Entries from August 2007

August 31, 2007

Fabulous Florence in Pictures

We had a fabulous time, and marched our way around the churches and museums and ate our way round the foccaherias, gelaterias, mercado, trattorias and ristoranti!
My top food places of the trip were:

Il Latini - Via dei Palchetti 6
Trattoria Marione - Via della Spada 27/r
Gelateria Carraira - at the Oltrano end of the [...]

August 9, 2007

Food Photo Diaries

Writing about Photo-Dieting
Weightwatchers get you to do trackers: food diaries.
Food diaries help you become more aware of your eating and activity habits, and problem areas. They give you a basis from which to plan changes and set goals, and allow you to look back and see what you’ve changed over time. This can be very [...]

August 8, 2007

Steep Learning Curve

Writing about What it Feels Like to be Deaf
I will never learn.
I even did my ear candles on Sunday.  And they improved things.
And then I made it all worse again.
I’m hoping that a second bout of candles may clear the blockage - it’s making me disorientated and edgy.
Here, stolen from Wikipedia,  is the more appropriate [...]

August 7, 2007

Mmmmmm…. Shoes

Office Online has a sale on.  The joy.
Tempered by the fact that shoes that I bought just after Easter are now very reduced.
Oh well, good excuse to buy duplicate pairs.
I have bought another pair of what Patsy calls my vampy shoes.

August 6, 2007

Self-Harming

Today, I look as though I have been slashing my arms and legs with razor blades.
The abrasions are raised and inflamed.
The real culprit is the pampas grass in the front garden.
I decided  to give it a hair cut.  It decided to fight back.

August 1, 2007

Video Diary of a 60s Indian Immigrant

Writing about I for India
(Yes, I do listen to far too much Radio 4 - picked this up from Front Row, it sounds like a wonderful piece of social history.)

When Indian doctor Yash Pal Suri arrived in England in 1965, the very first thing he did was to buy two Super 8 cameras, two projectors [...]

August 1, 2007

Domestic Snippets

Writing about Sledging
Format of entry stolen from Monopod - with thanks
Me: What’s Sledging?
Himself: It’s the kind of thing you’d expect the Aussies to be good at.
Me: ?!?