Thoughtbubble and Leeds

Tuesday, 29 November 2011, 19:11 | Category : Stuff, Uncategorized, writing
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I wrote this blogpost and completely forgot to set it “live”.  Sigh.  Where is my head? Wow, what a fab weekend.  Mark and I trained it up to Leeds and it all went so well.  Got to write and edit for just over 2 hours, so that was superb.  Also, first class travel was super.  [...]

Succumbing

Wednesday, 16 November 2011, 16:46 | Category : Uncategorized
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Is sometimes the easiest thing to do. I’m talking about GoodReads.  I’ve eventually signed up for it.  Not just to add MFB reviews, but also to get MORE reccommendations and to read other reviews and be alerted to upcoming titles I may want to pop over onto my Amazon wishlist.  So if you haven’t already, [...]

The Weekend That Was

Monday, 14 November 2011, 19:54 | Category : movies
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We popped up to Oxford by Oxford Tube bus on Saturday to meet some friends for lunch at a place called Atomic Pizza. Atomic Pizza comes highly recommended.  We ate and ate and ate and laughed and chatted.   And we commented on the decor and chatted to the owner who was wearing a t-shirt with [...]

A boy with an ax

Friday, 11 November 2011, 13:03 | Category : fairy tales, movies, Uncategorized
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Official poster Watched the trailer for Snow White and the Huntsman last night.  And squirmed with pent up joy.  Charlize Theron gets to play the Evil Queen with such style and grace and wickedness – I am won over. Sadly, poor Kirsten is cast in the role of Victim a k a Snow White, but hopefully the script [...]

Why I love Hugh and Nigel

Wednesday, 9 November 2011, 14:52 | Category : Uncategorized
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Mark and I are both on a very strict diet – but that has not stopped us from becoming slaves to the food channel and in particular to Nigel Slater and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s shows, whom we’ve liked a lot in the past, but sort of now have come to appreciate them more fully.  I don’t [...]