Archive for the 'little things' Category

Cute obento

Friday, July 18th, 2008


Wow … & her blog

(Thanks M-kun for finding the bento porn pool on flickr)

Pet shop

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

At a pet shop near Hemel Hamster:

おいしそう:

だいげーびる:

M-kun:

Western Spaghetti

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Vaguely cooking related video:

More PES

Another garden snail cook

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

GingerNinja has turned up in my inbound links, recycling garden snails as food. Now that’s what we like to see! … and eat …

Unfortunately all the snails in this house are being eaten by our song thrush, faster than I can collect them.

1,104 miles

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Our crazy driving holiday around Scotland is now over. I drove 1,104 miles. Here are some photos:

Troooon

Booooat

♫♬listen to the song ♪♫♬

Arran and Lamlash

Home of the worst pub on Arran …

Lunch

Castles and shika

Shikatetsu …

The Lamb and Whisky

The Array Whisky distillery, home of some rather pleasant spirits.

Loch

Maggie the moggie

It’s my bro’s moggie:

Snail art

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

I think this is a brilliant concept. This artist called “SLINKACHU” paints snails and then photographs them in urban environments. Previously he was famous for doing these little people on ordinary city streets.

I really hope that the artist lets the snails “go free”, perhaps to be discovered by a bemused commuter, or a snail connoisseur

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While I was looking at this snail art, I saw that the artist had painted a sadly familiar “tag” on a snail, “TOX.08“. If you regularly travel through London, you will be familiar with the depressing vandalism of this teenager. I found this 10 minute documentary on the internet about the culprit of this eyesore, it’s worth watching because it shows the people who have to clear this spam off tubes, and where tube trains go in the night …

Tiny birds like fatty bits

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Duck update

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

ガーコ is still sitting on her nest. We’re expecting ducklings towards the end of this week. Here’s the latest photo of (an) egg, she covers them up before she goes out each time.

While you’re waiting, here’s a photo of our lovely long-tailed tits:

Here is M-kun playing Mario Kart Wii, which is bloody good fun:

More lambs

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Weekend in Dorchester-on-Thames

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Dorchester:

Little Wittenham and the Wittenham Clumps, Northmoor Trust:

Bravery:

Lambs!

Push!

With insects!

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

A special treat for the tinybirds:

Falafels

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

One of my favorite Middle-eastern foods has to be falafel. This is based very loosely on a BBC recipe but the recipe itself is wrong in several ways, most particularly you need to add a fair bit of flour to make it stick together. Also leaving out the baking powder is probably worthwhile.

Raw falafels:

Deep frying:

After deep frying:

With pitta bread, salad and a yogurt, olive oil and lemon juice sauce:

Pitta and falafel pocket:

Nuts

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

In Japan:

In Britain:

GOJIRA

Monday, February 18th, 2008

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Le Jardin d’Artemis

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

This was a rather lovely, friendly restaurant that we discovered in Rue Mouffetard, Paris.

We had a starter of escargots (snails):

N-sama had a beef stew which tasted like a peposo:

I had a very pleasant cassoulet:

Altogether, a highly recommended restaurant, not particularly because the food was outstanding (although it was very good), but because the place was cosy and friendly.

Photo and someone’s boggy entry.

A fumineko in Paris?

Monday, January 28th, 2008

かぶとむしのようちゅう from Japan

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Mushi (insects) are very popular in Japan as pets or even for eating. We got these tasty mushi from a popular mushi shop ….

From here:

Picoo Z

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

N-sama bought me a tiny helicopter for Christmas, so here it is in action …




Hmmmmmmmmm…. Second time lucky?




OK … third time?




IT FLIES!!!




Edit:

The Professionals fly:

Lamb sausages

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

Lamb and mint sausages (from the local conbini of all places), with real mash and onion gravy.

Lamb sausages are tricky to cook — I nearly set the kitchen on fire several times — but they taste great. Last time I had them was in Cyprus.

Sleeping

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007


Night night …