Posted on September 30, 2008 by Marion
After my post of last night, this post may seem to be an odd follow-up, but bear with me here.
Hubby and I were watching the Bloomberg coverage of the fallout of the vote failure and the after-close analysis last night and after such a huge amount of uncertainty and bad news, what seemed to be [...]
Filed under: Dinner, Finance, cooking, musings, vegetables | Tagged: cabbage, comfort food, Dinner, financial crisis, Heavenly vegetables, Home cooking, recipe, Savoy cabbage, winter vegetables | 2 Comments »
Posted on September 29, 2008 by Marion
To follow on from one of my previous posts (The current financial madness), I’ve been watching today’s news in a sense of complete disbelief. To think that so many enormous, financially earth-shattering events could happen in the space of 24hrs, and then to top it all off 13 foolish, idiotic Republicans scuppered the Paulson rescue [...]
Filed under: Finance, Politics, musings | Tagged: financial bailout, financial crisis, general madness, idiot Republicans, London, Paulson plan, US Congress | 1 Comment »
Posted on September 25, 2008 by Marion
After the previous post of much seriousness and general concern, I wanted to share a new way of doing vegetables for dinner that’s better than simply steaming them, or stir-frying them, or serving them raw in a salad.
Generally speaking I’m just cooking for two (although I always seem to over-cater!), and I use the veges [...]
Filed under: Dinner, Personal, cooking, vegetables | Tagged: cooking, Dinner, Home cooking, Moroccan inspired, musings, spices, vegetables, winter vegetables | 1 Comment »
Posted on September 25, 2008 by Marion
Flicking through the online news coverage just now (yes, I’m at work, but it’s also lunch time – so I’m not completely skiving!) and I spotted a new line of stories and analysis on the BBC website based around the announcement today of the go-live date for the first stage of the UK government’s controversial [...]
Filed under: London, Personal, musings | Tagged: Big Brother, data protection, ID cards, London, non-EU ID card, personal security, UK government, UK media | 3 Comments »
Posted on September 18, 2008 by Marion
Having a husband employed in the London City corporate banking world, I suppose I’m on the ‘curious and relatively infomed’ end the spectrum when it comes to normal people watching the financial markets tear themselves apart.
(Very) Fortunately for us, it seems that hubby’s job is very unlikely to be one of the predicted 110,000 to [...]
Filed under: Personal, Random, musings | Tagged: financial crisis, general madness, Lemmings, London, musings | 1 Comment »
Posted on September 16, 2008 by Marion
… is that eventually they end and you have to go back to work. Well, holidays (like life) doesn’t just pay for itself. Unfortunately. Unless you’re really lucky and born with more material resources than most people can even begin to imagine (but then it seems you’re likely to be an ungrateful, spoilt brat who [...]
Filed under: Personal, Random, Work-related moan, musings, photography | Tagged: holidays, musings, photography, workplace gossip | 1 Comment »
Posted on September 13, 2008 by Marion
There’s been quite a gap between my last post and this one, which can be explained by a 3 week absence from London for my wedding and honeymoon.
Both events have given me a wealth of experiences to mull over, relive and muse on, so no doubt they will feature highly in the next week or so [...]
Filed under: Personal, Random | Tagged: Explained absence, honeymoon, travel, wedding | 1 Comment »
