October 2008

Saturday Snapshots #7

October 11, 2008

  The O2,  2007  Built in 2000, the Millennium Dome in North Greenwich was much maligned during its first year when overruns on budget caused it to make far less money than predicted, with taxpayers footing the bill for the shortfall.  It closed on 31 December 2000 and for at least 6 years it stood [...]

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London food and wine bloggers meet at Cantaloupe

October 9, 2008

Hands up – who likes being stood up? Hmm, not exactly a sea of hands, is it…  And I can guarantee you my hand is not among them.  Why do I ask?  Well, only because I was recently stood up.  A certain food blogger, clearly Far More Important than me, recently e-mailed me out of [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #6

October 4, 2008

  Troy, 2007 Troy arrived in our street as a kitten with no return address back in 2004.  Nobody could figure out if he was lost, abandoned, or just on a feline adventure to meet new people.  What was certain, though, was that he was a heartbreaker:  pick him up and he'll put his arms [...]

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Ratatouille bake with feta cheese

October 2, 2008

You know how they say the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step?  Well, I'm more of a subscriber to the theory that the journey of a thousand miles begins with a wonky fan belt, half a tank of fuel and a cell phone battery that's about to die. "They" also say that [...]

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