Monthly Archives: April 2008

luxury, calm, and delight

Tonight, to celebrate our wedding anniversary, I made mushroom soup from genuine field mushrooms (instead of those pale imitations from the supermarket), and sourdough bread. And, yes, I made the bread too. Served hot enough to melt the butter, fresh … Continue reading

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lucky escapes

Over the years I’ve had many jobs. Some of them have been great (like my current role) and others have been pretty good, and, thankfully, only a very few have been hideous. Normally it’s not the job per se, rather … Continue reading

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Call of the Wild

I’ll start with a quick revisit of the criteria for my year of reading dangerously (myord). First, in order to acknowledge the future of the book, it must be available online – as a download, whatever. Second, the book must … Continue reading

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Kate ‘08 – changing a life, one day at a time

I’ve so been looking forward to writing this posting. It’s number 500. And somewhere in the first few paragraphs it’ll topple over into 200,000 words. I started writing here on 1 August 2005 – it’s literally been a life changing … Continue reading

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