Right, that’s it. No more red wine for me.
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Tags: drugs, harm ranking
This is the street I lived in until I was 5. Number 22, top flat.
Just found a set of photographs here.
Tags: glasgow
Getting the right credit card gets you free lounge access. My departure from the UK to Zurich is significantly more pleasurable today.
Rather than pushing through the tourist hordes destined for Torremolinos, procrastinating over macaroni cheese or a bowl of nothing and generally feeling sorry for myself, I’m able to skip off to a choice of lounges.
I can’t locate my first choice (no under 12’s was swinging it) but finding the ‘Escape’ lounge seemed to do the trick. Salad with decent dressing, good expresso and most importantly free caramel shortbread. This could be the undoing of me … or my waistline at least.
Tags: caramel shortbread, lounge, macaroni cheese, manchester, switzerland, torremolinos, zurich
- Overhearing a SOX compliance call leads me to consider moving my "no wine till Friday" deadline forward. #
- The Daily Mash – LOURDES UNVEILS LATEST HOAX http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/international/lourdes-unveils-latest-hoax-201008163003/ #
- off to do some stripping. of wallpaper #
- A&L £250 limit on faster payments! … that's why I'm moving. #
- I think you will find that revenge is a dish… best… served…ATTACK! #
- Hmmmm fresh coffee. #
- JABBA THE HUTT JOINS X FACTOR JUDGING PANEL http://bit.ly/aSopYQ #
- Only an hour or so to struggle through… then another day off the list until the weekend. #
- Focus, Stephen … Focus. You can only have so many cups of tea to delay documenting things. #
- @mrbarrymcdonald you still buying? in reply to mrbarrymcdonald #
- There is no chemical which can turn bright red when someone pees in a swimming pool. #
- managed to gather more ripe tomatoes, clear some cabbage moth larvae, cover the turnips and lettuce and bring in the washing … then rain. #
- @madelineisaacj. I hope 3,000 is better. Laces perhaps? in reply to madelineisaacj #
- On Friday, tea tastes as good as wine. #
- The Daily Mash – GIANT YORKSHIREMEN FOUND ON HOUSING ESTATE http://bit.ly/dc0hLo (to balance the forthcoming Scottish jibe) #
- The Daily Mash – HE'S NOT REALLY GOING TO USE THAT MONEY FOR A BUS, IS HE? ASKS SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT http://bit.ly/dnNVT8 #
- @mrbarrymcdonald but it's not even midday! in reply to mrbarrymcdonald #
- Migrating to quiet server commences …. hopefully #
- yes ….. migrated. #
- packing for switzerland … #
We’re receiving almost more vegetables than we can deal with at present.
Last weeks tomatoes and more on the way.
Runner beans and French beans (we’ve had around 3kg so far) and apples coming soon.
… and on the way … lettuce and radicchio
Turnip (left) and leeks, Cabbage (right) and more potatoes to come.
Tags: beans, cabbage, gardening, lettuce, potatoes, radicchio, tomato, turnip
Not far off track from Whitby on the way home is Rievaulx Abbey. I’d never heard of it until seeing a Dan Snow programme last week.
As you can see from the picture, top right, the monks had the same view as Therese and I.
Almost as impressive, huge portions of lunch for very little cash.
Tags: rievaulx abbey, yorkshire
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