Pretty much every day I walk past one of the buildings owned and, I suppose, operated, by the United Grand Lodge of England. Not the massive, sinister-looking one in Covent Garden, but the squatter, more modest one on Clerkenwell Green – I think it used to be a Court House before the Masons took it [...]
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The Smell of Secrecy
Posted in Freemasonry, grand lodge, masons, school dinners on February 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I eat for a living, dammit
Posted in food, Mary's Fish Camp, shrimp on February 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
So I was meeting a friend for lunch over the weekend, and I ordered what was described as salt-crusted shrimp as a starter, because I like to live life on the edge like that. Anyway, when they arrived, there were four sizeable shrimp there, and they’d been sort of deep-fried in some kind of salt [...]
Identities Unlimited
Posted in friends reunited, Oliver!, stolen identity on February 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I joined Friends Reunited about ten years ago, back in the heady days of Web1.0, basically because I thought somehow I’d get back in touch with Clare B…., who I spectacularly failed to snog at the wrap party of the school production of Oliver! Tragically, while she suggested that we “go for a walk outside”, I [...]
I’m afraid of the light, mommy.
Posted in Academy Awards, analogue TV, digital TV, Dora the Explorer, Poltergeist, static, Steven Spielberg, testcard on February 9, 2007 | 3 Comments »
When I first saw the movie Poltergeist, I was about twelve years old, maybe thirteen. I think it was New Year’s Eve, I was at my best friend’s house, and we’d stayed up to watch it. If you believe the media, all the twelve- and thirteen-year-olds these days are piercing their eyelids and injecting horse [...]
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