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I've justed watched the trailer for series 7 of 24 and let me say this, if [person x] really is the bad guy then frankly Fox can ram series 7 up their cocks.

Friday, October 26, 2007 7:49 PM 4 comments

Holiday

I've just booked next year's summer holiday. We'll be staying in a tiny electricity free cottage here on "Eilean Shona" (Shona Island). It's a tiny privately owned island with no cars, bikes, shops or even pubs. Instead there's rocks, trees, wildlife, peace and quiet and amazing views. I found out about the place from The Hat who stayed in a different cottage on the island a few months ago.
We will either have an amazingly relaxing experience, or will go irrevocably insane. Either is fine I think.

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Tuesday, October 23, 2007 11:32 AM 1 comments

Will the real Christopher Hill please stand up?

I wish to make it clear that I have better thinks to do with my time then masquerade as a literary agent. Like, tonight I'm off to see Rufus Wainwright. Tomorrow I will be painting the bathroom and buying carpet, then going to a Sheffield Symphony Orchestra concert in the evening. On Sunday I'm meeting Nick & Rach for Sunday Lunch. At no point will I be defrauding budding authors out of £80.

Friday, October 19, 2007 3:28 PM 0 comments

Hate Book

Hate Book.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 4:14 PM 0 comments

Speak Your Branes

Found this site via my brother's blog. It has been keeping me amused lately. The blog cherry picks comments that have been left by the more mentally retarded members of the English speaking world. Comments such as this...
Whenever I’ve been to Spain 99% of the locals speak English anyway!. If I go into a shop and they ‘pretend’ not to understand, I simply walk out and go to one that does understand.
Belive me - they ALL understand the colour of money!
Derek Walker, London
...and this...
I say let all the Green protestors stand on the runway if they like should be funny watching them get squashed, Should they not be protesting on both lanes of the M1 as well? cars pollute dont they ? Why do we tollerate these people , since when has C02 been a poison anyway , these people should go and live in another country like Iraq , and protest there.
IAN, LEICESTER

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1:34 PM 1 comments

"Tuscan" Beans on Toast

Liv has the occasionaly craving for beans on toast.

I hate tinned baked beans. It's not the beans themselves, I actually like beans. I like tomato sauce too but I'm pretty sure that the sauce tinned Baked Beans come in has never even ever seen a tomato. How many tomatoes have you seen that are bright orange? Tomatoes are red so what the shite has been done to the sauce to turn it orange? Also, answer me this if you can: what on earth is the special property of this sauce that means that as soon as you serve it, it instantly goes cold and stodgy and looks precisely like vomit. That's not hyperbole, it looks like vomit; and because you first "eat with your eyes", things that look like vomit taste like puke.

But relationships are about compromise.

Inspired by our recent trip to Tuscany, I've made a recipe for "Tuscan Beans on Toast" that satisfies Liv's cravings and my snobbish approach to food. Benefits over standard beans on toast:
1) It's better for you.
2) It doesn't look like vomit
3) It doesn't taste like puke
4) It actually tastes really nice
5) The tomato sauce is red

- Finely dice an onion and a celery stick and saute in 2 tsp Olive Oil until soft.
- Whizz a tin of good quality skined tomatoes in a food processor until smooth.
- Stir in the sauted onion and celery and pulse a couple of times. Season the sauce and add the tiniest amount of cayene pepper.
- Stir in the beans. I used Canellini beans to continue the Tuscan theme, but any beans will do.
- Heat in a pan over the hob.
- Serve over toast and drizzle of olive oil on top.

Giddyup.

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Thursday, October 04, 2007 8:35 PM 4 comments