Alexander McCall Smith: an Edinburgh walking tour

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RFID socks?

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Blacksocks have created the worlds' first smart socks with RFID buttons so that you cannot lose them in your laundry - $189 a pair. I think I just keep on searching for mine in the laundry basket or ask Eddie to find a matching pair...

Hi there!

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Log Cabins...

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The Story of Film - An Odyssey

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I am totally fascinated by the 15(!) part documentary "The Story of Film" by Mark Cousins. It takes a little bit to get used to his particular way of pronouncing (Scottish) but when you are in his quest you are definitely in.  I have learned all kind of things I didn't know - or which I took for granted and his comparison between original ideas and "quotes" in movies is just stunning. It is a masterpiece on it's own with (amazingly restored) fragments of classics like Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, Battleship Potemkin and Nyobo Funshitsu.

No more runs (this week)

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Just to save myself for the 16K dam-2-dam run next Sunday ;-)

Holy mackerel! - a new fresh find

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I love mackerel (from the Dutch " makelare" =  broker) - but until now I only ate it mostly smoked or out of a tin with tomato sauce (both very nice). But then I saw fresh mackerel at the fishmonger and thought - why not make a nice starter with that? It was hard to find recipes and to get rid of of the tiny bones - but in the end my creation of mackerel, grapefruit and samphire was perfect...