Darren Beale

The Darling Buds of, erm, July

3. July 2008

Here I am blatantly contradicting myself and posting within a week of saying I won’t be for a while. Well there is one subject that I’m particularly interested in at the moment and can find the motivation to post about; my veg. Tonight I came home and realised just how much variety we’ve got that will be [...]

Philip Glass - Music in 12 parts

23. October 2007

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Hard work. Kurt and I attempted so see the entire piece last night at the Barbican. We managed the first half which was 1.5 hours and whilst being in awe of complexity and the sheer effort being used to manually repeat the same chord for 45 minutes without a break by half time we could face [...]

Gardening from scratch, almost

24. April 2007

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I like Casey’s seed germination shortcut here. From that I get the impression that they, like us, have been willing lots of little dots in mud to become green living things. I never realised what a stressful time it could be worrying about carrots, parsnips & onions etc. and that’s even before they are in the [...]

Chilli power

26. March 2007

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Last year, soon after we moved, I bought 2 chilli plants at a Malvern farmers market. Off the back of those 2 plants - 1x Jalepeno and 1x Scotch Bonnet - I got about 50 fruits each, yummy! Well this year I’m having a go at growing my own. I got 50x ‘Bolivian Rainbow’ and [...]

The best football chant ever

27. September 2006

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I went with Karl to see Orient play last night. I soon realised just how much I miss being able to go to regular games, but seeing as it’s my only regret about leaving London, I can live with it. Anyway, the game was really exciting to start off with both sides giving a good account [...]

Engerland

1. July 2006

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In 45 mins time England play Portugal in the World Cup quarter finals against Portugal. Lampard WILL score first and we’ll win (my tenner on willhill.com says so at 9/1) , narrowly, avoiding a dreaded penalty shoot-out. My friends Kurt and Sara at Fresh01 have gone one step further than the car flag, check ou this screenshot [...]

Massive Attack - Blue Lines

25. May 2006

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Upon finding out that a colleague at work had not heard it, this album is, to quote my lovely wife Cathie: The Greatest Album Ever Ever Ever Recorded and to think there are people in the world who have never heard it is v. sad She has a point.

New Virus warning

16. May 2006

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There is a dangerous virus being passed electronically, orally and by hand. The virus is called Worm-Overload-Recreational-Killer (WORK). If you receive WORK from any of your colleagues, your boss or anyone else, by any means, DO NOT TOUCH IT. This virus will wipe out your private life and any fun you’d like to have, completely. If you should come into [...]

A kick around with a difference

12. April 2006

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Someone on the Os mailing list posted this today. Its an advert for Carlsberg with loads of old British classic footballers. < 3mins of your life worth wasting http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3219386766071397128&q=carlsberg&pl=true

A great 0-0

8. March 2006

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I just finished watching Arsenal knock Real Madrid out of the champions league and what a cracking match it was. They’ve had a ropey league form but they were immense tonight (and two weeks ago) and they totaly deserve to be through to the 1/4 finals. I certainly can’t recall a more exciting 0-0 draw. (and for [...]

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The Darling Buds of, erm, July

Philip Glass - Music in 12 parts

Gardening from scratch, almost

Chilli power

The best football chant ever

Engerland

Massive Attack - Blue Lines

New Virus warning

A kick around with a difference

A great 0-0

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