Daniel Etherington

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Flour

February 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Main thread

Quick inventory of the flour I’ve got:
Strong white flour
Strong wholemeal flour of an organic persuasion
Stromg wholemeal flour ground at the watermill at Otterton in Devon
Four grained malted flour from Swaffham Mill in Cambridge
Self-raising white flour
Plain white flour
Tipo ‘00′ flour
Chickpea flour
Rice flour
Rye flour
Barley flour
White maize flour, aka masa harina
Buckwhea flour
And today’s new addition:
Millet flour
It’s all piling [...]

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Battle of the movie nice guys

October 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Main thread

I recently caught Adventureland, the romantic comedy directed by Greg Mottola. It stars Jesse Eisenberg as a high school grad who has to get a job in a lame theme park when his family can’t afford to support his academic progress. He’s not just any high school grad though – he’s that US high school [...]

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Free fruit, and class questions

August 18th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Main thread

It’s late summer already. Sheesh. Still, got to love this time of year for all the free fruit. Spent Sunday gathering elderberries, blackberries and wild plums and making stuff. Also loads of rowan berries around, but I’ve not experimented with them (you can make wine, and a jelly which is presumably like rosehip jelly).

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Sod's law strikes again

August 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Main thread

Friday – hot, dry and even summery. Sunday – warm and dry. Monday – warm and, so far, dry.
Saturday:

(Thanks to Ceri Thomas for the photo – and for holding the brolly while I flipped burgers…)
Still, at least we had plenty of cake:

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Blog spellchecker

July 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Main thread

Oh the irony – the spellchecker on my blog doens’t recognise the word “blog”.

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Neighbours

July 6th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Main thread

A, B, C and D share a water supply, part of an intrastucture supplied by X. The water supply has a leak. While B and C are friendly, D won’t talk to C, and A won’t talk to B, C or D.  A and D barely even leave their houses. Indeed, the son of A [...]

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Institutionalised illiteracy

March 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Main thread

You do not “arrive into”, you “arrive at”. Yet the entire British rail network seems intent on using this mangling verb construction. “The train is now arriving into Basingstoke.” Excuse me while I wail in despair.
I realise language is fluid, but come on: this is just ugly, dumb and wrong. It’s institutionalised illiteracy.

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Economics of the high street

January 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Main thread

I consider myself a reasonably bright person, but one area I most decidedly struggle with is economics. When the newspaper goes on about “tumbleweeds blowing down your high street” I can’t quite reconcile it with a trip to the West End of London. Around Picadilly circus at 7.30 on the evening of Sunday 26 Jan [...]

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Health and safety in the cinema

December 17th, 2008 · No Comments · Main thread

Treated myself to a trip to the cinema yesterday, to watch the British horror film The Children. It was playing at the Empire Leicester Square, a cinema that boasts my favourite auditorium – the huge Empire 1, which has a fab, subtle lightshow before the programme starts.
The Children, being a lesser release, was in Empire [...]

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Terminator HUD

October 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Main thread

Like many males of a certain age, I’m a fan of the Terminator franchise. Or at least, I’m a fan of some it, particularly the intense first film (which I saw at the British equivalent of a “sleep-over” as a teen, after its 1984 release). Many argue Terminator 2 (1991) was the better film, but [...]

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