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Daily Archives Monday, December 2004

Cookery Tips

A handy cooking hint for the holiday season.
When removing from the microwave something which has been heating in there for five and a half minutes, try to avoid dropping it and splashing scalding food up your arm. It's quite remarkably painful, and three days later you get some rather unpleasant-looking blisters.

Posted 06 December 2004 † Simes § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Suicide Season

Rather morbid, I know, but this is the second time in as many weeks that my commute has been delayed by a “fatality” or, as it was described this morning, a “body on the line”.
Which leads us to the conclusion that it's kind of a depressing time of year for a lot of people. I [...]

Posted 06 December 2004 † Simes § General ‡ Comments (0) °