June 2009

Tuesday Tip

  • June 9, 2009 at 10:30 am
  • Categories: Tuesday Tips

  • Camping, and traveling light? Take a pillow-case instead of a pillow, and stuff it with spare clothes.

Digpuss shop now open for window-shopping

  • June 7, 2009 at 8:22 pm
  • Categories: Birmingham,Fun stuff,Ramblings

  • Once upon a time, not so long ago, there was a little girl and her name was Nicky. And she had a shop. Actually that’s not quite true: Nicky doesn’t actually have a shop. What she does have is a website, a Flickr account and a load of junk. It was rather an unsual shop [...]

How do you like your eggs?

  • June 7, 2009 at 10:21 am
  • Categories: Ramblings

  • I like a runny yolk. If I’m buying a fried egg roll from a cafe I want the yolk to be runny, and to seep into the bread. Conversely, I prefer to be able to cut scrambled egg than to have it wriggle slimily down my throat. However, it seems I may be in a minority. [...]

Mapping my local area reminded me: what’s going on with the old BBC Pebble Mill site?

  • June 5, 2009 at 1:18 am
  • Categories: Birmingham

  • For a little while I’ve been aware of a blog about my postcode area of B29, but it had never dawned on me to offer to contribute. So today I offered my services, and jumped in by plotting B29 onto a Google map. And in so doing I remembered the void that used to be [...]

LighterLife, please never thrust wasteful crap at me again

  • June 4, 2009 at 1:30 pm
  • Categories: Rant!

  • I was a little angry this morning. As I was trying to catch a train from St Albans, a smiley, bouncy young lady thrust a carrier-bag into my path. “Would you like a free lunch,” she chirrupped. It wasn’t a question. She was coercing me into her sinister game of wasting resources and fattening the [...]

Tuesday Tip

  • June 2, 2009 at 10:30 am
  • Categories: Tuesday Tips

  • No steam iron? Fill a cheap plant sprayer with water and use to dampen material before ironing.

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