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

Internet time-wasting

By injera, on June 12th, 2008%

There are a number of ways to lose hours on the internet, but I have found none so effective as the RSS reader. My web-browsing had become a matter of a routine run through my bookmarked sites. Admittedly, this could still waste up to 90 minutes of my day off when the posters had been busy, but this is nothing compared to how long I have been spending since the RSS reader came into my life.

Continue reading Internet time-wasting

2 comments   the internet   , ,  
Improve the web with Nofollow Reciprocity.