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[ad#standard] 2008 was a real roller coaster of a year. It started going downhill after a hoped-for cool job in Ireland with A Famous Celebrity fell through when he and especially his wife turned out to be complete and utter lying tossers. Lesson learned. The year went back uphill with the proposition of working back…
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[ad#standard] Offered and accepted. Chef de Cuisine in a small restaurant in the Place aux Herbes, right in the middle of the medieval town of Uzes. Getting there has been quite a journey, I have to say. I’ve been to something in the order of a couple of dozen interviews and have applied for getting…
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Just how sensational is Brel? Just heard this on the radio, was looking up one of the words he sings and found this subtitled version on YouTube with subtitles – absolutely mesmerising performance at Olympia, man I wish I was old enough to have seen him.
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[ad#standard] Several people have asked me about how and where to buy knives to use in the kitchen. In a few words: find a knife shop, chat with the owner, talk about what you’re doing, ask for recommendations. Don’t go buy a Shun/Henckels/Wusthoff/Japanese set online because you’ve read they’re the dog’s nads (or perfect for…
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[ad#standard] Made the best apricot chutney I’ve ever turned out this morning: 250g dried apricots 125g raw palm sugar. I think this is what it’s called. I find it in the Chinese supermarket, it comes in solid packs with the sugar in really solid 50g bars. 80g white vinegar 45g lemon juice 5 whole cloves…
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[ad#standard] Turned out their idea of ‘1500 a month’ was actually 200 a month less than my idea of ‘1500 a month’. And their idea of ‘overtime payments’ turned out to be ‘we’ll give you a share of tips if there are any’. And when I said, ‘Erm….’ they said ‘Troublemaker! Troublemaker! You don’t understand…
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Ryanair has long been my most-loathed airline. Most loathed company in the world, probably. Now they’re considering installing pay toilets on their planes according to this story from the BBC. Oh please, just machine-gun your passengers on the tarmac and steal their belongings from their bleeding corpses. Rape their chidren and sell any survivors into…
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I’ve written before about how the anti-vaccination ‘campaigners’ annoy me. Anger me. There’s another good article refuting all their arguments by David Gorscki up here. I would love the anti-vaxxers to read it, to slap their foreheads and say, ‘Blimey mate, I’ve been wrong all along! I’m so sorry for being such a fuckwit, for…
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