nourishing obscurity

This is a joint post with Wiggia. The triple Olympic gold medallist admitted that of his previous Finn Gold Cup victories, this was the sweetest of them all for having won it on his home waters in Cornwall. “This is by far and away the best because I grew up and learned to sail here [...]

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From Chessalee and Chuckles: the World Chess Championships: After four games of the World Chess Championship match in Moscow, which began on Friday, Viswanathan Anand, the titleholder, and his challenger, Boris Gelfand, have been unable to make a dent in each other. All four games have been draws, and there has been little drama, as [...]

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Above – the old J Boats that once fought out the America’s Cup.  Not the fastest boats, they were the sleekest and most beautiful and though this is a replica, the overall look and feel – they seem so right to purists.

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So, there I was yesterday, looking in the cupboard/fridge – half a jar of chilli, the remnant of the ham from Sunday lunch, beans and cherry tomatoes plus some spaghetti [no grain today]. Bitta bread. Cholesterol? Never heard of it. Meanwhile, Chuckles sends his lunch:

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These are a small version of the boats which will contest the AC in 2013 and these are the World Championships, from Cascais, Portugal.  The match racing is good, the camera angles and mikes on board make it live – how would you fancy sailing on one of these? The more interesting racing is around [...]

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The rule is that it has to be “past the line”.  Not past the crossbar – past the line.   There does appear a lean to the goal frame backwards at the top.  The camera is not completely aligned with the line, that’s true.  To align it, it would need to move fractionally to the right.

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1 Old Velodrome Buffalo poster Velodromes are simply tracks for racing bicycles, developed in the early 1880s in line with the fast growing pastime/craze that cycling was providing. They soon expanded and became part of the sporting scene of the period. The very first velodrome was in Paris, the Buffalo opening in 1893. The sport [...]

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What is it with beef?  You can have a meal with chicken – yep, it’s nice.  You can eat roast duck – yummy with julienned cucumbers and onion, in a pancake and with hoisin sauce.  That’s better. But it’s only beef which causes you to stay fed, to stay full, to feel you’ve really had [...]

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I came across this old photo, I think it gives a whole new thrust to the wimmin /bicycle combination:

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When you’re on the breadline, bread is what you need to bulk out your meal. Sunday lunch was: 1. Minestrone soup with croutons a la Higham; 2. Main dish *: 3. Steamed [stewed] apple with various spices and blackcurrant yoghurt; 4. Coffee and various biscuits and chocolate. Later:

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Sometimes, a little more smackdown is needed. Sometimes, one barrel is just not enough. Sometimes, you just need to unload a whole caseload of marshmallow justice on some office miscreant.

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From the London Weekly Standard, via Mark Wadsworth: Not forgetting this one, which is pretty heroic: or should that be “heroinic”?

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Referring to Wiggia’s earlier post on Australian wines, I’d like to add a few things, perhaps too many for a comment on his post.

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Have just read about six pages of comments at the Telegraph and Mail about the race and what strikes me with that, as well as with some recent events at Orphans, is the extremism or rather the flight to deeply entrenched positions, from where no reasoning is possible. On both sides, the most strident and [...]

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