Tuesday, January 31, 2006
What is the agenda?
Limitations to freedom of speech.
Extended detention without charge.
The proposal for identity cards.
Trial without jury.
The curtailment to demonstrate within central London.
The misuse of the Terrorism Act.
Liberty
Extended detention without charge.
The proposal for identity cards.
Trial without jury.
The curtailment to demonstrate within central London.
The misuse of the Terrorism Act.
Liberty
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Text machine
Originally uploaded by Frizzworld.
And we all thought texting was a new thing.
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Middle East
What to think about Hamas and those elections? Stuart Hughes (producer for BBC News) is doing a podcast to go along with his blog from the region. [found on bowblog]
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Monday, January 30, 2006
Googled
I've got a gmail account courtesy of a stranger I had the cheek to ask at work today. Thank you S, very nice to meet you.
Lovely evening yesterday for M's birthday...second day of great conversation and CBB catch up. Just missed seeing B though, which was a shame.
Lovely evening yesterday for M's birthday...second day of great conversation and CBB catch up. Just missed seeing B though, which was a shame.
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Sunday, January 29, 2006
Unpicking
So ideas were in short supply and the scarf was unpicked, but the conversation was not and was very stimulating, and N I'm sure some B**ing did take place, but naturally only in the most friendly way. And yes Celebrity did come up.
I've learnt that if someone sends you an angry email you should acknowledge their anger before trying to deflate the situation - one to remember as N was feeling annoyed that no one seemed to believe she was angry.
Started a green scarf - picture to follow when I've progressed a bit further, but I have a dilemma, I only have one ball of yarn (bought in the states), so I don't know if I'm going to have enough to finish it, I guess a trip to John Lewis to find a colour to match it with might be needed, although it's such a lovely green, I think i'd rather just have a very short scarf.
The evening ended standing outside looking at a jumping Saturn through some Binoculars.
I've learnt that if someone sends you an angry email you should acknowledge their anger before trying to deflate the situation - one to remember as N was feeling annoyed that no one seemed to believe she was angry.
Started a green scarf - picture to follow when I've progressed a bit further, but I have a dilemma, I only have one ball of yarn (bought in the states), so I don't know if I'm going to have enough to finish it, I guess a trip to John Lewis to find a colour to match it with might be needed, although it's such a lovely green, I think i'd rather just have a very short scarf.
The evening ended standing outside looking at a jumping Saturn through some Binoculars.
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Saturday, January 28, 2006
B.C.
Now stands for Before Celebrity - taken from Ali Smith, whose book The Accidental I've just started reading. T will be pleased, she gave it to me as a present some time ago and has been patiently waiting to borrow it back ever since.
Missed yoga... not good, I am becoming a lost cause there.
Am off now to do some knitting... at a Stitch and Bitch or a Knitting Circle (a generational thing). I was hoping someone would be able to teach me how to do cable stitch, but I didn't get it together to buy the special needle you need. I'll take the scarf I haven't touched for a while, in the hope that someone there can save me from unpicking it and turn it into something beautiful, although I think that it might also be a lost cause.
Missed yoga... not good, I am becoming a lost cause there.
Am off now to do some knitting... at a Stitch and Bitch or a Knitting Circle (a generational thing). I was hoping someone would be able to teach me how to do cable stitch, but I didn't get it together to buy the special needle you need. I'll take the scarf I haven't touched for a while, in the hope that someone there can save me from unpicking it and turn it into something beautiful, although I think that it might also be a lost cause.
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Friday, January 27, 2006
Meta-celebrity
The great British public has voted Chantelle (a non-celebrity) the winner of Celebrity Big Brother. What does this mean - a kick up the teeth to the idea of celebrity? Are we saying that now we are all celebrities or we think we are, or deserve to be? Or a 'we are just fed up' with all the so called celebrity we have to put up with, from the broadsheets to 'celebrity magazines'. Or simply that British thing of supporting the underdog, I'll go with the latter, she survived all those ego's, that's pretty good going.
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Tiles 1
Originally uploaded by Frizzworld.
I'm becoming more observant - here are some tube platform tiles I noticed yesterday. Aliens using the escalators?
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Red
Go on do the Red thing...
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Soft focus
I am watching the strangest film on Five (well it's on in the background)... Ladies Room (1999) a strange mixture of women in purgatory (a white room), with flashbacks. The cast includes Lorraine Bracco the shrink from the Sopranos, John Malkovich, Greta Scacchi and Molly Parker. Strange ethereal music and soft focus, very 1980's time warp? And all because I can't find the control for the digi box.
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It's a question of pixels
Do I need a 7 megapixel camera or should I buy the 5 megapixel one in the sales? I keep thinking larger pictures are fun, but am I really going to blow a picture up larger than A3?
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Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Coolness/not cool
The colour of choice has gone back to black, but I'm not sure it might have already lost its newfound coolness.
I got the all clear from the dentist… am now on a countdown to the braces…no one is allowed to laugh…
I got the all clear from the dentist… am now on a countdown to the braces…no one is allowed to laugh…
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Theatre's out
Originally uploaded by Frizzworld.
We came out of a bar to see all the rickshaw's lined up outside a theatre - I don't think the picture quite captures how charming it looked.
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Take off
Originally uploaded by Frizzworld.
Making the most of half price sushi. Lovely evening with C, who tells me other places are doing half price deals, will keep you posted.
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And on to the next...
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Yesterday… first sighting of chocolate eggs...
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Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Stardust
Go here to see the webcam from the Stardust Cleanroom at the Johnson Space Center... found on Steve's site.
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Monday, January 23, 2006
Game
This one is especially for you A - an Ikea - match the name to the product game - from LinkMachineGo.
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Some London news
Call centre workers for Westminster Council (central London) are being asked to move to a small town (pop 5,000) in Scotland. I'm sure its a lovely place, but according the the BBC these workers are dealing with parking, licensing, community protection and library services - what would they be doing in Scotland or anywhere, but central London? Unsurprisingly there are no takers yet.
The Whale rescuers' were given parking tickets...
The Whale rescuers' were given parking tickets...
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Tax thingy
Yes, it's done, I pressed the button. I'm not leaving it this late next year. I am going to be more organized.
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Sunday, January 22, 2006
More music
I haven't been to a gig for a while and suddenly everyone is playing. The spring is going to be fun... thanks Z for booking that.
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Saturday, January 21, 2006
Music
Talk about displacement, spent most of the day trying to set up a Myspace.com site - just for the hell of it?? I managed to redesign the blog page, but have given up with the main profile... so don't believe anything on it - I'm really not 99 years old. I did discover that Gemma Hayes is playing some gigs... info here.
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Blog software
Had a very quick unsuccessful fling with MarsEdit, so back to Ecto.
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Crossing fingers
This emailed from J about the whale: "Isn't it wonderful that thousands of people went up to see it? And that it's been rescued. It occurred to me that this sort of thing never happens in France or Germany or Italy or anywhere else in Europe. It's the sort of quirky thing that only happens here! "
I really hope it makes it.
I really hope it makes it.
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Friday, January 20, 2006
Press here
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Interactive advertising - seen on the Euston Road… London meets Tokyo.
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On shiny things
Later on I went to a talk on "Why anything can be any thing" which just happened to be about why we are attracted to shiny objects… I'm not sure I understood it all, but the theory put forward was that it's an evolutionary thing, that goes back to our survival instincts… so that explains why all those shiny products are so hard to resist.
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Peace Prize
Permission from the Religious Society of Friends
Yesterday thanks to some American students I had the opportunity to see a Noble Peace Prize medal... very shiny and gold and because it was awarded to the Society of Friends for their humanitarian work during the war - some of which I've been looking at, it seemed like a wondrous object.
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Thursday, January 19, 2006
Fuzzy stranger
Originally uploaded by Frizzworld.
What taking out a camera (phone) can get you...
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Xmas past
Originally uploaded by Frizzworld.
Taking down the lights along Oxford Street.
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A fun evening
Half price Sushi, how could you go wrong? Not one, but two hot chocolates and I'm still buzzing... Three lovely guy's on a flying visit from LA... fun to talk to...they wanted to be here and we wanted to be in LA - what is that all about? We sent them off to walk over Waterloo Bridge, just about the best place to view London… it's so beautiful along the river.
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Walk the Line
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Coming to a screen near you very soon - a wonderful biopic.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Hugs photo
© 2003 South Asia Tribune Publications
Just in case you are wondering, I'm not trying to compare our little dispute to the relationship between India and Pakistan... I googled hugs and this was the only adults hugging I could find... Does this say something about our culture or just a lack of photos on Google? A good photo though.
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Hugs
Our neighbor 'thing' has surfaced again... it's interesting when people say they aren't into arguing and then get someone else to do it for them. It's not quite the same, but reminds me of when I worked at this company and the boss got a bunch of us together before the start of a big project and warned us that we might be the focus of some people's stress, in hindsight what she should have said, was that we would be the focus of her stress.... picture screaming woman...
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Small things
Today I'm looking forward to my first hot chocolate... since last week, meeting friends to brave the queues for half price Sushi, and maybe even a tiny chance to look around the shops. Are the sales even still on... the cold / cough (not quite gone) kept me away.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Late night
I want to go to bed, but have just discovered The Last Word on More4... Christina Odone and Naomi Wolf - I think I've missed most of it though. More4 is interesting.
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Cheers
Hi Stuart, of Feeling Listless... thank you for the Frizz link... I'd do a smily, but I'm not sure how to... :-) a manual one will have to do.
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Dinner time
I was going to post a picture of my dinner, but you're saved as it's a little fuzzy (soo need that camera). I couldn't find the noodles so opted for a baked potato and veggies cooked with some Miso - my new discovery, quite interesting. I realize, no protein. I had taken the tofu out, but somehow it got buried under everything and was forgotten.
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Metro the new Über?
Those in the know have come up with metrospiritual, try the test - I came out as a wannabe...
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Monday, January 16, 2006
A Cock and Bull Story
Opens at the weekend - one to see... nothing deep, but very funny.
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Bright light
And talking about Sandy, I thought I'd say that she is having a love affair with the new halogen heater we have (to take us out of the Danger! zone) ... she sprawls out in front of it and gets very hot.
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Frolicking foxes
We just had a bit of excitement in the garden. Two foxes, lots of squawking and Sandy going mad wanting them off her turf. They weren't the usual mangy types, but the well-groomed variety and about the same size as her, so I wasn't sure I should let her out – you know two against one. I tried knocking, or more like banging on the window, but they didn't seem to mind.
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How warm is your room?
Thoughtfully Ken has sent us a thermometer to tell us if the house is warmer enough. For those of you who don't believe me when I say it's cold here, we left it in the hall and it went into the Danger! zone which apparently means there is a risk of hypothermia, heart attack or stroke if we hang out in the hallway. It then tells you what you should do - turn up the heating and put on more clothes, very helpful indeed.
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A nations obsession?
Last week waiting for the tube at Vauxhall, the three people standing next to me were all reading articles about Big Brother... in three different newspapers.
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Sunday, January 15, 2006
Crisp Heaven
Golden Wonder has gone into administration... Have been getting all nostalgic remembering Bones, the salt and vinegar crisps. The packets used to have salt and vinegar balls at the bottom and at nursery we used to dare each other to eat them... wow they were sharp.
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Arbus film
© The Estate of Diane Arbus
Guess what, there's a new film about Diane Arbus that's about to come out. I'm not sure about the casting, Arbus is being played by Nicole Kidman, but its directed by Steven Shainberg who directed Secretary, so it could be interesting.
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Saturday, January 14, 2006
Lights
Natural-HistoryMuseum-0244
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London in the rain.
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Diane Arbus
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At the V & A, but closes tomorrow (Sunday). Very interesting photographer, American, Jewish. Another wonderfully curated exhibition. I got completely absorbed in the all the extra displays, magazine articles and copies from her notebooks.
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Criminals as victims
The last day at the conference was great, although my ability to concentrate had dropped.
Interesting talk on how we have looked at other groups that were persecuted during the holocaust including criminals, which is apparently a group that has really been ignored. Even though many were not what we would class as genuine criminals, we seem to have had a problem thinking of them at victims - can victims only be those that are seen as morally upstanding?
Interesting talk on how we have looked at other groups that were persecuted during the holocaust including criminals, which is apparently a group that has really been ignored. Even though many were not what we would class as genuine criminals, we seem to have had a problem thinking of them at victims - can victims only be those that are seen as morally upstanding?
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Friday, January 13, 2006
My 2005 in cities
Following feeling listless's example...
London, UK
Bogota, Coluombia
Cartagena, Coluombia
Quito, Ecuador
Miami, USA
Washington, USA
New York, USA
(one or more nights spent in each place)
Short, but exotic... sort of.
London, UK
Bogota, Coluombia
Cartagena, Coluombia
Quito, Ecuador
Miami, USA
Washington, USA
New York, USA
(one or more nights spent in each place)
Short, but exotic... sort of.
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Thursday, January 12, 2006
And
Also, BL talking about Belsize Square Synagogue, which was started by refugees, we had a nice chat and I asked her if she would give a talk at the WL.
Good to catch up with some friends I haven't seen in a while. And to see people from the last conference three years ago - time collapsing in on itself.
Last day tomorrow. Then off to the Tate with I for something completely different.
Good to catch up with some friends I haven't seen in a while. And to see people from the last conference three years ago - time collapsing in on itself.
Last day tomorrow. Then off to the Tate with I for something completely different.
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Another good day
Listened to a survivor of Auschwitz talk about her compulsion, now towards the end of her life, to write her story down, very honest and articulate. Her son was also speaking and together they have turned her story into a book, so we heard his experiences of working with his mother. Fascinating.
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Ecto
Have been using this to post for the last few days, a lot easier than signing in with Blogger every time. It's one of those downloads where you get 20 days to try it - might check out some more before I commit...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Academia
Have spent the day amongst academia. Met some very interesting people. Lots on DPs (displaced persons), discovered that there's not that much research that's been done yet. So there was me thinking, help I can't find the info I need and it doesn't exist.
Got to talking about Etty Hillesum, who was this amazing young Jewish woman, who wrote a diary about her experiences of being a refugee in Holland in the early 1940's. The older version of Anne Frank, she was also murdered in the camps. In the diary she's trying to deal with all the everyday issues of being a young single woman, from work to relationships, hormones and periods, as well as trying to find a way of making sense of what is happening in Europe, to herself, her friends and family.
An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941-43
Got to talking about Etty Hillesum, who was this amazing young Jewish woman, who wrote a diary about her experiences of being a refugee in Holland in the early 1940's. The older version of Anne Frank, she was also murdered in the camps. In the diary she's trying to deal with all the everyday issues of being a young single woman, from work to relationships, hormones and periods, as well as trying to find a way of making sense of what is happening in Europe, to herself, her friends and family.
An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941-43
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Rabbits
The other day when I was going through an Ebay thing... I caught myself seriously thinking about bidding for a hoody with real rabbit fur... I thought, well that should be warm. Then I had to pull myself back and say hello RABBIT FUR, however cold London gets, it doesn't get cold enough to justify buying real fur - unless perhaps its second hand, but then I'm not sure I could even deal with that. I remember my grandmother had one of those fox stole's with all the bits - you know the head and feet et al - not nice. From a different age and it should really stay there.
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Chocs away
Have rediscovered hot chocolate - be it with soya milk... so perfect for these cold days.
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Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Venturing out
First day back in the big bad world... good to get out - and only coughed a bit. I'm attending a conference over the next few days so right back in the thick of it. It should be very interesting and maybe I'll write some stuff up about it here.
Ps. got the report in.
Ps. got the report in.
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Monday, January 09, 2006
FareShare
Ever wondered what happens to all the surplus food at the end of the day...
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Things to do
Do tax return, do tax return, do report, do tax return...
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Sunday, January 08, 2006
Turkey
Now bird flu in Ankara.
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Poison Sweet Madeira
The name of Sophie Solomon's new album - the fab violinist from Oi Va Voi - it's out at end of the month.
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Still Up
Got the munchies for chocolate too late... so hey, I'm still up watching Larry David and Ben Affleck Stiller, rehearsing for The Producers in Curb Your Enthusiasm... even had a cameo by Mel Brooks, who is wonderful. I think I need to have a Mel Brooks retrospective - Simon??
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Saturday, January 07, 2006
Kennedy goes
Just wish for his sake he'd not dragged it out.
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Friday, January 06, 2006
News readers
The computer ones - I'm taking back my 'kinda basic' comment from earlier. Two days, that's all it's taken for me to realize I don't know how I was managing without it. If you want to know more the BBC have some info here.
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Get organized!
I like this answer to my overflowing In box. Thanks to anything but ordinary for the link.
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Thursday, January 05, 2006
C Big Brother 2
George Galloway the MP for Bethnal Green and Bow on Celebrity BB? Do MP's get that much holiday at this time of year? I'd be pretty annoyed if I was a constituent...
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C Big Brother
Argh! Help... stuck at home watching Celebrity Big Brother.... I'm just going to see who they are and that's all...honest. Actually, I don't think I can face being committed to the weeks ahead - I stopped watching the last one before Germaine Greer walked out. How many BB's can channel 4 carry on doing?
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Review 2005
What's a gal to do, with my cold rattling around in my chest I'm having to stay in. As a distraction I've been sorting through my photo's. Here's a review from my 2005. [Is this still allowed, I realize it's a little on the late side]. They're taken with my phone - I need a digicamera... so some are a little fuzzy, and I didn't always remember that it had a camera, but that might be a blessing.
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Walks
richpk002-mp
Falling in love with Richmond Park 1
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Tennis
Wim-05-0105
Wimbledon...lots of queuing, but such a good atmosphere
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Walks again
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Falling in love with Richmond Park 2
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Summer afternoons
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Music and dance at the South Bank
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Summer Evenings
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How far away is that screen...
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Quito
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Travelling was wonderful - I want to go back... so many pictures I didn't take.
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New York, New York
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and smoke free bars!!!!
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Ground Zero
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OK so then I did go to Century 21, but it wasn't planned
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Cupcake Heaven
The Magnolia Bakery NY NY
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The Fourth Plinth
Alison Lapper, worth as many visits as possible...
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Open House
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The Hoover Building
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Boxes and boxes
Rachel Whiteread at Tate Modern
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St. Paul's
View from Tate Modern
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Gardens of Glass
Phew
I have finally managed to work out how to use a news reader and syndicated sites - I downloaded a programme ages ago, which I just couldn't get my head around. Now I've downloaded NetNewsWire Lite and it all suddenly seems incredibly easy. I've put a link in the sidebar to the Atom feeder address for Frizz. I guess it's quicker and easier to read stuff this way, although it does seem kinda basic.
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Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Half price
If you like Sushi check this out. Thanks M for the tip.
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Distortion
Discovered something called ana mentioned in Popco, I thought I'd see if it was real and it is – basically it's pro – Anorexia sites – horrific. By accident found this site, which shows how photographs are retouched for magazines. How do girls or even woman have a chance of feeling good about themselves, if what they are comparing themselves to are images as fake as Barbie dolls, at least with Barbie you know it's plastic.
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Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Nettles
Head feeling slightly less like a brick today. I can't drink water when I've got a cold, so have been drinking Nettle tea, smells odd, but very soothing. Finger is still looking very Frankensteinish.
Back to the computer stuff, I've downloaded the latest version of Firefox – has a tab feature which lets you tab between web pages in one window – great idea.
Back to the computer stuff, I've downloaded the latest version of Firefox – has a tab feature which lets you tab between web pages in one window – great idea.
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Third computer obsessed day
Check out del.icio.us if you haven't already - a place to store your bookmarks so that they are available from anywhere, it seems to work really well. If you sign up, make sure you add the buttons to your browser – makes it very quick.
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Monday, January 02, 2006
blog...surfing...
I've spent the afternoon blog-surfing. Here are a few that I found, there are a lot of blogs out there, my eyes feel very bloodshot, although that could just be the cold:
troubled-diva, little red boat, petite anglaise, rebecca's pocket, feeling listless, weblogwannabe
Ps I have the telly on in the background, celebrity Mastermind and someone has Sex and the City series 3 as their chosen subject…
troubled-diva, little red boat, petite anglaise, rebecca's pocket, feeling listless, weblogwannabe
Ps I have the telly on in the background, celebrity Mastermind and someone has Sex and the City series 3 as their chosen subject…
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taking it easy
The cold got the better of me and I didn't make it to Tate Modern - sorry N & D. My head feels like a brick.
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Name it
What can I say - it's late... spell with flickr
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Sunday, January 01, 2006
Sasha Frieze
Have been reading Sasha Frieze's blog, Sashinka, which was recommended - check it out. I almost went to a workshop she ran a couple of years back on what to do with curly hair... it sounded fun, but I think I went for something more serious, I was scared of contributing...
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Well, HAPPY everything to everyone
I woke up this morning to a new year's cold, not surprising as I spent quite a lot of the week with kids and adults all cold ridden, plus the fact that I've been driving around in a freezing cold car after it tried to poison me with anti-freeze – yuk, believe me it doesn't smell good, it could even be an alternative to glue sniffing – although I guess that's one for Andrew.
Being Jewish, we had two Christmas days?!? – which included two Christmas lunches... One cooked by David and Silvia and one by my mum with a hand from one and all. Way too much food – I think on day two we had four deserts which was just silly, but very tasty except for pudding which I can't stand. Needless to say the 'Gluten free' went out the window.
I had a moment at the end of day two when it all got a bit much and felt sad thinking about all the people not with us – especially my Dad - hard.
Usually the week between Xmas and New Year is quite low key – meaning vegging out in front of the TV, but this year I've managed a walk on the Heath followed by hot chocolate and cake at Café Mozart, skating at Kew, a trip to the sales, session two of a therapy experiment I'm doing (more later), and a New Years Eve party at Irene's – all in all a lovely week – and cold permitting, there's still a trip to Tate Modern to come.
Back to Mary Poppins - don't you love all that technicolor. Roll on 2006.
Being Jewish, we had two Christmas days?!? – which included two Christmas lunches... One cooked by David and Silvia and one by my mum with a hand from one and all. Way too much food – I think on day two we had four deserts which was just silly, but very tasty except for pudding which I can't stand. Needless to say the 'Gluten free' went out the window.
I had a moment at the end of day two when it all got a bit much and felt sad thinking about all the people not with us – especially my Dad - hard.
Usually the week between Xmas and New Year is quite low key – meaning vegging out in front of the TV, but this year I've managed a walk on the Heath followed by hot chocolate and cake at Café Mozart, skating at Kew, a trip to the sales, session two of a therapy experiment I'm doing (more later), and a New Years Eve party at Irene's – all in all a lovely week – and cold permitting, there's still a trip to Tate Modern to come.
Back to Mary Poppins - don't you love all that technicolor. Roll on 2006.
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