I am the queen of procrastination. Quite literally the only thing I have achieved this weekend are these rather brilliant raisin cookies. Yum. If you’re feeling adventurous, I’d recommend a good few tablespoons of condensed milk in your mixture, it makes the cookies really sticky and chewy, rather than crunchy. It’s a revelation, believe me. [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Sunday cookies
Posted in Uncategorized on February 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Boris saves public spending cuts… with his penis
Posted in Uncategorized on February 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Hilarity ensued this afternoon when the Guardian printed this gem of a news story. Yes, Boris Johnson, mayor of London, intends to slap ministers in the face with his penis if they don’t rule out cuts in spending in London. (See Dave Hill’s definition of ‘blap’.) The floppy-haired fool has done it again. He used [...]
The end of Reader’s Digest
Posted in Uncategorized on February 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today has been a sobering one for journalists as two major ‘cuts’ stories broke, and life got that little bit harder. The news that Times2, the supplement in The Times, is due for the chop inevitably means more redundancies and the loss of a popular section. After more than a decade of features, the pull-out [...]
RIP Alexander McQueen
Posted in Uncategorized on February 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Along with a reasonable proportion of the Western world I was saddened by news of the death of Alexander McQueen today. Although I’m not a fashionista, or indeed particularly fashionable at all, I appreciate the work and influence that he’s had in the industry over the years. I was interested to see how the various [...]
Apples for winter
Posted in Uncategorized on February 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This evening I cooked this little wonder. It’s a baked apple. Doesn’t it look yummy?! Well, perhaps not, but it tasted amazing. Even better if, like me, you have a penchant for shopping at Lewisham market near closing time and lumbering yourself with six bags of delicious, but over-ripe fruit for £3. Along with roast [...]
Winking all the way to the news
Posted in Uncategorized on February 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Despite openly admitting that I’m rubbish with technology (see my post on my rudimentary Twitter use) I am always quite excited when a new bit of journalistic technology is introduced to me. Today, Dr James Ohene-Djan, a lecturer in Computing at Goldsmiths College, gave a session on his brainchild, WinkBall. This fantastic site could revolutionise [...]
The London Weekly arrives with a thud
Posted in Uncategorized on February 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My spirits rose a teeny tiny bit when I heard that there would be a new freesheet launching in London. I hoped it would be a worthy replacement for The London Paper, whose demise still makes me sad. Alas, with this morning’s unveiling came crushing disappointment. The London Weekly is here, and it’s TERRIBLE. There [...]
Tweet and ye shall find
Posted in Uncategorized on February 2, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I never cease to be amazed and the glorious world of Twitter. Being a technophobe, it’s nothing short of a miracle that I can even work the thing, let alone utilise it for journalistic ends. However, it’s come up trumps time and time again when I’m hunting for that all important case study, or need [...]
