30.11.12

#sanhack HUB Westminster

Table centre piece at Sanitation Hackathon in London
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20.11.12

Drinking fountain

... Another broken drinking fountain in London -- this one outside the Geffrye Museum -- perhaps an activist movement to get them all repaired should be formed.

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18.11.12

Moldy tomato

Left for Istanbul in a hurry and left this tomato on my counter...
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11.11.12

Istanbul airport loo

Charging my phone in the loo.

Flight late from London to Istanbul...Pre-paid taxi nowhere to be found.

BlackBerry out of juice --

Went to information desk and woman there found number for cab company, but no one answers.

Rang colleagues who have no number -- gave them number so they can try and trace while I hang around recharging phone
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LHR purgatory

Waylaid by an electronic boarding pass fiasco involving BAA and BA, I missed my flight to Istanbul.

Security guards stopped short of a strip search.

Ordered a side of toast and a side of bacon at (oh horrors) a Wetherspoons Pub in London Heathrow T5.

The next flight boards in about an hour.

Complaints process doesn't exist for BAA.

Had half an hour nap last night and that is all.

Exhausted.

Maybe time to read the Istanbul guidebook :)

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4.11.12

Random flat pix from the past year


A friend came over for breakfast and I made pancakes with fruit for her.


My father gave me an old-fashioned cookbook and I made these macaroons from a recipe in it.



I had some friends over the day of the Queen's flotilla on the Thames and served them this food. I made scones, tomato salad, chickpea salad and cucumber sandwiches, served meat pies, cold meat, strawberries, olives, cheese and shortbread biscuits.


The day after the flotilla, I had some other friends over and served them some of the leftovers . . .

When my cousin visited this year, this is where she slept. My mum made the knitted pink afghan. A friend made the cushions.



I make my own peanut butter.


Small glass chicken dishes displaced for my aunt's green elephant and purple pot.


My aunt's dog draft blocker in front of the door. I think it was made by one of her colleagues.



My aunt's bookshelf -- with her things on it.


My aunt's toaster oven. My mum gave me the owl timer and the pepper grinder. A girl I used to babysit gave me the little mirror from peru.


Salt and pepper. I took the tall wooden ones and the small wood topped ones from my Aunt Lily's. The glass birds were a gift from my mum. The tomato and garlic from my Aunt Bettie, the dinosaurs from a friend in Toronto. I bought the honey container with the bees on it and the butter dish with the rabbit on it. My cousin gave me the cat pitcher.


My room arranged for my sister's visit in August. My friend Jennifer made the cushions.



Felt cat -- gift from a friend.


Minnie Mellowtron -- a gift from my sister -- suspended. I bought the sock monkey picture from a friend who painted it.

Rabbit cushion -- a gift from my sister.


Soup and salad for two from M&S, made by my sister.



Small items on shelf and from travels in Stockholm and Amsterdam this summer.


Burning old Halloween candles last year.


Random glass of white wine.


Breakfast made for my cousin.


Sherry in a glass from my sister and on a slate coaster with the University of Toronto logo on it from my father. He, my sister and I all graduated from U of T, but from different colleges. He graduated from Victoria College, my sister from Wordsworth College and I graduated from Innis College.

The clock is a braille clock my Aunt Lily got from her friend Jeannie after she died.  Jeannie had multiple sclerosis and was blind. The tiger was my Aunt Lily's.