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Blogging

Six Things I Learned in Six Months of Blogging

It’s been six whole months since I moved into this lil’ corner of the internet, something that just happened to coincide with a real life move into a real life house.  And as it turns out the whole “moving in” thing is actually a tidy little metaphor for anyone who decides on a whim to stake […]

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Food

Bibimbap

Bibimbap-ba duba dop ba duuuu bop, ba duba dop ba duuu bop… *ahem*  This isn’t a post about Hanson (remember them?), this is a post about the spicy Korean dish Bibimbap.  I’d always fancied making it myself (I mean, come on, anything with a fried egg perched on top has got to be good, right?), […]

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Far Away

Santorini

My parents day tripped in Santorini when they holidayed in Greece during the seventies (i.e. the decade before my brother and I came along and my dad sported some seriously groovy sideburns…). The white cubic buildings with blue domes on the cliff top are just the perfect image of Greece, right? You see the pictures in holiday brochures of volcanic […]

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Food

French Toast with Chocolate and Walnuts

I like French Toast.  Okay, I love French Toast – but I can never be bothered with the frying part.  1, because it’s an extra pan to wash up.  2, because the first batch are cold by the time you’ve fried all the others up.  3, because I’m damned lazy.  So I baked it instead, […]

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Cardiff Everything Else

Judgement Day

Last Saturday I made my first pilgrimage to the Millennium – oops, I mean Principality Stadium (…it’s going to take a while before that sticks…) since moving back to Cardiff to watch Judgement Day; two full on games of Rugby featuring South Wales’ four heavyweight teams. 🙂