This week I have been

Reading

The 2011 Tour de France race guide.

Watching

An Idiot Abroad

Listening to

The xx

Discovering

(Or rediscovering) Hamlet - Nicki Greenberg's beautiful new version, thanks to the fabulous Snarkattack, who invited me along to see Nicki talk about the creative process behind the book.

Eating

  • An enormous serve of bangers'n'mash and a nourishing pint of Kilkenny at the Town Hall one dismal Tuesday evening.
  • A "Chachi" - chianina meatball sandwich - another brioche donut and some amazing chocolate tart at Beatrix, which Essjay has reviewed.
  • A lazy Sunday lunch at The Crimean. The Polish hunter's stew (bigos) was just the thing to revive me after a chilly bike ride.
  • Generous piles of fried food with oodles of chillies and sichuan peppercorns at Sichuan House
  • Succulent suckling pig at Liberteene.
  • An array of bright, zesty flavours at Chin Chin, where the only problem was having to choose only some of the items from what looks to be a menu that is all hits, no filler.

Links

Settling in

I feel as though I’ve been drifting for a while here1 with no real purpose. Part of that I’m going to attribute to seasonal motivational fluctuations (I’m sure that’s a thing), but that can’t be the whole of it. For a (very brief) moment I was considering participating in NaBloPoMo (a post a day, all month – the bloggers’ equivalent to NaNoWriMo2) – a bit of discipline might be handy, even in recreation – but the moment passed. Even as I hovered my mouse over the sign-up button, though, I knew that doing it would result in half a dozen desultory posts of this nature, and then back to random intermittence. That’s defined as lose-lose, whichever way you look at it.

Perhaps that’s why I decided to move the blog – a [virtual] change is as good as a [virtual] holiday? Except that… a [virtual] holiday is about as refreshing as you’d expect it to be.

So, this is all by way of saying: a new address hasn’t magically jump-started my motivation to write. In lieu of being refreshing and original, then, I’m going to rant about Larissa Dubecki’s latest restaurant review to save you the frustration of having to read it.

More, after the jump (which is after the footnotes).

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1. “Here” is a vague concept, of course. I’ve only just come here, but… well, you know what I mean.

2. Unlike NaNoWriMo, however, NaBloPoMo happens every month, so I’ve got a chance to not do it twelve times a year.

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