Rereading War & Peace ahead of Radio 4's New Year's Day W&P marathon... (And trying not to fret at all the new novels I could be reading)
Eggs flipped, Sir? *sucks teeth, retires to confer with chef* Apparently not. #cornerhouse
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I see the ritual in Radcliffe House was carried out according to the strict rules laid out by the Hermetic Order of Uttermost Bollocks
I am being haunted by cliches, which is marginally better than being haunted by the ringing of a phone that doesn't exist...
I appear to be watching the worst programme I've ever seen since the last worst programme I've ever seen... Yep, the in laws are here.
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pace Times: suspect when looking back on this year, salmond rather than farage will be seen to have had greater impact
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Ah, news... Remember it? RT @davidmbarnett: It's almost like a newspaper printed a controversial thing just so everyone would talk about it.
Credit: six miles walk in rain. Debit: two extremely large glasses of mulled wine, laced with cointreau and armagnac. Account: roughly even?
Tove Jansson's pics wonderful MT @brainpicker 150 years of Alice buff.ly/1vg0AG4 teapaw.org/brainpicker/status/548…
Mother & Child (+ white cat), Mogul miniature scroll.in/article/697185/Ast… via @elbee512
And it's time to watch Until the Lights Come Back (no yoru ni). Still my favourite Christmas Eve film...
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Five hours to make kulebyaka (Russian fish pie). Suspect it's going to take assorted nieces & nephews less than 20 min to demolish it...
@AndersBaker1 heirloom chicken scissors as used by castle-living European aristocrats (wearing jodhpurs)...
One of the few cases of the cover version being better than the original... youtube.com/watch?v=bRzKUVjH… #JoeCockerRIP #rockinpeace