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Things to do with half a carton of orange juice.
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Things to do with half a carton of orange juice.
a) Drink it
b) Drink it with gin
c) Drink it with Vodka
d) Brown a chicken leg, with onion and a bit of red pepper. When nicely browned pour the orange juice on, and let stew for about twenty minutes. […]

Trivial Inaccuracies
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Trivial Inaccuracies
Chris once said I was the only person he knew who tried to land on the brown squares on a Trivial Pursuit board. That’s true, without the brown I would be far less competitive. So, inaccuracies get my goat.
This question tu[…]

BROWN WEDGE QUIZ OF THE WEEK
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BROWN WEDGE QUIZ OF THE WEEK
You pick up useless facts when researching. Occasionally said useless facts stick. After spending yesterday speed reading all of the playbills of West End plays for the last seventy years, here is a nice little fact I gle[…]

Pop Metaphors Vol.
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Pop Metaphors Vol. n: my favoured image for the interaction of underground creative scenes and the pop overground is the cocktail (or any mixer drink really): the booze is what gives the mixture its kick – but drinking spirits neat is an occasi[…]

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What’s so sporty about Chocolate?
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What’s so sporty about Chocolate?[…]

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Ooh that’s a Big One
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Ooh that’s a Big One
I went to see Belle and Sebastian at Somerset House earlier this month and at the bar, they sold two pint plastic glasses.

The first glass you see is a normal pint glass in my hand. I was drunk and channelling Father Ted […]

All those people, all those lives
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All those people, all those lives: I read once that the average lifespan of a weblog is around two months. Music blogs tend to last a bit longer – we are a tenacious, obsessive lot, and blogs with one or two year lifespans are not uncommon (may[…]

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Teetering on the Edge of the Precipice of Spannerism
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Teetering on the Edge of the Precipice of Spannerism
G’s post about the Routemaster Festival reminds me of the time I went to the London Transport Acton Town Depot.
I’d been to the London Transport Musuem and thought it absolutely superb.[…]

Tuica
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Tuica
Of all the booze I brought back from Romania (including this tasty little goer), the strangest is Romania’s national drink, Tuica.
Brewed from the latest technology tuica stings your throat like grappa’s crazy cousin. Basically, it[…]

Tomato soup, I love you
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Tomato soup, I love you — tomato soup has always been one of my vices, graduating from the basic Campbell’s can plus milk combination of my younger days to something more elaborate and tasty in various combination since. And tonight for […]

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