MacadamiaAlison Scott: her switching journal, weblog, and stuff.(Untitled)- December 26, 2002 Truly Grateful The turkey came from the local butcher. This is the sausage shop on Hoe Street, no longer called Postons. It was a Norfolk Black, 14 lbs. Some people say sniffily that the Norfolk Black has a low meat to bone ratio, even by the standards of properly grown meat. These people have not seen the amount of turkey in my fridge. I didn't cook it in foil, but I put a double layer of buttered muslin over the breast. This was easy (melt a pack of butter, put scrunched up muslin square in..http://www.kittywompus.com/macadamia/2002/12/26.html#a96 (Untitled)- December 8, 2002 Catch it before we get the C&D Issue 25 of Plokta is now online, including the cover, my parody map of Middle Plokta (this link is to a version big enough to read all the place names except one).http://www.kittywompus.com/macadamia/2002/12/08.html#a95 (Untitled)- December 5, 2002 I know my limitations, and have never made any serious attempt to write poetry. So I was pleased to discover that Commander Taco provides a deep wellspring of bad poetry on topics of your choosing. Here's what it was inspired to write on reading my son's birth report (via Uffish Thoughts): We Can Reproduce it if you can Reproduce it was forced to my baby go to have got the pain, relief, in a long evening I knew that desperately wanted a baby at the baby And then flat baby. in my blood..http://www.kittywompus.com/macadamia/2002/12/05.html#a94 (Untitled)- December 3, 2002 Just back from the Pig's Ear Beer Festival. I paid a flying visit today because the t-shirt design is brilliant (the same as the poster on the website) and they've normally sold out of shirts by Saturday -- the day they have a creche. I did take the opportunity to sample a small amount of beer, including at least one specially brewed for the festival (Wolf Brewery's Spice Pigs).http://www.kittywompus.com/macadamia/2002/12/03.html#a93 (Untitled)- December 3, 2002 Not that I normally post quizzes, but there's a nice one for beard festishists here. (via Sneerpout). But the really big news is that Marianne has two wobbly teeth! We further explored her belief system. "You've got wobbly teeth! That's great!" "Yes, Mummy; I'm really really excited!" "Why" "Because if I put my tooth under my pillow the tooth fairy will come and take it away!" "Really" "Oh, yes." "And does she leave you anything in exchange" Marianne looked confused at that point. "I can't...http://www.kittywompus.com/macadamia/2002/12/03.html#a92 (Untitled)- December 1, 2002 The house was disorderly for breakfast, what with the four of us, three couples who stayed overnight, and three other people who came round.a meal eaten at about noon after a shockingly late night. We introduced the assembled masses to the dancing game, nursed our various hangovers, and I began to discover that Dr Plokta has learnt more about Mac OS X in the last 48 hours than I have in the last nine months. "You ought to be using iPhoto", he said, and, you know, he's right. The screensaver on..http://www.kittywompus.com/macadamia/2002/12/01.html#a91 |