Archive of 2007 September
Leaving on a jet plane
on September 30th, 2007 in General by Dan | 9 CommentsIn April we went to visit our friends Greg and Deb in Wisconsin. Although we had been friends for around a year, and spoke with them nearly every week, this was the first time we met face to face. I first came in contact with them by reading Greg’s blog,…
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Ten of the many, many, reasons I love my wife
on September 26th, 2007 in General by Dan | 14 CommentsSure she’s kind, intelligent, and sexy. But what about the small stuff? She can turn the cars round on our pokey drive without scratching them. She knows the name and resume of every actor and actress in the world, ever. She has never beaten me at chess. She still keeps…
Continue reading...Nattliv – mensvärk
on September 24th, 2007 in Uncategorized by Dan | 1 CommentNattliv – mensvärk. Swedish for “Well I didn’t see that coming”. Bookmark It
Continue reading...Too close to home.
on September 24th, 2007 in General by Dan | 10 CommentsA four year old boy was stabbed to death by his father in our small village yesterday. His fourteen year old sister is currently in a serious condition in hospital after receiving knife wounds to her stomach and face in the same attack. The father, it seems, did it in…
Continue reading...In which Avitable lowers me to his level.
on September 24th, 2007 in Uncategorized by Dan | 7 CommentsAvitable is blogging aristocracy. Granted he’s not particularly classy aristocracy, in fact he’s a bit of a Marquess of Bath (eccentric lord who has multiple wives and painted pictures from the Kama Sutra all over the walls of his mansion). Still, depraved wacko or not, he’s got a very popular…
Continue reading...The ice cream man cometh
on September 22nd, 2007 in Uncategorized by Dan | 11 CommentsThe world of ice cream isn’t all sprinkles and sauce, it has a dark side too. In 1984 the Scottish city of Glasgow saw horrendous violence during its infamous ice cream wars. The fighting was not just about ice cream sales, the ice cream vans were used as fronts to…
Continue reading...Vanilla ice
on September 22nd, 2007 in Uncategorized by Dan | 13 CommentsThis post is dedicated to Mr Whit Honea, a man who believes that vanilla ice cream can not be exciting. BEHOLD!: I was reminded of this magnificent creation by a friend on Monday whilst discussing the ice cream of our youth. Forget sprinkles and cadbury’s flakes, the canonball took ice…
Continue reading...A tale of two shops
on September 20th, 2007 in Uncategorized by Dan | 8 CommentsPopular culture is littered with stories of two people overcoming the class divide in order to carve out a future together. Whether it’s uptown girls living in white bread worlds, Richard Gere romancing his pretty woman or rich kid Andrew McCarthy falling for pretty in pink Molly Ringwald, we are…
Continue reading...Don’t stop
on September 20th, 2007 in Uncategorized by Dan | Comments OffI hereby officially designate this to be International Ice Cream Week.
on September 19th, 2007 in Uncategorized by Dan | 11 CommentsPrompted by yesterday’s post regarding my cacky ice cream maker I came to realize that it was about time that Amy and I indulged in our own bit of ice cream creativity. Incidentally, as well as being International Ice Cream Week today is international talk like a pirate day. Arrrr,…
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