Disaster Recovery

Ok, “Disaster Recovery” is probably a bit over dramatic. It’s just a phrase you hear often in TV for dealing with any number of transmission problems – power cuts, terrorist attacks, a plane landing on top of you – and I just like the sound of it. I’ve been dealing with my own ‘disaster’ recently, [...]

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Bye Bye, Twenty Ten

It’s been a wacky old year, with a lot of the really interesting stuff happening in the past few months. But I don’t want to bang on about all that like it’s the end of something and the beginning of something else. The whole new year thing is somewhat arbitrary, and generally based on religion. [...]

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Merry Christmas Everyone!

Dramas not withstanding, this could be my last post of the year, so I wanted to take the chance to wish you all a very merry christmas. Just got back from visiting my family for an early christmas (I’m working 24th to 26th again this year ). Took the train as I bought my new [...]

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Merry Christmas Mr Kiki

Look what I got myself for Christmas! Cool or what? I’ve been after one of these for ages. I know it’s not the car for everyone, but I think it looks great. Kept grinning as I drove it home (it was an 8 hour 300 mile round trip mission to Derby to pick it up!) [...]

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Vegan MoFo : Unthanksgiving Tofurkey Hunt

Much has been written in the blogosphere this past week about the elusive Tofurky, a mythical bird with meatless body and ricey giblets oft seen this time of year, so I thought it was about time I hunted one down and gave it a try. Now I ain’t American (hence the ‘Un’ in Unthanksgiving) so [...]

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Week 41 : Working For A Living Sucks!

Working for a living sucks! I know this won’t come as much of a revelation to most of you (hello my generally mute and fairly non-existent audience) but after having a week off I can unequivocally say that not having to go to work is markedly better than having to go to work. I spent [...]

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30 Days of Kiki : day 3

day 3- a picture of you and your friends Finding a pic of me and my friends was a toughie, as I’m usually taking the pictures not in them, but eventually I settled on this one starring some of me longest serving amigos. Left to right we have Tunch, Sabera, Tuna, then there’s me with [...]

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Nut Roast

More one for Christmas, but deserves to be more than just once a year I reckon. 1 tbsp olive oil (plus extra for greasing) 1 onion, chopped 1 leek, chopped 225g mushrooms, chopped 400g red lentils of lentils, rinsed and drained 2 cloves of garlic, crushed 1 cup of mixed nuts (such as hazelnuts, almonds [...]

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End of year report

Well, Christmas was a quiet time for the Brand New Life. I was away most the time, so no new recipes, no script writing, and no new thing (unless you count Christmas in Portsmouth, which I don’t). But that is what was; what is, is now. Tomorrow is a new year and a new beginning, [...]

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