Bric à Brac

RIP

2009-09-17T18:58:00.000+02:00

Obama beach

2009-06-07T10:33:00.000+02:00

He did it!

2009-06-07T08:16:00.001+02:00

Robert Fisk: Words that could heal wounds of centuries
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-words-that-could-heal-wounds-of-centuries-1697417.html

Princes and frog

2009-05-08T07:31:00.001+02:00

Swine flu ...

2009-05-02T08:30:00.001+02:00

2009-01-23T23:11:00.000+01:00

Silence

2008-12-09T20:22:00.001+01:00

2008-11-04T06:19:00.001+01:00

Le grand mix : la campagne version Youtube
envoyé par lemondefr

2008-10-01T22:36:00.001+02:00

:-))

2008-09-10T09:57:00.001+02:00

the job

2008-04-17T18:28:00.000+02:00

Gordon Ramsay's Beef Wellington

2007-12-29T10:59:00.000+01:00

I think I'm going to try it. I may add a bit of foie gras though...

Fairytales of New York

2007-12-13T21:09:00.000+01:00

Lyrics

See what a pint or two can do ...

2007-11-12T14:35:00.000+01:00

click here to see the making of it

Swing low sweet chariot

2007-10-14T09:54:00.000+02:00

Agincourt

2007-10-12T16:22:00.000+02:00

The battle as it was filmed by Kenneth Branagh in Henry V and an audio visit to the site of Azincourt ...

Nothing but shame

The day is yours

listen to an interesting visit to the battlefield
http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/realmedia/audio/france_agincourt.ram
(found here)

England v France

2007-10-11T21:05:00.001+02:00

Anorexia

2007-09-30T14:18:00.000+02:00

British Slang

2007-09-14T15:47:00.001+02:00

Grease

2007-08-21T15:28:00.000+02:00

Edward Hopper

2007-07-08T10:48:00.002+02:00

An exhibition at Boston's mfa

The Lighthouse at Two Lights, 1929
Edward Hopper
(American, 1882–1967)
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York

Read a biography and watch a vodcast comparing sites in Gloucester, MA; Cape Elizabeth, ME; and Cape Cod, as they appeared in Edward Hopper’s paintings and as they look today
http://www.mfa.org/hopper/artist.html

Listen to an excerpt from the audio guide from the mfa exhibition

Listen to an excerpt from the exhibition audioguide
More about the exhibition:
http://www.mfa.org/hopper/index.html
More paintings by Edward Hopper :
http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=900

Hey You

2007-07-07T10:12:00.000+02:00

Madonna's official Live Earth video

Sebastian and the Prime Minister

2007-07-01T12:51:00.001+02:00

The Queen and the Prime Minister

2007-07-01T10:54:00.000+02:00

Prime Ministers one goes and a new one arrives

2007-07-01T10:40:00.000+02:00

Prime Minister Tony Blair departs Downing Street

Prime Minister Gordon Brown arrives at Downing Street

Graffiti

2007-06-11T09:38:00.000+02:00

More of Banksy's graffiti here : http://banksy.co.uk/outdoors/horizontal_1.htm

My (next) generation

2007-06-04T07:02:00.000+02:00

The Zimmers, a newly formed group who have a combined age of 3,000 years...

Read the article in the "Independent"

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2611763.ece

Recipe for scones

2007-06-02T21:37:00.000+02:00

Here is my recipe for scones:

225 g self raising flour (you may use plain flour with 1 level tsp of cream of tartar +1/2 level tsp of bicarbonate of soda)
1/2 level tsp baking powder
25-50 g margarine
1-2 level tbsp caster sugar
1 beaten egg with 75 ml milk
50g dried fruit

1. Sift all the dry ingredients into a bowl, then rub in the fat until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
2. Make a well in the centre and add the liquid.
3. Stir with the blade of a knife until you get a fairly soft dough. this should be done fairly quickly.
4. Turn on to a lightly floured surface, knead very lightly if necessary to remove any cracks, pat it out with the hand to about 2 cm thick.
5. Cut into rounds with a 5 cm cutter.
6. Place on a baking sheet.
7. Bake towards the top of the (pre heated) oven at 230°C mark 8 for 8-10 mn, until brown and well risen.
8. Transfer on a wire rack to cool.

Jackie's scones

2007-06-02T14:03:00.000+02:00

yum!yum! + lovely accent from Lancashire!

Little Blue Riding Hood _ Muppets

2007-05-17T21:01:00.001+02:00

Little Blue Riding Hood (Stan Freberg)

2007-05-17T21:00:00.001+02:00

You can read the script here: http://www.badge714.com/dragquot.htm#sta

Casablanca once more

2007-05-12T15:27:00.000+02:00

"Of all the gin joints ..."

Casablanca again

2007-05-12T15:24:00.000+02:00

"Play it Sam ..."

Casablanca

2007-05-12T14:48:00.000+02:00

A video found on you tube where Humphrey Bogart's son and Ingrid Bergman's daughter comment upon the movie their parents acted in. For Casablanca lovers and others!

History revisited

2007-05-08T16:57:00.000+02:00

Read an article about it in the Independent:
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2521642.ece

The road not taken

2005-03-06T04:04:00.000+01:00

by Robert Lee Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.