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A short play.

I know, I know…
Not worthy to be called a homosexual. I have tried to watch the Wizard of Oz a few times and always fell asleep. Mind you, it might have been because it's usually on at Christmas when I have overeaten.
But on Thursday Dr B. is taking me to see Wicked, and has asked [...]

I am trying to see how hard it is to eat only food that was produced in the UK for a week. You may Read all my Eat Brit posts on one page.
A few things I learnt by avoiding imported food and drink for a week:

your choice of fresh fruit and vegetables is obviously limited, [...]

A hostile invasion; a raid. An advance, especially at another's expense; an encroachment. Often used in the plural.

I was tidying up stuff on the server yesterday and I found this series of photos I had taken between December 2003 and January 2004.
They used to be part of a gallery I scrapped when I redesigned this website and migrated to WordPress. I have now uploaded them into a set at Flickr: they are [...]

I am trying to see how hard it is to eat only food that was produced in the UK for a week. You may Read all my Eat Brit posts on one page.
I had little time for Sunday lunch, so I just ate leftover steamed vegetables from the previous night, cold from the fridge, still [...]

Having great variety; diverse. Versatile.

I made this last night for Dr B. while I was having hearty British food (leeks, potatoes, sliced green beans and beef).
I have adapted the quantities and part of the preparation from the Thai beef salad recipe at iVillage.co.uk, and this usually is as a generous main course (sometimes the only course) for our dinner.
Serves [...]

I am trying to see how hard it is to eat only food that was produced in the UK for a week. You may Read all my Eat Brit posts on one page.
On Saturdays I usually have a healthy version of a fry-up breakfast (low-fat bacon, poached eggs, sliced beef tomatoes, sauteed mushrooms in scant [...]

A woman regarded as ugly or terrifying.

The average life sentence under Labour is 11 years (The Independent, 27 January 2007)
Captchas (distorted scattered characters on patterned background that users have to type to prove they are not a machine) have become more complex. This week I was asked to identify symbols and write the matching numbers from a correspondence chart provided underneath.
Biscuits [...]

I am trying to see how hard it is to eat only food that was produced in the UK for a week. You may Read all my Eat Brit posts on one page.
Hurray for pears, and for my local supermarket that stocks two (two!) varieties, both from England. Gawd bless our plentiful land.
I wonder if [...]

To snarl; growl.

I am trying to see how hard it is to eat only food that was produced in the UK for a week. You may Read all my Eat Brit posts on one page.
If my previous update mentioned that I now eat the same breakfast every day, this one can do the same about lunch, which [...]

(Slang) A chaotic or confused situation.

I am trying to see how hard it is to eat only food that was produced in the UK for a week. You may Read all my Eat Brit posts on one page.
I won't mention breakfast or mid-morning and afternoon snacks, because they tend to be the same all the time (see choice of yogurts [...]

(Australian) A young animal, especially a baby kangaroo.

I am trying to see how hard it is to eat only food that was produced in the UK for a week. You may Read all my Eat Brit posts on one page.
Yesterday sourcing breakfast was easier (I just quickly went for the same stuff as day 1 ).
Lunch was leftover beef from the previous [...]

Breeches. 'Too big for (one's) britches' (idiom): Overconfident; cocky.

Yesterday I started an experiment: I want to see how hard it is to nourish myself entirely with British produce for a week.
These days you can carbon-offset everything you do by paying somebody to plant a tree for you every time you fart. I just want to see how hard it is to avoid food [...]

To harass; beset. To surround with troops; besiege.

Lately, I have been waking up between two and five times a night to go have a wee.
My paranoid nature, fuelled by decades of ominous forecasting by my diabetes-obsessed family (my dad had it, and it made most of our lives a bit hellish) interprets this as a sure sign that I have not managed [...]

To give a thorough beating to; thrash. To strike; wallop.

One of the aspects that we were most excited about when we moved into our new flat last May was that at last there was room for a dining table.
I was very keen to buy one straight away and would have settled for anything, as cheap as possible, just to get started. However, I managed [...]

Spotted or blotched with different shades or colors.

Firefox lets you select an unlinked URL, drag it in the address bar and it will open it for you. Similarly, you can drag and drop an image from Firefox into Photoshop, or into a Windows folder. Also tried these in IE6 and IE7, but they both went 'Huh?'
T9 stands for text [...]

Subject to debate; arguable. Of no practical importance; irrelevant.

A few days ago I was searching my laptop for a recipe that I had remembered saving while watching Taste (the designer food programme repeated on Sky Three around 5am).
While doing that, I came across a recipe I had devised a couple of months back as a healthier and cheaper alternative to the tub of [...]

(adj.) Of or relating to a period of 150 years. (n.) A 150th anniversary or its celebration.

Some series of Big Brother (Celebrity and 'normal' - whatever that means) I watch, some I ignore.
I lost all interest in the current Celebrity Big Brother one when Leo Sayer kept bouncing about declaring he's such a happy, positive person and he can see himself spread some joy in the house. That was his video [...]