Round, frozen, hard, white. Watery now, shedding your ice. Patting, drying, there-there. (Heating butter, adding garlic, a dash of oil.) Take a teriyaki bath, there you go. Scrubba dubba. Time to come out now! Lift you, Sea Scallops, gently out of your tub. Thrust you into the searing, flashing, firework pan. Scorch your edges. Throw… Continue reading Love
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How To Hide Farmville or Mafia Wars or Others on Facebook News Feed
I appreciate that lots of my friends have fun with Farmville on Facebook. I, however, am not interested and would love to not have to wade through that stuff. Since I try to spend as little time as possible on Facebook, it has taken me a ridiculously long time to figure out how to hide… Continue reading How To Hide Farmville or Mafia Wars or Others on Facebook News Feed
Time Enough At Last
I’ve been sending Gregor to Lunch Bunch a lot recently a, because he likes it and b, because the difference between picking him up at 11.15 (stop what I’m doing at 10.45, probably get dressed, and make sure I’m ready to leave just after 11) is hugely different from picking him up at 1. Every… Continue reading Time Enough At Last
Brie, Ham, Tomato, Basil – Super Supper
OK, so I’m watching my portions but I worked hard today and hadn’t eaten much so i decided to have a little supper. Two small slices of bread, some thinly-sliced Brie, two slices of shaved ham, and a couple of cherry tomatoes, topped with some basil harvested from the garden in the summer and frozen.… Continue reading Brie, Ham, Tomato, Basil – Super Supper
Hand Shoe
Yarn: Patons Kroy Socks Stripes Colour: 55614. Needles: 5xbamboo Takumi dpns 3.25mm This started out as a sock, but I made a mistake with the heel and put it aside for a few days. That sock had been conceived as my auto-pilot, thinking -about-other-things project, and I was mightily annoyed at it for demanding more… Continue reading Hand Shoe
Shut It!
[audio:http://www.julieduffy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/shutit2.mp3|titles=Shut It!] I’ve been reading Gretchen Rubin‘s Happiness Project book 1 and I guess some of it is sinking in. Particularly the part about only being able to change yourself and your actions/reactions, even if it’s other things/people who are annoying you. This morning I thought about some household chore and it brought up other… Continue reading Shut It!
Little
[audio:http://www.julieduffy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Little2.mp3|titles=Little] When I was 15 I worked in a bar for three hours each Sunday, clearing glasses and making coffee, for 1.25 an hour. I had a boyfriend and I used to meet him on Saturday afternoons. I would catch a red council bus (0.45 each way), all diesel fumes, red vinyl seats and poor… Continue reading Little
Snow Delay
[audio:http://www.julieduffy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/snowdelay.mp3|titles=Snow Delay] Snow delay for the kids today. It was barely worth it for a dusting. There was no policy for this when I grew up. Here, now, everyone knows that a delay means the day starts two hours late, A snow day means everything is canceled but work. Growing up, there was just snow,… Continue reading Snow Delay
‘Sno Always Like This
[audio:http://www.julieduffy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Snolikethis.mp3|titles=Sno Always Like This!] Since I moved to the States I’ve had to deal with people always telling me that I must be so used to the cold and snow, being from Scotland and all. Then I have to gently tell them that it’s not really like Dickens’s A Christmas Carol in Britain these days,… Continue reading ‘Sno Always Like This
Back In The 1980s, Kids…
[audio:http://www.julieduffy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/legwarmers.mp3|titles=Legwarmers] Yesterday I bent down and slid legwarmers over my feet for the first time since 1985. Instantly, I was 13 again; in my bedroom in my parents’ house, faintly worried. Will I look stupid? Is my hair right? Will he notice me? Where’s my electric-blue eyeliner? But these were a modest brown, not the… Continue reading Back In The 1980s, Kids…