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Over the bank holiday weekend, we headed off on Sunday to visit the Battle of Britain Bunker. Because it is, like, practically on my doorstep. Having kept the Bunker completely secret all through WWII, while it was the home of Fighter Command 11 Group, they seem to have lost the knack of telling people where it is. However! During weekends this summer, you can just rock up and look round it without making an appointment (details here).

Bunker! )

Afterwards, we trundled on to Northala Fields )
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Some time ago, someone gave me a Rituals Foaming Shower Sensation in White Lotus and Green Tea. It's the sort of ridiculous posh toiletry that I enjoy, but would never buy for myself. Having been forgetting to dig new shower gel out of the cupboard for weeks (and stealing ChrisC's in the interim, don't tell him) I broke it out this morning.

It's a dispenser basically like shaving gel, and on use it squirted out foam in the usual manner - lovely, creamy, beautifully-scented foam. Foam also bubbled out from under the lid, and I ended up with handfuls of the stuff. I put the can down to start actually getting showered, looked away from it... when I looked back, it was still busily disgorging foam. The entire corner of my shower had turned into an artistic sculpture of pouring white foam.

I joggled the cap (no difference). I pried the cap off (foam poured busily out of the hole in the top of the canister). I tried jamming the lid on again (it filled up with foam, popped off, and sailed away on a billowy white sea).

Soon I was shin-deep in White Lotus and Green Tea. So that really was a foaming shower sensation, but sadly now there is none left :(
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I've written here before about going to Cake Parties - the principle is simple: make cake, take cake to party, eat cake. Then we tried a pie party, which worked pretty well. This time the host decreed we were going to have a Christmas party. She would provide us with turkey curry and mulled cider, the rest of us were to bring Christmassy cakes.

The trouble is, once other guests had bagged mince pies and Christmas cake, I couldn't think of anything else. Stollen? Christmassy, but the party includes a lot of marizpan-haters (and I suck at yeast-based cookery). Chocolate log? Meh, I can't get that excited about chocolate.

Then, sitting in the pub a few weeks back, Jamie said "why don't you make a gingerbread house?"

Er... yeah, why not? )
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Last Friday, I skated quickly into London after work to go to the Natural History Museum. [livejournal.com profile] frax had spotted an interesting-looking event, a "Crime Scene Live" evening which seemed pretty much directed at role-players (a fact somewhat bolstered by falling over [livejournal.com profile] metame in the queue, then running into [livejournal.com profile] leathellin waiting for [livejournal.com profile] lanfykins before we'd even managed to get our own party together.)

The Death of Orlav Black )
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I've never been sure whether I was a fan of constrained writing techniques. They always strike me as way more fun to write than they are to read. (In general, of course... largely, the more constrained, the less fun. Unless the writer is dead clever.)

But anyway, today I have just learned about Oulipo. Via the medium of someone doing a Pulp cover. He doesn't really apply the rules quite as rigorously as he claims, but it's definitely worth a listen:

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Aargh. I have been shockingly remiss. Slightly in posting here, but mostly in providing my thanks to someone...

Last weekend, I wombled into the house and found a pretty postcard on the doormat with some botanical-y sort of plants on it. I turned it over and giggled )

So thanks, [livejournal.com profile] pseudomonas. It made my day :)

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