Recent content by minka

this spaghetti carbonara recipe is probably the recipe i've cooked most frequently since i got it. it is BRILLIANT.

shut up, young whippersnapper, or i'll beat you with my zimmer frame.

i managed to read that as "it'll all just fall to pieces". why yes, i am a little nervous about my impending parenthood. good luck, dudley!

congrats and welcome little lily!

seconding the kennedy's rec. they do an ace brekkie.

stage times for this, anyone?

ooh, excellent. i still have fond memories of sharing a cab back into town from a warp thing in london with a mad frenchwoman who appeared to be *very* smitten with mr. raczynski. "ah, bogdan raczynski - 'e is like *animal*!".

big hearty meal-in-a-bowl type soups - minestrone and the like.

heh. i mainly write internal documentation these days, where we don't really have standards or style guides or the like (free! free!), but still have to make sense, like.

it's less the spelling, more the ... explaining ability. experts might understand the stuff but they frequently can't tell anybody else about it without getting bogged down in unnecessary details, leaving out vital information, providing the information in a sort of random order ("oh, yeah, and...

or have yourself laminated.

well, i was kind of upset about that but only because it was on the site of a shop i used to buy sweeties in when i was a kid. porning on my innocent childhood memories, they are.

technical writer. though at the moment suffering from a cold that makes me feel highly disinclined to do any writing, technical or otherwise.

congrats dudley and mark, and thanks everyone for the helpful tips: it's great to hear what people found actually useful and what could be a complete waste (heated baby wipes warmer, anyone?). and yes, names are hard. maybe i should just wait for inspiration in the delivery room. lampshade...

the teenyminka is due in january, any other parents-to-be amongst the thumpeteers? or tips from veteran parents of what to do/get for the early months (other than HAHAHAHAHAHAYOU'RENOTGOINGTOSLEEPFORAYEAR)? i have as yet purchased approximately no baby things, the poor child is going to end up...