Archive for September, 2009
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009‘However, I do get a lot of weird Christians with a little red glint on their spectacles and spittle at the corner of their mouths who say things like, “The Commandment says, Thou Shalt Not Kill.” And I always say, “Well, that’s rather strange given how bloodthirsty Jehovah was.” Personally, I think the Commandment should [...]
quote of the day #1 Nigella Lawson
Monday, September 28th, 2009I actually always thought there was something essentially anti-feminist in the disparagement of cooking and baking, which is to say, if something has been traditionally female, it therefore must be discredited, and only activities which are traditionally male are to be valued.
From this interview on BBC Radio 4’s “Food for Thought”. It’s an interesting interview, [...]
fun fashion video
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009Prada studded shoes, all the rage apparently. I don’t like them at all. But this guy made his own for £7- there’s British ingenuity for you!
I liked this video from London fashion week so much, I mentioned it on the Full English facebook fan page!
Favourite bit (it’s at the end): When you go to see [...]
on the United States army entering WWI
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009Vera Brittain. See the First World War digital archive.
I’ve been enormously enjoying Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth, a thoroughly honest, heartfelt and morally self-critical memoir of the life of the author as a student and nurse before, after and during WWI. The following description of American soldiers stood out for me, as a remarkable view [...]
“you don’t learn from your mistakes”
Saturday, September 19th, 2009This one struck me. It’s from an interview with Charles Saatchi in the Mail:
What was your greatest mistake?
That is a really depressing question. I have made so many mistakes, and such really stupid ones, I would start blubbing away if I could remember even half of them. But do not dwell on c***-ups, I say. [...]
“Inglourious Basterds”- review
Thursday, September 17th, 2009Honestly, this was such a dreadful film, I have to say that in my view, nobody should waste their money going to see it.
And I’m a big Tarantino fan, hitherto.
It’s hard to know where to begin in describing what was wrong with this movie. Basically everything, because the usual bits and pieces failed to hit [...]
everything I know about business, I learned from real life first
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009Old-fashioned housewifery IS business skills, as I posted today on twitter. I went on to mention that it is hard to get recognition for this, these days, because the results of good housewifery look the same as the results of other things that can be bought with money, and/or money itself.
For instance, your child [...]
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2009I made a resolution not too long ago, to post more unfinished thoughts and pieces here on my personal blog. Then, as sometimes happens, real life took over and frankly, I didn’t have any thoughts worth sharing for quite a while (if a thought can fit into 140 characters, I put it on twitter.)
However, [...]
honestly, this is not from The Onion
Friday, September 11th, 2009The council at the centre of the Baby Peter child protection scandal confirmed today it had sent a foster child to live with the family of an Islamist terrorist who plotted to blow up several passenger airlines.
Social workers for the London borough of Haringey placed the child with relatives of Abdulla Ahmed Ali, who led [...]
quotes I like #1: critics, from grumpy to hilarious
Sunday, September 6th, 2009man in a beret- see below for relevance; click photo for attribution
So, how’s this for the opening paragraph of a restaurant review-
The world gets uglier every day. More ghastly houses, more monstrous office buildings, more fields, woods and ponds covered with concrete. Wherever I go, I see two views. The current one, which is usually [...]
