I thought I’d write a food related post, just to flex the blogging muscles a little further. What I really meant to write about was starting making things again: jam, pickles, that sort of stuff. But that title just slipped in there…so I’d better try to incorporate it. Seeing some friends recently, one spoke of …
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Living in the past
So, hello! It must be the autumn, time to stay indoors, and maybe write a few blog posts again… I’ll do a wee update blog in a bit, for anyone particularly concerned with chronology and Frydman activities in the last few months. For now, I’ll start with what’s been on my mind this week: Started …
Shock – lack of snow!
We’ve all heard it – London grinds to a halt. The Midlands gets snow, and Edinburgh…not a lot. What we do get is ice crystals on bus stops that look like Jack Frost is a grafitti artist. A girl goes past a bus stop in a woolly hat – bonnet style, strings underneath, but with …
Useful information
So, who got the latest Guiness Book of Records? More to the point, who’s prepared to own up to it? For years, it seemed to be standard issue that someone, somewhere, would be understanding of small boys’ needs for Facts, and make sure that the latest collection of Useful Information was dispatched. Henceforth, and, indeed, …
The land of bright socks
It’s a children’s classic in the making, I just have to work out how to write it. Socks are making a reappearance as a welcome Christmas gift, if only on for fuel economy reasons. (Or maybe early onset circulation options. Take your pick.) It’s interesting seeing the Saturday supplements reinventing present giving for tough times. Evidently …