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Made two G&Ts. Both in identical glasses, with half a slice of lemon & lime in each, same amount of ice, each with the same volume of gin (50ml, Beefeater). But made one using Fever Tree tonic and the other with Waitrose own-brand tonic (both straight from fridge).
a) Compared both drinks myself.
b) Invited housemates to compare drinks and try and identify which...
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I live on a fairly unremarkable residential street in a lively, partially-gentrified inner-city neighbourhood. Five doors down from my house is a small tattoo studio. It's just a one-person operation with everything done by appointment; no walk-ins and no real shop-front (the building has space for one, but it's just an empty room). I've checked out the artist online and wasn't particularly impressed. I'm not...
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Well, the finished article lived up to the sketch! My new favourite tattoo. It isn't half sore today, though!
So, today I got to see the first sketch of the design for my new tattoo.
Really looking forward to Friday now!
So, two weeks ago, faced with a fledging bald patch after two decades with long hair, I took a set of clippers to my scalp and gave myself a no. 3 all over. What have I learned since?
1. This feels really strange. I'm not weirded out by the way the wind feels across my head any more, but I still get loads of 'ghost...
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I've been having a really good week. Work has been fairly easy with no major hassles. We've had the first bit of really good weather this year, which makes everything nicer.
Monday wasn't anything special, although having reasonably nice weather to cycle to and from Pilates was a nice change.
Dancing on Tuesday as usual. I've been a bit nervous about teaching the Shag class...
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22 days until my next tattoo appointment.
8 days until payday.
2 days until the hairpocalypse.
3 hours until I see Savage Messiah in Camden. 🤘
(Not necessarily released this year, just stuff that I've listened to a lot in the past 12 months)
Chvrches, Every Open Eye. Although I listened to both their albums a lot this year, and I think that The Bones of What You Believe is my favourite overall, it was this one that I hadn't listened to before. It's slightly more upbeat than TBoWYB and...
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First act started out full of promise, but rapidly deteriorated and ended on a massive down-note. Second act had some great moments and there was some good character development stuff but it was too heavily dominated by getting over the end of act one. Third act looked hopeful but the initially-promising plot twist turned out to just be a disappointing red herring and overall the...
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