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More baking

30 Sep 2008

TweetSunday was Ann’s birthday and so with a wonderful excuse to do some proper baking (which I hadn’t done in quite a while) I picked the most complex cake recipe I could find, raided the grocery store for enough chocolate to make everyone else in line raise an eyebrow (and look on quite jealously) and [...]

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Tags: food, media

Colby in London

In: London

29 Sep 2008

TweetI didn’t have a chance to say that over the weekend, I had the opportunity to meet up with Parker Beverage, the director of Admissions at Colby, when he came to London to take part in a college fair for prospective students. On Saturday afternoon I made my way across town to join him at [...]

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Tags: colby

Beer Exposed

In: London

28 Sep 2008

TweetIn the ongoing quest to experience as much of London as possible in the name of event reviews (i.e. for free) I am always excited when I get press tickets from Spoonfed or complimentary tickets for no particular reason at all – as was the case when some random promoter handed me three tickets to [...]

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Tags: events, weekend

Kebabs

In: London

26 Sep 2008

TweetThe British answer to the late-night drunken pizza order seems to be the kabab shop. These things are everywhere, possibly more predominant than burger joints, and have even more questionable quality products. Almost without exception, I have never seen a crowd outside a kebab shop at anytime other than late on a Friday or Saturday [...]

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Tags: food, london

Who’s is bigger?

In: London|Technology Blog

25 Sep 2008

TweetThere’s a great little startup also based in London called The School of Everything which has the incredibly brilliant concept of allowing anyone to teach anything and have all of the information located in a central place. Want to teach piano lessons? Find students, get listed and charge through the site. Want to offer home [...]