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Cottage Pie Recipe

Go to the AWW Shepherd’s Pie recipe Replace Lamb with leftovers from beef roast Serves me mainly (Andrea will be lucky enough to get some too).

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Calçots are not onions

Actually calçots are a type of onion, from specific regions of Catalunya. But they’re not just onions, they’re really a little bit of a throwback to that time when you couldn’t buy any fruit or vegetable in the supermarket all … Continue reading

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Mike and Soph’s wedding

Last weekend was Mike & Soph’s wedding, the now Popkiss couple. I’ve known Mike since we were both eleven or twelve years old and since the following year we’ve been best mates. Soph I met working at Dick Smith at … Continue reading

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Five fingers, five toes

I’ve finally got a pair of Vibram Five Fingers, “barefoot” running shoes which I’ve been trying to track down for the better part of the last year. They come with instructions on training your feet to wear them, so while … Continue reading

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In Melbourne

I’m in Melbourne (again), this time for Mike and Sophie’s wedding in a little over a week. The weather has been a bit average, but it just means that we can pass off the last 8 years of sunny weather … Continue reading

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Holidays in London

I never thought I’d be off to London for holidays, but Andrea has never been so last weekend we took the short trip over France and the channel to Old Blighty. The nice thing was I got to show Andrea … Continue reading

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The four of us

We had a new flatmate move in here in December, and today for about 15 minutes we had all four of us in the house together. For the first time.

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PhD prices

While looking for scholarships I discovered that the University of Manchester charges £14,200 per year to do a PhD for an international student. If you’re a local it will only cost you £3,466, then again my fees come in at … Continue reading

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More Photos

I sneakily uploaded the second set of photos from Christmas last week, but didn’t post them. So here they are now: Christmas in Granada (part 2).

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Photos from Christmas

It’s been kind of hectic this year, I can’t remember exactly what’s been going on, but it’s passing by rapidly. So it’s the last day of January and I’ve finally got the first batch of photos up from my Christmas … Continue reading

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