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| Wendy’s Week of TV Part 2 | July 26, 2008 | Tuesday: Time TeamReasons to watch Time Team on Tuesday evenings 1. Baldrick (oops…I mean Tony Robinson) – who manages to make archaeology (which I think is a distinctly untelevisual topic) even mildly interesting 2. The crazed hair archaeologist Phil – who gets excited at dirt of all consistences and colours 3. The other white haired […] |
| lettuce on the side | July 25, 2008 | how much lettuce is too much lettuce on a sandwich? Well, going by my lunch today, when one can reassemble the leaves into an entire head of lettuce then perhaps the chef has gone a little overboard in the lettuce stakes. Jinx (in her wonderfully American fashion) suggested I should ask for “easy on the […] |
| lettuce on the side | how much lettuce is too much lettuce on a sandwich? Well, going by my lunch today, when one can reassemble the leaves into an entire head of lettuce then perhaps the chef has gone a little overboard in the lettuce stakes. Jinx (in her wonderfully American fashion) suggested I should ask for “easy on the […] |
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| a parody of his younger self | July 24, 2008 | Well the weather is certainly conducive to working indoors today (not that I work out of doors any other day) but still…there’s something comforting about sitting inside soaking in the artificial light with the rain and gloom outside. So a good day to get something substantial achieved on the thesis-to- book project. I managed to […] |
| a parody of his younger self | Well the weather is certainly conducive to working indoors today (not that I work out of doors any other day) but still…there’s something comforting about sitting inside soaking in the artificial light with the rain and gloom outside. So a good day to get something substantial achieved on the thesis-to- book project. I managed to […] |
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| a little concerned | July 23, 2008 | Ok…so I’m a little concerned now that Cadel Evans isn’t going to win the Tour de France. The commentary keeps telling us he’s still in contention due to his superior skills as a time trialler – as he slips further back through the field. That’s going to be one heck of time trial….And why does […] |
| a little concerned | Ok…so I’m a little concerned now that Cadel Evans isn’t going to win the Tour de France. The commentary keeps telling us he’s still in contention due to his superior skills as a time trialler – as he slips further back through the field. That’s going to be one heck of time trial….And why does […] |
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| Wendy’s Week of Television Part the First (with apologies to Blackadder) | July 21, 2008 | Partly inspired by Circulating Library’s Catriona who has ongoing threads on different topics, I thought I would try a progressive thread on what caught my eye on TV during the week.So here we go….over the past seven days I haven’t caught as much TV as I would have liked due to my various commitments so […] |
| Wendy’s Week of Television Part the First (with apologies to Blackadder) | Partly inspired by Circulating Library’s Catriona who has ongoing threads on different topics, I thought I would try a progressive thread on what caught my eye on TV during the week.So here we go….over the past seven days I haven’t caught as much TV as I would have liked due to my various commitments so […] |
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| Not with a bang but a whimper | July 10, 2008 | The Hollowmen exceeded my expectations…which had been a modern day version of Yes Minister/ Yes Prime Minister. Of course there are definite echoes of these fine British comedies, but The Hollowmen is much more than satire on the machiavellian maneouvres of an apparently unbiased civil service. What I found in the first episode was a […] |