Confidential to tumblr: California welcomed me with sunshine and jet lag. Thank goodness for proper coffee and moustache mugs. Yes, I know I look a fucking state. Read all about it.
“Amongst the archery lessons, boat rides, Olan Mills photos and whatever the fuck else crops up whilst I’m away, I’ve STUPIDLY promised to try and teach one of the Americans how to make Yorkshire puds (dear Americans, always ‘pud’ never ‘pudding’).
Do you go the 2 x 2 x 2 route?? Or less of the milk and more of the flour? Sunflower, duck or dripping? Edgars, Kirkhams even Brindles seem to disagree. and it’s not like the internet is much better. Article after article (fucking Delia – jesus!) after article all tell you different tales. The only thread of truth between them is to get everything hot as fuck.
Confidential to the internet: I’ve never even done it before. Expect stressful unravelling and third degree burns.”
Sounds like an eminently decent selection to me, which I am looking forward to getting stuck into and then telling you all about how:
a) we got thrown out of Kmart for indecency
b) I literally took someone’s eye out OR
c) that re-enactment of Overboard (which is – by the way – one of the greatest films of the eighties) didn’t turn out like I’d planned
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In no particular order:
1. Approx. 18 additional hours of sleep
2. Someone to either a) finish this godforsaken report for me or b) at the very least explain what the fuck it’s about
3. Failing…
Now that all that music shite is out of the way - AND, because I’ve left it so long, chuffing CHRISTMAS is also over - I can finally catch you up on that Madrid thing from November.
This entry, I…
No seriously, it does. I mean it this year, because some of the ones I’ve seen so far have been utter parp. PJ Harvey best album of the year???? Are you having a laugh?? Get out of this town. Clearly…
Note: This is the last post on the 50 Listens, promise. Unless something (else) fucking earth shattering happens - you know, like Eric Anderson himself tracks this down and decides it’s only fair…
As an analyst - once again - I feel compelled to observe and scrutinise the whole 50 Listen thing. And then make you read it, even though it might be a bit boring for you. I’m sorry I’m not…
This just made my day. Validation, at last.
Oh man. It turns out I have some really fucking awesomely thoughtful friends.
You see, one of the drawbacks of living in otherwise kickass In-ger-land is that when you dig a little band from…
Finally got to see William Fitzsimmons last night at the Deaf Institute* in Manchester - at long last. You might recall he was #16 on the 50 List, suggested by Babyface Ellis. He…
So I have to quickly jot this down before it goes out of my head completely. And you never know, it might get deleted anyway because it’s very feelings based and we all know my opinion of …
In order to restore the karmic balance of the last post, I’d like to offer some of the benefits of 3rd floor library life:
1. Educating people about the concept of the work crush/work husband/…
