Month: August 2012
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Tea on the train revisited
Since my earlier post I’ve been scouring the planet for a solution to my tea tribulations. How fortunate that on my next train journey I was served by possibly the next great British engineer/scientist who solved my used teabag storage solution in a stroke. I explained my dilemma to him in great detail. With a mere momentary…
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Tea on the train. C’mon Britain!
Tea is our national drink. I think we are only second in the world (after Ireland) of consumption per capita. So we’ve got silver in the tea drinking competition. Not bad going. Maybe extra funding is required so we can go for gold. We’re also epically great at being inventive engineers and designers. From Stephenson’s…
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Sugar
Ever looked at the ingredients on a fizzy drink and wondered just how much the 30,40 or 50 grams of sugar it contains actually is? This cheeky number has 51.5 grams. Seems innocuous enough. Out come the weighing scales and a bag of Silverspoons finest. I zeroed the scales with the plate on ‘natch. Ferk…
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Leftovers
I like leftovers. It seems a rather disparaging name for what can be some of the simplest and tastiest food going. I also like roast chicken because that means I can make chicken stock from those all important leftovers. And chicken stock means one thing to me- Chicken Noodle Soup. I may even find myself…
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Olympic Parallels
Even the most hard-hearted cynic must have been moved at the vision of dozens of athletes blubbing and wailing as they mumbled through various national anthems clutching their medals. I guess the tears and emotion come from the huge relief at having completed a goal. Years of work and expectation leading to a final recognition…
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