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

Oh, no – another whinge about the paper

By injera, on April 27th, 2009%

As a “bonus” with Saturday’s Age, we received a copy of

theage

(melbourne)

magazine

There’s an awful lot to dislike in this shiny, inconveniently sized publication.  Earnest lower case titles, random use of contrasting colours, and enthusiastically misplaced brackets are only a small part of the problem.

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Things I hate most about The Sunday Age (and something I like)

By injera, on April 5th, 2009%

Buying the weekend newspapers is nothing more than a habit for me now that the “news” is available online.  It’s a habit I just can’t seem to break, even though they aggravate more than they enlighten me.  The Sunday Age is the worst culprit, with its supplements that skew nauseatingly to the “women’s magazines” end of the market. Usually, I flip through the “Life” and the “M” and rant to my partner.  With him away, I’m reduced to this.  Blogging a whinge.

So, what are the things I hate most?

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