nourishing obscurity

Brought by our latest Spanish correspondent, Hope Towers:

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We were tweeting away about bike safety and how in our country, we begin with helmets, whereas on the continent, they begin with infrastructure [Very British Dude]. Yes, that’s so. @VeryBritishDude  @Outlier  @citycyclists City cyclists was of the opinion that this sort of thing:

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Theo:

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It’s often been said that the church and the local pub are as one, seeing how the Sunday congregation would seamlessly move from the church to the bar after Sunday prayers. This might not happen so often these days but here’s an example of each seemingly made for each other, certainly in terms of size, [...]

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Time for a brief return of the series.  Click for the big pic:

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Chessalee is one of my favourite sites but like Jesse, the main subject matter is esoteric, both from a chess point of view and also because I can’t read Dutch/Afrikaans, much as I’d like to. Plus there seems to be a focus on men much of the time, whereas I focus on women – nothing [...]

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Katarina Witt in hot water again.  Stop: 1. apologizing; and 2. for reasons of PCism. She stunned viewers and fans alike when she called the professional skier a ‘big woman’ live on TV. But today, Dancing On Ice judge Katarina Witt apologised to Chemmy Alcott and said she meant her comment to be complimentary. Look, [...]

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Oh yeah! In case you missed it at El Reg: Moderate levels of alcohol delivered an increase in longevity among test subjects in a recent study that Steven Clarke, UCLA professor of chemistry and biochemistry and senior author on a study published yesterday in the journal PLoS One, described as “shocking”. “This finding floored us” [...]

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Got home quite cream-crackered and only wanted three things – wine, to make the cottage pie, to sleep.  One and two have now been achieved. Apologies in advance for the bragging but that had to have been one of the best cottage pies I’ve ever shoved in the oven.  At our work, I spied a [...]

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1. Red wine at the ready [white is more gastronomically correct perhaps]. 2. Tin of ASDA’s Mexican chicken [or Thai green or whatever takes your fancy] opened, at the ready. 3. Pull out two spuds from your in-the-dark, teatowel covered box [I keep mine next to the electricity cupboard near the front door], wash, cut [...]

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Name it: Answer [and attribution] later.

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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. [Wilde - one of the endlessly quoted lines no one seems to know the source details of] Nowhere is modern uglification more sharply defined than in the laughingly described “high” fashion world. Leaving aside the fashions themselves, look [...]

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This is close to my heart, particularly the last clip and final words. ……….. While sport might leave you cold, Aussie sport particularly so, something happened between 2009 and 2011 which has all the elements of high drama – if it had happened over here, it would have been the stuff of legend. There were [...]

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End of the race For those who haven’t caught up, in a few hours there’ll be a protest against the underdog Investec Loyal which pipped Wild Oats XI by 3 minutes in the marathon race.  The multi-million dollar WOXI was meant to win but its rival supermaxi took line honours. Just found out that it [...]

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[Click to expand pic] Reminiscing with Wiggia about Sicily and our respective stays there and as it’s the winter solstice today, I thought I’d put up a few shots I took using Welshcakes‘ camera.  Here is the cafe we frequented:

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