a bit black but it's jolly nice and people have been known to pay a lot of money

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The Brick-o-matic is all very well but a kitchen needs an oven and I'm keeping an eye out for something suitable. Yesterday I saw this one. I like the towel rail detail and the little warming box at the foot of the burning part (presumably it's for reviving/steaming cold mice). However that oven won't fit anything much bigger than a single cat*, I need at least a double-catter, maybe even a

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When we moved into this house I threw out the mimsy fireplace that was blocking our magnificent chimney hole. Since my recent kitchen destruction I've been experimenting with different configurations for cooking in this space.Please note the Labonne Patented Brick-o-matic Adjustable Height Grilling System, once I've finished my trials I'll be putting it on the market and hoping that you will all

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I’ve been a bit stressed lately...Normally I bake my way out of trouble but lately I've needed to throw stuff around; I recently spent a happy weekend (I think it was happy) pulling up the nasty carpet in the living room and tearing off wallpaper, beating the room into submission until it was reduced to a bare shell.When the thrill of that destruction had ebbed I turned my attention to the

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I attended my first Pre-riot Party last Thursday, here's what happened:5pm: Many police piled in to arrest some squatters living across from a newly opened Tesco store, these naughty people had been singing and dancing outside it all week handing out free cake to anyone who didn’t go in. They had a sign saying HONK IF YOU HATE TESCO - the cacophony of honking cars had been continuous for 7

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Everyone is away filming - Whiplash and I are left in the office to sort out the remaining engineering issues that need to be resolved before the next trip. Glass tubes and lumps of metal are arriving at our offices and we need to tell other people what to do with them, Whiplash listened to a man who arrived with a large box and wrote down what he said to her, I've typed her notes up so we can

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Bristolians don't like words that don't end well, they round off rogue vowell-y words with an 'l'. This can be confusing and entertaining such as this exchange I had today regarding the cleaning skills of someone I know as Tanya:Me: Hi Kath how are you?Kath: Not good - I've just had words with Tanyal, she's not cleaning the common arials properly.

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I'm sorry, I seem to be slightly out of sorts these days

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The other chairs decided that it would be fun to wake Duncan up by dousing him with alcohol and setting fire to him !

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I consider my main achievement on this trip to be the fact that I haven’t yet been arrested. This is despite several excellent opportunites;Firstly there is my inability to understand the one-way system in the big town that I have to go to for batteries, timber, tools and the Mega Super.This place clearly doesn’t expect to be visited by out-of-towners so the direction for driving is not posted

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Camper and The Lavatory petition for acceptance into the mainstream seating community

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It's all going wrong with the filming. The camera crew have been trying to untangle a camera out of a tree since 4am - it's nearly lunchtime and they're still not back ...

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This is Rocky he likes macramé and oil paintingHe also likes hangin' out with his pal Stumpy

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Coatis have double-jointed ankles - they point their feet backwards which makes getting down trees easierI am suffering from Santa Rosa Fat Arm - apparently a high proportion of visitors to the Park get at least one Fat Arm for about a week.The cause of Fat Arm can be mysterious and is often thought to be brought about by spider bite, I have Fat Arm because I leaned on a wasp who was pretending

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Today an Outlaw Chair was discovered by the Chair Police. This individual had heard about the crackdown on lawless chairs and tried to end it all. Only his indecisiveness got in the way.

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The photo is an illustration of we sustain ourselves here, the food in containers is prepared in the park canteen – here we have a rice-based dish, potato and beetroot salad and black bean puree, you may also note our reliance on Tabasco, coffee and beer.The days after the longest Monday went something like this:Next Day – nothing worked, I spent a lot of money buying car batteries and got

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Chair Hell

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A Flying Squad of chair medics arrived on the scene last night. After examining the wounded, a specialist chair doctor carried out major field surgery.Those that survived were supplemented with specimens from the finest furniture store available. We sincerely hope that the influx of foreigners will integrate with the native chairs and co-exist peacefully for at least six weeks.

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Anarchy broke out among the furniture last night. Evil Chair and his cronies attacked the few remaining Good Chairs. This one has clearly had the stuffing knocked out of him and is bleeding profusely - will he survive?

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This is Evil Chair - Evil Chair sits around looking inviting, just waiting for someone to sit on him, then just as his victim has got settled with a beer, Evil buckles his legs and throws him backwards. Evil Chair is allowed to hang around because Good Furniture is difficult to find and there are too few Good Chairs to stand up to this bully.Here is Evil Chair with his brother - they find Evil's

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This is where I finally put my head down last Monday night, it is where I will be staying for the next couple of weeks. Our journey to this place seemed interminable because time kept slipping as we chased the sun round the world.1am Monday: Got out of my lovely warm UK bed met two Camera Boys, collected 28 cases full of filming equipment and drove to airport.8pm Monday (at least 24 hours later):

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Those are my bags at 9.45am last Thursday. They are waiting for someone to arrive and put them in a taxi. Fifteen minutes earlier, my bags and I had been delivered there by a man in a tiny boat, the man in the boat assured me that a taxi had been booked, it would be there shortly to take me to the airport to catch my 10.20 flight to Belize International.Just after I took that picture that guy who

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That's Jet, he's four foot two, with a face like a chewed toffee. There he is behind his bar in Belize International airport, his bar is called 'Jets'. Jet works hard at being a 'character', toy planes hang off the ceiling and Jet's name appears many times around the place writ in neon and biro. The food option at 'Jets' is a cheese and ham sandwich for which you will pay dearly, there are no

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It has never occurred to me that the toilet flush could be operated as a pedal. When I first read that notice I imagined that people must be putting their feet into the bowl to treadle their faeces down the pipe.

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I suddenly had to go off on a long trip, I went all the way there and then turned around and came all the way back again. I have been in perpetual motion for a week (the insides of my body are still rolling with the movement of the ocean). I passed through many ports and I shall probably say more about these places. Meanwhile here's my favourite notice seen during this trip - found in an airport

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The business has moved out of my home which is great, the problem is that where there used to be people and desks there are now sad shabby spaces. For example I can now see carpet, a carpet that I've hated forever - I knew the carpet was hiding horrible, slightly damaged ceramic tiles and we couldn’t afford a new floor. A week ago I finally cracked and attacked it.I became a thing possessed,

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My posts are getting too angst-ridden, I need to lighten up and share things that I find funny about the universeToday a young man was doing some building work, he told me a long and involved story about why he was driving a 'poxy car' rather than a van - this was the punchline;I had to swap it with my brother because his girlfriend went and got herself pregnantHis words inspired me to look for

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Once upon a time our business consisted of two Camera Boys, Miss Whiplash and a big pile of kit, our main concern was to insure against bad men running off with a camera or the film stock getting eaten by tigers.Now that we have a proper grown-up out-of-the-house building and lots of people, the responsibility for not killing people is mine all mine.Paperwork about Regulations and Compliance rain

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Having poured my efforts into sorting out the new offices, my home got totally neglected. Over Christmas I managed to attend to the insides of home, but its outsides became a bit of a wasteland. I didn't think this mattered much, I thought the plants would welcome a break from my incessant pruning and grooming. Wildlife has always passed through our garden; some sort of mustelid has been leaving

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Within mere days of my last post I became awash with chairage; I snapped up a perfectly decent set of 4 dining chairs to tide me over ... then I walked past a charity shop and saw another set of 4, quite different to the first set, but strangely interesting, so I bought them. All 8 chairs needed new seat covers and this has been my weekend project. Yesterday I won an ebay auction for some chairs

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Previous posts might have hinted at the fact that I have got two not-quite-sorted out properties on my hands; The new business premises is busy and needs more desk space to accommodate the assorted Spanish newsreaders and World-of Warcraft players that are drifting through our doors. Meanwhile my home is barren, if I would like to evolve from picnic-style to normal-people-style-eating, I will

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I’ve never been keen on winter it does horrors for my skin, my fingers are all cracked and sore and my lips are dessicated. At home the heating system is in decline and is currently not really working so I’m spending more time than is healthy at the office which is still sweltering. Our new office premises aren’t quite resolved yet. The lights I installed in the production office actually seem to

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Last week my love gave me a splendid cardiganBut he felt that the splendiferousness of the cardigan merited better buttons - he sliced up a piece of box wood.It is the best present I have ever received.

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I seem to have grown tired of my words, posts started ... then deleted for being too ... wordy. Less is probably more - here's the last twelve months as I remember them - in no more than six words Januaryhalf pop group, staring childFebruarycrazy white house house white crazyMarchsmelly yoga indoor pedalo menAprilvolcano erupts, van to spainMaycheesy protests, organ on roofJunehome crowded,

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I visit a supermarket that is also used by students, their conversations are such good value that I have been known to spend more time than strictly necessary hanging around near the Pot Noodles. Today's gem:Skinny boy, looking anxious:I've got ham, how long does ham keep for?Girl: It depends on how cold your fridge is Skinny Boy with incipient fridge insecurity:Err quite cold ... I thinkGirl:

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Berlin was great, even when I couldn't see it and was simply fighting my way down the street inhaling snowflakes. I am back home now, here's what has stuck in my head about the trip:• Berlin snow is drier and whiter than the stuff we get at home, this makes it really easy to see how much urination happens outside• many Lady Berliners look a lot like Christine Keener which was nice because I have

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Why does everyone go on about how bad the sun is for the skin. My skin loves sun and looks all relaxed and happy when it's been out in it, the cold however, is something else again. I walked off the plane in Germany and straight into temperatures of minus eighty. My face hates it, my eyelids have developed uneven droopy bits, I look pinched and raw and witchy, my nose is glowing like a beacon.It

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It was very late, I was in bed reading but not sleepy, my husband walked into the bedroom, fell on the bed and appeared to be instantly unconscious. I put the book down, turned off the light and tried to sleep but my head was too busy. I kept still as still could be.After half an hour I heard him mutterPlease go to sleepI muttered back that I was not movingHe hissed in exasperationI can hear you

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Several weeks ago I made some calls ...... images of tumbleweed ... time passing ...

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I impulse-bought a chair from a second-hand shop at the weekend, the shop man made his son carry it home for me. This provided a much-needed comedy bonus - the boy's trousers were fashionably slung below his bottom and both his arms were fully occupied with the chair, no matter how wide the boy made his bow-legged waddle, the trousers sank repeatedly to the floor.Then we had lots more exposure

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The new offices have separated the Cake Eaters from the Camera Boys. The former occupy the large beautiful-ceiling-room and mostly spend time looking at hot men on each others computer screens. The Camera Boys bob in and out of their rooms like meercats investigating new burrows, they carry bits of wire or a metal box as they go but basically they’re just visiting each other to look at pictures

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Hugh's documentary project has broadened to cover all the crucial aspects of human life in Britain - here he is interviewing a human person about tea.

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At home I have plugged in a dehumidifier – I watch transfixed as the machine sucks gallons of water out of the walls. The new office has been renamed the inferno, we believe that the coven of dragons living the dungeons are being tormented by stiletto-wearing lesbians. We are all working in our bikinis, except Miss Whiplash who wears no more than a fun fur merkin.

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... the new me is taking longer to emerge than expected. There’s improvement; I’ve relaxed a little, got off my high heels and tried gathering flowers and rainbows, but it's not quite the dramatic personal transformation I’d hoped for - I’m still clutching at a panapoly* of coping mechanisms.I’ve now diagnosed myself as suffering from empty nest syndrome. My home is actually quite a lot emptier

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Lately I've been mostly feeling like this.My house looks as though a herd of wildebeest have been having a bloody big party with too many drugs but it is finally empty of people (just me running naked from room to room doing Tarzan calls). The film company has moved in to its new premises - I've written about the bits that didn't involve shouting hereI'll be posting the picture of the new me just

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There is a film crew in Kenya trying to film crocodiles and hyenas in the Masai Mara - the plains however have been mobbed by gnu*.Gnu being very starstruck animals are mad film fans, every one of them, walking in front of the camera trying to present their best profile - even when getting eaten by crocodiles they won’t stop showing off.One of their clan has done a life swap with the director of

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Instead of spending yet another evening getting steamed up about teenage telephone salesmen who aren't quite sure how their telephone service works, thinking of strange but entertaining punishments for people connected with the property business or planning to run away, I have discovered a new favourite thing - thanks to Katrocket, who did a post about this best of craigslist site. Like her I

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Another week and things have got far worse... We are supposed to be signing contracts and moving into the new offices in three days time, the documents are not in order, the rottweiler/solicitor for the landlord has suddenly presented us with terms and conditions that we cannot agree to.This is last night's dream:I am driving a mini down the road, as I am driving the vehicle grows bigger,

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I found the ideal site for our office three months ago - I imagined that the process of moving to new premises would give me material for dozens of hilarious blog posts. All the clichés were there from the start; on-again-off-again deals, scandalous incompetence, rascally landlords, and the sound of heavy machinery gouging money from seams that I had no idea existed.I had no idea how busy I’d be

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The universal truth about estate agents is that no matter how clear you are about what important important features one is looking for; how much space, how many dungeons, turrets and catapault launchers, they completely ignore you. I showed them my drawing and I also told them about places that I had noticed looking a bit unused but possibly useful to us, places like this red brick delight that

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This year the number of people working in the house where I live has doubled and just as I was about to burst with the claustrophobia of it all - we discovered that the company was solvent enough to get a home of it’s own. I went on the hunt for suitable premises, before setting off I asked Miss Whiplash, The Director and the Camera Boys what they felt would constitute the perfect place to

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This is the hotel dog formerly known as Bollocks. All that changed last year when he was discovered with his head down a python's throat.The rest of the python was wrapped around the dogs body and squeezing hard, the dog's owner thought Bollocks was a goner but shouted out for help anyway and noticed that the tiny bit of Bollocks that wasn't being strangled, the tip of his tail, wagged in

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While I was away I got very interested in the interior decorating of tuktuks, here are a couple of images that caught my eye...Mother's Love - All that I am or hope to be i owe to my angle motherI love a good typo To make pleasures pleasant shorten them????!!! should we be slicing our children off at the knees?

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I'm back in the UK feeling all hazy and jetlaggy and it's bloody cold. A little pile of books that I read while I was away are still by my bed so I have been dipping back into them since my return for a warm-up.The Book of Indian Birds: Salim Ali (1941)Lovely illustrations and great text, I particularly liked Mr Ali’s descriptions of bird calls, here he is on the Malabar Pied Hornbill’s call;A

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We went along to watch a farmer, his young son and their cattle herd being presented with an anti-leopard pen last week*. The farmer was thrilled, but the calves weren't too keen.*more about this here

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The star attraction of the nature reserves are always the big cats. In Yala the leopard paparazzi flood into the national park every day hoping for a fleeting glimpse of the big spotty glamourpuss.My own crush is on the much more mysterious and melancholic-sounding mouse deer. The books all describe this creature as secretive and solitary, the sole surviving member of the infraorder tragulina. It

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I used to do a lot of people-photographing but nowadays all this bloggy, facebooking, interwebbery inhibits me, not knowing where an image may end up and how it might be used can make the camera an unwelcome intrusion, so mostly I leave it in my bag.There are so many photos I’d love to take in Sri Lanka; groups of schoolgirls, clustered under umbrellas in the street, their hair in thick black

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a concentrated product of cane juice without separation of the molasses and crystals, contains sugars and other insoluble matter such as ash, proteins and bagasse fibers.Considered to be a particularly wholesome sugar, retaining more mineral salts than refined sugar. Moreover, the process does not involve chemical agents. Ayurvedic medicine considers jaggery to be beneficial in treating throat

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The Golden Pudding Cupboard stands at one end of the dining room - a glass case full of sari-coloured sweets.Meanwhile in town ... I spy the creeping influence of franchise eating.

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Sun ProtectionI haven't seen a Sri Lankan in sunglasses yet, nor much hat wearing. There is however, plenty of umbrella-sharing.Feeling Like A Farmyard Animal I am often sitting on my beer porch in the evening when the pigs come round, they poke their noses in at me through the railings. I think they are laughing at me.If they had bananas I think they'd throw me one.Laundry ConversationI don’t

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Our film is about what happens at night. If you go into the Park at night, and it is a bit cloudy without much moon, it all looks like black scribble.With night vision goggles you can see shapes of animals but the ones more than a few metres from the car will be quite fuzzy.Our magic cameras can magnify the light of a single star by a factor of thousands and translate heat into light. Out in the

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This is a map of my world these days, the film crew occupy three of the two dozen wooden cabins that accommodate the lodge guests, we each have a little fenced-in beer porch outside our front door. A central wooden building contains the bar and restaurant, there is a Look-Out! tower on top of the restaurant and a fiendish pool outside the bar. The pool looks really good - new guests jump in with

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Just beyond the bushes surrounding my cabin is a bright green lake, the luminosity of which led me to assume that it didn't support much life but I watched as horned cattle waded in to shoulder depth in the mornings, stood around for an hour or two then disappeared back into the bushes. I also saw some deliciously cartoon-ey storks standing in the lake and realised that a lot of birds come

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I'm much worse at packing than I used to be, I pack far more these days and yet I have only a couple of wearable outfits - the other ninety per cent of my luggage might as well have stayed at home. I had considered my pyjamas to be redundant, at bedtime I take a cold shower and lie on the bed hoping sleep will come before I reheat. This morning, when I went to the bathroom, I noticed all the

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That's our breakfast this morning. String Hoppers are a sort of steamed shredded wheat. To make Egg Hoppers• Pour coconut milk pancake batter into a bowl-shaped iron pan on a hot ring• swirl the batter up the sides and crack an egg into the bottom• Place a lid on the pan and let it steam for a minute or two• When it is cooked, the steamed egg in it's crispy pancake bowl will slide out onto your

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