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Friday, 31 December 2010

More crappy BBC sub-editing.

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The headline: Ex-Irish PM Bertie Ahern to stand down at next election Yes, the BBC appear to be suggesting that Bertie Ahern is still Prime ...
Friday, 24 December 2010

New life.

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It seems only fair, since Daisy's birth was quite excitingly blogged live from here, that her new sister get a mention. Poppy Antonia Ky...

Two adverts that are really annoying me.

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Insert useless apology about not blogging for ages here. OK. Anyway. First, Dettol. Their Surface Cleanser is being advertised on heavy ro...
Saturday, 2 October 2010

Chinglish from someone who can't spell "China".

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Monday, 27 September 2010

The matter at hand.

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So I was watching an episode of Castle and it starts with a PG-rated yet highly vigorous sex scene, and it's one of those scenes in whic...
Monday, 26 July 2010

Better brioche.

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I did say I'd keep tinkering, and I have. Here is the new improved bread-machine brioche recipe. I'm very pleased with myself: th...

It's this sort of thing that makes me wonder whether gods are at work.

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Fans of brand names and the theory of nominative determinism will be amused to hear that Reckitt are taking over Durex.
Friday, 16 July 2010

A brioche recipe for bread machines.

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Anyone who's ever tried looking up bread-machine recipes ont' Web knows that there are thousands of them out there. Except not, for...
Monday, 28 June 2010

Translation and explanation.

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Yet more world-class journalism from the BBC: The wives and girlfriends of Spanish players, known as esposas y novias (wives and girlfriends...
Wednesday, 23 June 2010

Unjustified.

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Let's just take Saville's "facts" as read. He is, after all, a judge, and his job is to presume innocence and only declar...