04 Tuesday Feb 2014
Posted in food & drink, health & happiness, weird
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I was at the supermarket today looking for baby spinach leaves and came across this display of packaged salads. Antiox, Cardio, Inmuno… how can they get away with this blatantly false labelling? It’s just lettuce FFS.
What’s the weirdest advertising you’ve seen lately?
03 Monday Feb 2014
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Today I went to renew my residency card, which included getting a fingerprint taken, and the woman at the immigration office couldn’t get the machine to “accept” my print. She said they were very faint. It was then I remembered hearing something about this while I was on chemo, that taking Xeloda could actually wipe out your fingerprints, as happened to this guy. After quite a few tries with both thumbs and a couple of fingers the machine finally gave a little “ping” and I was okay. I was beginning to worry, wondering what would happen if they couldn’t get an acceptable print. So that was a relief. Also a good thing I never tried using the fingerprint ID option on my new iPhone…
03 Monday Dec 2012
Posted in food & drink, weather, weird
Leave it to me to get a craving for salads as soon as the temperatures plummet (and it starts snowing on my blog!). But this past week or so, for no reason I can fathom, I am suddenly craving lots of crisp leafy greens with grated carrot, sliced onion and some chunks of high-quality preserved tuna (bonito). And when I say crave I mean that once lunchtime starts approaching I can almost feel the crunch of carrot and lettuce and taste the extra virgin olive oil with balsamic vinegar.
What the heck. I’m not going to question this. Of course it might be even healthier (or at least more slimmifying) if I didn’t accompany my salady lunch with a big chunk of pan gallego, but I’m guessing that having this fabulous bread option is what got me interested in salads again. Because really, what goes better with nice crusty bread, no matter what the weather is like? So I reckon I am now getting about 3 a day at lunch.
What’s your favourite way of getting enough veg in your diet?
23 Thursday Aug 2012
It’s not every morning you pass a guy in the street with a hooded raptor perched on his arm (to be honest, it had never happened before today). And so of course I had to stop and ask him what he was doing there with such a splendid bird. Turns out they were both working! They were just below the Metropol Parasol (aka The Mushrooms) and apparently José Manuel lets the beautiful Lupi loose on a regular basis to swoop around the Parasols and return to her perch, thereby keeping pigeons from roosting. Amazing! When you think about it, the Parasols would make a great pigeon hang-out and yet there are never any there. Thanks to Lupi and José Manuel.
It was only afterwards that I realised I had more questions. Are there several pigeon prevention teams that work on shifts, or are a few hours a day with a hawk shadow passing over the structure enough to keep pigeons away? Does Lupi also hunt and kill or just maintain a menacing presence? And who the hell thought this up? I think it’s brilliant.
What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen today?
08 Wednesday Aug 2012
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So this is part of some kind of promotion for a new BBC America series called Copper, which will feature some of 1864’s greatest rogues, and allows you to make your own mugshot in which your face morphs into a photo of a famous criminal of the day. Of course I used my mugshot of a passport photo for this, but I can’t decide if I was a con woman, thief or prostitute. Or something else? What do you think?
Why not make your own? G´wan, you know you want to…
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