Margaret Rose Stringer's Blog, page 57

Indian women in the kitchen !

I follow many cooking / recipe / food / chef’s blogs, and regularly come across recipes that are commendably and deliciously vegetarian (my UK mate Elaine, for instance, is simply vegetarian, like me). Of late, however – in fact, within about the last ten days – I’ve discovered three new ones to drool over, and they are ALL Indian. And

About four weeks left to go !

This is my excited face ! Wot ? – you don’t think I look all that excited ? That must be because I can’t even take a decent shot with my webcam.Put a camera of any sort in my charge, and you get crap. Voilà. Well, you’ll just have to believe me: I’m bloody excited, OK ?!! On August 23rd,

Very short post (of puzzlement)

I have three times over the last two days found myself reading the phrase “lucked out” within blogs, both in posts and in comments.What puzzles me beyond measure that is on all three occasions it’s been used in the sense of someone’s being LUCKY ! The phrase doesn’t mean lucky: it means that you missed out on luck. Where has

I cried … and laughed !

Do you know about Sir Nicholas Winton ? I didn’t – not till I read a story from “Open Culture” just now. Again, it’s roughly a quarter of an hour long, but in my opinion – of course, a humble one ! – well worth the time, when you can find some. This is in fact a “60 Minutes” segment

Possibly the worst aspect of TROWC

The tiny little shit George Brandis is our Attorney-General. He is absolutely representative of TROWC: spends nearly all his time looking smug and what’s left over looking righteously angry. (Everything TROWC does is done righteously, btw …) The cartoon the above link takes you to is sort of funny. But it’s far more frightening, because in fact it’s absolutely true.

Re-blog of re-blog: is this allowed ?

A blogging mate of mine, over at Seeking my Lost Voice, who is going through some testing times at the moment, posted a re-blog today. I was so enamoured of it that I simply HAD to re-blog that ! – but I didn’t want to think of what images I might end up with in my Media Library after not

I CRUSH my inner masochist !

Bloody hell … listening to “Outlander” was fast becoming a nightmare, and something had to be done. The problem was this: all 28 disks contain tracks labelled, imaginatively and helpfully (NOT !!!), Track 1, Track 2, Track 3 and you get the picture. This meant that I could upload to my little Sandisk SanClip Ultra only 1 disk at a

WRITING CHALLENGE: Mystery Ending

This weekly writing challenge focuses on the “weekly” part — start your post today, and build on it for the next four before publishing. Who knows where you’ll end up? http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_wri... ******************** “Chinese Whispers” was a great source of fun to all of us, as kids: we were four girls, then – enough for most games without having to bring

All Those Christmases at Once

Originally posted on howardgoldenberg:
NEWS BULLETIN, DECEMBER 2010 Christmas Island tragedy: Screams, yells and then they drowned…Devastated Christmas Islanders …witnessed yesterday’s horror… After three days on Christmas Island it is my turn to take night call as doctor at the Detention Centre. At ten PM I receive a call from Team Leader, the always-smiling Henry. I hear no trace of…

A masochist ? – moi ?

You mean, just because I lost track of the fact that Audible is an Amazon company, and when my younger sister sent me a $50 Amazon voucher for my birthday I ordered the audio version of Diana Gabaldon’s “Outlander” ON DISK direct from Amazon …? And I could have ordered it as (the world’s largest) download from Audible …? And