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Ebullient vitality and energy. Vigour.

Venice is to have a fourth bridge across the Grand Canal. Parts of it are being installed this weekend, and it will be completed by the end of the year. It was designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. View my pictures of Santiago Calatrava's Olympic Agora in Athens.
Madison Avenue symbolises the advertising industry. I had [...]

Starting this morning at 8am, Big Ben is not going to chime for a few weeks while maintenance work is carried out.
I am told that at night we can sometimes hear the bongs from our flat. But at night I am sleeping and don't hear a thing. And how can Dr B. hear Big Ben [...]

A thicket of small trees or shrubs.

There's this song I've been humming to musically well-read (or should that be 'well-listened'?) friends for a while now, to see if they could help me put a title and performer on it, and to tell me where I might possibly know it from.
Either I'm bad at humming, or my friends are a bit crap, [...]

There seems to be a trend around to persuade people to stop eating reduced-calorie processed food and eat a pretty much everything in moderate amounts. You know it when it get to read about it in Metro (Wednesday's issue, page 11, I'll be damned if I ever manage find a Metro article online to link [...]

Last night Dr B. found out his credit card had been used for a value of around five thousand pounds.
He was quickly on the phone with Nationwide who were most helpful and will refund the lot, so no worries really, but he now swears he's never going to use cards in a restaurant again (you [...]

A broad, deep, usually covered dish used for serving foods such as soups or stews.

I recently found out that Facebook should not be used as a platform for work-related interaction.
I was at the gym on my lunch break when a colleague's status update came through on my mobile:
(Name) is wondering why oh why drivers choose the last possible moment to take the J6…
I thought 'computer drivers' (we were at [...]

A continuous, even drumming or rapping. To beat out an even rhythm, as with the fingers. To beat or tap rhythmically on; rap or drum on.

I knew it was a good idea to keep reading the work club newsletter even if, week after week, no item caught my attention. Because finally yesterday there was an offer to try out the work gyms for free for four weeks.
As this comes at a time when I do not have much time to [...]

A short heavy stick; a club. To beat or strike with or as if with a cudgel.

I subscribe to 112 RSS feeds (blogs, news, friends' social network contributions), which I guess is about average. I usually manage to go through all of them at least once a day (usually at 6AM for about half an hour).
Of course I do not read them all. So how do I choose?
A lot depends on [...]

A curved form, especially a semicircular panel, window, or recess.

The UK bans advertising of promoting infant formula for babies under the age of six months. Glamour model Jordan was this week shown feeding SMA formula to her new-born baby in OK magazine, right next to an advert for SMA formula for older infants. Clever, if hardly legal. Sadly, it is not illegal for Jordan [...]

Here are the websites I bookmarked into my del.icio.us account over the past seven days:

How to Sleep 4 Hours per Night
Neuroscientists are studying a spot on the skull that they could zap to induce the brain waves characteristic of deep, non-REM sleep. If they could find one that makes me sleep 8 hours per [...]

To lie in wait for and attack from ambush. See synonyms at ambush. To accost or intercept unexpectedly.

An improvised substitute for something lacking; a temporary expedient.

Marked by sternness or harshness; forbidding. Silently ill-humored; gloomy: the proverbially dour New England Puritan. Sternly obstinate; unyielding.

A decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing.

I have spent the few spare moments during the last twelve days reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Those were the very moments I would have blogged instead, which explains the lack of posts lately.
I have enjoyed immensely the book itself. I have just put it down and am still feeling a bit emotional [...]

A Creole dish consisting of rice that has been cooked with shrimp, oysters, ham, or chicken and seasoned with spices and herbs.

A small mallet used by a presiding officer or an auctioneer to signal for attention or order or to mark the conclusion of a transaction.