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Jan Thie
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A barely necessary brown tit.
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Amateur bread baker, cat botherer, book addict, non-pro writer. In my former working life: freelance translator, copywriter and journalist, pub cook, and one of seven night managers in a Dutch hotel for the homeless.
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Jan Thie
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A barely necessary brown tit.
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Jan Thie
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Which is what male heterosexual fuckwads have been claiming forever about lesbians. Such good company you're keeping here.
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Jan Thie
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My 'favourite' from a few years back was a Guardian reviewer who wrote something like this... 'An enjoyable read but then the author messed it up by introducing a supernatural element. The story did not need that.' ... about a Stephen King novel.
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Jan Thie
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A generalist reader may be of more use than one who really likes or dislikes the genre. It is one of my bugbears how often newspaper book reviewers obviously dislike a genre, complaining about the supernatural elements in John Connolly's fiction etc - but a real fan may not even notice the writing?
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Jan Thie
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I just read the UK Conservatives are still trying to sell the 'Don't give Labour a supermajority' line. Which is a bit like saying 'Don't give your kids a Mary Poppins babysit.' Supermajorities aren't a thing in the UK; neither, praise the Lord, are supercalifragilisticexpialidociousing babysits.
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Jan Thie
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People who buy these things should have embraced catwalk culture: what the models there are wearing is never meant to be worn as clothes. It is, or should, be the same for Musk-y car models.
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Jan Thie
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Well, you know, he was blind.
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Jan Thie
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I just made these. They are quite nice and very easy to make; which is quite remarkable, since it's an Ottolenghi recipe! 250gr all purpose flour 1 tsp baking powder 120gr hand-warm water 25gr olive oil 1/2 tsp salt 1 tsp paprika powder 1/4tsp cayenne pepper (Instructions in alt text)
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Jan Thie
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Jan Thie
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I was once asked to be a helper on a writers' site. I agreed, with one condition: that I could ignore all those who didn't read (poetry) because they didn't want to be 'influenced'. What that meant was that their work was cliché-riddled, 'cause that was the only kind of language they got exposed to.
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Jan Thie
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And another one; plus the second omnibus edition. I discovered the joys of novella writing fairly late, and the format really suits me. I can do one novella in a bit under a month, which is a long enough period to be interesting and short enough to keep it from becoming a slog. The Goldilocks zone.
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Georgia Z
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I don't think I ever posted this. Arboretum Boston April 2024
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Jan Thie
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My pleasure - and the same to you.
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Jan Thie
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That's mildly disconcerting. Normally, when I see two rows of much read paperbacks of a certain age, I'm pretty certain I will have read about a third of them and at least have heard of most of the others. I'm pretty sure I have read none of these and most titles don't ring any bells. Weird.
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Jan Thie
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These are always nice: 400gr strong white bread flour 100gr couscous 325gr water 7gr dried fast action yeast 10gr salt 25gr butter Mix & rest for 30-45 minutes Knead & rest for 30-45 minutes Divide & shape & rest for 60-90 minutes Bake with steam in preheated oven at 200C/392F for 20-25 minutes.
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CaryJo
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the sky and the light tonight are just astounding
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Jan Thie
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I saw what you -do there.
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Jan Thie
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This is a recipe from the Bake With Jack 'Home Baker's Club'. If you like baking bread and you have some ready cash to spare, you can do much worse than become a member. There are a lot of recipes already on the site and more are added once per month.
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Jan Thie
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More bread. An interesting recipe. 200gr potatoes, boiled, cooled & mashed 400gr light lager beer 600gr strong white bread flour 150gr wholemeal bread flour 14gr dry fast action yeast 18gr salt 1 bulging tbs chopped rosemary leaves 40gr room temperature butter (Instructions in alt text.)
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Jan Thie
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I do know (and I probably already own all six.)
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Jan Thie
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Ah, nice. Thank you.
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Tom Gauld
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I have a mailing list. I send out two or three emails a year, usually with advance notice of new books, prints and whatnot. You can join it here:
tomgauld.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...
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Jan Thie
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'Wir haben es nicht gewußt' is even less believable this time round The photo caption translated: 'If pigs could commit suicide, there wouldn't be any exports.' (One of the arguments of the industry's defenders: that, financially, the exports are so important.)
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Jan Thie
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Where is James Corden* when you need him? *Well, him or car bomb.
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Jan Thie
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True. They are also excellent frozen in thinnish slices, to nibble on when they are still frozen solid. Fully defrosted again they are very very meh.
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Jan Thie
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That would be good, in a way. Him being handcuffed to the now sunk ship - and it will be fun when he's shown to be a liar when he then fucks up to the US with a month.
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Jan Thie
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Mine is not much of a morning person, when it comes to socialising, but he loves belly scritches at night (especially when I can hardly keep my eyes open any longer)
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Mary Gemignani
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Great Blue Heron🪶
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betsy cooley
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Great Blue Heron walking through mud on the seabed at low tide several weeks ago. This photo shows the dark gray/white stripes on neck and upper chest. Emeryville Crescent on San Francisco Bay. 📷 🌱 🌿 🪶 #Birds, #nature, #Nature Photo Feed, #Photography, #Landscape+Nature Photos
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Morten Morland
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Monday’s The Times cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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Jan Thie
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Two herons within a minute's scrolling. (Mr Ambassador, you are really spoiling us!)
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Jan Thie
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I took the (then one huge) book with me on my first solo camping holiday. One night the rain got into the tent and the book ballooned up to twice its original size. I had to buy another copy back in Holland, three weeks later. Which was quite traumatic since I had been on two thirds of the book.
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Jan Thie
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Delivery?
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Jan Thie
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It will be fun* to find out how many idjits will take offence at this week's column. *fun = a tedious Hell-waste.
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Lauren
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It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits
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Jan Thie
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Very much worth reading. Also, a Bruce Springsteen line I didn't know:
"Walk on through the night because that’s where the morning is".
Amen.
Even if not all of us will make it to that morning, knowing it will be there anyway will do.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Jan Thie
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Me, earlier today, while checking my mail: Oh, my fingers are tingly. Why are they tingly? Could it be arthritis? Me, moments later: You cut a hedge yesterday; 2 hours of holding a pair of heavy, not very sharp shears gripped firmly in your hands at shoulder height. Arthritis, my arse. Idjit.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly
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just learned there's a baseball player called Jhostynxon Garcia who fans call "the password", and I think it's the best nickname I've ever heard
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Morten Morland
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This week’s Sunday Times cartoon www.thetimes.com/comment/cart...
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Elle
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a ruthless predator, alligators will sometimes use jazz hands to lure musical theatre people to their deaths
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Jan Thie
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Focaccia Day! Dough: 190gr milk 190gr water 500gr strong bread flour 9gr salt 7gr dry fast action yeast 20gr olive oil Topping: 150gr olives 1/2 lemon, sliced thinly 3 cloves grated garlic 6tbsp rosemary, lemon thyme, sage & oregano. 6tbs olive oil + sea salt flakes just before baking.
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Jan Thie
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That's how that moon over Bourbon Street should have looked.
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Jan Thie
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More bread experiments. I'd made these flatbreads 4 times, obeying its demands for a 6-12 hours fridge rest, straight after the 2nd fold inside the bowl. Now I let it rest for 30 minutes more after the 2nd, did one extra fold and fridged the dough 4 hours. That worked very well: excellent bread.
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Jan Thie
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I studied English at uni, in Holland, so they were extra snobby, to compensate for their unfortunate Dutchity; and writers like Maugham & Graham Greene were frowned upon. I also read Homer in secondary school: all fiction is genre fiction. Lit fic is just a blip on the temporal story landscape.
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Jan Thie
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All you ever need to know about the Oscars, in the Guardian: "He did not win a major award for any of his film roles (and was never nominated for a conventional Oscar)". It's often said, when someone dies, we won't see their likes again. In Donald Sutherland's case, that might just be plain fact.
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Jan Thie
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Huh. I'm Dutch and I never made that link.
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Jan Thie
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Oops, I should have read the older comments first (and should have realised someone would surely already have mentioned Moses.)
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Jan Thie
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Odysseus was like a heat-seeking missile aimed at Mount Doom, compared to Moses. I mean, forty years? To get from Egypt to Canaan? Moses had the homing instincts of a demented, drunk squirrel.
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Jan Thie
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The underside of the first bread I baked in my new Bundt pan.
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Jan Thie
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Yup. Definitely her call.
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