This week I have....

Saturday, April 4th, 2009 11:16 pm
tourmaline: (jesse spencer)
...done lots of things, despite my ankle and my hand and my bruised bum. Thankfully all are on the mend.

Read on... )
And as I've spent the evening with Wikipedia, I must do some studying tomorrow.

Food Now

Saturday, February 21st, 2009 07:45 pm
tourmaline: (easter)
I've just finished a four-hours-plus study session, a combination of booklearning and a major DVD activity set. Now I'm HUNGRY, but have some dried tomatoes soaking in water & can't touch them for 20 minutes or so. So, in the meantime, I hope you enjoy these food-related blogs.

Easter-Eggs.org.uk A review of Easter Eggs available online in the UK, from the cheap section of Aldi to the utter luxury of Hotel Chocolat's expensive range. I want to buy my Easter Eggs from Hotel Chocolat this year, I get a Tasting Club discount but will have to see what I'd get for my money first.

Sandra Magnus is currently enjoying an extended stay on the ISS due to the delays in Discovery's launch (she's due to return to Earth with the STS-119 mission, originally due to launch 12 February but now it's launch date is under review and will happen in at least March). NASA have been collating her journal entries online, which include entries on the joys and difficulties of cooking in space.

BreakfastLiverpool hasn't been updated since last summer, but no matter, it's still entertaining reading. Basically a collection of reviews of eateries in the Liverpool area serving good hearty breakfasts - mostly traditional British fare, but several variations on a theme are included too. Will make you hungry.

Word Of Mouth is the foodie blog belonging to The Guardian & The Observer's website. It's about food, eating food, buying food, not buying food, selling food, cooking food, food policy, food gadgets, food fashions.... so basically about food.

Hope you enjoyed these. I'm off to get me some food.

What Time The Train?

Saturday, April 12th, 2008 04:05 pm
tourmaline: (jeeves musing)
This is my latest website find/obsession.

There are lots of old photos - by old I mean 1890s and later - of railway stations and trains from across the country. So, you can look at the photos of these stations of how they were in Oscar Wilde's day, Bertie Wooster's day, how they would have looked if Janet Frame had visited during her literary grant visit in the 1950s, right up to how they were in your own childhood and adolescence. And in many cases, there are plans to re-open or remodel the stations, so you can imagine how they will look in ten year's time.
tourmaline: (stephen fry qi)
....and have been addicted to it ever since. The Geograph British Isles Project - lots of pictures of the fabulous and the mundane across the British Isles. You just click on the map to zoom in, click again to zoom in more, and you get down to a grid of thumbnail pics - each pic representing an area 1km square. Click on this and you get photos!

Not everywhere is covered, but you get points for being the first contributor to a square. The photo must be of a feature in the square that appears on the OS map. And points mean prestige, not prizes :)

Light to Unite

Monday, December 4th, 2006 06:10 pm
tourmaline: (bertie & jeeves)
From [livejournal.com profile] mej1976

Light to Unite

Please go here, and follow the instructions. Thank You.