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Archive for September, 2011

The near-mythical ‘Indian summer’ has suddenly become a reality. Londoners are shedding their macs and leaving their brollies at home, flowers have been tricked into blooming all over again and Edgware Road has sold out of ice cream. Britain has gone bezeerk. So, I thought it would be a good time to tempt you with [...]

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Cheese quiz

Rate yourself as a cheese connoisseur? Wile away your lunchbreak with this cheesy quiz on the guardian website. Share your score in the comments below. Cheese fail or cheese master?

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100% kudos to Ginger Elanor for making such enviable (and fun to browse) packed lunches. Truly inspirational There’s been some debate over which laptop lunchbox looks most appetizing…these two have got to rank pretty high up. Better than a tin of soup any day…

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I live in an edgy East End flat. I know it’s edgy because a poster next to the lift tells me so: “In close proximity to edgy Hoxton and Shoreditch.” My friends find this particularly funny because they know that I sometimes play my left hand versus my right hand at scrabble. They know I [...]

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It’s hard to have a really epic night out in London for just £25. You could buy three warm beers at Mahiki….or you could just about check you and your coat into Raffles. Dammit, you could put £25 on your Oyster card, and leave it on a bus. I suppose you could just about get [...]

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If, like me, you were near Bethnal Green tube around 6pm last night waiting for the Indian Summer to begin…then you may, like me, have been drenched by the Indian monsoon instead. Round the point that the rain was bouncing off the road, I was drenched and stranded in Tesco’s with all thoughts of sheeshy [...]

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Former student of Stephen Hawking and winner of the World Barbecue Championship Nathan Myhrvold has, together with a team of 30, finally finished his magnum opus: Modernist Cuisine. The 2,468 page book took three years to complete by the former Microsoft chief technology officer, despite help from his sizable staff. Throughout the five volumes, there [...]

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A wise man once said “life is like a sandwich – the more you add to it, the better it becomes”. I’m writing this on a Sunday afternoon. Tom and I are still in our pyjamas and haven’t moved from the sofa for a few hours. It doesn’t feel like we’ve stuffed too much into [...]

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Recently we’ve seen scandals tear through politics, the police and press. We’ve been rioted, we’ve been looted, we’ve been screwed by hikes and strikes. And bankers. We’re living off less but everything costs more. There’s an apocalyptic mood lingering over the city, and it won’t go away. While recessions bring a general feeling of doom [...]

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