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Working on the principle that "a change is as good as a rest," I've decided to move this blog here. Who knows, it may even inspire me to start posting more regularly again :) To your aggregators, dear readers!!

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Birthday Boys, originally uploaded by rhino75.

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I was actually planning to see "Iron Man" but once I saw this was showing...well, I had no real choice, did I? Nevertheless, things got off to a shaky start and I was worried that the whole thing was going to be a little too knowing, overloaded with in-jokes and references to what had gone before. The early scenes seemed a little forced somehow, as if they were trying to make a point that no-one

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k&k episode 141 - the one where they discuss the price of chilli sauce in France... and stuff.And what's more, with ME!!!!

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It's a big year for divas, dear reader, what with Kylie turning 40, Madonna celebrating her 50th (yeah, right) and Grace Jones blowing out 60 candles - count 'em - on her cake. To mark the occasion, that august publication the Daily Telegraph has published portraits of all three. For all Madge and Kyles's ferocious work ethic and "reinvention" it's nice to see that the coolest of the three is

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k&k episode 140 - the one where they declare their reign as karaoke queens... and stuff... and talk to yours truly in the coffee table studio!

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Tim Tam, originally uploaded by rhino75. Last night was my first introduction to what I’m told is a hallowed Australian tradition - the TimTamSlam. Bite the corners off the biscuits, place in glass of port, suck the port up

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I've got a Tumblr!! In fact, I've been trying it out since the start of the year and I like it. It's fun, it's snappy and, as I seem to be a bit rubbish at posting here at the moment and much better at posting there, why not pop this feed in your reader for the time being? Don't get me wrong - I'm not abandoning this blog - I'm just expanding. Like building a conservatory or something. Lemme know

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } cranberry muffins, originally uploaded by rhino75. I promise, I promise, I promise that this is DEFINITELY the last time I will put up a large photo of some home baking instead of a proper post - for at least a month, anyway

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } banana bran muffins (with Nutella), originally uploaded by rhino75. Homemade banana bran muffins, liberally spread with Nutella - who says you can have too much of a good thing?

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Because OBVIOUSLY this is where I'm going to be, wearing my blue cat t-shirt.

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I suppose I should come clean right at the start and say that while I'm a HUGE fan of Catherine Sanderson, I've always been a bit, well, lukewarm (my italics) about her Petite Anglaise blog persona. Not that there's anything wrong with PA -- it's well-crafted, thoughtful, nicely observed. But it's like those ads for Vivelle Dop extra-strong hair gel - while its success fills me with admiration

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After being tagged by the delectable Maîtresse with this literary meme - and accepting enthusiastically - I promptly forgot all about it until now, as I sit, eating toasted bagels with Nutella (try it!) and nursing a hangover, on the sofa at Rhino75 Towers. So, as I'm sure you've all been on tenterhooks (my italics) over my response, here goes. Given that this is supposed to be a literary

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Harry Potter stars spotted on 'secret date'Ah, the old "impromptu disguise with a scarf" routine, eh? An old standby of mine - fools 'em every time...Pfffffft

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Triple-Choc Cookies, originally uploaded by rhino75. Tummy troubles, computer problems, sending bits of my phone flying to opposite corners of the room, trapping my hand underneath the sofa, Raphie leaving StarAc' - it's

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So I finally made it and, frankly, it was well worth the wait. I should confess before we start that I'm not a huge (my italics) fan of Sondheim. Don't get me wrong, I like him well enough but I always think of him as a sort of musical Tom Stoppard i.e. clever-clever musical theatre for the chattering classes. I can never quite shake the feeling that everyone's sitting there thinking "look, look,

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You see, I was planning to write a review of Tim Burton's "Sweeney Todd" here today for your delight and delectation. Honest. But it didn't happen. Even got to the cinema on time and everything. No tickets left. Can you believe it? It's been out AGGGGEEEEESS, why did everyone in Paris want to go and see it yesterday afternoon? Grrrrrr. So we went for cocktails instead, which was just as much - if

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OK, OK, after a false start the other night, I can NOW see why everyone raved about "Das Leben der Anderen."

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Crêpes maison, originally uploaded by rhino75. fnaaaaar - Happy Pancake Day!!

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The situation is critical, dear reader. Stop all the clocks etc. for I fear (my italics) that I may be on the verge of becoming that most cosy of creatures, a HOMEBODY. Yes, yes, it's true. Where once I felt my life was almost (ooh, there they are again) an older version of "Queer As Folk" with less hair and worse teeth - yeah, ok, that doesn't sound so great, I know -  all of a sudden the whole

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Don't ask me why, dear reader, but at the moment my life seems to be all musicals, detective novels and birthdays. How did that happen? :-) Anyway, sticking with that theme, look at this shocker which I found in the metro yesterday. Rabbi Jacob - The Musical. Whatever next? For those of you who aren't hexagonal (as we say here), "That Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob" is a French (my italics)

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OK, I confess, I've got a bit of a thing for Reese Witherspoon. I don't even fully understand it myself, in fact I just used to put it down to the fact that we were both irresistibly attracted to Ryan Philippe but no, I'm starting to think it's all about THE WORK. From "Legally Blonde" through "Walk the Line" via "Sweet Home Alabama" has she put a foot wrong? I think not. Her British accent is

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If there's a Paris King of Cabaret, dear reader, it's Toby Rose. I first met him six or so years ago when a mutual friend dragged me along to his "Liza Minelli and David Gest Wedding Celebration" in the basement of a Marais bar. Ten minutes in and I was a fan. I even still have the pub optic in the shape of "a gentleman's equipment" that I won that night for knowing all the words to The

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It's all happening down at the Elysée Palace, dear reader. First of all, we learn that France's new "fun-lovin'" president Nicolas Sarkozy likes nothing better than a good ole karaoke session until 4 a.m. (I could have sworn I heard Elvis's "In the Ghetto" as I drove past there in a taxi the other evening). THEN we learn that his paramour and - if we are to take him at his word - third-wife-to-be

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