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New Years day “kakizome” 1, 2, 3, wikipedia:

This was N-sama watching that video!

Thanks pinktentacle. Uncanny valley pseudoscience nonsense.

Update

Simroid sans skin.

Pizza-doctor M-kun to the rescue …!

8 minutes …

Previously …

Stuffed kabocha (made by N-sama). Nice!

Inside: onion, courgette, mince, kabocha flesh, béchamel sauce, salt and pepper.
On top: cheddar cheese.

Very familiar!

2 ribs, about 6 lbs / 2.7 kg

From G. Gibson butchers market in Watford. Watford is a horrible place and I only go there because there’s a great butcher and a couple of excellent vegetable markets; I bought all the vegetables for the roast tomorrow — about 10 lbs of veg and greens — for under £3.50.

I think the white duck’s wearing the trousers …

Previously …
Preeeeeviously …

In Miyajima:

This is our lovely local heron:

N-sama tried to set fire to the kitchen. I burned my hand on a smoking pan of hot oil:

An indescribably odd website.
http://www.feedthehead.net/

and more time-lapse Tokyo photography.

Tring has a small but rather wonderful Natural History Museum. Actually it is more properly known as the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum, which is now managed by the Natural History Museum in London. The collection is marvellously Victorian — 4000 stuffed animals, a spectacle rather than an education.

If you’re on mixi, please join my community.

Update: Apparently that link doesn’t work. Try this one instead. (Thanks Lady E)

EOS 5D, lovely camera.

This is what it looked like last year: