Crisps and other matters….

There should be a word for the feeling you get when only salt and vinegar flavoured crisps will do.
I have a morose and speechless lust for salty snacks; anchovies, nuts, crisps, pickles, you name it. What I can do to a jar of cornichons and onions isn’t printable in a mixed forum. Just ten minutes [...]

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Musical Infantilism

Metro Station~Shake It Music Video

So I have no idea what either possessed or inspired me, but I have just downloaded the Metro Station album from iTunes.
Let’s embrace the worst, first – this is a band made up of bendy little rubber boys, led by Miley Cyrus’s older brother Trace (really? Billy Ray [...]

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Bolthole Bliss

My little house is so tiny that, if the sitting room was a stomach, it would have been stapled… there is a sort of belly or eddy at the bottom of the stairs which allows people to slow down and stop off on their way to the kitchen. In this tiny space I have made [...]

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Chocolate! and other things it is useless to resist….

I always do this. I get three quarters through the day after being virtuous and eating high fibre, low fat / salt / sugar, loads of fruit, loads of water, aescetic lunch, omega 3’s yada yada, and kill it all stone dead by eating a Kit Kat Chunky as fast as a 40 foot pine trunk going [...]

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