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The Vegetarian Society
The Vegetarian Society is a registered charity committed to promoting the health, environmental and animal welfare benefits of a vegetarian diet.
Dofus Wiki
A fairly comprehensive Wiki maintained by players, occasional contributions by yours truly.
The Big Opt Out
Protect your privacy and campaign to preserve medical confidentiality in the UK
They’ve learned nothing BMA getting onside 6 Dorset Practices Added To SCR Pilot Thank You Surge of Interest
BBC - Food - Food matters
The Beeb’s guide to healthy eating. Some good recipes in there as well.

Keeping the aspidistra flying

The more relaxed part of the website. Life, the Universe, and everything that isn’t covered by one of the other sections. This being a fairly wide mandate, don’t expect any logic in the organisation here.

By the way Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a novel by George Orwell. I’ve never read it, but it’s a pretty nifty title, you have to agree. Although sometimes I wonder if I shouldn’t have opted for a more Graham-Greene-ish Travels With My Browser. Answers on a postcard please to...

 
Computer stuff

All things technological, more or less. I like computers, okay? I started out with a Commodore VIC20 (for professional wordprocessing, ah those were the days), later I bought an Amiga. I enjoy playing around with Linux, Macs have been given houseroom in what passes for a house in my life, and I’m also a Microsoft Certified System Administrator.

So I’m a geek. Wanna make something of it?

 
Food and drink

Earthly nourishment. Recipes, ideas, advice as to what you can put on your plate or in your glass...

If you happen to be in the Toulouse area, then you can also find a few tips on where or what to buy.

 
Games people play
Do you prefer your leisure physical or intellectual? Half-time oranges or perpetual nibbling on 100% synthetic Cheezy Snax? Group, team, or guilty solitude with only your computer for company? Whether you prefer roleplaying, board or card games, there’s always something new to discover.
 
Hyde Park Corner

Soapbox time. For those who aren’t up to speed with this particular London tradition there is a place in Hyde Park, known as Speakers Corner, where people can go to rant about something they feel strongly about. Yes, there are loonies, but it’s also a bastion of free speech (alright, free speech and showmanship).

So, it’s for stuff I feel strongly enough about to witter on at length. You are free to disagree with me.

This section includes no beards, sandals, or tofuburgers. Promise.

Not too sure what will go in here, except that I hope to make it as useful and informative as possible. Good things, bad things, whatever.

 
Library

I cannot conceive of a happy house where there are not more books than shelves to contain them. Books are good for you: they stimulate the imagination and are also stealth education - even comic books - as good spelling and grammar are absorbed by coming into regular contact with good spelling and grammar.

Things to read, and things to read about things to read. If you find the comments useful (or not), please don’t hesitate to say so. There’s a forum attached to each article.

 
The Silver Screen

Films, DVDs, TV series - anything that can be passively absorbed while making inroads on the popcorn, real or metaphorical. We get this stuff thrown at us all the time, we get nostalgic for the things we watched as kids - usually to the total bemusement of those who didn’t.

Old stuff, new stuff. Good, bad, and mediocre.

 
The most recent articles
Monday 23 June 2008
by sQuonk
Goat cheese quiche
Dead simple to make, delicious to eat warm or cold. This is the cop-out version, for those of us whose kitchen is so tiny that they can’t get into it if the cat’s there first.
Warning, this quiche has a strange tendency to evaporate in the presence of gourmets. It’s probably best to make it not more than a couple of hours before the meal.
Ingredients:
1 pack ready-rolled shortcrust pastry
150g goat’s cheese, or one of those French log-shaped ones if you can get it
2 eggs
250 ml double cream
1 onion, chopped
1 courgette, thinly sliced
2 tomatoes, sliced
a little vegetable oil
1 (...)

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Tuesday 17 June 2008
by sQuonk
Radish leaf soup
Easy, light, delicious, healthy, quick to make. And cheap. The sort of recipe, in fact, that causes the culinarily naive to look up to you with admiration, as it can be whipped up at a moment’s notice and tastes as if you’ve been studying cheffing for years.
Ingredients : A generous handful of radish leaves 1 onion 1 large potato Butter Water, salt, pepper
Once you’ve separated the radishes from the leaves, why throw the leaves away? Rinse them in clean water and throw away any damaged ones.
Melt a large knob of butter in a large saucepan, add the finely chopped onion and sweat it until (...)

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Sunday 1 June 2008
by sQuonk
1- Starting Dofus
A few tips
Dofus runs on a number of servers, with new ones being added regularly. Some are reserved for speakers of a particular language, some are "international". I’m on an international server, where there’s a healthy mix of languages: I’ve met French, English, Spanish, Polish, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, and even Chinese on the same server. Don’t expect everyone to speak good English, remember that some of them may only just have left primary school.
A Few Tips
1- Choosing a Character Class
As in any RPG, pick a class that you will feel comfortable playing. There are hand-to-hand (...)

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