Category Archives: miscellany

favourite brekky

13 Wednesday Sep 2006

Posted by in food & drink, miscellany, musings

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brekky.jpg On Ivan’s recent posting which is Absolutely Not About Prunes 😉 , the question was raised about why certain foods are considered proper breakfast food and others not. So I got curious as to why it’s somehow okay to eat bacon & eggs for breakfast but not, say, spaghetti and meatballs. Like, how did that happen?

Why corn flakes and not deep-fried spicy prawns?

Perhaps it’s because most breakfast food nowadays is quite fast and simple to prepare – bowl of cereal, toast, yoghurt & fruit, etc… Is it just because we tend to be so rushed and bleary-eyed in the morning that we can’t put together anything more interesting or more complicated than those few options? Or are there specific foods that are actually better (healthier) to eat first thing in the morning…to break one’s fast?

What’s your favourite brekky and why?

housecleaning

06 Wednesday Sep 2006

Posted by in life stuff, miscellany

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Does anyone actually enjoy housecleaning?

My flat is generally tidy(ish) but far from sparkling clean. In fact, the only people I know who have sparkling clean homes are those who have someone come in to do this for them. But also those homes somehow never look comfortable or ‘lived in’.

I was moved to write about this as Nog and I are doing a bit of serious Autumn cleaning at the moment, brought about by the gaaaaaaa! factor. Which basically means that the state of the place has made us both go gaaaaaaa! And we have decided that once this is all done we are going to maintain a simple weekly cleaning schedule so that things don’t get so out of hand … you know, kind of a Monday-Friday thing with set chores for each day.

I mean, we always get basic stuff done like laundry, washing up, bit o’ sweeping, basic bathroom maintenance … but things like dusting the bookshelves, cleaning the fridge and kitchen cupboards, dealing with general clutter, etc often get put off.

So, is it just us or do most people put off these sorts of cleaning chores until the gaaaaaaa! factor hits? If you happen to be a very organised housecleaning type person, are there any tips you can offer?

almost 10,000 peeks…

03 Sunday Sep 2006

Posted by in blogging, media, miscellany

≈ 21 Comments

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…since starting here on WordPress last May.

I reckon mostly lurkers from WordPress tag links and also from h2g2, since I have a link to my blog on my PS there. Still, that’s a lotta peeks. f_bigeyes.gif

I find that I lurk a lot more on blogs than I used to on h2g2. Perhaps because a lot of blogs seem more like personal journal entries rather than conversation threads. How about you? Are you mostly a ‘peeping tom’ or do you usually comment on blogs that you visit?

ps
checked out the new avatar feature yet?

eye glasses

31 Thursday Aug 2006

Posted by in life stuff, miscellany, retail therapy

≈ 24 Comments

eyeglasses.jpg Why do glasses cost so bloody much?

This morning I discovered that my prescription sunglasses had gone missing. Perhaps I’d left them at Modesto last night … and it is a serious truth that I cannot go outside in bright sunlight without my sunglasses because, well, it really HURTS my eyes.

So stopped by my usual opticians to see if I could find something I liked and I found a great pair of glasses that, unfortunately, wouldn’t work well as sunglasses as the inner bright green rim would be lost with a dark lens, which was the reason I liked them in the first place. Just as well as those ended up being Prada glasses and costing 200 euros.

Then I saw these really cool dark purple ones … tried them on. They were AMAZING. Fit my face perfectly (not an easy thing to do, given the SIZE of my face) looked cool and also sturdy enough to last a few years. Also liked the silver doohicky on the side. Turned out these ones were Bulgari and cost 300 euros! Like, WTF?

Why???

Why do these glasses cost so much? And why are the only glass frames that I ever like and suit me end up being these outrageously expensive ones? Because I couldn’t give a fiddler’s fart about designer brand names. Yet it always ends up the same. Though my tastes seem to be going rather ‘up market’ without my permission.

Last glasses I bought eight years ago were cute Benetton red wire frames for every day and some Armani clones by a company called Vogue for my prescription sunglasses. And they weren’t cheap either, just not quite as expensive as Armani’s would have been.

I’m honestly not interested at all in buying a designer brand name. In fact, it would be kinda embarrassing to wear glasses saying Bulgari on the side because people will snigger and think – what a dork for paying way too much for a pair of purple sunglasses.

Except there aren’t any other possible sunglasses. That fit. Are comfortable. Look nice.

Basically something that I’d want to put on my face.

And there is no way I can afford them anyhow, except Manolo is offering me a deal to pay them off over six months with no interest …

spam, spam, spam, spam…

29 Tuesday Aug 2006

Posted by in media, miscellany, rants

≈ 10 Comments

golden_honey_spam.jpg What the hell’s going on here?

I’ve recently been finding comments in my Akismet Spam file from people who have been posting here regularly.

Not only that, but most of the comments I’ve been posting lately have ended up in the Spam file … including comments I’ve posted on my own blogs! WTF?

And well, when they happen on my own blogs I can easily remedy the situation by going to Akismet and de-spamming comments. But I just posted a comment on Ivan’s blog and it didn’t show up so I’ve had to email him and ask him to de-spam me. Most inconvenient, not to mention annoying and confusing.

I’ve sent an email to WordPress Support and hope to hear from them soon. Just wondering if anyone else has been noticing this happening on their WordPress blogs?