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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Black Gold review
One of my favourite things about Frankfurt so far is the fact that Monday night is Mystery English Language Film Night (known as “Sneak”). You really never know what you’re going to get. We’ve had films as awful as The … Continue reading
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Lentil and Frankfurter soup
The secret ingredient in frankfurters/wieners (they’re more or less the same thing – the Austrians call them Frankfurter Würstel, the Germans call them Wiener Würstchen) is ridiculous amounts of nitrate salt, which means that a) they need very little cooking, … Continue reading
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Preliminary Sketches
I haven’t been working on any cross stitch recently. I have ideas, but they’re much more ambitious than anything I’ve ever done before, so I’m planning it all out before I make an arse of myself and waste tons of … Continue reading
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Home Sweet Home
My second cross stitch project has been in the works for a while, pretty much since I started patterning The Hazards of Love and realised that my god! I can make cross stitch designs out of ANYTHING! I have the … Continue reading
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Best-Worst lyrics from A Flash Flood of Colour
Oh look, Enter Shikari have a new album, A Flash Flood of Colour. And, if we’re to believe the band, it’s currently the best selling album in the UK. According to the lead singer Rou, this is “a victory for … Continue reading
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These Hazards of Cross Stitch
One of the big reasons I keep Spuggy around is that he introduced me to the Decemberists. He thinks I’m joking. Anyway, it was somewhere in the first half of 2011 when I first heard my favourite album of theirs … Continue reading
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