Monthly Archives: October 2011

sunrise

Now it’s getting wintery I’m seeing a lot more sunrises and sunsets as no doubt are most people :)

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Supersonic 2011

This weekend was Supersonic Festival, a festival that I’ve mentioned many times over the years, as ever it was fantastic and a really really fun four days. We saw lots of interesting music and talks, my highlights are hard to pick but possibly Wolves In The Throne Room and Alva Noto. During the day we [...]

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Night of Adventure

On Monday I had a very quick trip to Bristol to go to Night of Adventure with my sister. It’s an evening of talks by people who have done interesting adventures such as cycling round the world, walking the length of the Amazon, and so on. It was such an inspiring event and was raising [...]

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messing about on boats

This morning I popped round to a narrow boat for a morning cup of tea. Boats are kind of fascinating :) I brought a dark sugar chocolate cake like the one I made the other day, this time I iced it with a chocolate fudge icing from the same book. The others were off on [...]

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dad cooking

Some kind of somen, soup, mackerel invention. Yum.

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