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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Leap year
Half an hour to get a post in before midnight – before I can do it for the next four years. That’s not very long to construct a long whinge. Surely I should have some moans and groans that I … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, life
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Voracious Spaniards
Spanish men do have voracious eyes. Or to be rather more accurate, the look in their eyes is voracious. Wandering down to the site where Partner is working, I passed a couple of Spanish workers walking in the other direction. … Continue reading
Posted in gibraltar, life, musings, spain
Tagged andalucian, fifty years old, pigeon-holed, spanish men, women
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Note to all bloggers
I suppose I should have called this ten top tips to successful blog posts or recommended crap like that. Or maybe ten top tips to pissing people off. That’s more like it. Anyway, back to note to all bloggers. 1) … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, internet, journalism, life, media, public relations, social media, vegetarian, writing
Tagged bloggers, blogging, freshly pressed, wordpress
20 Comments
No violins or flowers for these.
A disturbing post from Philosopher Mouse. Naturally, being rather naive in my 50s I had to DDG (Duck Duck Go) to discover what a rape kit was. I thought a rape kit, was, well, you can guess. Apparently not. According … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, feminism, health, life
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Paleo, paleo ….
When I first read about the paleo diet I was puzzled. In the extreme. I’d never heard of it of course. Why would I in my sheltered vegetable patch? I read these absolutely glowing evangelical reviews. This, apparently, was the … Continue reading
Posted in animal rights, blogging, childhood, dogs, family, feminism, food, health, life, parents, shopping, vegetarian
Tagged colo-rectal cancer, diet, paleo, paleo diet
38 Comments
examiner.com
The other day, I noticed the person belonging to one of Pippa’s dogpals had landed an interesting blog/position. I checked it out, and it seemed quite demanding, you had to write two or three posts a week, be an absolute … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, internet, social media, work
Tagged examiner.com, journalism, writing
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So why are you vegetarian?
It always happens. The one that kills the conversation. There you are chatting away happily about nothing in particular and it suddenly comes up. Maybe you have refused the prawn vol-au-vent (yes I know I’m showing my age with that … Continue reading
Posted in animal rights, blogging, food, health, life, parents, vegetarian, vegetarianism
Tagged jamon serrano, little lambs, smoked salmon canapes, vol au vent
27 Comments
Adoption? Adopted?
I never realised adoption was such a grey term. I thought it meant you took something/someone when it was unwanted. But browsing around the dogblog world, as you do when you have a dog with a blog, I have become … Continue reading
Posted in abandoned dogs, animal rights, blogging, dogs, pedigree dogs, rescue dogs
Tagged cross breed, death row, pedigree, pup
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It’s pink! It must be Lego!!
Fast off the mark as ever, I finally discovered that Lego was courting controversy by introducing a new girly – aka gender-biased – range. (It’s already introduced the male gender-biased range). Naturally, I was fascinated with this because of a … Continue reading
Posted in childhood, feminism, life, work
Tagged feminists, girder and panel, lego, lego bricks, pink, toys
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Invading your space
(potential alert if you are easily offended – about – anything really – although why you would be reading here if you were is beyond me) Browsing through the WordPress sections where they publicise latest blogs, I was looking at … Continue reading
Posted in animal rights, blogging, breakfast, food, vegan, vegetarian, vegetarianism
Tagged categories, dead fish, pescatarian, tags, vegan, vegetarian, wordpress
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The perfect breakfast
Breakfast is so not my favourite meal. It’s the only meal in the day that I struggle with. Not that I struggle to eat it, I can just never decide what to have. Nor is it because I am vegetarian. … Continue reading
Posted in breakfast, food, vegan, vegetarian
Tagged Assam, breakfast, cereal, tempeh, vegan, vegetarian
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Why comment? Why bother?
I was happily deleting a blog from my blogroll when I successfully managed to delete the whole lot. Readers of my dog’s blog will be aware that although we (ie the dog and I) have moved our blogs over to … Continue reading →