Not the post I planned

I was going to write a post about the weekend, about the pizza I made (from scratch including the base!), the over-indulgence in cheesy herb bread resulting in a low-fat plan for this week and the baby shower I went to on Sunday. Except that I’ve largely forgotten how that post went and instead I [...]

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Links and work insanity

To add to the debate on whether to get flu shots and which ones to get comes this: Does the seasonal flu vaccine increase the risk of catching swine flu?
On the one hand, it’s preliminary data that hasn’t been rigorously tested yet. Even one of the researchers admits this. OTOH, is it worth the risk [...]

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Tough decision

It’s time for the annual flu vaccination dilemma, compounded this year by the addition of the H1N1 flu vaccine. Now, normally I’m all for getting my shot. I’m in the high risk group (asthma) so it’s not a problem to get it and, while I know that it won’t provide 100% protection, I figure that [...]

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TGIF!

I am working from home today while I wait for Sears to turn up and declare that they don’t have the parts/sufficient people and cannot install the pedestal on my washing machine. It’s not like this is their fourth attempt to do so or anything…
Working from home has so far involved forty-five minutes on the [...]

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Dirty Dancing, Grey’s Anatomy and other stuff

Last night Mum and I decided that we needed to watch Dirty Dancing. I still love that movie so much. The dancing is amazing. The story is great and moving, the music is just right, but it’s the dancing that really captures me. Swayze was fantastic The only gripe I have is that [...]

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Experimental Mondays week 5 (and other things)

Er, OK, so experimental Monday got shifted to Saturday but the reason will become apparent.
I made aubergine, shallot and sun-dried tomato calzone. This involved making pizza dough from scratch and, as this is a yeast dough, it required prooving. There was no way that I could get home from work and have pizza on the [...]

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Catching up on many things

Knitting

I’m making good progress on Brighton Take Too, the cardigan for my sister. I love the pattern, I adore the yarn (Rowan Cashsoft DK) and the combination of the two makes for a really great knitting experience. I did encounter a small technical hitch yesterday…
I was knitting merrily on the left front. Mum and I [...]

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Fall TV and so on

It’s September, that must mean that it’s time for regular TV shows to start again. Woo!
This year, I’m handling it better than last year. ER and CSI never got watched because I missed their premiers and didn’t know until we were four episodes in that either one had started. CSI:NY only got watched for the [...]

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